Show 0 LECTURES ON AUSTRALIA I Miss Idurcutt Talks of the Gold Mines of the Country A good audience gathered last evening even-ing In the First Presbyterian church to hear Miss Ada Murcutt of Melbourne Mel-bourne lecture on Australia and Its resources especially its gold mines Mrs E E Shepherd presided Miss Murcutt gave an Interesting talk In which she told how Australia was originally a penal colony but gradually gradual-ly had grown into 0 homogeneous nation na-tion by the recent consolidation of the different colonies There are 4500000 people In Australia but with 1000000 in Sydney and Melbourne Mel-bourne alone and many more in other cities but very few people are left for the rural districts The gold l fields were discovered In 1S51 In tho convict settlement near Botany bay and notwithstanding not-withstanding tho Immense amounts of the metal taken out the surface of the deposits has only been as yet scratched A man took up CdO acres at lll Morgan Mor-gan Queensland and found n few nuggets nug-gets Two brothers named Morgan gave the man 100 to show them where the gold came from and then bought the ranch at 55 per acre In a short time it was found that the mountain contained gold estimated a 80000000 In 1S92 great gold Holds were discovered In Coolgardie In western Australia Australa and where there were 3GOOO people all told In Coolgardie to begin with In six years there were 100000 people on one gold field alone A man named Bailey Look 15010CO worth of gold from u trench forty feet long eight feet deep and four feet wide Many of the earlier ear-lier discoverers drank up their riches and died drunkards In this connections connec-tions Mrs Murcutt attacked the liquor I traffic and was glad to say that the Dominion Do-minion of Canada would probably be the first country to have national prohibition I I pro-hibition and New Zealand would not I be far behind 1 |