[Editor: This Miner’s Right was issued to Emily Kisler, in Victoria, on 21 August 1888.]
[Front of Miner’s Right]
[Handwritten and stamped text has been rendered in italics.]
Series I. No. 138
Book No. 5
Five Shillings
Colony of Victoria.
District & place in which issued Ballarat
Date 21st August 1888
Miner’s Right.
Issued to Emily Kisler
under the provisions of “The Mining Statute 1865,” No. 291, to be in force until
20th August 1889 JH Bennett
By Authority: Robert S. Brain, Government Printer.
[Reverse of Miner’s Right]
If a Residence Area is held by virtue of this Miner’s Right, the particulars of registration must be endorsed hereunder, in accordance with Section 5 of Act No. 709.
| No. of Registration | Date of Registration | Situation of Residence Area | District and Division in which Registration is effected | Signature of Registrar |
| Cert. 17823 |
Sept. 6. 1888. |
Lal Lal Street Ballarat East. 100 feet x 435 feet |
Central Div. Ballarat Dst. |
D. Christy Mining Registrar per CHS. |
Source:
Original document
Editor’s notes:
Dimensions (approximate): 214 mm. (width), 146 mm. (height).
There is a small notation in the top-left quarter of the front of this Miner’s Right, with the numbers “18145” (with the number “18089” crossed out). Whether this was a contemporaneous notation, or was added at a later date, is not known; similarly, someone’s initials have been written in the bottom-left quarter.
The printer’s details were printed on the left side of the Miner’s Right.
The front of the Miner’s Right has a coat of arms near the top, with a lion on the left and a unicorn on the right, with the text “Honi soit qui mal y pense” (the motto of the Order of the Garter), with a scroll underneath with the words “Dieu et mon droit” (a phrase which is used as the motto of the monarch of the United Kingdom). At the bottom of the coat of arms is the motto “Advance Australia”.
The left side of the front of the Miner’s Right has a vertical design which includes 1) a small coat of arms at the top, with a kangaroo on the left and an emu on the right (symbols of Australia); 2) a crossed pick and shovel (symbols of mining); 3) two British ensigns, upon which are superimposed a sword and scales (the sword is a symbol of authority and of punishment; the scales are a symbol of justice).
The name of the holder of this Miner’s Right, Emily Kisler, has been confirmed; her name was reported as a witness to the self-poisoning of a young woman in Ballarat in 1911.
See: Worried woman’s death: Case of lysol poisoning: “For the sake of Jim and the child” [30 December 1911]
Cert. = (abbreviation) Certificate
Dieu et mon droit = (French) “God and my right” (the phrase is used as the motto of the monarch of the United Kingdom)
See: 1) “Coats of Arms”, The Royal Household
2) “Dieu et mon droit”, Wikipedia
Div. = (abbreviation) Division
Dst. = (abbreviation) District
Honi soit qui mal y pense = an Anglo-Norman phrase, which has been translated as “shamed be whoever thinks ill of it”, “shame on anyone who thinks evil of it”, “shame on him who thinks this evil”, and “evil to him who evil thinks” (the phrase is used as the motto of the Order of the Garter)
See: 1) “Coats of Arms”, The Royal Household
2) “The Order of the Garter”, The Royal Household
3) Camille Chevalier-Karfis, “Origins of the expression ‘Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense’”, ThoughtCo. (updated 7 August 2019)
4) “Honi soit qui mal y pense”, Wikipedia
5) “honi soit qui mal y pense”, Wiktionary
Sept. = (abbreviation) September
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