"Marvelous Melbourne Twenty Years Hence." Silting Up of Hobson's Bay. Destruction of the Port. The Plague and Fire of Melbourne. Geelong the Capital of Victoria. [Reprinted from the Kew Mercury and Hawthorn Advertiser]
| Title | "Marvelous Melbourne Twenty Years Hence." Silting Up of Hobson's Bay. Destruction of the Port. The Plague and Fire of Melbourne. Geelong the Capital of Victoria. [Reprinted from the Kew Mercury and Hawthorn Advertiser] |
| Year for Search | 1889 |
| Pagination | 16 pp. |
| Date Published | 1889 |
| Publisher | W. Mott and Co |
| Place Published | Kew, VIC, Australia |
| Keywords | Australian author |
| Annotation | Presented as a newspaper article "From the Twentieth Century, a daily paper published at Geelong, January 1st, 1909" reporting the decline of Melbourne and the rise of Geelong. Melbourne was badly damaged by fire and never recovered. This material is on pages 1-6; pages 7-16 are a detailed critique of the port and piers at Melbourne and the "Sanitary State of the City in 1889". |
| Info Notes | While there was a newspaper of that name at the time, this item could not be found in it. |
| Holding Institutions | M |
| Author Note | Australian author. |
| Full Text | 1889 “Marvelous Melbourne Twenty Years Hence.” Silting Up of Hobson’s Bay. Destruction of the Port. The Plague and Fire of Melbourne. Geelong the Capital of Victoria. [Reprinted from the Kew Mercury and Hawthorn Advertiser.] Kew, VIC, Australia: W. Mott and Co. 16 pp. While there was a newspaper of that name at the time, this item could not be found in it. M Presented as a newspaper article “From the Twentieth Century, a daily paper published at Geelong, January 1st, 1909” reporting the decline of Melbourne and the rise of Geelong. Melbourne was badly damaged by fire and never recovered. This material is on pages 1-6; pages 7-16 are a detailed critique of the port and piers at Melbourne and the “Sanitary State of the City in 1889”. |
