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  2. London Gossip

    Hugh Ruttledge, who is to lead the new expedition which is to make an attack on the summit of Mount Everest next spring, is a slight, middle-aged ...

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  3. SHIPS OF THE PAST

    Sir,--In the wonderfully popular Ships of the Past there has been no mention so far of the Bass Strait clippers, and the smart little coasters which in the ...

    Article : 1,168 words
  4. Life, Letters and Music in Paris To-day.

    Portia has made n triumphal entry into Paris, and every seat in the Opera House was filled on 21st March, to do honor to the immortal heroine of The Merchant of ...

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  5. RE-LIVING THE EARLY DAYS.

    Sir,--The town of Warrnambool has many interesting relics of the early settlement of Victoria. In Westgarth's "Australia," page 106, occurs a passage ...

    Article : 359 words
  6. Bendigo.

    Sir,--As a very old reader of "The Age" I do thank you for the privilege of looking into the past. About 1868, as a boy, I was in the Upper Reserve, when ...

    Article : 328 words
  7. Malvern.

    Sir,--My happiest days were spent at school. When the Duke of Edinburgh visited Melbourne, Neilson's school marched in the procession to welcome ...

    Article : 443 words
  8. Mount Alexander.

    Sir,--South Australia seemed about to be depopulated in the early fifties by the rush to the Victorian gold fields, when the happy idea was suggested of ...

    Article : 1,793 words
  9. Healesville.

    Sir,--Being always interested in Healesville and its district's history and incidents. I read with pleasure the letters from your correspondents, T. Bath (East ...

    Article : 390 words
  10. Mermerus.

    Sir,--With reference to the ship Mermerus, the following may be of interest to your readers. The City of Agra loaded wool alongside Mermerus, at Railway ...

    Article : 157 words
  11. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--In reference to letters in "The Age," dated 9th March and 6th April, re old Bendigo days, I remember Mr. Bakewell, who was a rate collector over ...

    Article : 203 words
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    Photograph of painting of Fountain in Exhibition Gardens, 1875. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  13. Governor La Trobe.

    Sir,--Mr. Allen's letter in last Saturday's "Age" I think conclusively settles the fact that Jolimont was the spot where Governor La Trobe erected his ...

    Article : 106 words
  14. Loch Maree.

    Sir,--In reading Mr. Alexander Gibson Fortune's letter in "Ships of the Past," of the Loch Maree, it brought to mind the fact that the Parthenope ...

    Article : 127 words
  15. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--As an interested reader of Reliving the Early Days and Old Victorian Schooldays in your Saturday's issues, I am prompted to write of School No. ...

    Article : 261 words
  16. Old Emerald Hill.

    Sir,--I have been very interested in reading memories of Old Emerald Hill which have appeared in "The Age." I have been a resident in Emerald Hill ...

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  17. Lady Bird and Tek-li.

    Sir,--In your issue of 27th April mention is made of the steamer Lady Bird, Captain Nicol. This steamer was owned for years by S. G. Henty, Portland. ...

    Article : 171 words
  18. FOUNTAIN IN EXHIBITION GARDENS.

    Sir,--I wish to thank you very much for publishing my letter re ship Africa and the item regarding my grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Weedow, and ...

    Article : 132 words
  19. Ballarat.

    Sir,--Mr. Arthur Collier, under the above heading, asks, "Does anyone remember the storm that played such havoc in the Ballarat district on a New Year's ...

    Article : 628 words
  20. Exploits of Tugs.

    Sir.--An old seafaring man myself, I remember dozens of the ships mentioned. "W.D.," of Bentleigh ("The Age 20435), opens a new line of ...

    Article : 380 words
  21. THE FIRST ELECTRIC TRAM.

    Does it not seem strange that the world's first electric tram should run through eight miles of that mysterious land of Finn McCool, on the sea-girt ...

    Article : 498 words
  22. Geelong.

    Sir,--In your supplement of Saturday, 2nd March, you published a letter signed Kate Gardiner (Mona Vale, N.S.W.), in which she relates her remembrances of ...

    Article : 701 words
  23. Captain James Parker Moore.

    Sir,--I have read with very great interest the many letters, concerning ships of early days of Melbourne, and wonder if among your many readers there is ...

    Article : 171 words
  24. Small Craft of 1854.

    Sir,--My note of last week regarding the coming of very small steamers to Port Phillip has brought home to me the magnitude of the business and the ...

    Article : 420 words
  25. Family From Cheshire.

    Sir,--Could any of your readers supply the name of the ship in which a family named Lowe came out to Australia from a village called Wynbunbury, in Cheshire ...

    Article : 92 words
  26. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--I witnessed the scenes during that eventful storm at Lal Lal on New Year's day described by Mr. Collier. My schoolmate and lifelong friend, the late ...

    Article : 254 words
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