Marg wrote |Hi Trevor, | I would love to read the transcripts. I am running a bit ahead of time and have almost finished typing up the 'Tarnagulla and Llanelly Courier's' report of the evidence taken in Tarnagulla on the morning of 14th March 1890. I have divided it up into 5 instalments and have already posted the first. I should have the second instalment posted tomorrow night after I get back from the SLV where I need to look at the microfilm again to check on a few lines which are indecipherable on the printouts. | Also, is there any background information on this Royal Commission? If there | was a list of towns and dates, other listers might look up their local | papers and type out other miners' stories. I happened to tumble on the Royal Commission by accident a few weeks ago. As so often happens, I was looking in the 'Tarnagulla and Llanelly Courier' for something else in January 1890. When I didn't find it where I thought it might be, I scrolled ahead and just happened upon the Royal Commission. You know how it is! So, the answer to your question is that there probably is other information that you mention, but I just haven't come across it. I have been concentrating on the evidence I found that I haven't searched wider for the background information. However, as I usually look at the 'Dunolly and Betbetshire Express' for news about Tarnagulla (usually a better coverage that the Tarnagulla press in this period), and found the Commission was sitting there the same day as in Dunolly. I will be printing off the 'Express' report tomorrow at the SLV. To get a list of the places where this Commission sat I suppose you would need to look at Parliamentary archives. Since it is a *Royal* commission, maybe the Governor's Office? Someone with more expertise than I have will answer this better than I can. Trevor