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1894 " A GENTMEN'S OPINION AT THE SHAMROCK HOTEL"
The room was full of hazy blue pipe smoke and a the sent of strong drinking.At the centre table sat four amazing men in deep conversation about their journeys of the world.Late it was and the ladies had all ready retired for the night and about a dozen more gentlemen sat in a group across from the centre table playing cards.In the back ground you could still here the humming of a huge 1900,s industrial mining machine, being the 700 gold mines turching out tons of gold, working non-stop around the clock.The first shamrock hotel was built in 1853 and replace in 1873 and was made quite bigger over the next twenty years.The owners boosted at having 70 of the best hotel rooms in the colony.These amazing men where ;
Mr Donald known in history as "The White Lion of China,He was a writer of the the SYDNEY TRIBUTE and later an adviser to Dr Sun Yat-sen who toppled the Manchu Dynasty and was electedthe first president of china
James Mclinnes-Sinclair Colonial victoria's trade minister to the world and was born in Bendigo in 1855 {local}
Dr samuel Clemens {Mark Twain} famous writer and traveler. In hes book "More Tramps Abroad" he tells of this mining town and wealth of its gold
George Anderson {scotsman } The best gold mine manager in the british empire in 1894 and runs gold mine in many different countries in his life time.
tinpan pic of hotel and finds
The room was full of hazy blue pipe smoke and a the sent of strong drinking.At the centre table sat four amazing men in deep conversation about their journeys of the world.Late it was and the ladies had all ready retired for the night and about a dozen more gentlemen sat in a group across from the centre table playing cards.In the back ground you could still here the humming of a huge 1900,s industrial mining machine, being the 700 gold mines turching out tons of gold, working non-stop around the clock.The first shamrock hotel was built in 1853 and replace in 1873 and was made quite bigger over the next twenty years.The owners boosted at having 70 of the best hotel rooms in the colony.These amazing men where ;
Mr Donald known in history as "The White Lion of China,He was a writer of the the SYDNEY TRIBUTE and later an adviser to Dr Sun Yat-sen who toppled the Manchu Dynasty and was electedthe first president of china
James Mclinnes-Sinclair Colonial victoria's trade minister to the world and was born in Bendigo in 1855 {local}
Dr samuel Clemens {Mark Twain} famous writer and traveler. In hes book "More Tramps Abroad" he tells of this mining town and wealth of its gold
George Anderson {scotsman } The best gold mine manager in the british empire in 1894 and runs gold mine in many different countries in his life time.
tinpan pic of hotel and finds
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