Newspaper
- Title
- The Ballarat Times: an Buninyong and Creswick's Creek Advertiser.
- Imprint
- Henry Seekamp (Editor and Sole Proprietor) [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Ballarat, 30 September, 1854, 12 pp
- Abstract
This issue contains articles on diggers' grievances which were later to become issues in the Eureka rebellion: an editorial and an article on the formation of the Anti-Licence Association. Articles include: "The Governor's Speech - Opening of the Legislative Council" (Editorial which calls for: abolition of license fee; legalisation of land occupancy for diggers; reform of trade and commerce laws on the diggings including regulation of "sly grog"; reform of the Postage Act ), "Sly Grog Hunting Again", "Furious Riding", "Roman Catholic Parsonage", "The Constables Turned Sportsmen" (on "hunting" diggers), "Vegetables", "Fatal Accident", "Effects of Intemperance", "The Weather", "The Commissioners", "Empire Serenaders at Creswick's Creek", "Police Office", "The Circuit Court", "Billiards", "Gleanings from Colonial Papers", "Police Court", "Mining Intelligence", "Berdan's Quartz Crushing Machine", "Anti-Licence Association" (Bendigo Advertiser), "Queen Victoria's Right to this Throne of England", "Famishing Jews in Palestine", "Recent Changes at the Colonial Office", "English Artisans in America", Letter on licence fees (partly obscured), "Sabbath Alliance" (letter), "Emancipation" (of the slaves of Venezuela), "Dr. Milton's Lectures" (Poem).