CONTENTS
Introduction to Rushworth. The first inhabitants [aborigines]. Early land settlement. Coach accident at Colbinabbin Creek. Coach lines. Life in Rushworth during the gold rush. The ‘golden’ years. Rushworth mines. John Matheson of Moora. Early merchants of Rushworth. Rushworth hotels. Rushworth wood today. 1880s and 1890s. John Henderson Roberts Homes. Alexander Miller Homes. Henry Barlow. The Christmas ‘rush’ in Rushworth. Railway: to Rushworth (1890); Colbinabbin extension (1914); Girgarre Line (1917). Coffee palaces. Rushworth Butter Factory. 1900. The new twentieth century. The relief of Mafeking (1900). Dr Heily. G. Digby Heily. Wolton Wigg. Rushworth Brewery Company. Brass Band. Band Rotunda. Fire Brigade. Post Office. Electric light (1914) [electricity]. Water trust [supply]. Ernest Augustine Coyle, MLA. Rushworth Mechanics’ Institute. Schools in Rushworth. Rushworth High School. John Galloway Stewart. Colonel James Michael Semmens OBE. Caledonian Society Sports. Hogmanay 1905. Sport. Rushworth Shire Hall. Hospitals in Rushworth. Captain Alfred Darby. Churches in Rushworth. Whistle post. National War Memorials Appeal. Soldier settler’s essay contest. 1928 ‘back to’. RSL memorial clock. Charles James Robinson. Edwin Andrew Muhlhan. Rushworth Chronicle editors. Internment camps at Rushworth. Wildflowers. Growler’s Hill Wild Flower Sanctuary. Birds of Rushworth Forest. Whroo: the former goldfield, now a ghost town. Whroo Forest. Whroo as it was seen in 1870. Garden contest at Whroo 1860. John T. Lewis. James Meek Nickinson. Balaclava Mine. Balaklava: the battle of the Crimean War. Menzies Hotel, Melbourne. Whroo Mechanics’ Institute and Library. Goldfield hotel licences. Whroo Church. Whroo Sunday School picnic 1861. The first Whroo School. Whroo School no. 651. Prince of Wales wedding. Darroch family. Hipgrave family. Cheong family. Whroo Cemetery. Whroo Post Office. Baud family. Whroo in the 1920s. The native water well at Whroo. ‘Chinese scrub’. Bailieston. Mining at Bailieston. Bailieston today.

ILLUSTRATIONS
Gold Commissioner Richard ‘Orion’ Horne p3. Miners of Rushworth in 1878: A. Morgan, J.W. Morgan, W. Muller and F. Muller p16. A mining whim p18. The Morning Star Mine poppet head p22. Matheson’s Hotel at Moora p23. Betty Considine (nee Darby) of Darby’s Hotel, Rushworth p24. The Imperial Hotel as it was in 1952 p25. High Street in 1866 p27. Mason’s Butcher Shop, W. Lambden senior leaning on post p28. Cracknell’s Bakery p28. Residence of Johnny Luckhurst, Nicholson Street p31. Criterion Hotel p32. Cricketers’ Inn, Moora Street p33. Loads of wood lined up for Wood Day Auction, Brice’s early hotel in background, before 1920s p34. Brice’s Hotel with 1920s renovations p35. Walbran’s Store p37. Alexander Miller’s Exchange Store 1901 (also known as Peart’s, presently known as Barry’s Market), Mr Grant, Mr Sillcock, Dolly Draper, Jean Muir, Eileen Weir, Nellie Muir, Fanny Carter (later Mrs Brice), Tom Hicks, Mr Jackson, Ern Sleep p38. Portion of the Miller Homes in Rushworth p38. Helyar Bros. Store (advert.) p40. The Arcade Store p41. Revolving axe stand p42. Robert Brideson outside his blacksmith shop, holding Min Brideson’s hand p43. High Street 1906, Bess Parrott p47. Carl Williams, jeweller p47. Rushworth Railway Station terminus p50. Rushworth school children assembled for Empire Day celebrations 1907 p53. Dr John V. Heily p54. Rushworth Brass Band 1907: Albert Morgan, T.J. Coyle, J. Johnson, E. Chambers, E. Dowsitt, E.A. Coyle, W. Matthews, T. Hicks, J. Holden, L. Johnson, C. Brown, H. Arthur, W. Johnson, R. McMurray, J. Slee, E. Geyle, T. Davis, E.F. Anderson, E. Hanley, G. Mulder, A. Finnie, L. Burns, F. Hutchinson, F. Rich, G. Darby, R. Payne, H. Wootton p60. Brass Band in its early years