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  2. MELBOURNE SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY.

    Fifty years ago Melburnians prided hemsolves on being citizens if no mean[?]ity. True it was unsewered gasht, ramless and periodically dust smothered, ...

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  3. BRITISH COMMONWEALTH OF NATIONS.

    A VOLUME of special interest and great value to Dominions citizens and students of constitutional questions has just been issued under ...

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  4. London Gossip

    There seems to be some danger of a revival of the "too old at umteen" nonsense that was discredited some years ago; and the worst of it is that the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  5. RE-LIVING THE EARLY DAYS.

    IN answer to an Inquiry by H. M. Hill, of Launceston, Tasmania, concerning the name of the contractor for the stone work of the Elizabeth-street ...

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  6. Melbourne's First Doctor

    MELBOURNE'S first residents were, called upon by the exigencies of their situation to do many things'. Professional men became rouscabouts; ...

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  7. West Melbourne.

    Sir, -- I was glad to see references to my last letter by Peter Young, F. Edmonds, Jas. Cooney and C. Anderson on the old Identities of West Melbourne. ...

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  8. Old North Melbourne.

    Sir, -- I am asked nearly every day do I remember this and that about old North Melbourne. Here are a few names of early mayors of Hotham. The late ...

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  9. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir, -- My grandmother, Mrs. A. Mongan who died last year at Yackandandah, was born there in December, 1839, and I think was the first white child ...

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  10. ANOTHER ROYAL VISIT MEMENTO.

    The Duke of Edinburgh as photographed after his visit to the Extended Band of Hope Mine at Ballarat. The Duke is marked with an arrow. Other members of the party include Directors of the Company, the mine manager and other miners. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  11. OLD RICHMOND.

    Sir, -- Who remembers those early limes when coming from Melbourne passing on your right a block of land on which prisoners under armed guard were ...

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  12. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir, -- I would like to know more particulars of fifth generations. Re Deep[?]ene's letter about sixth generation of Australian born, I always understood that ...

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  13. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir, -- I am one of four generations, having been born early in 1854 at North Melbourne, and married, at the Howard-street manse. My two eldest children ...

    Article : 80 words
  14. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir, -- I was born 29th June, 1858, at Maidstone, being the first white child born after It was named Maidstone. My daughter, Mrs. Ensor. Sandringham, was ...

    Article : 58 words
  15. Bare-Knuckle Fighters.

    Sir, -- My father, who died in 1916 at the age of ninety-one, often delighted me with accounts of bare-knuckle fights in the early days on the gold diggings ...

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  16. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir, -- It is with great pleasure I have read all the letters in "The Age" re West and North Melbourne. I remember Mr. Madden's school, also some of the ...

    Article : 307 words
  17. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir, -- Edward H. Martin's letter in "The Age" recalled to me school days' in North Melbourne. I was barn in 1851 in Chancery-lane, Little Collins-street, ...

    Article : 236 words
  18. "King Billy" -- and Other Natives

    Sir, -- I am much interested in the, native tribes mentioned in "The Age" of 29th September by Walter J. Smith. I was born in ...

    Article : 140 words
  19. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir, -- I would like, as an old resident of North and West Melbourne, to correct correspondents re the tight-rope walker's professional name. It was Onzalo, and ...

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  20. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir, -- The title Old West Melbourne is justly applied. For there some of the very early colonists lived. Until Messrs, Sands and McDougal's factory was built ...

    Article : 396 words
  21. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir, -- In "The Age" of 29th September reference is made by Waiter J. Smith to the Dandenong, Mordialloc and Yarra Yarra tribes, particularly to "King ...

    Article : 286 words
  22. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir, -- I have been following with keen interest the letters in "The Age" about early North Melbourne. I well remember incidents recorded by your many ...

    Article : 177 words
  23. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir, -- I was interested to read the further contributions in "The Age" of early North Melbourne. I well remember Leeming's sign. It was composed of figures ...

    Article : 312 words
  24. Post Office Contractor.

    Sir, -- H. M. Hill (Tas.) inquires the name of the contractors for the stone work of the post office and Pentridge, A friend of mine, Robert Farrell, built ...

    Article : 95 words
  25. Four Generations, and More.

    Sir. -- My mother was born in Tasmania of Scotch parents, and was brought by them to Melbourne when two years old. At nineteen she married my father, who ...

    Article : 337 words
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