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The Bendigo Goldfields region of Central Otago is an historic area comprising several former mining settlements in the southern South Island of New Zealand.It was part of the Otago gold rush that occurred during the 1860s, leading to an influx of miners from rushes in California and Victoria, Australia.
After finally arriving on the goldfields the Chinese goldseekers faced many hardships. There was a lot of anti-Chinese sentiment amongst the European miners. In July 1854 in the Bendigo Advertiser it was reported that William Denovan called for an uprising for the purpose of 'the driving of the Chinese population off the Bendigo goldfield'. [10]
California Gully is a suburb of Bendigo, Victoria, Australia. The suburb is located 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) north-west of the Bendigo city centre along Eaglehawk Road. At the 2021 census, California Gully had a population of 4,476. The suburb is named for the Californian miners who rushed to the area when gold was discovered in 1852. [4]
Christopher Reilly is thought to have been born in Dublin, Ireland, though this and many of the details of his early life remain vague and contradictory. [3] [4] Little has been recorded of his early life apart from the fact he may have attended the University of Dublin, [3] [5] later joining the gold rush to California in 1849.
He was also the first person to deliver a quantity of payable gold from the Bendigo goldfield to the authorities when, on 28 December 1851—3 days after the 603 men, women, and children then working the Bendigo goldfield had pooled their food resources for a combined Christmas dinner [120] —Frencham and his partner Robert Atkinson, with ...
22 June 1853: La Trobe was petitioned for land reform to make it easier to obtain an interest in land adjoining the goldfields in Bendigo. [11] 2 July 1853: Police are assaulted in the vicinity of an anti-licence meeting at the Sandhurst gold field in Bendigo with rocks being thrown as they escort an intoxicated miner to the holding cells.
In 1850, with a partner, he chartered a vessel and took supplies to California, and in June 1851 was still at San Francisco. Grant returned to Australia on receiving news of the discovery of gold in Victoria and in 1853 was a successful miner at Bendigo, Victoria . [ 2 ]
Town Other names County Latitude/Longitude Founded Abandoned Status Remarks Agua Fria: Mariposa: 1850 1862 [1]: Barren [2]: Truly was abandoned after a fire burnt down the town in 1866.