THE CITY OF MELBOURM.. 48; 



Albert Park is bounded on the south side by the borough of St. Kiltla, which 

 erected into a municipality in the year 1857. Since then its population has not increased 

 proportionately to that of Prahran or of South Melbourne, being less than that of the 

 more distant borough of Brighton, and numbering less than five thousand two hundred. 

 It contains many handsome residences, some of which, owing to the undulating character 

 of the ground, command extensive sea views, even although remote from the beach. 

 The esplanade curves round from Fitzroy Street, the southern boundary of the Park, to 

 Carlisle Street, and the business portions of the borough contain some excellent shops. 

 The Town Hall, at the junction of Gray and Barkly Streets, is a primitive edifice 

 erected in 1858, but it is shortly to be replaced by a structure worthier of a suburb 

 inhabited chiefly by the well-to-do classes of society. There is a recreation ground of 

 sixteen acres and a skating rink recently established attests the popularity of a northern 

 diversion pursued under artificial conditions in southern latitudes. 



At Point Ormond better known as the Red Bluff, which marks the commencement 

 of the boundary line between St. Kilda and North Elwood is a reserve but recently 

 rescued from public sale and desecration ; it contains the graves of many of the pioiv 

 of the colony who arrived before the year 1840, and who, under the influence of a 

 sentiment akin to that expressed in "The Last Song of Sappho," seem to have chosen 

 this lovely and romantic spot for sepulture : 



Sound on, thou dark unslumbering sea ! 



My dirge is in thy moan ; 

 My spirit finds response in thee, 



To its own ceaseless cry " Alone, alone ! " 



St. Kilda is liberally supplied with churches, one of the handsomest of these being 

 that dedicated to All Saints. Commenced in 1858, it comprises three aisles of equal 

 height and dimensions, a choir, sanctuary and transepts. Its architectural style is the 

 Early English or geometrical period of Gothic, the material employed being bluestone 

 with freestone dressings. Internally, it presents a still handsomer aspect. The arch 

 separating the chancel from the main body of the -building rests upon columns of 

 polished granite, with enriched capitals. An unusually large choir, fifty-four feet by 

 twenty-three, is divided from the nave by a dwarf wall of freestone, and contains a 

 stone pulpit richly sculptured, choir stalls, and an altar of polished oak beautifully carved 

 and panelled and set in a graceful frame-work of decorative stone. The sanctuary, which 

 is apsidal in form, is enriched with five stained-glass windows, and the fittings and 

 ornamentation of the Church are in keeping with the general character of its architecture. 

 St. Kilda enjoys the advantage of two lines of railway communication with Melbourne. 

 One of these has its terminus in Fitzroy Street, within a few minutes' walk from the 

 beach ; and the other, the Brighton line, has two stations the first in Windsor and the 

 second in the Balaclava Road which supply the inhabitants of East St. Kilda with the 

 means of frequent and ready access to the metropolis. Many private houses of a 

 superior character, standing in pleasure grounds, have been erected in the immediate 

 vicinity of this line of rail ; as also in the Dandenong, Alma, Inkerman, Balaclava and 

 Orrong Roads, which form part of the district of East St. Kilda. The Glen Eira Road, 

 which runs parallel with the four first-named thoroughfares, terminates at its eastern 

 extremity in the Caulfield Race-course, which lies close to a station on the Gippsland line. 



