| | Such omissions or errors are commonly found on death certificates. Maurice was also buried at Fawkner Memorial Park, but his name was recorded as Maurice Staines and he was buried in a public grave in the Presbyterian Section. I believe that there is no doubt that this Mary Stainer was the mother of Dolly and the person whose death I was seeking. It appears that in her later years, after developing a dependence upon alcohol and having over thirty years of brushes with the law, she had become one of the many homeless and destitute living in Melbourne.
Kate Darian-Smith in her study of Melbourne during this period states that the brownout conditions were policed strictly, all windows were blocked out by curtains and blinds, neon and street lighting was turned off and public transport travelled in darkness. At the time of writing this paper any official records pertaining to Dolly’s care and admission to Kew Cottages as well as any possible birth certificate are closed to the public under various Acts relating to access of information at both the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages as well as PROV. My interest therefore turned to Dolly’s mother, Mary, as her records fall outside these closed periods. What a challenge this presented to me as an historian and genealogist to locate Dolly’s birth record and discover some of her family background. With few family details available I decided to see what I could discover from publicly available sources. This paper shows not only how names and dates can be discovered from careful research in the archives, but also how these lost family stories can illustrate aspects of the social history of the day.
When it was brought into Ballarat next day by Manager Robert Bryant and his men, and exhibited in Stoddart and Binnie's window at the Corner, the excitement was a moving reminder of the "good old days". Hundreds of sight-seers flocked to the Corner, and thus the ordinary hundreds of stock dealers were swollen for the time by the rush of as many hundreds more. Next day the nugget was sent to Melbourne, was exhibited at Government House, and there it was named the "Lady Loch", in honor of His Excellency's wife. Miss Cornwell had sailed some days before for London on a financial mission there, and it is understood at the "Lady Loch" nugget will be forwarded intact to London to serve as an illustration of the value of the mining grounds of the Ballarat goldfield. The Midas claim is an area of close on 1000 acres; the company has never made a call, has won over 7300oz.
That commission was looked on with mistrust by the diggers because of Dewes, whom, moreover, the Colonial Secretary, Mr. Foster, had dismissed, or suspended, as a sop to the enraged population. The Corporation of Melbourne backed up the Legislative Council's petition for a mint, but the Ballarat petition of 1855, for a private property law, fell then, as through many succeeding years, upon an unsympathising Parliament and a careless metropolis. It is a coincidence worth noting, that the Melbourne corporation's petition for a mint was signed by Mr. J.T. Smith, who had about that time begun his long series of mayorships of Melbourne, and who subsequently became Minister of Mines.
H. Gore, M.L.C., for the Mine Owners; G. Williams, for the Miners' Association; City Mayor Thompson, for the Local Bodies; and Mr. J. Lynch, surveyor, for the Government; Mr. J.M. Bickett being appointed secretary. Thereupon arose a violent storm of gold-fields indignation, and threats of dire political vengeance hurtled through the air both inside and outside Parliament. The year 1864 was the first year in which these transformations took place. Then, too, began the larger and more complex and more costly disputes, weary equity suits bristling with attorneys and barristers, and with costs incurred in coursing from court to court.
The Black Hill Company is the prolific parent of a large family of claims, for that company's original territory and its subsequent accretions have at various dates been parcelled out in divers new ventures. The Sulieman and Indicator, born Black Hill United, is one; Queen's Jubilee another. All these are not the offspring of the present revival, but most of them share in its advantages, and owe to it a fresh accession of energy, if not of solid capital. The Black Hill Company, after some preliminary operations, decided to register in 1862, with a capital of £37,200, in £15 shares, and on the 21st January, 1881, the present No Liability Company was completed, with a capital of £44,640, in 14,880 shares of £3 each, of which £1 was paid-up. The manager is Mr. J.F. Smith, and the directors are Messrs. C. Seal , J. This company did most of the work in rending the Black Hill in two, and in tunnelling its deeper levels, and its large works and its fine battery of 60 heads made it for years the model as well as show quartz mine of this centre.
