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  2. THE FIRST AND SECOND HOBART.

    Thirty-three years ago, Australia began the celebration of a series of centenaries of which the third is commemorated to-day. In 1870 occurred the ...

    Article : 1,195 words
  3. RISDON COVE, FIRST LANDING PLACE.

    So that the 13th September, 1803, is the exact date of the foundation of the settlement in Tasmania. In July, 1805, writing in London to Under-Secretary ...

    Article : 1,100 words
  4. LORDS OF THE ISLE.

    During the century Tasmania has bad twenty-eight representatives of the sovereign by whatever name they were called. Five were Commandants, eight ...

    Article : 5,564 words
  5. THE TOWN BY THE "PLATEAU."

    We all know Mount Wellington. It is a mountain which "cannot be hidden" — neither can the city close by, though it is not "seated upon" the ...

    Article : 180 words
  6. COLLINS'S OPINION OF PORT PHILLIP.

    It is interesting to watch the movements of Colonel David Collins, the founder of Hobart of to-day, after his arrival at Port Phillip in H.M.S. ...

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  7. FIRST TWO YEARS AT HOBART.

    Lieutenant-Governor Collins arrived in the Derwent on the 15th February, 1804, and the next day visited the settlement at Risdon Cove. He lost no time in ...

    Article : 420 words
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