ties. — Introduction of Machinery. — Luck in Digging. — Mining Agree- ments and Litigation. — The Egerton Case. — The Clunes Riot. — The Browns Leases. — Pleasant Creek Jumps. — Stink Pots. — Private Property Leases and Law. — Foreign Capital. — Sebastopol Drainage. — Prospecting Board. — Koh-i-Noor, Band and Albion Consols, Llanberris, and Black Hill Quartz Companies. — The Kingston Alluvial Field. — Gold Returns and Mining Statistics. — Pre-eminence of the Ballarat District. — West- garth on the Purity of Ballarat Gold. — Assays of Ballarat Nuggets. — Table of Nugget Dates, Weights, and Localities. — Sebastopol Plateau Revival. — Increasing Proportion of Quartz Gold. — The Future to be Chiefly Quartz Mining.— The Comer.— A Great Transition. 193—238 CHAPTER VIII. THE TOWN OF BALLARAT. Area and Population of Ballarat. — Great Mining Collapse. — Municipal Statistics of Ballarat West, Ballarat East, and Sebastopol. — Water Supply. — Lake Wendouree. — Yacht and Rowing Clubs. — Hospital. — Benevolent Asylum. — Orphan Asylum. — Female Refuge. — Ladies' Bene- volent Society. — Roman Catholic and Anglican Dioceses. — Churches. — State and Church Schools — School of Mines. — Museum — Observatory. —Public Art Gallery.— The Stoddart Gift.— The Russell Thompson Be- quest. — The Burns Statue. — Other Statues Projected. — Typography. — Photography. — Lithography. — Public Libraries. — Mechanics' Institute. — Academy of Music. —Eisteddfod. — Cambrian Society. — Musical Societies. — Agricultural and Horticultural Societies. — Iron Foundries. — Implement Factories. — Woollen Mills. — Coachbuilding. — FJour Mills. — Bone Mills. — Breweries. — Distilleries. — Cordial Factories. — Bacon Fac- tories. — Tanneries. — Boot Factories. — Juvenile Industrial Exhibition. — Fire Brigades. — Volunteers and Militia. — Gas Company. — Banks. — Re- creation Reserves. — Cricket and Football Clubs. — Hunt, Race, Coursing, and Gun Clubs. — Roller Skating Rinks. — Acclimatisation, Caledonian, and Hibernian Societies. — Reformatory. — Hope Lodge. — Railways. — Tramways. —Public Offices. — Public Halls. — Gaol and Court House. — Camp. — Last of the Military. — Explorers' Monument. — Queen's Jubilee and Old Pioneers. — Electric Telegraph and Telephone. — Rainfall and Temperature. — Henry Sutton. — Local Journalism. — Royal and Other Visitors. — Reminiscences. — Past and Present Contrasts. ... 239 — 328 Appendix A ... ... ... ... ... ... 329 — 336
