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George Topper arrived in Melbourne intending to follow his trade but found business disrupted and men departed to the gold fields where George Topper and associates followed. Arrived at Ballarat Diggings, the party camped. In the evening George Topper played his cornet, (still in existence in Beaufort) a crowd of miners or diggers soon gathering. The party were told they had come too late for gold as the field was worked out, but American diggers who had been successful gave over their claim in which the party did well. In this or another claim the party gathered nine pickle bottles of gold, each weighing forty pounds; as there were eight or nine in the party, equivalent to a bottle a person.
A piece of stone, gold, encrusted from Eureka is held at Beaufort farm. George Topper and Thomas Hebuirn drove bullock wagons, carting goods to the gold fields, that was how they became acquainted and Thomas Hebuirn married Elizabeth Sarah Topper. George Topper had a wagon built by Thomas Hebuirn, (who was a blacksmith and a wheel wright) which he exhibited successfully several times.