London is about to lose one of its most characteristic noises. The milk trade is going silent. Possibly there has been some potent economic reason ...
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Article : 107 wordsSir,--The clipper brig Drover, owned by the into Jas. Hemphill, my father, took a full complement of diggers to the Port Curtis gold rush in the early sixties. ...
Article : 136 wordsSir,--Is there any record of a ship called Joseph Cunard (or Kinniard) I think she was a whaling ship. My late father is supposed to have run away ...
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Article : 59 wordsSir,--My parents, with three children, and also my aunt, from Scotland, arrived in Melbourne and anchored in Hobson's Bay,on the 58th October, 1841. ...
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Article : 125 wordsSir,--From an old diary I have obtained the following information, which may interest some renders of your popular Ships of the Past columns. Amongst ...
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Article : 47 wordsSir,--Before this very interesting discussion of tho ships of early days closes I would like to know if any reader knows anything about a ship called the ...
Article : 78 wordsSir,--My father, Mr. J. H. Callaway, of Cobden, came to tills country about September, 1809, as a boy of 14, with his parents on the vessel Highflyer, Capt. J. ...
Article : 107 wordsSir,--In "The Age" of 24th March Mrs. G. E. Everilt asks for information re file nailing ship Midlothian. My wife and family came out to Victoria on 30th ...
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Article : 110 wordsSir,--I have watched the lists, but have failed to see any account of the ship called the Harpley, which cams out in 1853. As the daughter of an ' old pioneer, ...
Article : 85 wordsSir,--My parents sailed from Plymouth in the Blur of India, a sailing vessel, in March. 1871, and reached Melbourne in June, making a passage of eighty-four ...
Article : 59 wordsSir,--My father. Mr. Robert Z. Poole, was a passenger on the Marco Polo from England lo Australia In 1854. After a short period in Melbourne, he crossed to ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Sat 19 May 1934, Page 8
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