mous export has appeared almost entirely within the last two months, and that this produce continues at the same, if not at an increasing rate.
The following table exhibits a variety of particulars, connected with this export:—
| Monthly amount of Export. |
Port of Shipment. | Place to which Shipped. | ||||||
| August | 18 | oz. | Melbourne | 246,260 | oz. | London | 238,018 | oz. |
| September | Nil | Geelong | 58,958 | Hamburg | 3,411 | |||
| October | 1,548 | Portland | 389 | Sydney | 62,695 | |||
| November | 3,441 | Hobart | 1,483 | |||||
| Decem. | 140,128 | |||||||
| January | 160,472 | |||||||
| Total | 305,607 | oz. | Total | 305,607 | oz. | Total | 305,607 | oz. |
The following is an extract from a letter received from Mr. Westgarth, on the 28th February:—
"Gold arrivals per Escort since January returns—
| February 4th | 11,852½ | ounces. |
| „11th | 11,115 | „ |
| „18th | 11,199½ | „ |
| 34,174 | ounces. |
Almost all from the Mount Alexander locality. The Escort is supposed to bring one-third, or say one-half of the whole."
So that here is 68,348 ounces, which at £3 per ounce is of the value of Two Hundred and Five Thousand and Forty-four Pounds Sterling,—the Golden Harvest of Victoria in eighteen days!
Reader, I closed that portion of this Appendix called "The Contrast," by saying
"The land has peace, freedom, liberty of conscience;
And what would ye more?"
If the answer was "Gold,"— here you see she now has
