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appearance in 1835, 121 ; first house built, 122 ; Fawkner arrives, 129 ; 

 Gellibrand sees about a dozen huts, Jan., 1836, 141; "the Settlement," 



1836, 145 ; first clerical service, 146, 147 ; first " case " and award, 148 ; 

 first magistrate arrives, 148 ; settlement called Bearbrass (?), Bearhurp (?), 

 also " Batmania," 149, 165 ; its first recorded population, statistics of 

 stock, etc., 149 ; township plotted, 157 ; first census, 158 ; first banquet, 

 158 ; site visited, 1837, streets and town laid out, and named by Gov. 

 Bourke after the Prime Minister, " Melbourne," that at the Port after 

 the King, " Williams town," 165-168; first and second sales of town lots, 



1837, 209-212, 391-395; value of these in 1890, 212; third sale held at 

 Sydney, 1838, 213; town visited by Backhouse, 1837, 170; by Lady 

 Franklin, aboriginal corroboree held, 1839, 173 ; population, buildings, 

 suburbs, churches, club, on arrival of Latrobe, 1839, 169, 242-245 ; first 

 immigrants from Great Britain, 247 ; Melbourne Harbour Trust, Me- 

 chanics' Institute and Athenaeum, Hospital, 257 ; town incorporated, 

 1842, 257 ; its original boundaries and Constitution, 263-268 ; Supreme 

 Court established, 1841, 258 ; new building opened, 262 ; contrast with 

 present palatial Courts, 263 ; old burial ground, 263 ; first Mayoral pro- 

 cession, 266 ; first rate struck, Is. in the , 266 ; distraint against defaulters, 

 267 ; rate lowered, 267, suspended, 268, and improvements stopped, 268 ; 

 6d. rate levied, 1845, 268; Town Hall, present site granted, 1849, 268; 

 erected into Bishopric, 1848, 258, 268 ; first Election, contest of members 

 for Legislative Council, N.S.W., wars of " Orange and Green," 

 Riot Act read, 281 ; martial law proclaimed, 282 ; Chronicles of 

 Early Melbourne, by Edmund Finn quoted, 283, etc. ; Earl Grey elected 

 member for N.S.W. Legislative Council, 294 ; great demonstrations on 

 receipt of news of the " Separation Act," fancy dress ball, Princes Bridge 

 opened, etc., 299, 300; the gaol, 306; Public Library and National 

 Gallery, 306 ; Working Men's College, 306 ; Yarra punts and Princes 

 Bridges, 306-309 ; Post and Government Offices, Custom House, etc., 309 ; 

 social aspects, 1845-51, 321 et seq. ; under disadvantages water supply, 

 want of system of sewerage, 329, 330; inundations of the Yarra, 329 ; 

 effects of " Black Thursday," 333 ; adult male population drawn to gold- 

 fields, 1851-52, 365 ; Melbourne as affected by the influx of population, 

 social derangements, the overcrowded town, temporary immigrants' 

 homes, Canvas Town, 366-375 ; building operations in town and suburbs, 

 368 ; congestion of goods at wharves, 370, 377 ; stranded families, extor- 

 tionate prices, storage of luggage, 370 ; sales by the impecunious, and " Rag 

 Fair," 371 ; dissipation among Fortune's devotees, 372 ; public-houses, 

 372 ; streets at night, 372 ; inquests during 1853, 373 ; streets by day, 

 drays, waggons, bullock teams, startling orgies, 373 ; diggers' weddings, 

 374 ; theatres, concerts, dancing, circus and other amusements, 374 ; 

 busy merchants, 374 ; disorganisation of labour, 374 ; cost of living, 375 ; 

 commercial troubles, 375 ; auctioneering, 377 ; Corporation indebtedness 

 begun, 381 ; in 1854, well-paved, well-lighted and a convenient Metro- 

 polis, 384 ; Exhibition, 1854, ii., 220 ; excitement caused by Ballaarat 

 riots, 46 ; troops asked for from Tasmania, 46 ; mass meetings held, 47 ; 

 gas-works inaugurated, 61 ; first Election under responsible government, 

 63 ; rates of wages, 1856, 71 ; open-air meetings in Eastern Market, 

 invasion of Legislative Chambers, etc., 83, 84 ; progress of the city 

 between 1856 and 1862, 97 ; demonstrations against Legislative Council, 

 1867, 144; visit of Prince Alfred, 150; Exhibition, 1880 (q.v.), opened 

 221; the era of extravagance, 253 et seq.; public buildings, 260; man- 

 sions, extravagant house decoration, 263 ; luxurious living, 264 ; Centen- 

 nial Exhibition, 1888, gives impetus to artistic side of Melbourne life, 

 music, painting, etc., 264 et seq.; sobriety and order of the crowds, 266; 

 effects of speculation and land boom of 1888, 291 et seq. : population 

 attracted and rise in values of houses and land, 294; inauguration of the 

 Commonwealth, 1st Jan., 1901, 328; too many people congregated in th 

 Metropolis, 356. 