before uniforms p62. Brass Band in 1898 (includes Ted Geyle, T.J. Coyle) p64. Band in 1949: Skeeles Jones, Mick Weaver, Chris Brown, Graham Hawking, Bill Raglus, Les Muir, Arthur Beck, George Hodgson, John Earles, Bill Thompson, Fred Wall, John Locke, Jim Collard, Alec Spence, Geoff Beck, Vic Budd, Noel Merryfull, Ron Hawking, Aub Geisler, Howard Hawking, Stewart Nurse, Allan Collard, Len Trezise, Bernard Sheahan, Bruce Collard, Les O’Donnell, Doug Weaver p68. Members of the first country fire brigade board 1894: E.A. Coyle, Prideaux, Harry Lambden, Joe Holden, P. Brice, Ted Geyle, E.O. Risstrom, T.G. Anderson, Billy Platt, Fred Smith, Arthur Lambden, C. Turnbull p72. Residents of Rushworth and district at the Fire Brigade Ball 1934 p73. Mrs William Gunn (nee Julia Ingram) p75. Hon. Ernest A. Coyle MP with committee who organised annual picnics by train to St Kilda: Mrs Pillifer, Mr W. LeRoy, Mr E.F. Rich, E.A. Coyle, Mrs A. Simpson, Mrs Hogan, Ted Darby, Mrs J.E. Simpson, Mrs R. Wootton, Mrs Bazelev, Isaac Furphy, Mr Theobald (1926) p78. William Gunn junior p81. Second Mechanics’ Institute and Library, Rushworth p81. Pupils at Rushworth School no. 1057 (1883) p84. The original Glasgow Store p87. Present Glasgow Buildings p88. First conference of the Victorian Scottish Union held at Rushworth 1906 (includes James Burt Stewart) p89. Rushworth Racing Club group portrait 1898 p92. Bert Locke on his penny farthing bicycle p93. Shire Hall p94. Dancing class of 1900: includes Miss Turnbull, Charlie Cameron, Janettie Gunn, Chris Cameron, Elsie Williamson, Cecilia Ingram p96. Captain Alfred Darby, aged 45 p99. Steam-sailing ship ‘City of Hobart’ p100. Rushworth [St Paul’s] Church of England p101. Girls employed at the ‘Wee Willie Winkie’ baby-wear knitting mills 1948: Josie O’Neill, Ethel Jones, Dulcie Miller, Lettie Cruz, Betty Anderson, Betty Baldwin, Kath Heath, Ellie LaPeyre, Rita Whiteacre, Hilda Smith, Pat Hardie, Elsie Still, Thelma Thomas, Marj Raglus p107. Rushworth Old Boys’ and Girls’ Association reunion 1950s p108. Map of township of Whroo p116. John T. Lewis, one of the original discoverers of the Balaclava Mine p123. Mrs John Lewis (Mary) p123. Lewis and Nickinson’s battery c1859 on Balaclava Hill p125. Photos and plan of Balaclava Mine p126-7. Map of Balaclava Hill area after 1870 p129. Menzies Hotel, Melbourne p132. Archibald Menzies p133. Whroo Mechanics’ Institute and Library p134. School children who planted sugar gums in front of the Whroo Mechanics’ Institute 1936 : Hope Briggs, Theo Briggs, Allan Briggs, Nancy Brasher, Pansy and Ivy Briggs p136. Whroo Mechanics’ Institute being auctioned p136. Whroo MI clearing sale items list p137. Balaclava Hotel and Store fo Ludovic Marie at Whroo p138. Brick church at Whroo p139. Pupils of the ‘new’ Whroo School no. 651 soon after its opening in 1887 p143. Whroo Brass Band p144. Darroch’s steam sawmill, Whroo p145. Expert cricketers, Hipgrave brothers practice outside brother Alfred Hipgrave’s hotel at Whroo p148. Mrs Jack LeRoy, last resident of Whroo, walks near her home in 1955 p149. Mrs Sarah Baud (nee Bazeley) p151. Mrs Sharp (nee Baud) p151. Baud’s Hotel / Store on Balaclava Hill 1894 p151. Typical working puddle machine at Whroo: Wally, Charlie and Hope Briggs p152. James Pettifer p152. Mines Assay / Pay Office, Balaclava Hill p153. Aboriginal waterhole after which Whroo was named p155. Bailieston School no. 870 p157. Pupils at Bailieston School no. 870: Harry Baud, Jack Taylor, Oliver Smith, Herb Opperman, Ada Smith, Eva Bock, Nellie Baud, Edie Opperman, Kate Bailey, Ethel LeDeux, Millie Opperman, Mr Charles Baud, May Bailey, Ada Judson, Nellie Perry, Mary Perry, Eileen Bailey, Mary Baud, Eva Cochrane, Ethel Smith, p158. Sir Hubert Opperman on bicycle p159.

