MDA 29. 9.1857 Good report. MAM 28. 9.1857 Good report. MDA 25. 5.1858 Flocking back, at back of Post Office. MDA 1. 6.1858 600-800 swarming over Old Lead. MDA 8. 6.1858 Similar, numerous restaurants, gambling houses, etc. MDA 30. 7.1858 Hang Lee, a storekeeper, charged with uttering a forged note. MDA 19. 8.1859 Fined for not having residence licences. MDA 26.10.1859 A great number on alluvial. MDA 16.11.1859 MDA 20. 4.1860 Flocking back after dry season. IA 29. 5.1863 Assault by Maori. IA 22. 8.1863 Anne Hatt shoots Chinaman. MDA 24. 8.1863 Anne Hatt shoots Chinaman. IA 29. 8.1863 Anne Hatt charged. TC 10. 6.1865 Dr Grant treating a Chinaman in Camp, North of township, for mercury poisoning (speculation as to how this happened, allegations of stealing copper plates from the crushing mills). TC 4.11.1865 Ah Chung, Storekeeper and butcher. TC 10. 3.1866 Fight between Chinese and Europeans on Old Lead over dirty water, a great melee. TC 17. 3.1866 Court Cases, Mr Priest v Chinese. Swear by blowing out matches, etc. TC 12. 5.1866 Priest case again. TC 11. 7.1866 Chinaman attempts to sell spurious gold to David Myles. TC 15. 8.1866 Chinese suspected of stealing two copper plates from Ironbark mill. TC 10.10.1866 Celestials paddocking the Reserve, getting good gold. TC 6. 4.1867 Court Case J Harry v Ah Tee, robbery at Stoney Creek. TC 25. 5.1867 Ditto Dunolly Petty Sessions, guilty, 6 months gaol. TC 11. 4.1868 Ah Tang in Court for assault, swears by blowing out candle. TC 19.12.1868 Two in Court, "..confounded jabber..". TC 12. 2.1870 Chinese sand-washers ordered by Borough Council not to silt up drains. TC 12. 3.1870 Always in trouble for fowl-stealing or stealing copper plates. Attempt to steal plates from Beynon's mill and Bousfield's mill at Llanelly. TC 26. 7.1873 Court Case assault Lin Shu v. Kate Lamont, assault, a trumped-up charge. Also, birth of a son to an Englishwoman. TC 2. 8.1873 Editorial re the Lin Shu/Lamont case. Great complaints about the Chinese, scenes are enacted day and night, orgies taking place that are perfectly appaling, etc. TC 27. 9.1873 Court Case about attacks on Chinese. Kate Lamont referred to again. TC 15.11.1873 Tendering for 70,000 tons of sand belonging to the Victoria Pyrites Co, New Chum Reef. TC 28. 2.1874 A Chinaman seeks Borough Council fee for use of water to wash tailings at Montebello Reef. 1/6 per 1,000 gallons. TC 17.10.1874 Two Chinamen Court cases, assault. TC 13. 2.1875 Police instructed by Borough Council to stop chinese sweeping gravel off roads. TC 20. 2.1875 Two Chinese cautioned for sweeping gravel from the road. TC 20. 2.1875 Very interesting account about a grand fireworks display. There are two camps in the town, they were trying to invoke the rain god to break the drought. TC 27. 4.1875 Ah Waugh requests permission to wash near Wayman's old mill. Declined by Council Complaints about Chinese digging near Storm Water Channel. TC 22. 5.1875 A party of Chinese peg the Old Lead in the vicinity of Hammond's Mill. Ah Noe, Ah Wah, Ah Yow, Ah Ha, The Hong Kong Gold Mining Co. TC 5. 6.1875 Ah Chong charged with sly-grogging. TC 22. 4.1876 Chinese doing well at the Possum Hill rush, nuggets etc. TC 24. 6.1876 See Alluvial Gold for reports on Chinese at Possum Hill rush. They do very well finding gold, but many complaints about them. M TC 9. 2.1878 Ah Yow charged with robbery. TC 31. 