When the Berry Government perpetrated the "Black Wednesday" outrage, discharged a host of judges, magistrates, and other civil servants in order to kill the Constitutionalists and promote the Berry version of Liberalism, Judge Rogers declined to continue in the service. He was a most painstaking judge throughout a long term of the heaviest equity suits ever brought in this district. His high position at the bar has since then been marked by the added rank of Queen's Counsel. With the abolition of the Local Courts and the establishment of Courts of Mines, there came also the Wardens' Courts, dealing with applications for forfeited ground, and with mining disputes of all kinds eventually, appeal in all cases lying to the Court of Mines. The first Ballarat Mining Board was elected on the 27th February, 1858, and Messrs. James Baker, John Yates, Alfred Arthur O'Connor , William Frazer, Robert Lamb , Duncan Gillies, Robert Critchley , Joseph Reed ,—Martin , and William Butcher were the members, James Baker being chosen chairman. Mr. Harrie Wood was appointed clerk, and he held the office until, in 1873, he received the appointment he now holds as Under-Secretary for Mines in New South Wales.
Since then both engines and horses have been used in several of the larger mines. A L L A R A T has not been famous alone for its golden wealth. It has historical fame also, as the site of the collision, in the year 1854, between the Queen's troops and armed diggers at the Eureka Stockade. All the gold-fields of Victoria were moved by discontent under grievances, both legislative and administrative, during the period anterior to the affair at the Eureka; but the resistance to the authorities culminated at Ballarat. The general grievances were heightened there by some particular incidents.
Book and Sons, in Main street, and Davies and Graham, in Armstrong street, are the larger. There are two steam flour mills at work now in Ballarat—that of Fry and Co., Limited, Wendouree, and that of Mr. Nicholson, in Armstrong street. There are two bone mills—Jopling's, on the Creswick road, and Elsworth's, at the upper end of Pennyweight Gully. The breweries comprise Leggo and Sons' Barley Sheaf, Creswick road; Magill and Coghlan's, Warrenheip, Tulloch and M'Laren's Royal Standard, Armstrong street, all large and long established properties, and of growing value, besides the more recent Black Horse Brewery, Ascot street, G.T. Lee, proprietor The Warrenheip Distillery Company, famous for its spirits, has about 150 acres of land at Dunnstown, an unfailing supply of spring water, and turns out about 80,000 gallons of whiskey, geneva, and rectified spirits of wine per annum, which could be increased, if need were, to 100,000 gallons.
He was reluctant to give up the corps command and continued to make his presence felt. In June he intervened in the Syrian campaign to alter the strategy of General Wilson whom he believed was exercising insufficient control. Seeking to reassemble the A.I.F. as one formation, Blamey successfully demanded that the tiring 9th Division be relieved at Tobruk in August-October. If French people have complaints or grievances to forward to the Colonial Government, they can send them in complete confidence to France's Consul, who will know how to deliver them justice. Just as gold is the most valuable of metals, so you are the prince of gold camps and the wealthiest of cities. The Sebastopol Plateau manager is Mr. J.A. Chalk, and the directors are Messrs. W.H. Barnard , Alex.
Wesley Church was the first public building lit by the company; but gas made by a Mr. Courtis from gum leaves and oil had before then been used in Christ Church, Bath's hotel, and other places, and the old Charlie Napier was lighted about the same time with gas of a similar kind made by Mr. John Gibbs. The Ballarat company's revenue for the first year of supply was £12,000, and at the close of 1868 it was £24,600, with 1200 consumers, and at the close of 1886 the revenue was £27,497, with 2720 consumers, the total expenditure having been £98,626. At first the price of gas was 40s., and has since been reduced to 8s. Per 1000 feet, less discounts of from 5 to 10 per cent. To large consumers, the rate of dividends paid being 10 per cent. The best appliances in manufacture have been added from time to time, and the gas-making power at the close of last year was 2,000,000 cubic feet per week, and the storage room 400,000 feet, the quality of the gas being set down at 18 candle power.
It is a luxurious feeling brothel with a huge selection of women (over 175 to choose from for escort services and an ever-changing roster). From modern day Jessica Rabbits to exotic Asian princesses, there is sure to be something to tickle your fancy at the Boardroom. Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau, the knucklehead who kidnapped 300 schoolgirls in 2014, died on the orders of ISIS who figured he was giving violent Islamic insurgency a bad name, which he definitely was. He blew himself up rather than accepting an offer of surrender. The leader of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara, Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi, was killed by French forces which have been conducting their own War on Terror in the harsh territory of the Sahel since 2013 which seems to me to be a very useful yet under-reported service to the world. | | | |
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