Eureka 63, 1917

PETER LALOR. To the Editor of "The Courier." Sir.- Allow me as an old identity, having arrived in Ballarat in 1852, to tho roughly endorse all that your correspondent "T.S. says in your issue of Wednesday in regard to Peter Lalor and the Chinese expedition to Clunes. At the time of the Eureka riot I was on my way to Ballarat from from an outlying district. The memory of the stirring days of the early 50's should be keenly revived by the Eureka pageant next Tuesday, and the part the miners played in the struggle for freedom should act as a tonic to present-day residents to to forward Ballarat in every possible way by backing up the efforts of the local committee. - Yours, etc, OLD EUREKA.

EUREKA STOCKADE ANNIVERSARY - Monday was the sixty-third anniversary of the encounter at the Eureka Stockade between the gold diggers and British soldiers. During the day a party representative of the few remaining early pioneers of Ballarat visited the now historic battle ground and discussed the stirring events that in 1854 led up to the revolt at the stockade.

PERSONAL. Mr. J. Williams, of Perth, who recently organised and carried out a spectacular pageant at Ballarat in commemoration of the Eureka Stockade, returned by the s.s. Dimboola yesterday.