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== Recollections of a Victorian Police Officer by Sup John Sadleir ==

I had a narrow escape from some pecuniary loss that I could not well afford over this mine - ‘The Good Hope.’ I held several shares partly in trust for friends and partly my own. As the local director, Holmes, who was an old acquaintance of mine, was passing one day through Sale , the shareholders there, of whom there were several, asked his views about the mine. Holmes was perfectly frank in his report. He said that the reef showed as rich as ever, but it would no longer pay unless a tunnel which they had started was carried through; that the country was very difficult, and all the dividend he could absolutely promise was represented in the ore already raised. This report was not good enough for me. But others who also heard the report took my shares at ten guineas each. The ‘Good Hope’ closed down after paying thirty shillings dividend, and has been idle ever since.