Box-folder MS MSF SEQ 13267 BOX 4/3

Scope and contents Jenkins lives in his cottage in Maldon. He is employed by the Shire Council to clear roads and water channels, hang gates, and other odd jobs. He comments on the intense summer heat; thunderstorms and floods; food shortages; rising food prices; his diet; minor gold rush near Maldon; installation of gas pipes in Maldon; government debt; new steam driven chaff cutter; absence of a muck spreader at the Melbourne Exhibition; typhoid outbreak in Castlemaine; theft of items from his waistcoat...