Old Melbourne Memories / Second Edition, Revised

A series of personal recollections recounts life in the early days of Melbourne and the surrounding Port Phillip district, tracing a family's migration from an older colony and the practicalities of moving household goods, livestock, and servants. Vivid sketches combine town scenes—markets, river navigation, and nascent streets—with rural narratives about pastoral runs, stock work, and the routines of settlement. The writer records frontier encounters, including tensions with Indigenous communities and the operations of local policing and patrols, while reflecting on land occupation and disputes. Interspersed anecdotes, sporting episodes, property sketches, and occasional poems produce a varied portrait of community habits, pleasures, and hardships.