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Title
The Ballarat Times: Buninyong and Creswick Advertiser.
Imprint
[This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Ballarat, 1 January, 1855, 8 pp
Description

This edition edited by Clara Seekamp as Henry Seekamp was incarcerated.

Abstract

Articles include: "The Foreigners" (editorial), "The Statement of Frank Arthur Hasleham (Now lying wounded at Ballarat)", "The Gold Fields Commission of Enquiry - To our Fellow Laborers, the Diggers of Victoria" (by J. Basson Humffray on behalf of the committee to assist in procuring the evidence for the Commission of Enquiry into the political grievances of the diggers, which was elected at a public meeting on 19th December, 1854), "...copy of the Martial Law indemnity Act", "Journalism in Victoria", "Original Correspondence" ("Gold Fields Commission of Enquiry", "The Port Phillip Insurrection - and What we can do in it?"), "The Half-Pay Lieutenant - A War Anecdote", "Onward to the Sunny South" (poem), "Drat the Flies! Or the Pest of the Season" (poem from Punch).