Notice from the Colonial Secretary's office proclaiming that from the 18th January 1853 Castleton would be known as Sandhurst.Colonial Secretary's Officegovernment, colonial secretary's office, castleton, sandhurst, naming of bendigo

Thomas Bath of Ballarat became the purchaser of a parcel of land for the sum of Five Hundred Pounds. The land was in the County of Grant, Parish of Ballarat. Record of Register of Town Purchase, No. 50, Page 156 on 20 April 1856 and signed by William C Haines.Thick cream paper, badly stained. Hanad written Official seal Dated 9 April 1856 Signed: E Macarthur - Major General Edward Macarthur Signed: William C Haines - Colonial Secretarythomas bath, county of grant, parish of ballarat, william c haines, colonial secretary, edward macarthur

2 wanted posters, white with large black writing. 8000 pound REWARD. ROBBERY AND MURDER. Reward will be paid for information. The posters are announcing a reward for the apprehension of Edward Kelly, Daniel Kelly, Stephen Hart and Joseph Byrne. Signed Henry Parkes Colonial Secretary, N.S.W., Bryan O'Loghlen, Attorney General, VictoriaSigned Henry Parkes Colonial Secretary, N.S.W., Bryan O'Loghlen, Attorney General, Victoriahistory, australian, bushrangers, lydia chancellor, collection, australian history, history, bushrangers, victorian history, australia

VA Governor (including Lieutenant Governor 1851-1855 and Governor's Office)Eureka Stockade:Report from C.Pasley to the Honorable Colonial Secretary about the aftermath of the battleshow of force

John Leslie Fitzgerald Vesey Fosterjohn foster, colonial secretary, eureka stockade

VA Colonial Secretary's OfficeEureka Stockade:Rede reads the Riot Actshow of force

VA 856 Colonial Secretary's OfficeEureka Stockade:Hothams reply to Patrick Smyth's letter

VA 856 Colonial Secretary's OfficeEureka Stockade:Rede reports on a dinner held for the American Consul and states his mistrust of the Americansparanoia, mistrust, americanisation, robert rede

VA 856 Colonial Secretary's OfficeEureka Stockade:Rede warned by Father Smyth of attack on Camp

VA 856 Colonial Secretary's OfficeEureka Stockade:Rede to the Chief Commssioner 20th December Martial law must be enforced

VA 856 Colonial Secretary's OfficeEureka Stockade:Captain Pasley's Reporttrial, sedition

VA 856 Colonial Secretary's OfficeEureka Stockade:Bentley predicts the destruction of his hoteltrial, james bentley, john dewes, james scobie, mr. j. f. bentley, charles hotham

VA 856 Colonial Secretary's OfficeEureka Stockade:Meeting of Diggers in Bendigopolitical meeting

VA 856 Colonial Secretary's OfficeEureka Stockade:List of men arrested on the charge of Riot at Bentley's Hotelriot

VA 856 Colonial Secretary's OfficeEureka Stockade:Bentley's servant confessestrial, james scobie, thomas mooney, michael welsh

VA 856 Colonial Secretary's OfficeEureka Stockade:Weekly report from Gold Commissioners, Rede's account of the burning of Bentley's hotelfire; gold

VA 856 Colonial Secretary's OfficeEureka Stockade:Gold Commissioner Wright reports on the state of the Goldfields post- Eureka

VA 856 Colonial Secretary's OfficeEureka Stockade:Capt. Thomas' report - Flag capturedtrial, southern cross flag

VA 856 Colonial Secretary's OfficeEureka Stockade:Captain MacMahon reports on his arrival at Ballarat and steps taken by himtrial

VA 856 Colonial Secretary's OfficeEureka Stockade:Captain Pasley's report - follow uptrial, sedition

VA 856 Colonial Secretary's OfficeEureka Stockade:Catholics protest over the treatment of Smyth's servanttrial, catholic, protest, maltreatment, johannes gregorious, james lord, timothy hayes, charles hotham, michael bourke, timothy shanahan, patrick curtain, michael quinlan, john hynes, john manning

