Eureka - The Unfinished Revolution - Plot & Excerpts
For if ever things get too out of hand, you risk being arrested by the Joes, to be dragged off to the lockup in the Government Camp.It is from here that the newly promoted Resident Gold Commissioner, Robert Rede – who arrives on the Ballarat goldfields just a few weeks after Carboni and Lalor – rules his domain. With a backing of 100 or so police, who are in turn supported by a military garrison of equal number, they are a little like an occupying army. And a well-heeled army they are, at that. A new official who had arrived before Rede to become one of the Gold Commissioner’s staff was frank in his subsequent description: ‘Everything was upon the grandest scale: commissioners, inspectors, captains, sub-inspectors, lieutenants, cadets in silver-lace and embroidery, capering about on splendid horses, and new diggings continually being discovered in the vicinity.’Though living grandly himself, Rede is not without sympathy for the gold-diggers, having originally come to Australia himself for that very purpose.
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