WITH

A DESCRIPTION OF ITS PRINCIPAL CITIES,

MELBOURNE AND GEELONG:

AND

REMARKS ON THE PRESENT STATE OF THE COLONY;

INCLUDING

AN ACCOUNT OF THE BALLAARAT DISTURBANCES, AND OF THE DEATH OF
CAPTAIN WISE, 40TH REGIMENT.

BY

CAPT. H. BUTLER STONEY,

40TH REGT., LATE 99TH REGT. AUTHOR OF "A RESIDENCE IN TASMANIA;" ETC. ETC.

SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 65, CORNHILL.

DUBLIN: McGLASHAN & GILL, UPPER SACKVILLE-STREET.

HARVARD COLLEGE

APR 24 1916

LIBRARY.

Denny fund

OCT 191916

DUBLIN:

Printed at the University Press,

BY M. H. GILL.

ΤΟ

THE MEMORY OF A GALLANT AND ESTEEMED FRIEND,

CAPTAIN WISE, 40TH REGT.,

WHO FELL AT BALLAARAT, DECEMBER, 1854,

AND

AS A SMALL TRIBUTE OF RESPECT

TO THE SORROWING RELATIVES OF ONE SO JUSTLY BELOVED,

This Mork

I S DEDICATED,

BY

THE AUTHOR.