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Title
The Ballarat Times.
Description of Work
Incomplete
Imprint
Henry Seekamp (Editor and Sole Proprietor) [This scan courtesy of the State Library of Victoria], Ballarat, 18 November, 1854, 6 pp
Abstract

This issue contains articles on diggers' grievances which were later to become issues in the Eureka rebellion. Articles include: "The Reform League" (editorial), "Public Meeting" (at Bakery Hill on 11 November, where 10,000 people attended, and the "draft pospectus of Australian independence" was adopted), "Lecture" ("on the grievences... between the people and the government" by Mr. Holyoake), "Public Accomodation", "Digger Hunting Again", "The Military", "Original Poetry" ("Imperial Laws", "Memory"), "Original Correspondence", "Le Jour Viendra".