Michael Hilton, James Hilton, John Hilton (Melbourne, Maryborough, Tarrangower) to their mother and to James Hilton and Elizabeth Grafton (Manchester), 1853-1858

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Item ff.855-901
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Voyage to Australia; building work in Melbourne; wages and rents; shortage of water; bushfires; Sir Charles Hotham; work at Maryborough goldfields; lack of schools and churches on goldfields; Chinese at diggings; family news; voyage of John Hilton to Victoria in 1857; food prices. (12 letters, copies)
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