# The Chronicles of Early Melbourne

THE
Chronicles of Early Melbourne
1835 TO 1852.
HISTORICAL, ANECDOTAL AND PERSONAL, BY
"GARRYOWEN,"
AUTHOR OF "THINGS NOT GENERALLY KNOWN."
"Palmam quam meruit, tulit."
CENTENNIAL EDITION, WITH PORTRAITS AND ILLUSTRATIONS.
COPYRIGHT.
Melbourne: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY FERGUSSON AND MITCHELL, COLLINS STREET.
1888.
INDEX TO SYNOPSES.
| Chapter. | Subject. | Page. |
| | Author's Preface | v |
| | Editor's Preface | ix |
| I. | The Un-named Village and its Beginnings | 1 |
| II. | Increased Value of Town Lands | 13 |
| III. | Corporations and Municipalities | 20 |
| IV. | Primary Population: Its Extension and Progress | 32 |
| V.-VI. | Introduction of Civil Government: Formation and Growth of the Public Departments | 39 |
| VII.-VIII. | The Supreme Court and Minor Tribunals | 65 |
| IX. | Old Melbourne Described, 1840-43 | 108 |
| X.-XIV. | Religious Denominations: Their Foundation and First Celebrations | 118 |
| XV. | Old Court-Houses, Old Gaols, and the Pentridge Stockade | 179 |
| XVI. | Melbourne "Under Fire," Water, and Snow | 203 |
| XVII. | The Three Governors and Lady Franklin | 218 |
| XVIII.-XIX. | Old Melbourne Charities | 227 |
| XX. | Two Defunct Public Bodies | 253 |
| XXI.-XXII. | The Melbourne Corporation | 258 |
| XXIII. | Some Municipal Reminiscences | 308 |
| XXIV. | Banking and Pawnbroking | 320 |
| XXV. | Elections to the Legislature of New South Wales | 331 |
| XXVI. | Removal of the Superintendent | 344 |
| XXVII.-XXVIII. | Remarkable Supreme Court Trials | 347 |
| XXIX. | Executions | 394 |
| XXX. | Physical Phenomena | 412 |
| XXXI. | Our Two Oldest Institutions | 417 |
| XXXII. | The Botanic Gardens and the Yarra Bend | 424 |
| XXXIII. | Black Thursday | 441 |
| XXXIV.-XXXV. | Theatrical and Kindred Entertainments | 451 |
| XXXVI. | How Port Phillip was Peopled | 491 |
| XXXVII. | The River Yarraa: Its Falls, Punts, Bridges, and Navigation | 497 |
| XXXVIII. | The Anti-Transportation Campaign | 518 |
| XXXIX. | Temperance and Teetotal Societies | 530 |
| XL. | The Melbourne Inn-Keepers and The Licensing Magistrates | 540 |
| XLI. | Fuel, Light, and Water | 554 |
| XLII. | Port Shipping | 564 |
| XLIII. | Shipwrecks | 577 |
| XLIV. | Commerce and Quarantine | 592 |
| XLV. | Black and White | 599 |
| XLVI. | The Brethren of The Mystic Tie | 612 |
| XLVII. | Literary and Educational | 624 |
| XLVIII. | Ancient Saint-Worship, National Societies and Celebrations | 642 |
| XLIX. | A Mixed Freight | 661 |
| L. | Orange and Green; or Hurling And Shooting | 675 |
| LI. | Soldiers, Cemeteries, Pounds, and Apostles | 688 |
| LII. | The Twelve "Apostles" | 707 |
| LIII.-LIV. | Sports and Pastimes | 711 |
| LV. | A Bundle of Old Advertisements | 753 |
| LVI. | Early Sky-Larking and Duelling | 768 |
| LVII. | The Age Of Gold: Its Birth and Early Developments | 785 |
| LVIII.-LIX. | The Nativity and Non-Age of Melbourne Journalism | 820 |
| LX. | Political and Professional Pencillings | 859 |
| LXI. | The Disciples of Æsculapius | 878 |
| LXII. | A Mortuary Group | 894 |
| LXIII. | Some Random Recollections | 902 |
| LXIV. | The Story Of Separation, Ab Ovo Usque ad Malum | 906 |
| LXV. | The Colony of Victoria | 922 |
| LXVI. | The General Elections | 930 |
| LXVII. | Some Peculiar People | 938 |
| LXVIII. | Flotsam, Jetsam, and Ligan | 946 |
| | Appendix | 986 |
| | Conclusion | 998 |
| | Epilogue | 999 |