Wednesday, August 17, 2016

January 1889. Gold in Victoria Park!

The Brisbane Courier Wednesday 30 January 1889

"George Blond and party have formally reported to the Mines Department that they have pegged out prospecting claims in Victoria Park where they state they have discovered payable gold. They have produced specimens which appear to be freely charged with gold of somewhat poor character, and claim the usual reward. Unfortunately the Department cannot recognise the application, inasmuch as the park is vested in trustees by a deed of grant and the provisions of the Goldfields Act are such that lands dedicated for any public purpose cannot be recognised as Crown lands.It is therefore impossible for the department to recognise the discoveries in any way whatever.

We believe that the prospectors, acting upon advice, have brought the matter before the Trustees with the view of obtaining the consent of that body to carry on mining operations in the park, and the matter will be considered at a meeting of the trustees to be held today. The actual position of the discovery is adjoining the Grammar School cricket ground, where gold is understood to have been discovered some 18 years ago.

The specimens brought into town include three small pieces of gold-studded quartz, which have evidently been exposed to the atmosphere for a long time, and a quantity of small rough fragments of gold which were found among the gravel. The gold has all come from a reef; but the distance it has travelled from the leader is a matter which the prospectors have still to decide, though they believe the reef is in their claim."


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