Flour, bread, clothes, eggs, fowl, and butter are also very high, nearly three times the price at home. The gold diggings are going on as brisk as ever. About 70,000 people are working at them and the town is full every day of persons going and returning from them. Many have made their fortunes at them, others do not make a halfpenny so that it is just a sort of lottery however it keeps up the prices of both labour and provisions here, tradesmen are remarkably well-paid. Anyone in fact that wishes to work is well-remunerated for it and can live better than at home.
Every person here eats meat three times a day.
When I look around me properly I will write again in about three weeks or a month and give you more particulars concerning the place. God knows the connecting link of a letter, poor as it will be, to us an invaluable treasure. Mary sends you all her fondest love.