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Scarce colonial engraving showing the prospectors being attacked by aborigines on the Hodgkinson River. Palmer River gold fields. In 1876, with the rush to the Hodgkinson River, Chinese miners occupied most of the Palmer Gold Field. As gold reserves were … Read Full Description
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Scarce colonial engraving showing the prospectors being attacked by aborigines on the Hodgkinson River. Palmer River gold fields.
In 1876, with the rush to the Hodgkinson River, Chinese miners occupied most of the Palmer Gold Field. As gold reserves were extracted, anti-Chinese sentiment grew. The Queensland government eventually responded to the influx with a poll tax of £10 according to the Chinese Immigration Regulation Act 1877 by which time most of the surface gold had long since been prospected.7.
From the original edition of the Australasian Sketcher.
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National Library Australia: Bib ID 914558
State Library New South Wales: REF1/MAV/FM4/9236-9239
State Library Victoria: PCINF ; PCINF AS 19-02-76 P.177
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