Contents: Black Douglas, bushranger, gold, crime p1. William Hovel, Hamilton Hume, Melbourne p8. Agnes (Buntine) Davidson p11. Theatre, comedy, dancing, goldfield p19. Burke and Wills, John King p26. Edward De Lacy Evans, women, goldfield p39. Mars Buckley, goldfield, Melbourne, Crumpton Nunn, shopkeeper p47. Goldfield, Clunes, Felstead family, Viscountess Canterbury (gold nugget), John Deason, Welcome Stranger (gold nugget) p50. The Nunawading messiah: James Cowley Fisher p57. The Loch Ard disaster, sailing ship p61. Melbourne Fink : Benjamin Fink p65. The day the constable came: Redmond Barry, Ellen Quin (Kelly), Ned Kelly p67. The missing ferret, ship, crime p75. Angel of the alleyways: Emma Silcock ‘Sister Esther’p80. Mowgli in Melbourne, Rudyard Kipling p85. The ripper: Frederick Deeming p91. The dangerous persuasive woman: Vida Goldstein, women rights voting p95. The deserter’s Victoria Cross p101. Australia Gandhi: Doug Nicholls p109. Baby boxer: John Hare, 1940s, war, children, host families p113. The lost scot: Alex McDonald (Agius), child migration scheme, child migrants p120. The late February flyers: Ron Clarke, Herb Elliott, Robert de Castella p130. If Martians land: Melbourne Cup, Phar Lap p134.