A Settler's 35 Years' Experience in Victoria, Australia / And how £6 8s. became £8,000

A personal memoir traces the author’s journey from an artistic life to migration and settlement, describing time in the city, experiences on the goldfields, and a later shift into farming with expanding landholdings. It combines practical guidance on irrigation, viticulture, and farm management with commentary on temperance, social organization, and the use of metropolitan capital to support colonial settlement. The narrative offers a proposed plan for organized block settlements and company-backed assistance for immigrant families, assesses regional agricultural limits, and argues for systematic measures to make small-scale farming and fruit production economically viable.