Book excerpt: The Miner's Right, A Tale of the Australian Goldfields by Rolf Boldrewood is a first-person account of Boldrewood's experience as Goldfields Commissioner at Gulgong in the 1870s. Excerpt: "I AM in Australia at last--actually in Botany Bay, as we called the colony of New South Wales when Joe Bulder and I first thought of leaving that dear quiet old Dibblestowe Leys in Mid-Kent. More than that, I am a real gold digger--very real, indeed--and the holder of a Miner's Right, a wonderful document, printed and written on parchment, precisely as follows."