Some days ago a trick of this kind was played by a worthless fellow named Hyams, well-known in the police records, who left at the door of the hospital in a dying condition an unfortunate woman named Maxwell, who after running a career of dissipations for several years in Hobart Town, ...
and determined to take up sheep farming in the booming pastoral industry of early Port Phillip. Caroline Newcomb had arrived in Hobart in August 1833 and found a position as a governess with the family ofJohn Batman,one of the members of the Van Diemen’s Land- based Port Phillip Association...
The steamers in particular are frequent visitors, plying back and forth across the Victorian coast (Portland and Port Fairy) and across to Launceston or Hobart in Tasmania (then known as Van Diemens Land), as well as up and down from Sydney. Not a lot of privacy here- everyone knew where...