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Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria William Westgarth Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria Table of Contents Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria.....................................................................................1 William Westgarth.........................................................................................................................................2 AN INTRODUCTORY MEDLEY................................................................................................................4 MR. FROUDE'S "OCEANA.".......................................................................................................................6 NEW ZEALAND...........................................................................................................................................7 UNITY OF THE EMPIRE.............................................................................................................................8 EARLY PORT PHILLIP...............................................................................................................................9 MY FIRST NIGHT ASHORE.....................................................................................................................10 INDIGENOUS FEATURES AROUND MELBOURNE............................................................................11 THE ABORIGINAL NATIVES IN AND ABOUT TOWN.......................................................................12 EARLY CIVILIZING DIFFICULTIES......................................................................................................13 "THE BEACH" (NOW PORT MELBOURNE)..........................................................................................14 EARLY MELBOURNE, ITS UPS AND DOWNS—1840−51...................................................................15 THE MELBOURNE CORPORATION, 1842.............................................................................................18 EARLY SUBURBAN MELBOURNE........................................................................................................19 THE EARLY SQUATTING TIMES...........................................................................................................21 EARLY WESTERN VICTORIA ("AUSTRALIA FELIX")......................................................................23 SOME NAMES OF MARK IN THE EARLY YEARS..............................................................................27 THE HENTY FAMILY, AND THE FOUNDATION OF VICTORIA......................................................28 SOME INTERJECTA IN RE BATMAN, PIONEER OF THE PORT PHILLIP SETTLEMENT............30 JOHN PASCOE FAWKNER, FATHER OF MELBOURNE.....................................................................32 JAMES SIMPSON, FIRST MAGISTRATE OF "THE SETTLEMENT.".................................................34 DAVID CHARTERIS McARTHUR, FATHER OF VICTORIAN BANKING.........................................35 CHARLES JOSEPH LA TROBE, C.B., SUPERINTENDENT OF PORT PHILLIP, AND FIRST LIEUTENANT−GOVERNOR OF VICTORIA.........................................................................................36 SIR JOHN O'SHANASSY, PREMIER, AND FOREMOST PUBLIC MAN OF VICTORIA..................38 WILLIAM KERR, FOUNDER OF "THE ARGUS," AND TOWN CLERK OF MELBOURNE.............40 WILLIAM NICHOLSON, MAYOR OF MELBOURNE, AND PREMIER OF THE COLONY.............43 CHARLES HOTSON EBDEN, ESQUIRE.................................................................................................45 EDWARD WILSON, CHIEF PROPRIETOR OF "THE ARGUS," "THE TIMES" OF THE SOUTH.....46 EARLY SOCIETY: WAYS, MEANS, AND MANNERS.........................................................................49 "GOVERNMENT HOUSE.".......................................................................................................................51 CHEAP LIVING..........................................................................................................................................53 RELIGIOUS INTERESTS..........................................................................................................................54 THE GERMAN IMMIGRATION...............................................................................................................55 THE GERMAN PRINCE............................................................................................................................57 BLACK THURSDAY.................................................................................................................................58 EARLY VICTORIA, FROM 1851..............................................................................................................60 EARLY BALLARAT..................................................................................................................................61 MOUNT ALEXANDER AND BENDIGO.................................................................................................63 EARLY VICTORIAN LEGISLATION......................................................................................................65 POSTSCRIPT..............................................................................................................................................68 POST POSTSCRIPT....................................................................................................................................76 i Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria 1 Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria William Westgarth This page copyright © 2002 Blackmask Online. http://www.blackmask.com • 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." • DAVID CHARTERIS McARTHUR, FATHER OF VICTORIAN BANKING. • 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. Produced by Sue Asscher [email protected] William Westgarth 2 Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria "Oh, call back yesterday, bid time return." —Richard II. "A story of the mount and plain, The lake, the river, and the sea; A voice that wakes to life again An age−long slumbering melody." —GEORGE GORDON McCRAE. "Ah! who has ever journeyed, on a glorious summer night, Through the weird Australian bushland, without feelings of delight? The dense untrodden forest, in the moonlight cold and pale, Brings before our wondering eyes again the dreams of fairy tale." —A. PATCHETT MARTIN. "The genius of Australia now uprears Her youthful form, like hope without hope's fears; While o'er her head our Cross, with loveliest rays, Heralds the brightness of her future years." —R.H. HORNE. William Westgarth 3 Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria AN INTRODUCTORY MEDLEY. I had long looked forward to one more visit to Victoria, perhaps the last I should expect to make, and the opportunity of the opening of the great Centenary Exhibition at Melbourne on 1st August of this year was too good to be lost. Accordingly, having been able to arrange business matters for so long a holiday, I took passage, with my wife and daughter, by the good steamship "Coptic" of the "Shaw, Savill New Zealand Line," as it is curtly put. She was to land us at Hobart about 27th July, in good time, we hoped, to get across by the Launceston boat for the Exhibition opening, and she bids fair, at this moment, to keep her engagement. We would have taken the directer route, with its greater number and variety of objects, via Suez and Colombo, but we feared the sun−blaze of the ill−omened Red Sea in summer. We purpose, however, to return that way towards the coming winter. More than thirty−one years have elapsed since I left Melbourne, after a residence there of seventeen years, broken, however, by two intermediate visits "Home." I think with wondering enjoyment of what I am to see in the colony and its capital after such an interval. Previously, when I returned after only a year or two's absence, I was wont to mark with astonishment all that had been done in that comparatively brief time. I am thankful to Mr. Froude, whose delightful work, "Oceana," I could read to all full enjoyment
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