[GOLD RUSH; EUREKA REBELLION] Gold Fields correspondence. Letter of Lieutenant Colonel Valiant. Laid upon the Council table by the Colonial Secretary, by Command of His Excellency the Lieutenant Gover

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Melbourne : John Ferres, Government printer, 1854. Foolscap folio, 2 pp; fine. Officer commanding the Troops in Victoria, Lt. Col. Thomas Valiant s letter advising of reinforcements for the detachment of the 40th Regiment on the Sandhurst (Bendigo) gold fields, because of the threat of disturbances by miners. These extra troops have been brought from Melbourne and Castlemaine.

• Binding: Hardcover

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