THE CITY OF MELBOURNE. 



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head-quarters here. They elect a Council, to which are entrusted large administrative 

 powers, and this body deals authoritatively with a variety of questions arising out of 

 disputes between employers and employed in regard to the current rate of wag.-s, trade 

 usages and other matters affecting the welfare of the operative classes. It is also the 



ORMOND COLLEGE. 



guardian of the "eight hours" principle; and as it is clothed with the large powers 

 devolved upon it by a constituency which embraces the whole of the trades, it has a 

 voice potential in the social polity of the metropolis and its suburbs. 



The Hall of the Horticultural Improvement Society, devoted almost exclusively to 

 flower-shows and similar purposes, is passed on the left-hand side before reaching the 

 Melbourne Gaol, a massive and gloomy-looking building, which with its circular bastions 

 and its armed sentries pacing the summit of Mts lofty walls, might easily be mistaken 

 for a fortress. It occupies a spacious and exceptionally valuable site, where it is an 

 eye-sore, and from which it is pretty certain to be removed at no very distant date. 



Within a stone's-throw of the prison is the lofty tower and huge appurtenances of 

 the Carlton Brewery, which has acquired a special repute in connection with the exploits 

 of a volunteer fire brigade composed exclusively of persons belonging to the establish- 

 ment. Trained with special care, and disciplined by incessant practice, this valuable corps 

 has maintained its supremacy for many years against all competitors at the annual 

 demonstrations of the whole of the fire brigades of the colony. 



In the Victoria Markets, with its double frontage to Victoria and Elizabeth Streets, 

 the great bulk of the orchard, garden and dairy produce, raised in the country districts 



