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Lake Wakatip Mail, Volume I, Issue 52, 28 October 1863, Page 6

Price of Gold in Victoria.—The M. A. Mail says— «< Since the breaking-up of the compact between the banks, a somewhat reckless competition has set in among the purchasers of gold. Strange stories are told of the way in which gold buyers have been victimised, and of the high prices secured by miners and others who have systematically (to use a sporting phrase) run one bank against another. This rivalry appears now to have reached its climax. As much as £4 2s. per ounce has, we are informed, been recently given for gold in Castlemaine." The same sort of thing has been going on at Ballarat and Bendigo. Tall Writing.—My pen is heavy. Oh, you dead, who at Gettysburg have baptised with your blood the second birth of Freedom in America, how you are to be envied! I rise from a grave whose wet clay I have passionately kissed, and I look up and see Christ spanning this battle field with his feet, and reaching fraternal and lovingly up to heaven. His right hand opens the gates of Paradise—with his left he beckons to these mutilated, bloody, swollen forms to ascend. —New York Paper. A young lady of extraordinary capacity addressed the following letter to her cousin:—"We is all well and mother's got the his Terrix, brother Tom has got the Hupin Kaugh and sister suzin has got a babee, and hope these few lines will find you the same. Rite sune. Your aphfectionate kuzzen.