| Description | Acknowledging receipt of the latter's note of 26 November announcing the death of Baker's mother.
"I send you the document you require although I have not been to a lawyer about it, I send it separate so that it may have the postmark on it. You ask if there are any lawyers in Bendigo - I may only state that there is about 700 cases every country court (once a month), which will show you how high state of civilization we have arrived at. I did not go to any of them, as you cannot open your mouth to one of them under £5 5s .... Everybody is leaving here for New Zealand where they are getting any quantity of gold, but they will all have to return in the winter time, the summer being the only time they can work". |