[[Category:Towns in New South Wales|]]

This article contains too many or overly lengthy quotations for an encyclopedic entry. (July 2014)

Home Rule Hotel, New South Wales, c.1872. Part of Holtermann Collection
Coordinates	32.4344867°S 149.614146°E / -32.4344867; 149.614146
Population	55 (SAL 2021)[1]
Postcode(s)	2850[2]
Location	299 km (186 mi) NW of Sydney 12 km (7 mi) SE of Gulgong 174 km (108 mi) N of Orange 30 km (19 mi) N of Mudgee

Home Rule is a 19th-century gold rush town in rural New South Wales, Australia. It is 290 km to Sydney.[3]

On 9 July 1872 The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser reported that "the scene at Home Rule is a busy one, and very few people can form an idea of it unless they go and see for themselves. A township is in rapid formation, and streets are being made close to the golden holes. One digger refused £500 for a share in a claim on the right spot. Everyone appears sanguine. The storekeepers and publicans look remarkably pleasant, as if they anticipated rich harvests, and even John Chinaman smiles graciously on meeting you. It would almost be an impossibility to give an account of the different claims, as they extend for miles; and until the dispute as to the frontage and block system is settled, many men will prefer to be idle."[4]

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External links

• State Library of New South Wales. Photographs of Canadian Lead and Home Rule. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
• The Sydney Morning Herald 28 November 1873, page 3. Article regarding Gulgong and Home Rule. Retrieved 6 June 2014.

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