Those who could possibly get away crowded the many sailing vessels, and each month landed on Victorian shores thousands of strong-minded and bodied men, eager to fight Nature and make her yield forth her wealth. The latter gentleman had heard of the great fortunes which were being found in Victoria, and every Australian mail brought news of a more and more startling nature of the golden wonders which adorned hilltop and valley and plain at Bendigo and Ballarat. James Lacey, leaving the old country and coming to Australia. The alluvial gold discoveries in Victoria were the cause of his father, Mr.
Edmund Gilyard Lacey was born in Yorkshire in 1843. Lacey supplies a typical example of the beneficence of the jarrah forests.
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