The gold fields-Chances for Australian cultivators-Classes who sliould emi­grate-The poor-The middle class-The aristocracy-What each can do on their arrival out-Shepherds-Mechanics-Classes wanted-Cattle farming as a beginning-Colonial ideas of rank-Aristocratic enterprise in colonies-Female emigration.

The astounding discovery of gold mines in Australia, to an extent hitherto unparalleled;-the abundance of the precious metal, which only waits to be gathered, without any of those costly and laborious processes which characterize the production of gold in the old, or even in the new world-Australian gold being for the most part found in solid masses, varying in weight from an ounce to a hundredweight, these masses or " nuggets," as they are termed, being, moreoyer, of the purest quality;-the now established fact that this gold is scattered over hundreds of square miles of country, being in fact inexhaustible, and lying for the most part on or near the surface of the ground, where comparatively little labour, and no skill whatever, is requisite to obtain it;-the absence of that unhealthiness and discomfort which, arising from the severity of climate, renders gold mining in California a dangerous and highly laborious pursuit;

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