THE CITY OF MELBOURNE. 



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libraries in the neighbourhood of Melbourne, and an assembly-room, together with the 

 usual offices. But the requirements of the population demand a much larger edifi,-,-. and 

 this is about to be erected from part of the proceeds of a municipal loan. Th<- four 

 leading business highways Chapel Street, High Street, and the Commercial ami D;,nl.- 

 nong Roads are in every way worthy of so prosperous and populous a suburb, and a 

 large retail trade is localized in them. Prahran has several fine churches notably that 

 of St. Matthew, which has been recently erected, belonging to the Anglican Denomination 

 a convenient market and a pleasant recreation ground containing twenty-three acres. 



THE SOUTH MELBOURNE TOWN HALL. 



The Commercial Road leads to a group of charitable institutions healthily situated 

 in a spacious reserve on the left-hand side of that thoroughfare ; on the other side lies 

 the Fawkner Park, covering an area of one hundred and two acres. Thr Alfred 

 Hospital is named after the Duke of Edinburgh, who laid its foundation stone. It 

 presents a striking facade of red and white brick surmounted by a tower and with two 

 semi-detached wings. Its grounds adjoin those of the Asylum for the Blind, a large 

 bluestone building with no architectural pretensions, containing about one hundred and 

 twenty inmates ; and at no great distance is the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, 

 which shelters eighty-five deaf mutes. Both these charitable homes are placed under the 

 control of the Rev. W. Moss, whose efforts are directed to the twofold object of 

 rendering them self-supporting as far as practicable and at the same time diminishing 

 the painful sense of bereavement experienced by the inmates. The blind are taught 



