Geelong Petition
The Geelong Petition
Tuesday, December 5, 1854.
No further intelligence arrived last night from Ballaarat. Up to one o'clock yesterday all was quiet in that locality, but an opinion prevailed among many people, well able to judge, that the calm was the result not of defeat but of a cool determination to attain a certain object.
Tuesday, December 5, 1854.
No further intelligence arrived last night from Ballaarat. Up to one o'clock yesterday all was quiet in that locality, but an opinion prevailed among many people, well able to judge, that the calm was the result not of defeat but of a cool determination to attain a certain object
A meeting will be held this afternoon at the Masonic Hall, convened by the Mayor, on the following requisition:
TO His Worship the Mayor of Geelong, - Sir, - We, the undersigned inhabitants of Geelong, request that you will convene a public meeting, to petition His Excellency Sir Charles Hotham at once to set aside the present licensing system of the diggings; convinced as we are that all the troubles and bloodshed which menace this colony originate in the manner in which such system is carried out. We publicly profess our loyalty to the throne, and our intention to support the law; but our hearts bleed for the sufferings of our fellow-colonists at the diggings.
We remain, Sir,
Your Obedient servants,
--. etc.[1]- ↑ The Argus 6 December 1854
