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Show FEARED EFFI OF GOLD Australian Authority j,.jrp'et Kept Secret. t0i& Australia's progress was retarded by nearly thirty .. 1E? a the result of a chain of evA?:'-1 te0 began in February, m l" lW says the Melbourne Arj . f lon,? South Wales was a youi 7,serT Mr. James McKrien, nssiii,8' ' eminent surveyor, was ex'.',j;g 8D the region of Fish ltl vet ''rres ar' Rathurst and Uyilal, Ni ;."u (ec Wales, when, on Februnrj ,( dea? he discovered the lirst ""'joo1 t'omul in Australia, it waiter ' lie wrote in his field boo' !--3 numerous particles of gc''!-jrf''? sand on the hills convent"'"1 river." fi As a good public scrvan ;',",lrS tW Hrien went on with the in-'", $&c completed his survey, iuul :i'ativ report. The passage whic ;:: t to the discovery ol gold ;'''! i pressed, because the gover -c1' u that a gold fever might sron destroy discipline. In l:.l " re, Strzleckl found gold hi;!!1 be. Blue mountains, and lie,: 6a asked to keep his discover-' v It was not until 1S51 tl;H?! JL' cret leaked out. Bathui: !l rat and Buninyong becan; fe ly famous overseas, for, 1;. UTe 'ac live months of that yeai' t0 , alone produced more than 10 worth of gold. nglish mans, and Scandinavia' 10 every available ship for -son tte P; More ships were chartered 'si Det Disappointed diggers ; a Is ! California gokllields cans of their luck in the new I. and before the end of lS3Srj men lation of Australia had t.K the first ten years of the ,;; on was one of the most sensa . jsi;S pourings of wealth In the Eer the world. .4 !ae t Official figures showed '..fcg'.i tion of $528,353,000 wort .!', to from 1S51 to ISOO, but tl-jon. gross underestimate. The ";J war cessful diggers, who had i'o fortunes', went back to t countries, carrying large or , of undeclared gold. That the discovery of ,fC, the key to the economic df " of Australia is shown bj that those states in wkict---05 discovered earlv have i "-''- ' discovered early have i';" their economic supremacy day. Western Australia, t' 1 of the states, where goli-discovered goli-discovered in quantity i was unprogressive in spiU 5' A effort of government and p:als terprise until that time. .sSd Since McBrien's nmaziiC i sb ery, $3,500,000,000 worth o Si eite been produced In Australia .Is a Victoria produced almost -. iri |