Sir.--I take up your paper here occasionally in the newsroom to inform myself of what Australia is thinking and doing in these difficult days. I have ...
Article : 158 wordsIt so happened that the Royal garden party, which marks the end of the London season, was held on one of the hottest, and certainly the windiest, day of ...
Article : 1,363 wordsA few mornings ago a London railway station was filled with the unusual excitement of a boat trains' departure with an opera company bound for Australia. ...
Article : 1,180 wordsInevitably tills week in Paris has been filled with the poignant souvenirs of the dramatic happenings of exactly twenty years ago, and it included also a ...
Article : 1,388 wordsSir,--On the 24th July, 1848, there arrived at Port Jackson the Jane Cain, a new vessel built at Port Phillip, which port she left bound for London. Her ...
Article : 261 wordsSir,--Ship Dalhousie came to Australia in 1852, after a voyage of 82 days. My mother, then about 18 years of age, a Miss Jane Chandler, accompanied a ...
Article : 137 wordsSir,--In your issue of 11th August your correspondent "M.E.B." made reference to the Madagascar. My parents (now deceased) came out in this ship, which ...
Article : 154 wordsSir,--I am glad to see the good old ship City of Agra is not forgotten. I came out on the same trip as F. Bourke, and remember the families very well, ...
Article : 131 wordsSir,--My late mother arrived here from Carlow, Ireland, in the William Hamon in 1854. Her maiden name was McNally. They were five months ...
Article : 114 wordsSir,--Ships of the Past bring back to memory days of long ago, when, as a small child my father used to take me to Sandridge Pier "to see the ships." In ...
Article : 243 wordsSir.--In reply to "Query" and "A.J.W." (Reservoir) on 25th August, my late mother, then a Miss Mead, came out in the Ballanjerch, and was a fellow ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 148 wordsSir.--On a previous occasion I asked for information concerning the barque Bee, which came to Victoria in 1856. I was about 7 years of age. I, my father, ...
Article : 136 wordsSir,--In the Travancore, which has been already mentioned, a relative of mine landed with his family in 1848 at Geelong, where they passed a weak in a ...
Article : 307 wordsSir,--A letter signed "Timolin" prompts me to write for fear that readers may confound the Kent spoken of in "Timolin's" letter with Money Wigram's famous ...
Article : 438 wordsSir,--Can any of your readers supply particulars of the voyage of the Merlin, which brought a contingent of Scotch Immigrants from Birkenhead to ...
Article : 68 wordsSir,--In reference to the inquiry by Emma Hocking (nee Cooper). I would like to mention that my mother, Mary Ann Farrelly, was a passenger on the ...
Article : 125 wordsSir,--I may have missed mention of tills ship, in which my mother and her parents arrived at Portland in the early fifties. On arrival they went at once to ...
Article : 164 wordsSir,--I was born at Emerald Hill in December, 1855, and we moved to Williamstown when I was very young. The first incident I recall was my ...
Article : 319 wordsSir.--I was very interested in the letter of "Mrs. A.H." in your issue of 18th August. She stated that her grandfather, John McEwin, came to Australia in 1937 ...
Article : 92 wordsSir,--Will you kindly correct an error. The name of the sailing ship referred to in "The Age" of 25th August is Tory, not "Tony."--Yours, &c., ...
Article : 41 wordsSir,--I have been much interested in reading Ships of the Past in your Saturdays' issues of "The Age" since the start. I notice in your issue of 11th August ...
Article : 153 wordsSeveral correspondents to "The Age" Literary Supplement have recently referred to the excellent Rose of Denmark Life Boat Crew Drum and ...
Article : 334 wordsSir,--As a small boy I can distinctly remember the dreadful wreck of the Admella, off Cape Northumberland, in the early sixties. Some of the passengers ...
Article : 96 wordsSir.--In answer to some of the inquiries about the Emigrant and the wreck of the Sacramento, the following may be of interest:-- ...
Article : 377 wordsSir.-Being a constant reader of your paper, I rend in "The Age" of the 14th July the names of the sailing ships Tip tree, of Sydney, and Swiftsure, of ...
Article : 311 wordsSir,--I was particularly interested in a letter published on Saturday, 28th July, as to the Holmsdale by Windsor H. Tickell. I came out in that ship with ...
Article : 112 wordsSir,--I rend with much interest in "The Age" re the ship Eliza, 1853. It was the ship on which my father's parents, with their three eldest children, ...
Article : 190 wordsSir,--Just another one interested in your excellent supplement. I, would like to know if any reader could tell me about the barque Hope, of Plymouth, which ...
Article : 178 wordsSir,--Your correspondent Mr. Outhwaite asks re the famous clipper Champion of the Seas. My late mother--maiden name Margaret Ronan--came to ...
Article : 236 wordsSir,--Following the wonderful history of ships and sailings, many a flash of memory is lightened up. Regarding the famous Loch Marco. I was on board, ...
Article : 141 wordsSir,--In your very interesting Ships of the Past letters I note an inquiry for the barque Six Sisters, by "Murtoa S." My mother, with her parents and sisters, ...
Article : 192 wordsSir,--I have a very old photograph of a drum and fife band--the Richmond City--taken about fifty years ago. My late husband was a junior member of ...
Article : 96 wordsSir,--I have not seen any mention of the ship Hope. My late father came out on her, landing here on 18th March, 1853. I wonder if there is anyone who ...
Article : 97 wordsSir,--My mother and aunt (Margaret and Annie Forbes) came out by the ship John Davis in the year 1852, and landed in Portland. The names of other ...
Article : 135 wordsSir,--My mother--her maiden name was Margaret Fitzgerald--landed at Sandridge in the year 1862 on board the Champion of the Seas, the voyage taking ...
Article : 130 wordsSir,--In reference to the query about the brig Oombah. I have the captain's log here. She left Liverpool on 10th August, 1858. The captain's name was ...
Article : 102 wordsSir.--I was pleased to see references to the ship Champion of the Sens. My late mother came out in her from Donegal, Ireland, in the year 1859; her maiden ...
Article : 99 wordsSir,--My mother and I were passengers on the Red Jacket about 1859. I was only aged 3 at the time, but my mother often told me afterwards of the collision ...
Article : 97 wordsSir,--My grandparents and my mother (nee Janet MacPherson) arrived at Sydney in the ship British Queen in 1839. In the following year they came to ...
Article : 152 wordsThere is a modern story of of a maid servant in a new situation, who, after attending family prayers for the first time and listening to a prayer beginning ...
Article : 101 wordsSir,--I have read with interest of our pioneers and the ships they came out in. My father (John Cunliffe) came to Australia in the Red Jacket. I am not ...
Article : 147 wordsA picture of a band festival taken 50 years' ago at the Town Hall Fitzroy. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Sat 8 Sep 1934, Page 6
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