"The Age" recently announced that the original drill hall (29th Battalion), at the corner of Albert and Gisborne streets, East Melbourne, had been ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 1,392 wordsSir.--Below are furnished replies to some of the queries asked by contributors to the correspondence on Ships of the Past:-- ...
Article : 918 wordsThe actual fixtures of musical intent continue to elude the search of even the most persistent of music lovers. Still, it is true, the Covent Garden season ...
Article : 976 wordsSir,--I was delighted to notice in your Saturday's issue the name of the good old ship, City of Agra,which brought my parents and uncle and aunt and ...
Article : 230 wordsSir,--A cousin of mine at Benalla sent me "The Age" of 17th March, 1934, with the following:--"Could any correspondent supply information regarding the sailing ...
Article : 948 wordsSir.--The ship inquired for by "See Far" in your last Saturday's issue may have been the Netherby. It was wrecked on King Island. My father and uncle, ...
Article : 84 wordsSir,--The Akaroa left London in the year 1879 under the command of Captain Tom Bowling. It was her first passage, and took 130 days on account of ...
Article : 77 wordsSir,--I was interested and pleased to see the name of my old captain, Thomas Young. I made a trip round the world with him, not in the City of Agra, but in ...
Article : 183 wordsSir.--A correspondent asks if anyone knows anything of a ship which came out from the old country, and which was wrecked at King Island in the early ...
Article : 167 wordsSir,--In the supplement of "The Age" of 28th July there is mention of two ships, the Southern Belle and Country Belle. I am informed that my father ...
Article : 85 wordsSir,--I have not noticed any further reference to the ship Tricanderoga, which left Birkenhead on 4th August, 1852, arriving at Port Phillip Heads' on ...
Article : 66 wordsSir,--Re "Third Generation's" inquiry about the ship Royal Saxon, in an old Family Bible in my possession there is an entry:--"Frederick Royal Saxon, born ...
Article : 113 wordsSir,--As a follower of your Ships of the Past column since its inception I was pleased to read E.H.'s letter of 28th July re the ship Dirigo, not ...
Article : 132 wordsSir.--With reference to the query by "See Far," the only applicable recorded wrecks on King Island from 1850 to 1855 are as follow:-- ...
Article : 183 wordsSir,--I am very interested in your columns of ships of the past, but so far have not seen mentioned the Lord Stanley. My grandfather, Richard Derrick, ...
Article : 96 wordsSir,--I am very interested in reading in your valuable paper of ships of the past. Many of them I remember, and my father, the late Robert Kennedy, ...
Article : 173 wordsSir,--My parents came to Melbourne in the sailing ship Queen of the South from Belfast, Ireland, in 1863. The voyage took six months. Do any of your ...
Article : 55 wordsSir,--I am especially interested in the ship Araminta, which left Liverpool under the command of Thomas Ferran, and arrived at Geelong on the 5th ...
Article : 94 wordsSir,--Among many interesting letters on Ships of the Past I noticed in "The Age" of 4th August T.E.B. (St. Kilda) referred to the ship Windsor bringing ...
Article : 125 wordsSir,--In reply to M. Becker (Hawthorn), my father came out in the ship Dutchess of Northumberland. He was provost of the ship. A note from his ...
Article : 163 wordsSir,--Re Windsor, 1099 tons, which brought H.M. 40th Regiment to Melbourne in the year 1855, a granddaughter of a soldier of the above regiment ...
Article : 65 wordsSir,--The Boomerang and the Ocean Monarch brought my parents to Victoria, in 1853 or 1855. Can any of your readers supply any information regarding ...
Article : 39 wordsSir,--In your issue of 30th June, Davin M. Little, speaking of the origin of the White Star line and the history of the White Star, the first vessel of the fleet, ...
Article : 97 wordsSir,--On 16th January, 1854, the yacht Wyvern, flying the flag of the Royal Yacht Squadron, England, arrived in Hobson's Bay after a passage via the Cape ...
Article : 150 wordsSir,--My mother, who[?]e maiden name was Mary Moun[?]i[?], came to Melbourne in the David Clarke in 1839. Mouncle was also spelled "Mounsey." My mother ...
Article : 175 wordsSir,--Just a line to say that I would like to know if any reader could tell me the name of an emigrant sailing ship that left Tilbury on 23rd December, ...
Article : 193 wordsIt was Captain Houston's first trip out from England when the ship was wrecked. Captain Houston's body was the only one washed ashore. It was found on the sand with a life belt around it. This life belt is now possessed ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 54 wordsSir,--Once only have I seen reference to the barque Theresa, in which my father came in 1845 as cabin boy to Adelaide. During a storm he fell down the ...
Article : 381 wordsSir,--It was with great interest that I read in "The Age" of 4th August the letter of Robert Harris (Sydney), in which he gave the names of vessels listed ...
Article : 106 wordsSir,--Writing as one of the "camp followers," I have found this saying of Kant's helpful: indeed, like a rule for measuring, namely:--"Art is disinterested ...
Article : 386 wordsSir.--My grandparents came from Scotland in the steamer Accrington, arriving at Melbourne on 25th October, 1862, from Southampton. Grandma died ...
Article : 61 wordsSir,--Re the sailing vessel Carlisle Castle, mentioned in one of the letters recently, I may state that my parents sailed to London aboard her, and used ...
Article : 265 wordsSir,--I was greatly interested in the letter re above ship, as the late Mrs. Hicks, of Mernda, must have been my father's cousin. ...
Article : 171 wordsCritics who held that nine years was an unconscionably long time in which to determine whether Waterloo-bridge should be reconstructed or reconditioned ...
Article : 313 wordsSir,--My parents were shipmates on the Flora (Captain Weathers), which left Liverpool, I believe, some time about the middle of 1856. They landed at ...
Article : 95 wordsSir,--My grandparents came to this country in the year 1841, in a ship called the "Allen Carr," landing in Melbourne. They afterwards went to ...
Article : 61 wordsSir,--I wish to thank you for the publication of the great number of letters and information in reference to the early days of the sailing ships ...
Article : 201 wordsSir,--Reading through your interesting articles and letters on old time sailing vessels I noticed a letter from Mr O'Brien (West Melbourne) re the ship ...
Article : 128 wordsSir,--I have been greatly interested in your correspondents' references to ships of the past, but have not seen any mention of a ship called Sir William Eyre. ...
Article : 90 wordsSir,--My grandfather, John McEwin, came out in the David Clarke in 1837. With him were his wife, six sons and one daughter. ...
Article : 89 wordsSir.--Referring to letters in "The Age" of the 28th July concerning the ship Great Tasmania, I may state that I, then seven years of age, was a ...
Article : 574 wordsSir,--I have been following up ships of the past, and was pleased at last to see the ship Southern Ocean mentioned by "Camperdown." My parents, with six ...
Article : 97 wordsSir,--I have read with interest your articles and letters dealing with the ships of the past, but have not yet seen mention made of the Drumbarton, of 3600 ...
Article : 107 wordsSir,--The Champion of the Seas was it magnificent clipper ship of 2500 tons. Her figurehead was a masterpiece of the sculptor's art. It represented an ...
Article : 127 wordsSir,--I noticed the remarks of the writer of a Ships of the Past letter in regard to the Union Steamship Company's steamers Walhora and Tarawera. ...
Article : 340 wordsSir,--I am a lover of ships; my love was Helen--Helen Denny--built at Dumbarton on the Clyde. I left the Black Isle, Rosshire, Scotland, and sailed in ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Sat 18 Aug 1934, Page 6
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