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Main Title: Majorca : the last Eldorado / compiled and written by Daryl McLeish.
Author: McLeish, Daryl.
Imprint: Carisbrook, Vic. : Ernest Daryl McLeish, 2007.
Collation: 158 p. : ill., portraits, maps, index, pbk ; 25 cm.
Subject: General histories
Majorca (Vic.) (Dja Dja Wurrung Country)
ISBN: 9780957899322
Notes:
Majorca Intelegence [newspaper extracts] p4. Traders, pubs [hotels] and residents p16. The Chinese p38. Gold p44. Gold and water hard to separate p48. Explanation of gold mining by William Weissenfeld p58. Communications p72. Post office p72. Telegraph p72. Newspapers p76. Electricity p78. Local government p82. Common and state school system [education, schools] p90. The 1913 jubilee p96. The Majorca social slide p106. The age of speed [buses, cars, transport] p114. Roll call of characters p118. The aspro and the Nicholas brothers p120. Winneke p122. Septimus Gibbs p122. And the characters: George the Greek and Alex Allbut; Peter Scullie; Bobby Harris; Tom Nottingham; Thomas Griffiths; Daniel O’Connell; Guy Bucknall; Tommy Mold; Claus Ebeling p124-8. Newspaper extracts p130. Extracts from ‘Journey to Majorca’ diary of Richard Pope 1869 p140. Brief history of McCallums Creek / Craigie p142. Members of the Craigie Brass Band 1887 p145. Cockatoo and Nerrigal: near neighbours p148. Cockatoo Brunswick Mine disaster p150. Index p152.
Result Collection Location Shelf No Status Notes
Non-Fiction Main Library 994.53 MAJO MCL Available