Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria
by William Westgarth
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About this eBook
- Author
- Westgarth, William, 1815-1889
- Credits
- Produced by Sue Asscher
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DU: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: History of Oceania (South Seas)
- Subject
- Victoria -- Description and travel
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 5789
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5789
- Release Date
- May 1, 2004
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.EARLY MELBOURNE AND VICTORIA
- 2.PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS — CONTENTS.
- 3.PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF EARLY MELBOURNE AND VICTORIA. — AN INTRODUCTORY MEDLEY. — MR. FROUDE'S "OCEANA." — NEW ZEALAND. — UNITY OF THE EMPIRE. — EARLY PORT PHILLIP. — MY FIRST NIGHT ASHORE. — INDIGENOUS FEATURES AROUND MELBOURNE. — THE ABORIGINAL NATIVES IN AND ABOUT TOWN. — EARLY CIVILIZING DIFFICULTIES. — "THE BEACH" (NOW PORT MELBOURNE). — EARLY MELBOURNE, ITS UPS AND DOWNS—1840-51. — THE MELBOURNE CORPORATION, 1842. — EARLY SUBURBAN MELBOURNE. — THE EARLY SQUATTING TIMES. — EARLY WESTERN VICTORIA ("AUSTRALIA FELIX"). — SOME NAMES OF MARK IN THE EARLY YEARS. — THE HENTY FAMILY, AND THE FOUNDATION OF VICTORIA. — SOME INTERJECTA IN RE BATMAN, PIONEER OF THE PORT PHILLIP SETTLEMENT. — JOHN PASCOE FAWKNER, FATHER OF MELBOURNE. — JAMES SIMPSON, FIRST MAGISTRATE OF "THE SETTLEMENT." — CHARLES JOSEPH LA TROBE, C.B., SUPERINTENDENT OF PORT PHILLIP, AND FIRST LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR OF VICTORIA. — SIR JOHN O'SHANASSY, PREMIER, AND FOREMOST PUBLIC MAN OF VICTORIA. — WILLIAM KERR, FOUNDER OF "THE ARGUS," AND TOWN CLERK OF MELBOURNE. — WILLIAM NICHOLSON, MAYOR OF MELBOURNE, AND PREMIER OF THE COLONY. — CHARLES HOTSON EBDEN, ESQUIRE. — EDWARD WILSON, CHIEF PROPRIETOR OF "THE ARGUS," "THE TIMES" OF THE SOUTH. — EARLY SOCIETY: WAYS, MEANS, AND MANNERS. — "GOVERNMENT HOUSE." — CHEAP LIVING. — RELIGIOUS INTERESTS. — THE GERMAN IMMIGRATION. — THE GERMAN PRINCE. — BLACK THURSDAY. — EARLY VICTORIA, FROM 1851. — EARLY BALLARAT. — MOUNT ALEXANDER AND BENDIGO. — EARLY VICTORIAN LEGISLATION. — POSTSCRIPT. — POST POSTSCRIPT.
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