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Show FAMOUS COLD CITY. How Il.ll.r.1. Aule.l,. M. llMa ft. TrU.sx 4. One of the flu. st i s in the I!ri'.s!i empire Is Ha larat. the famoms g '. J c.ty of Australia. It has the im. i i record of being the only I a e in Australia Au-stralia where the people fought a battle bat-tle with the armed forces of the Brit-i.-h rrown. Its population tuits of EnKl.sh. Ir-h and S.otih In aiiout equal proj orf.ons. They l.ve happily free fiom the r.ice p-i-'udi, 'hat o'ten (erome manit-st between the same racs in the I'n.ted States. For the first three years of Its existence as a gold field tne authorities harassed the dinner In the most despotic fashion, trrated them niore like dots than human hu-man beings, indulged periodically la "d ggrr hunts" and collected, alike from auci ssful and unsuccessful, an Iniquitous monthly license fee at the point of the bayonet. This brutal be-harler be-harler led to opn reliellion at the beginning of December, IV. 4, the diggers dig-gers running up a rude fort called the " Eureka tockade." At that time the Twelfth and Fortieth regiment were quartered In Melbourne, under the command of VaJ. Gen. Sir Robert Nlrkle. one of Wellington officer In the peninsula. They were hurried np to Kallamt and early on a Sunday morning they attacked the stockade and carried it by storm. The digger were defeated in a military sense there was lamentable loss of life on both sioei but the cause for which they took np arms won a speedy triumph. tri-umph. The hateful license fee waa abolished, and the mining population was conceded Parliamentary representation represen-tation which had previously been de-nifd de-nifd them. The Haliarat digger chosa by acclamation as their first member the young Irishman who was their leader In the Insurrection, who bad lost an arm In defending the stockade, and who waa for weeks a fugitive with a heavy price on his head. A Peter Lalor. he was destined to play an Important Im-portant part In the political life 'of Victoria, to hold high offtc a minister minis-ter of the crown, and to preside as speaker over three Parliament with acknowledged distinction, and to decline de-cline the honor oi knighthood on two occasions. His heroic Matue In bronze, by Nelson Maclean, a Ixmdon sculptor. Is one of the ornament of Ilallarat' rr'nctpid thoroughfare, and the site of the Eureka stockade, the great show post for t si tors, has been converted Into a handsome public reserve re-serve and an historic heritage. Haliarat ranks next in Importance and population to Me.ixiurne among tne c tie of Victoria, and It Is vastly auperirr to the met'o;ils bo'h In nat- '. weH'fr flt'reus have a'wavs t- n I .at-l.'tic -ally .rood of the place, and they have en-trned Start street with a succession of statues and gardens that , no other city in the empire ran b-Hist. What was In the early day a dismal smamp has l-"n convened Into the tea ut ful I-ke Wendouree at ronsid- j eralile expen-e and labor. Hal'arat I a bishopric of both the Catho'lc and A!Vll an churches, and all of the lead- (' Ing relisious denominations are well represented on the premier gold field. ' In Its puMlr buildings, private rel- j j dences buslne establishments and all i the adjuncts of up-to-date civic pro-i pro-i gre.slvcn ss Haliarat ranks second ts none of the rltbs rt Great Hrltaln. |