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  2. RE-LIVING THE EARLY DAYS.

    Sir,--My father came out from Cork in the ship Duchess of Northumberland, arriving in Sydney in 1838, and coming to Melbourne in 1841. This is what my ...

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  3. MUSIC IN LONDON.

    The promenade concerts have given us a mild sensation this week. And although it was in the nature of a shouted protest from a member of the audience ...

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  4. London Gossip

    The sportsmen were divided this weekend between cricket and football--and football, in most places won in spite of' the cricket weather. The games next ...

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  5. LIFE IN PARIS TO-DAY.

    Dawn to-day found a through of Parisian massed upon the summit of Montmartre, for the War Office had staged spectacular series of aviation ...

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  6. RECENT RELIGIOUS LITERATURE.

    All who knew and loved Dr. Littlejohn, of Scots' College, Melbourne, will be glad to know that a selection of the prayers he wrote for the daily morning service ...

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  7. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--Do any of your correspondents on early North Melbourne remember the stalls of the old men at the Benevolent Asylum ? On a Saturday morning you ...

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  8. Old North Melbourne.

    Sir,--Mention by Mr. Cropley of the old Temperance Hall in Queensberry- street recalls to my mind many happy Sunday afternoons attending school there. ...

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  9. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--"Shadow King" writes of the Swan-street crossing at Richmond station and of the official who opened and shut tho railway gates. Does he remember ...

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  10. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--I am interested in the letters about Early Melbourne appearing in "The Age," especially about Albert Mattingley's Errol-street National school. I was a ...

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  11. Four, and More, Generations.

    Sir,--My father, W. J. Wittick, was born in Burnley-street, Richmond, in 1848. and is still alive. His family numbered twelve, of whom six are still ...

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  12. Military Memories.

    Sir,--Was the Sergeant-Major Whithead mentioned in "The Age recently at one time attached to 4th Battalion Ballarat Militia? I was in D Company a ...

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  13. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir.--We have read with interest the letters in ''The Age about old identities of North Melbourne. We remember the records of "W.J.V." and many more. ...

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    NORTH MELBOURNE GRAMMAR SCHOOL, erected in Elm-street, in 1854. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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    THE FIRST PLUMBER'S SHOP IN HOTHAM. This shop was situated at the top of Abbotsford-street, near Canning-street. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  16. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir.--Unless "A.G." (Mitcham) can show that both his parents were born in Victoria I win easily. I am nearly 67, and both my parents were born in this State. ...

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  17. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--I am of a family of fifth-generation Australians, My father's mother, Chariotte Brindley, was born at Bellerine, Tas., in 1834, My father was born ...

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  18. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--I can claim four generations on both sides, mine and my husband's. My father, G. Wilkins, was born at Homebush in 1857. I was born at No. 2 Creek ...

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  19. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--In 1862 my late father, Sergeant Major Canham, Sam Henderson and Mr. Broadhurst, whose christian name I forgot, arrived in Melbourne from ...

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  20. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--My great grandmother, Louisa Jane Harpin, came to Tasmania in 1830, and married William Humphries. They came to Victoria in 1837, bringing with ...

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  21. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir.--Being a native of Hotham I am interested in the letters that have been published in "The Age" about North Melbourne, and would like to add a little to ...

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    THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S VISIT. (Front of Commemorative Medal). ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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    THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S VISIT. (Back of Commemorative Medal. Showing "The Galatea.") ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  24. An Early M.P.

    Sir,--My grandfather, Thomas Hamilton Trail Osborne, came to Victoria in the very early days and settled in Port Fairy. He was u member of the first ...

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  25. A Goldfields Baby.

    Sir,--I was born in a tent at Campbell's Creek, near Castlemaine, in 1856, I' was the first baby girl born on this gold field, and the diggers brought ...

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  26. Some Queries.

    Sir,--Can any of the pioneer contributors to "The Age" name the contractors for the stone work of the Post Office and of Pentridge? In what year ...

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  27. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--One feels it is a pity, that "Wobey" in your issue of 8th September, has intruded some opinions into the otherwise pleasurable reading of old ...

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  28. A Printer of the Fifties.

    Sir,--My late father, James Lucas, better known to the public as Benjamin Lucas, was a native of Canterbury, Kent, England, where he carried on a ...

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  29. "Digger" Hunting.

    Sir,--I came to Melbourne with my parents in 1849, and remember Black Thursday, 6th February, 1851. I also recall the police chasing diggers without ...

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  30. Early Richmond.

    Sir,--References in recent issues of "The Age" have greatly interested me as I am a native of that suburb, "Shadow King" is correct in saying it was ...

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  31. Coaching Days--And a Prize Fight.

    Sir,--Recently I was presented by Mr. Naylor Gill with a water color of "Sumpter's" old coach stables at Winchelsea. Mr. Sumpter was on the track before ...

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  32. A Gold-Finder's Family.

    Sir,--My mother, a daughter of the late Thomas Hiscock, was born at "the Ancient Village," Buninyong, on 4th September, 1844. I was born at Burrumbeet ...

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  33. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--I attended the old-fashioned school at North Melbourne. Mr. Maloney, M.P., may not remember it, but when we were both scholars there ...

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  34. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--"Shadow King's" interesting recollections have brought some memories back to me. My grandfather, with his wife, arrived in Melbourne in 1841, and ...

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  35. The First Registrar-General.

    Sir,--I must congratulate your staff on the very admirable way in which you published the biography on the life of the late Major Norman Campbell, first ...

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  36. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir.--On behalf of my mother, eldest daughter of the late Cr. and Mrs. Wilson. I would like through your column to thank "Hothamite" for the kind ...

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  37. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--I went to Marshall's "tin-pot" school in Queensberry-street when Mr. Madden was head master, and also to Mattingley's school when Miss O'Brien ...

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