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£1 per day not even the
Chinamen. Gold is still being
got by the men who are
at work, in large quantities
but many men are away at
the Endeavour + Etheridge.
trying to get rations. A man
was speared a day or two
ago, he cannot recover the
Dr says, but may linger
for a few days - I fear many
more lives will be lost, the
blacks appear to be about
the worst and most deter
mined I have come across
- nearly all the drays are
stopped on the road for
want of feed for the cattle.
No rain has fallen
yet, but soon will, as it
threatens for it daily -
prices are still the same
as detailed in my last,
Sawn timber is 1/6 per foot
of nine inches broad, and
nails are 5/- per lb,