VA 856 Colonial Secretary's OfficeEureka Stockade:Raffaelo Carboni seeks compensation

VA 856 Colonial Secretary's OfficeEureka Stockade:Captain MacMahon reports on plans for the defence of the Government Camptrial, licencing, eureka, diggers

VA 856 Colonial Secretary's OfficeEureka Stockade:Rede's account of the attack on the 12th Regimentsedition

VA 856 Colonial Secretary's OfficeEureka Stockade:Resident Commsisioner Rede’s description of the stockade (written on the day before the attack)robert rede, attack

VA 856 Colonial Secretary's OfficeEureka Stockade:Commissioner Rede reports arrest of 2 men concerned in the latest outragetrial

VA 856 Colonial Secretary's OfficeEureka Stockade:Petition to Lieutenant-Governor Hotham from concerned citizens of Melbourne 1855

VA 856 Colonial Secretary's OfficeEureka Stockade:Hotham's reply to Rede's report 30th November

This tape is from the first telegram ever sent in Western Australia. This important event occurred on 21 June 1869. At this time the transmitted message was received on paper tape and later transcribed onto a telegram form for delivery. The original tape was presented to the Honourable Frederick Palgrave Barlee, Colonial Secretary of Western Australia, as a souvenir. "FPB" appears on an engraved shield on the lid. James Coats Fleming, the first telegraphist and later Superintendent of Telegraphs, sent the telegram. During 1875, Colonial Secretary Barlee transferred from Perth to Belize and then to Trinidad where he died in 1884. The fate of the case and spool, souvenir of that first telegram, was unknown. In July 1940, the WA Agent-General in London advised the Premier's Department in Western Australia that a Mrs EW Hillyer of Hertfordshire had the spool and case and was willing to sell it for ten guineas ($21). The Postmaster General's Department agree to the purchase and it duly arrived by registered mail. As a communications museum was planned in Melbourne, it was sent there to be included in the collection. Nothing more was heard until early 1980s when the relic arrived at the Post and Telecommunication museum in Perth. The case had been found in an old Melbourne strongroom where it had apparently been placed for safe-keeping and then forgotten. Initial attempts to decode the message on the tape were unsuccessful. Eventually, it was discovered that the Western Australian Telegraph Company, responsible for that first transmission, had devised its own code. A copy was obtained from the Battye Library and the message deciphered.This Morse tape is of historic significance as the first telegram ever sent in Western Australia. The occasion was momentous as the transition point between isolation and ease of connection for business and personal communications. The case is of aesthetic interest for the craftsmanship involved in the engraved text. Further, the tape has research potential owing to the unique information contained within this tape; that is, the code of the Western Australian Telegraph Company. This tape, may in turn be used to decode further messages sent by the Western Australian Telegraph Company. As the first telegraph message sent in Western Australia, this tape is rare. Despite a tumultuous journey from 1869 to the early 1980s, the tape's ceremonial wooden case provides provenance information which supports the tape's historic importance.Small wooden case (.1) holding a length of morse tape (.2) which was the first telegram ever sent in Western Australia . Wound onto a mother of pearl reel (.3). Accompanying signs and decoded message (.4,.5)..1 engraved on a metal shield shaped plaque on the lid: "WESTERN AUSTRALIAN / TELEGRAPHS / FPB" Inside: 'TRANSLATION OF REGISTER / TO THE CHAIRMAN OF FREMANTLE TOWN TRUST / His Excellency Colonel Bruce heartily congratulates the / inhabitants of Fremantle on this annihilation of distance / between the Port and the Capital, and he requests that this, / the first message, may be made publicly known. / GOVERNMENT HOUSE, / PERTH, June 21, 1869 / Transmitted 11 am / J.C.F."|.2: "Instrument Register / of the First / Telegraphic Message / in / Western Australia"|.3: "The first Telegraph Pole / in / WESTERN AUSTRALIA / was erected by / The Hon. Frederick P. Barlee / Colonial Secretary / on 19th Febr. 1869"telegram, commemorative item, morse inker, morse tape, morse code, code, postmaster-general's department