Name/TitlePersonal recollections of early Melbourne & Victoria
Edition1st.
MakerWestgarth, William, 1815-1889.
Maker RoleAuthor
About this objectLIB 016106
Contents include:
Early Port Phillip
My first night ashore
Indigenous features around Melbourne
The aboriginal natives in and about town
Early civililizing difficulties
"The beach" (now Port Melbourne)
Early Melbourne, its ups and downs - 1840-51
The Melbourne Corporation, 1842
Early suburban Melbourne [South Yarra, Toorak, Prahran]
The early squatting times
Early Western Victoria ("Australian Felix")
Some names of mark in the early years
The Henty family, and the foundation of Melbourne
Some interjecta in re Batman, Pioneer of the Port Phillip Settlement
John Pascoe Fawker, Father of Melbourne
James Simpson, First magistrate of the "The Settlement"
David Charteris M'Arthur, Father of Victorian Banking
Charles Joseph La Trobe, C.B.
William Kerr, founder of the Argus
William Nicholson
Charles Hotson Ebden, Esquire
Edward Wilson, Chief Proprietor of The Argus, "The Times" of the South
Early society : ways means and manners
"Government House"
Cheap living
Religious interests
The German immigration
The German Prince [Prince of Schleswig-Holstein]
Early Victoria from 1851
Early Ballarat
Mount Alexander and Bendigo
Early Victorian legislation
Illustrations and portraits.
Other copy LIB 013117 has errata included.
Medium and MaterialsOriginal red cloth. Good condition.
Period1880-1890
PublisherGeorge Robertson & Co.
Publication Date1888
Publication PlaceMelbourne, Vic.
Subject and Association KeywordsVictoria
Subject and Association KeywordsMelbourne (Victoria.)
Subject and Association KeywordsGeography and travel
Subject and Association KeywordsPioneers
Subject and Association KeywordsAboriginal Australians
Named CollectionLibrary - Rare books
Object TypeBook
Object numberLIB 016106a
Spine LabelX 994.02 WES
Copyright LicenceAll rights reserved