5.1879 Trouble at the new rush on the Wehla Rd. TC 9. 8.1879 Ah Hoon three months gaol for stealing. TC 20.12.1879 Stealing at the Chinese Camp. TC 1.10.1881 Sanitary Regulations to be posted at Chinese Quarters. TC 28. 1.1882 A Chinaman stabs L Warrin at the Victoria Hotel. TC 11. 2.1882 Louis Warrin v. Ling Chew. Billiard marker at Victoria Hotel. Committed for trial. TC 11. 3.1882 Dams in the district have been defiled by Chinese being allowed to puddle in them. TC 25. 3.1882 Trial of Ling Chew. Not guilty. TC 14. 7.1883 Twenty Chinamen brough up and charged with trading as market gardeners without licenses. All fined. TC 1.12.1883 Ling Chew collector for Chinese Quarters for 1884 Fete. TC 19. 1.1884 Ah Kong's tent burns down. TC 2. 2.1884 Tom Fin burnt out. TC 14. 6.1884 An accident felling timber at Jones Creek. Ah Que killed. TC 27. 6.1885 Ah Kow in Court, supposed to be insane. TC 4. 7.1885 Ah Kow in Court. TC 10.10.1885 One caught stealing amalgam from the Yorkshire battery. TC 17.10.1885 Court proceedings in relation to this matter, Fook Wah sentenced to one month's gaol. He was in Ah Yen's employment in washing the Mine's tailings. TC 29. 1.1887 Ah Tang collects L1-14/- from the Chinese Quarters for the 1887 Fete. TC 12. 2.1887 Fire in a Chinese tenement across the channel at the rear of the Golden age, his name is Charley Jane. TC 1. 9.1888 Ah Tang was the Borough Lamplighter for a time. TC 15.12.1888 Brawl between two. Ah Tang interpreter in Court. TC 5. 1.1889 Johnnie Ling Chew dies in Pentridge. Worked at the Victoria Hotel for some years, went mad, straight jacket, etc. TC 19. 4.1890 The Chinese are to remove the embankment at the rear of Herd's Store. TC 3. 5.1890 A Chinese Missionary preaches at the Church of England. TC 10. 5.1890 Ah Tang burnt out, a collection taken up around the town. TC 3. 1.1891 Chinese race at 1891 Fete. TC 11. 4.1891 Chinese tenements included in South Tappit Hen Co lease. TC 2. 5.1891 Ah Tang assaulted. TC 13. 6.1891 Ah Loy fined L1 for fertilising with nightsoil. TC 15. 8.1891 Ah Tang gaoled for 3 months, no-one will buy vegetables from him and he cannot live. Thanks the Court. TC 26.12.1891 Chinese race at the 1891 Fete, many names. TC 9. 2.1892 Good account of this race, won by Ah Hin. TC 30. 1.1892 Collections for 1892 Fete, Good list of names. TC 21. 1.1893 Entries for Chinamen's Race at Annual Fete, good list. TC 25. 2.1893 List of donations to 1893 Fete, quite a few names. TC 8. 4.1893 Problems with Chinamen depositing nightsoil in holes in the Old Lead, north of the town. TC 30. 3.1895 Silas Long Fee plaintiff in assault case v. Herman Bock. TC 19.12.1896 Ah Wong, better known as Hard Times, in court for stealing from the estate of Tong Son. TC 30. 1.1897 Ah May charged with vagrancy. TC 30. 1.1897 Ah Loy charged with emptying nightsoil near the main street. One month. TC 30.10.1897 Jimmy Too Yim gaoled for 3 weeks for improperly disposing of nightsoil. TC 9. 9.1899 A Chinaman named Fawn finds gold in the Old Lead. TC 29. 9.1900 Lum Fook, better known as Surly, dies. Been at Tarnagulla over 30 years. TC 15.11.1902 Acccusations re poultry stealing. TC 26.3.1904 Ah Wong, better known as Hard Times, dies. TC 13.5.1905 Ah Wong dies at Waanyarra. Tc 29.4.1916 Ah Hin dies TC 28.10.1916 Wong Yin cyanide case ----- This data is part of the David Gordon Index and is provided for private use only. Copyright David Gordon 2012.