Hargraves

Edmund Hammond, the discoverer of the goldfields of Australia; born in eae England, in 1815. When 18 years o} age he settled in Australia. Attracted to California in 1849, he there tried his luck as a gold-digger, and while so engaged was greatly struck by the similarity in the geological formation of California and Australia, and suspected that gold would be found in the latter. On his return home he ages the correctne of his surmise 4 discovering gold on the W. slopes of the Blue Hills in New South Wales in 1851. He was appointed commi ioner of crown lands, and received from the government of New South Wales a reward of $50,000. In 1855, one year after his. return to England, he published “ Australia and Its Goldfields.” He died in 1891.