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Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria

Name: Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria
Author: William Westgarth

William Westgarth

Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950-2014) · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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Verse - An Introductory Medley (12:19)
Mr Froude's "Oceana" - My First Night Ashore (13:08)
Indigenous Features Around Melbourne - Early Civilizing Difficulties (9:19)
"The Beach" (Now Port Melbourne) - Early Melbourne, It's Up's and Down--1840-1851 (25:36)
The Melbourne Corporation, 1842 - The Early Squatting Times (25:29)
Early Western Visctoria ("Australia Felix") (23:42)
Some Names of Mark in the Early Years - The Henty Family, and the Foundation of Victoria (16:58)
Some Interjecta in re Batman, Pioneer of the Port Phillip Settlement - John Pascoe Fawkner, Father of Melbourne (27:40)
James Simpson, First Magistrate of "The Settlement" - Sir John O'Shanassy (24:45)
William Kerr, Founder of the Argus - Charles Hotson Ebden, Esquire (30:58)
Edward Wilson, Chief Proprietor of "The Argus", "The Times" of the South (20:40)
Early Society: Ways, Means and Manners - "Government House" (16:24)
Cheap Living - The German Prince (23:34)
Black Thursday - Mount Alexander and Bendigo (32:44)
Early Victorian Legislation (16:51)
Postcript - Melbourne in 1888 (37:34)
Albury - Brisbane (23:48)