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Clunes,
6th August 1851

Sir,
I have the honor to
report for the information of
His Excellency the Lieutenant
Governor, that in accordance with
his orders. I proceeded with
Mr. Armstrong to Mr. Donald Camerons
Station on the Deep Creek near
Mount Greenock, for the purpose
of gaining information respecting
the Gold field, lately discovered on
his station, and report on the
number of people at work thereon.

I arrived at Clunes on
the 27th. ultimo and in company
with Mr Wright - Commissioner of
Crown Lands, Wimmera District,
and Mr. Armstrong proceeded to the
diggin[crossed out g]s and found about fifty
men at work, some working in
parties

The Honorable
The Colonial Secretary
Melbourne

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51/202
11th. Augt. 1851.
The Commandant of Native Police to the Colonial
Secretary, reporting his proceedings at Clunes and the
Pyrenees

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[stamp] LAND VICTORIA

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parties of four with cradles and
the rest washing the soil with tin
pans.

From reports that I
heard among different people on
the ground of specimens of Gold
having been found in various
parts of the Pyrenees I considered
it my duty to visit with Mr Armstrong
the different localities, the result of
which from the very heavy rains
and flooded state of the Creeks and
Rivers, it was impossible to ascertain
with certainty, whether Gold exists
in quantities; but from the geological
features of the Country it is the
opinion of Mr. Armstrong as well as
myself that it does exist in more
or less quantities in the Pyrenees
ranges, and the lower country
near Mr. Halls Station on the
Loddon.

On the Sixth of August
I returned to Clunes and found
that a considerable number of
men had arrived at the “Diggins”
and were at work with more or
less success.

It is impossible to
make