demand. The chief peculiarity of the
advertisements for domestic servants is, that
married couples are preferred, and also
married men as carters or in situations of
trust. This is a change for the better; before
the gold diggings single men were in demand.
There seems a great call for cooks, both
male and female; a dozen are inquired for, in
one paper. Here is one advertisement.

WANTED A GOOD PLAIN COOK, WAGES
forty pounds; also a kitchen-maid, wages
twenty-five pounds. Also a chambermaid, and a
young man to make himself useful. A married
couple as cook and waiter would suit.

A Serious Lady advertises for " a few quiet
gentlemen." Hotels are numerous in the
town, and on the road to the Diggings.

PARTIES TRAVELLING TO THE DIGGINGS
will find great cheer and beds for themselves,
dry stabling and excellent fodder for their horses, at
Aberdeen's Accommodation House on the main road.

There can be no difficulty in finding doctors,
as it is the custom for new arrivals to advertise
full particulars of their birth, parentage,
and education. The majority are Scotch and
Irish, some intensely national. We note Dr.
Bashaw, of Edinburgh,

"He begs to intimate that he has pitched his tent
at Moonlight Flat, Forest Creek. Dr. P. has been
engaged in extensive practice for twenty-four years;
his tent will be distinguished by his name across an
ensign flying and a Scotch thistle on end."

Money seems to be lost and found in great
quantity; out of a dozen similar announcements
in one paper the following is sufficiently
brief:—

JOHN CLARK, PATRICK HAYES HAS
recovered the gold receipt you lost on the
Moonlight Flat on Friday night, the 8th October.
Call and enquire at the Harp of Erin.

Then we have

FOUND—A BUNDLE OF NOTES. Apply to
A. B., Swanston Street.

FOUND—A SUM OF MONEY IN A CART-
RACK.

LEFT ON THE COUNTER OF MR. J.
WILLIAMS, stationer, a bag containing money.

FOUND—A GOLD RECEIPT BETWEEN
Carlsruhe and Kyneton.

Then comes:

LOST—TWO HUNDRED SOVEREIGNS
yesterday morning in Bourke Street, by a man
lately arrived in the colony, the result of twenty-
five years' hard industry.

LOST—A SABLE BOA—ONE POUND
REWARD.

We cannot help being equally struck by the
carelessness of the people who drop purses,
bags of money, gold receipts, in all directions,
and the honesty of the number who take the
trouble to advertise the waifs which have fallen
to their hands. It is evident that there is a
large stock of honesty in the Colonies, although
we have been taking so much pains to swamp
or neutralise it by an annual flood of felony
in the shape of exiles on tickets of leave,
turned loose in the neighbouring colony of
Van Dieman's Land.

The loose morals are most displayed in the
article of cattle and horses. The ancestors
of the Bold Buceleugh could not have more
thoroughly carried out their motto of "Snaffle,
spur, and spear," than the boys bound to and
from the Diggings. Many advertisements
offer good grazing in enclosed paddocks; some
end with "no accommodation for Sunday
travellers, and no business done on that day;"
but in all pasturing advertisements, in a
conspicuous line, are these words, "No
responsibility." And the meaning of "No
responsibility " is explained by column after
column of rewards, from five pounds to fifty
pounds, for the horses and oxen, stolen or
strayed, of every size, every breed, every
colour, branded with every possible variation
of the letters of the alphabet, beside stars,
crosses, and marks; one mare has a pleasant
head, another horse has no hair on his tail.
It would almost seem that every man going
to or returning from the Diggings borrowed
somebody's horse, and forgot to return it.
As for the bullocks that stray away and get
into the pound, they occupy a couple of
columns monthly in one paper, like the
following:—" Yellow and white bullock, bell on
neck, T off neck, T off ribs, SE near shoulder,
like 20 or 40 off thigh; yellow and white
bullock, down horns, like M or W near back,
HC or G near rump; brown bullock, wide
horns, SE near shoulder, bible brand, thus
[1] near ribs." Pigs do not seem well used
in these districts, for three pounds reward
is offered for " A sow in pig, colour black
and white, ears much torn by the dogs,
many scars about the legs, and a piece bitten
off the tail."

The public amusements are very equestrian,
with the exception of a few stray concerts—
"a subscription concert by Mrs. Lester: tickets
one guinea." The German Union advertise a
"grand ball and champagne supper: tickets
two guineas each." Rome Equestrian Circus
offers a fine bill of fai'e: " highly-trained
steeds; the prince of Ethiopian comedians, &c.:
boxes, eight shillings; pit, two shillings and
sixpence; and no half price." The Olympic
does not even condescend to advertise its prices.
But in races there is an exuberant strength
that would set on end the hair of the worthy
clergyman in Gloucestershire, who preached
down the Grand Stand of that fashionable
abode of dull gentility.

Geelong, with a population under ten
thousand, supports three days' racing that
might make some towns in Yorkshire jealous.