G. Oliver's Prince of Wales Hotel and C.L. Morris' Newmarket Sale Yards (auctioneer and agent), Home Rule

1872
Glass photonegative

The rush to Home Rule in May 1872 supported about 5000 miners, mostly from worked-out leads in Gulgong. According to the Gulgong Guardian, 8 May 1872:

As the report of the supposed new find was circulated in every paper in the colony, strangers from all quarters began to arrive. Every unemployed person, male or female, young or old … were massing around the wings of the Home Rule Lead. Daily the numbers swelled.