Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria

Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria

William Westgarth, scottish-born merchant, historian, statistician and politician in Australia (1815-1889)


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Table of Contents

-01- About this book

-02- MOTTO

-03- AN INTRODUCTORY MEDLEY

-04- MR. FROUDE'S OCEANA

-05- NEW ZEALAND

-06- UNITY OF THE EMPIRE

-07- EARLY PORT PHILLIP

-08- MY FIRST NIGHT ASHORE

-09- INDIGENOUS FEATURES AROUND MELBOURNE

-10- THE ABORIGINAL NATIVES IN AND ABOUT TOWN

-11- EARLY CIVILIZING DIFFICULTIES

-12- THE BEACH

-13- EARLY MELBOURNE, ITS UPS AND DOWNS 1840 TO 1851

-14- THE MELBOURNE CORPORATION, 1842

-15- EARLY SUBURBAN MELBOURNE

-16- THE EARLY SQUATTING TIMES

-17- EARLY WESTERN VICTORIA

-18- SOME NAMES OF MARK IN THE EARLY YEARS

-19- THE HENTY FAMILY

-20- SOME INTERJECTA IN RE BATMAN

-21- DR. THOMSON, OF GEELONG

-22- JOHN PASCOE FAWKNER, FATHER OF MELBOURNE

-23- JAMES SIMPSON

-24- DAVID CHARTERIS McARTHUR

-25- CHARLES JOSEPH LA TROBE

-26- SIR JOHN O'SHANASSY, PREMIER

-27- WILLIAM KERR, FOUNDER OF THE ARGUS

-28- WILLIAM NICHOLSON, MAYOR OF MELBOURNE

-29- CHARLES HOTSON EBDEN, ESQUIRE

-30- EDWARD WILSON, CHIEF PROPRIETOR OF THE ARGUS

-31- EARLY SOCIETY

-32- GOVERNMENT HOUSE

-33- CHEAP LIVING

-34- RELIGIOUS INTERESTS

-35- THE GERMAN IMMIGRATION

-36- THE GERMAN PRINCE

-37- BLACK THURSDAY

-38- EARLY VICTORIA, FROM 1851

-39- EARLY BALLARAT

-40- MOUNT ALEXANDER AND BENDIGO

-41- EARLY VICTORIAN LEGISLATION

-42- POSTSCRIPT

-43- MELBOURNE IN 1888

-44- ALBURY

-45- MELBOURNE AND SYDNEY

-46- POST POSTSCRIPT

-47- BRISBANE, 22ND AUGUST