SURNAMES from the index:
Abikhair [Abikair]. Ahern. Akers. Allan. Allen. Anderson. Andrews. Anstead. Appel. Armstrong. Arthur. Athorn. Atkinson. Avery. Ayers. Baillie. Baker. Baldwin. Barlow. Barnard. Barnes. Barrett. Bartholomi. Bartlett. Bates. Baud. Bazeley. Beaumont. Beck. Bedwell. Beer. Begg. Bell. Bellamy. Benbow. Bennett. Berg. Bergin. Berry. Bibby. Birch. Birney. Bishop. Blackburn. Blainey. Blake. Bland. Bloomfield. Bock. Bockholt. Bond. Booth. Borger. Boulter. Boulton. Bowman. Boyle. Bradford. Braddy. Bradman. Brady. Braithwaite. Brannegand. Brasher. Breen. Bregan. Brice. Brideson. Bridge. Brigham. Briggs. Brisbane. Brocklebank. Bromfield. Brooks. Brown. Bryant. Bryce. Buchanan. Budd. Burge. Burgess. Burran. Burrell. Burns. Burt. Button. Byron. Cain. Cairns. Cameron. Campbell. Carosin. Carney. Carter. Cassidy. Castles. Cattlin. Cazanave. Chambers. Chapman. Charlie the Swede. Charry. Chauncey. Cheong. Chin King. Chisholm. Chow. Christian. Christie. Christoe. Clark. Clarke. Cleary. Cluney. Clyde. Coates. Cochrane. Cockatoo. Cohn. Collard. Cole. Collier. Collins. Colliver. Considine. Copeland. Corner. Coug. Cox. Coy. Coyle. Cracknell. Craven. Crawley. Crawford. Crilly. Crimp. Crocker. Croft. Crothers. Cruz. Cumberland. Cumming. Curr. Curren. Currey. Curtis. Cuttle. Dalcom. Dalton. Daly. Daniels. Darby. Darbyshire. Darroch. Davidson. Davies. Davis. Day. Dean. De La Cour. Dent. Dickson. Dixon. Doig. Donavan. Dooley. Dowling. Downie. Dowsitt. Doyle. Draper. Drinnan. Duffner. Dufner. Duke. Dunlop. Earles. Edward. Edwards. Enders. England. Evans. Farquharson. Fieldsend. Finnie. Finney. Fisch. Fisher. Fitzpatrick. Fleming. Flinn. Flint. Frame. Francis. Franks. Fraser. Furphy. Fyfe. Galbraith. Galt. Garnet. Garson. Gaynor. Geisler. Getzschman. Geyle. Glue. Goddard. Goe. Golding. Gordon. Gorthorpe. Grant. Gray. Greaves. Greives. Green. Greenaway. Gregory. Griffiths. Grogan. Groom. Groombridge. Groves-White. Growse. Gunn. Gunson. Guthrie. Gyle. Hageman. Haines. Hall. Hamilton. Hamley. Hammond. Hanley. Hanby. Hannah. Hannan. Hardie. Harley. Harriman. Harrington. Harris. Harrison. Hawdon. Hawking. Hay. Heath. Heily. Helyar. Henderson. Henry. Hickey. Hicks. Hilburn. Hilder. Hill. Hilton. Hipgrave. Hobday. Hodgson. Hodson. Hogan. Holden. Holker. Holmes. Hopkins. Horne. Horsburgh. Horwood. Hotham. Houghton. How Ah. Howe. Howie. Howitt. Hughes. Hume. Hung. Hunt. Hunchinson. Hutchison. Inches. Ingram. Irvine. Jackson. Jasper. Jell. Jessup. Johnson. John. Johns. Jones. Jorgensen. Judson. Kalili. Kane. Kearney. Kennedy. Ken. Kent. Keogh. Kerr. Keys. King. Kinsman. Kirwin. Kittle. Koopman. Lamb. Lambden. LaPeyre. La Peyre. Laurie. Law. Lawrie. Leahy. LeDeux. Le