Author: COWDEROY, B; Collator.
Title: Melbourne's Commercial Jubilee. Notes From The Records Of Fifty Years' Work Of The Melbourne Chamber Of Commerce. 1901.
Description: 8vo; pp. viii, 146; portrait frontispiece, 2 b/w illustrations; original dark cloth; no title on spine; title in gilt on front, gift inscription on from author; light flecking to page edges, weakened hinge at front; a good copy. Melbourne, Mason, Firth & M'Cutcheon, General Printers, 1901. Includes notes on the signing bills, marine board and harbour trust, graving dock, wharfage, widening of Yarra, sale of wool, tariff and port chatrges, intercolonial trade, electric telegraph, pilot service, wrecks and castaways, William Westgarth, steamship bills of lading, tonnage and pilotage charges, the pacific cable, Queen Victoria, the New Hebrides and much more.

Keywords: Australian local Victorian history Victoria Melbourne Australia widening of Yarra wool tariff port chatrges intercolonial trade electric telegraph pilot service wrecks castaways William Westgarth steamship charges the pacific cable Queen Victoria New Hebr