Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria

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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—1840-1851. - 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. - SIR JOHN O'SHANASSY. - WILLIAM KERR, FOUNDER OF "THE ARGUS". - WILLIAM NICHOLSON. - 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. - POSTCRIPT. - MELBOURNE IN 1888. - ALBURY. - SYDNEY. - BRISBANE. - 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.