Excerpt from The History of Bendigo
The volume which I purpose introducing to the reader with these few prefatory remarks is the result of over four years careful examination of various records, chiefly in the shape of files of the Bendigo Advertiser. As that journal did not carry me back beyond the year 1853, I was under the necessity of obtaining information about 1851, 1852, and part of 1853 from other sources. The task was easy with my dear and much lamented friend and journalistic chief, Mr. Robert Ross Haverfield, at my elbow, and I may here record how grateful I feel for the assistance and encouragement which he so willingly supplied. He must always be remembered as one of the worthiest of many worthy old Bendigonians.
Readers who honor me by a perusal of this work will perceive that the first eight chapters deal with the general history of Bendigo, from the gold discovery in 1851 down to the present day; chapters nine, ten, and eleven are devoted to an account of Mining Development; chapters twelve and thirteen to Politics; and chapter fourteen to matters Municipal. Thereafter follow chapters on Water Supply, Journalism, Public Institutions, the Churches, Amusements, Agriculture and Viticulture, and lastly on Local Industries.
I have found facts and events besetting me in my investigations in such battalions that I have had no occasion to draw on my imagination, or to "adorn the tale". The narrative is plain and unvarnished.
The work of compiling it was undertaken in consequence of repeated complaints by old Bendigonians that there was no reliable account of a district which had contributed so much to the prosperity of the colony; and whatever demerits the volume may possess in other respects, its accuracy can at least be guaranteed.
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