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  2. LLOYD GEORGE AND THE ADMIRALS.

    THE third volume ot Mr. Lloyd George's Memoirs, published by Ivor Nicholson and Watson, reveals the war-time Prime Minister at his ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  3. RE-LIVING THE EARLY DAYS.

    Two well-preserved documents of 1848, a notice on free emigration to Australia, dated Westminster, February of that year, and a copy of The Emigrant's ...

    Article : 317 words
  4. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--Mr. Jas. Cooney's letter in "The Age" of 27th October asked whether anyone can remember Mr. Dott's glass works in Munster-terrace, also the ...

    Article : 245 words
  5. FOUR, AND MORE, GENERATIONS.

    Sir,--I have been very interested in the Centenary letters, and felt I would like to recall the experiences of the old folk, my mother's parents, John and ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  6. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--My father left Lancashire as a mariner on the ship Negotiator (Captain Young), and arrived in Melbourne in 1852. He left the ship for the rush to ...

    Article : 189 words
  7. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--I have read with much pleasure the many letters published by: "The Age" by many correspondents of early Melbourne and the sixties. I am a ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,160 words
  8. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--I have been greatly interested in reading Old Identities of North and West Melbourne. Is there anyone that remembers old Louis Jacobe? He had ...

    Article : 131 words
  9. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--With your kind permission I would very much like to thank "Hothamite" and "An Old Workman" for their kind remarks about my parents, the late ...

    Article : 121 words
  10. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir.--I am well interested in the many letters appearing in your well produced supplement of Saturday. In West Melbourne, where I was schooled ...

    Article : 590 words
  11. Military Memories.

    Sir,--I wonder if there are living any of the soldiers of the 14th Imperial army who came over in the Robert Lowe and landed in Auckland in 1860 ...

    Article : 210 words
  12. HOW TO SAVE DEMOCRACY.

    We are accustomed to discussing the present as a period of crisis. There is another apeet which is frequently overlooked. It is, as well, an age of ...

    Article : 775 words
  13. REMINISCENCES OF GOVERNOR BOURKE'S DAYS

    Mr. G. Richardson writes as follows:--Sir Richard Bourke arrived in Port Phillip Settlement in H.M.S. Rattlesnake, commanded by Captain ...

    Article : 348 words
  14. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--Please permit me to contradict David O'Donnell's statements in military memories about Corporal Alexander's death in what is now Footscray Park. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 377 words
  15. EARLY MELBOURNE.

    Sir,--Mr. E. J. Martin is correct as regards Mills's timber yard. I saw the shark he mentioned; it was in an alleyway next Cleat's Hotel in ...

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  16. Royal Visit Memories.

    Sir.--I went to Port Melbourne to see the Duke arrive. What a beautiful day it was. I stood near what used to be the Sandridge Lagoon, and no bridge ...

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  17. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE

    Sir,--"Ancient's" letter on 13th October brought back many memories. Does anybody remember the man going round the street with the three bears? He ...

    Article : 70 words
  18. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--My grandmother was born in Melbourne, close to what is now the corner of Elizabeth and Lonsdale streets, on 6th May, 1849. She has seen Melbourne ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 306 words
  19. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--Re Mr. A. Hopper's letter in "The Age." 20th October, my father also became a great-grandfather before his 61st birthday. My grandmother arrived in ...

    Article : 148 words
  20. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--My father, the late W. S. Williamson, of Brown's River, Tasmania, was born at Emerald Hill, Victoria, in 1848 or 1849. His father, the late Mr. W. A. S. ...

    Article : 330 words
  21. GERMAN WEDDING RINGS.

    The German brides who are being called upon to give up their claims to the gold wedding ring in these times of national shortage of gold, and use a ring ...

    Article : 144 words
  22. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--I also was seven years old when the Duke of Edinburgh visited Australia. I can well remember the illuminations in the country towns near where we ...

    Article : 181 words
  23. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--I desire to contribute my small quota of correspondence on early Melbourne. I was born on 18th May, 1846, in what is now known as George-parade ...

    Article : 191 words
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