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