VICTORIA.

New Zealander, Volume 7, Issue 573, 11 October 1851, Page 3

VICTORIA.

The elections for the Legislative Council were in progress. The following is a list of the Members returned up the 16th ult. '• — f Mr. Wkstgautk Melbourne < Mr. o'Sha.nnassy ( Alderman Johnsoox rt , ( Ml. ROHINSON GCCI0 "S iMr.STBACHA* ■xt nt> i ( Ml. DIGIIT North Bourkc | Mr. J. T. Smith South Bourke Mr. Milluu Ri ffic llamP . dCn L am !} Mr - GOLDSMXTIC Gipps Land My. TunsnujA The Murray Dr. MuKvur 'I'lig Loddon Mr. Cami'moll The "Wiinmcni Mr. Sx>latt. Por tlie counties of Grant, Villlers, andlleytcsbury; Talbot, Dalhousic, and Anglesea ; and for the Boroughs of Portland, Belfast, Warnainbool, and Kilmore, the result was not known when the mail left Melbourne. ' Gold was to many a more engrossing subject than the elections. The Ballarat Field, about fifty-four miles from Geelong, was very productive. The Argus of September 19, states that within the preceding week between four and five hundred men of the labouring class had left Geelong for the diggings, and that the emigiation continued to such an extent as to threaten the depopulation of the town. There were rumours of the discovery of Gold | in almost every pait of the country, but the only additional spot in which it was proved to exist was near Mount Alexander, in a secluded valley about a mile west of the road from Mcli bourne to Swan Hill.