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- Frontmatter
- Content
- Preface
- Foreword By John Lucas
- Prologue
- To Tasmania with Mrs Meredith
- At Sea with Mrs Meredith
- What Mr Meredith asked the Ship's Owner about Dick
- Mrs Meredith looks about her
- Mrs Meredith and Hobart Culture
- Mrs Meredith and Hunting
- Flora and Fossil
- Mrs Meredith goes a-Gypsying and enjoys a Barbecue
- The Merediths attend a Ceremony
- Mrs Meredith speaks of the Good Old Days of Privatisation …
- You Rambling Boys of Liverpool
- The Call of the Genes
- Dear Mrs Meredith
- Dear Mr Simpson
- On the Right Side of the Earth
- Epilogue
- Melbourne Central Cemetery
- Select Bibliography
The Merediths attend a Ceremony
from To Tasmania with Mrs Meredith
- Frontmatter
- Content
- Preface
- Foreword By John Lucas
- Prologue
- To Tasmania with Mrs Meredith
- At Sea with Mrs Meredith
- What Mr Meredith asked the Ship's Owner about Dick
- Mrs Meredith looks about her
- Mrs Meredith and Hobart Culture
- Mrs Meredith and Hunting
- Flora and Fossil
- Mrs Meredith goes a-Gypsying and enjoys a Barbecue
- The Merediths attend a Ceremony
- Mrs Meredith speaks of the Good Old Days of Privatisation …
- You Rambling Boys of Liverpool
- The Call of the Genes
- Dear Mrs Meredith
- Dear Mr Simpson
- On the Right Side of the Earth
- Epilogue
- Melbourne Central Cemetery
- Select Bibliography
Summary
The Government Gardens here
may not be quite so gorgeous as the ones
in Sydney, not as rich in glowing oranges,
scarlet pomegranates, golden loquats,
but, well, they are more homely and, to use
my favourite and much-travelled term of praise,
so English-looking: roses, roses everywhere
and pleasant drives among groves
of native trees. Naturally, we
were present at the ceremony, the laying of
the first stone of the new Government House
overlooking the Derwent. The Lieutenant
Governor and his cultivated wife arranged
a collation in the charming rustic lodge;
and when the band struck up there were at once
quadrilles upon the lawn — although
to be honest, rather in the dust, since there
the turf was something of the scantiest.
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- Cutting the Clouds Towards , pp. 14Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 1999