On 11 October 1856 Sergeant Caulkin at the Moliagul Courts informed in the matter relating to Mary Smith. Smith was charged with keeping a disorderly tent in which a number of men had been present. The matter was dismissed on the basis that there was no offence in keeping a disorderly tent. On the same day, on the same facts, Sergeant Caulkin brought the case before the court again. This time on the grounds that Smith had been ‘keeping an unregistered place of public amusement’. Smith was fined five pounds or 14 days imprisonment. (Melanie R. Senior, Thank you Your Worship, that will do ‘Til I get More!, BA Hons Thesis, 2 November 2001, p. 30.)

The Welcome Stranger Nugget, the largest lump of alluvial gold ever found, was dug up just inches below the surface at Moliagul Diggings in 1869. Photograph: W. Parker, Miners and their families posing with the finders of the ‘Welcome Stranger’ nugget, 1869, State Library Victoria.