VICTORIA.

Taranaki Herald, Volume II, Issue 63, 12 October 1853, Page 4

VICTORIA.

Wo nre in receipt of Mdbonrne pnpers to the 18<h ult. from which <re copy the following: —

The ' Argus' of the 18th ult. contains the following intelligence:—"e :— " The diggers havo come to a roiuluiion no longer to pay the monthly licence fee of thirty (hillings; and hiving been nrglertid »nd ptoToked by the Government, aitli. ugh yirldi d to when they nanumed a posture of <!' fiance, then tone is notr threatening ami determined in the citrcme- A deputation hns reieatly waited on tic Lleutenant-Governor, which licing met in a mon than imually injudicious manner, even for Mr Li Tribe, has led to great exasperation on thr pa t o -the miners. Letters from Bendigo, just rcrem '1 report a very large nrmed meeting, at which rc»o« lutions were passed to the effrct that a ten ihil'ings fee should be tendered to the Comminsioncrs on the 27 ult. by * volunteer party of thirty ; and (hat if that bo refused tho parly should giiethcin. ■elves into custody ; and that no licenso at all thould bo taken out and that every tent In the gold fields should announce the fsct in large letters. Tha Lieutenant-Governor di>tinctlv told the dele, gates that he was prepared to carry out the law '• and ns these resolutions are tantamount to a determination to resiit it, a collisiion is quite probable unless, indeed the coumeln of the more calm and moderate amongst the digger* prevail, and that (he lirge aection of the enmmuunity, be thereby induced to leave the question of a liceunofee to be decided by the Legislature, a body in which the digger ia not represented and lo v\Mch he look* with no hope."

X correspondent of the 'Aritti I :,' writing from ihe M'lvor digifings, state:—" I have witnessed many ruthfs of the digging populntion to new sputa and distant districts ; hue n«rcr since the first dnyi of the golden Ball irnl, when its aitonish;ngnrws startled the southern hemisphere from iti propiitty,— ainec thoio daji I say, hat such an exodus taken place, at itio rush (torn M'lvor dating tlu hut ten dnjs to the great new diggings >t the G. ulbnurn, distance N.N.E. abnat 30 miles fiom M'lvor. Man, womin, clii'd, h ne<!, bullocks, goats, tubs, cradles picks, tools nnj ttores of all 'il.-sciiptions. arc nil ofl nnd away. Tlic bright IWea ol the M'l»or have paled before the Gon)> hum ; nnd apparently soon will the nhepherd assume hii solitary rambles on "the once gny and lively banks of the former placr. Such is the prent of parlies to get there, that parsons having drays •re obtaining £6 per cwt. to convey luggage and stores thrre ; and draught hones that were but lately only fetching about £20 or £30 have realised the post week as much as £0) in some case;. Some of the diggers have actually left their tent* standing, with bed, bcdiiinp;, r.nd other domeitir utencil in their tents behind them at M'lvor totakr cars of them selves, all nniioxi to reach the diggings at Gonlbourn.