Deux. Lee-Atkinson. Lelean. LeRoy. Le Roy. LeSouer. Le Souer. Let Ah. Lever. Lewis. Lindell. Lloyd. Locke. Lockwood. Lofty. Logan. Lucas. Luckhurst. Ludlow. Lupton. Lynch. Lyons. MacArthur. McCaffrey. McCarty. McCaskell. Macauley. McCellan. McColl. McConville. McCree. McDonald. McEwan. MacGregor. MacIndoe. MacInnes. McKay. McLean. McLeod. McMullen. McMurray. McNamara. McNee. McNicol. McNish. McRobert. McSymon. McWhinney. Mackay. Mackie. Mackrodt. Major. Makepiece. Malloch. Mallock. Maloney. Mann. Manning. Manuel. Mapleback. Marie. Marks. Marshall. Marsland. Martin. Massola. Mason. Masterton. Mathers. Matheson. Matthews. May. Meacham. Meagher. Medhurst. Menon. Menzie. Menzies. Merryfull. Milleay. Miller. Mitchell. Moffat. Moore. Morgan. Morrissey. Moss. Motton. Mow. Mueller. Muhlhan. Mulder. Mullany. Mullen. Muller. Mullins. Mumford. Muir. Murray. Myers. Neboiss. Neilson. Newland. Nicholas. Nicholls. Nicholson. Nickinson. Nolan. Northaussen. Norwood. Nottingham. Noyes. Nurse. O’Brien. O’Callaghan. O’Connor. O’Donnell. Ogden. O’Leary. Olivieri. Olsen. O’Neill. Operdart. Opperman. Orchard. O’Sullivan. Owen. Pardy. Parfrey. Parris. Parrott. Pascoe. Payne. Peacock. Peart. Pepperell. Perry. Peter the Dane. Pettifer. Pew. Phillips. Pignolet. Pillifer. Pitman. Platt. Pocknee. Poe. Pollen. Pope. Potter. Poulson. Price. Prideaux. Primrose. Pringle. Pullen. Pyle. Quinn. Radcliffe. Rae. Raff. Raglus. Randolph. Rannard, Rathjen. Raven. Reed. Reid. Regan. Renison. Rice. Rich. Richards. Richter. Riley. Risstrom. Rittle. Raoch. Roberts. Robertson. Robin. Robinson. Rooke. Rosevear. Ross. Roulston. Rousseaux. Rumble. Rushworth. Russell. Ryan. Salas. Sallars. Salmon. Salter. Sam. Sands. Satchell. Saunders. Scanlan. Schack. Schultz. Scott. Scurrie. Scurry. Seignor. Sellers. Semmens. Sexton. Siggs. Sillcock. Simpson. Sing. Singleton. Sinnett. Shackell. Sharp. Sheahan. Sheehan. Shegogs. Shewan. Shiack. Short. Skate. Slee. Sleep. Small. Smith. Somerville. Speers. Spence. Spruell. Sprunt. Stephenson. Steward. Stewart. Still. Stockdale. Strawhorn. Strutt. Sudweeks. Sullivan. Sutherland. Swan. Swift. Synnett. Tait. Taylor. Tehan. Theobald. Thomas. Thomson. Thompson. Thorne. Tilson. Tinson. Toedteberg. Townsend. Treacy. Treyvaud. Trezise. Truscott. Tuckett. Tulloch. Tuohey. Turnbull. Turner. Van Duff. Vanland. Vanthoff. Venables. Viney. Walbran. Walker. Wall. Waller. Wallock. Watcham [Watchem]. Waterson. Watson. Watts. Way. Weaver. Wee. Weir. Welch. Welfare. Wellings. Wendel. Wemyss. Westlake. Westman. White. Whiteacre. Whitehead. Wigg. Williams. Williamson. Willoghby. Willyan. Wilson. Winneke. Winter. Winter-Irving. Wiseman. Wootton. Wynne.