AUTOGRAPHS, LETTERS & DOCUMENTS 203 BARKLY, Sir Henry (1815-1898) Governor of Victoria, signature and seal on Special Lands Purchase document dated 13th August 1861. The block of land at Inglewood was sold to Joseph BEREGI for £2/6/2 (Two Pounds, six shillings & 2 pence). Joseph Beregi had been naturalized in Sydney in August 1856. Inglewood was an important gold mining centre during the Victorian Gold Rush of the 1850s and 1860s. Gold was first discovered there in 1859 by Alexander, Joseph & Thomas Thompson and Joseph Hanny. On notification of the discovery some 16,000 diggers flocked to the area. By January 1860 a new field a few miles south of the original was opened up by Potter, Irvine and McKean and dubbed "New Inglewood". This is the site of the present township. By mid-1860 the population on the field was estimated to be greater than 40,000, ranking among the biggest rushes in Victoria’s history. $300–400 ❖ 204 BOWEN, Sir George Ferguson (1821–1899) Governor of Victoria, signature and seal on an October 1876 indenture granting Edwin FIELD permission to mine the specified land in the District of Sandhurst. The yearly "rent" was set at four shillings. Four years later the Mineral Lease was transferred to The Costerfield Gold & Antimony Mining Company. Costerfield is a former mining locality 10 km north-east of Heathcote and 50 km east of Bendigo. It was named after two of the four discoveries of gold and antimony in the locality in 1861. The discoverers were Peniston & Alan Coster, Edwin Field and Mr Youle. The mines were allied to the McIvor district gold digging. The Costerfield Gold & Antimony Company worked the area for several years, sinking shafts to over 150 metres by 1874. $200–300 ❖ 205 CANTERBURY, Viscount, John Henry Thomas (Manners-Sutton) [Governor of Victoria, 1814-1877] signature and seal on Land Grant by purchase to Edward FLETCHER of an allotment in Rathdowne Street, CARLTON, dated 21st February 1871. $200–300 ❖ 206 HOPETOUN, seventh Earl of (John Hope, 1860–1908), Governor of Victoria, signature and seal on a November 1893 indenture granting a mining lease to Edward KIRWAN and Patrick DOOLAN, both of OMEO. For £8/2/6 per annum they were entitled to mine the piece of land in the County of Bogong in the mining district of Gippsland. Several months later, in June 1894, the lease was transferred to new owners, once again changing hands in March 1895 to The Polar Star Gold Mining Company. Hopetoun was Governor of Victoria from 1889 - 1895 and was the first Governor General of Australia from 1901 - 1902. $200–300 ❖ 207 LATROBE, Charles Joseph, Lieutenant Governor of Victoria (1801- 1875) signature and seal on vellumTown Lot purchase document dated 2nd December 1853.The land, 2 roods in the County of Bourke, Parish of Oakleigh was sold for £5 to Christina ATKINSON. When survey plans for the parish of Mulgrave, county of Bourke, first appeared in 1853 a portion of the parish was reserved for a township. This reserve - "OAKLEIGH, at the South Yarra Pound, on Scotchman’s Creek" - was proclaimed on April 12, 1853. The earliest Crown Land sales in Oakleigh took place in May 1853. $1,000–1,500 ❖ 208 LATROBE, Charles Joseph, Lieutenant Governor of Victoria (1801- 1875) signature and seal on vellum Land Grant by Purchase dated 9th February 1854.The land, 156 acres in the County of Bourke, Parish ofTarrneit was sold for £273 to James WATSON and Walter CRAIG. The area was the subject of tremendous land speculation in the aftermath of the discovery of gold in nearby areas. $1,000–1,500 209 MACQUARIE, Lachlan [Governor of New South Wales, 1810-1821] signature and seal on July 1816 Land Grant for 105 Acres in the District of Argyle, Van Diemen’s Land.The land granted to Andrew WHITEHAED is described as being bounded by Gunning’s Farm, the Government Barnyard and "by the water of the Derwent River". Andrew Whitehead (1768–1832) In 1801 working as a clerk in London, Scots-born Andrew failed to include a £40 bill in his master’s records. He was transported for fourteen years for theft. He arrived in Van Diemen’s Land on the Calcutta, in 1804. Being literate and intelligent, he was given responsibilities in the new settlement. Just three years into his sentence he received a free pardon, and was appointed overseer of the government’s Prospect Farm. He also received a number of land grants. At Herdsman’s Cove his neighbour was Martha Hayes and her two daughters by Lt. Bowen. In 1811 Martha married Andrew, by now ‘an elderly man’. In time they had two children, Mary and Andrew. In 1814 he was caught helping to smuggle 2,800 gallons of rum into the Colony, and was placed under house arrest for one year. $1,500–2,000 ❖ 210 MADDEN, Sir John (1844 - 1918) Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria, autograph and seal on July 1901 "Lease of Grazing Area" comprising 632 acres in parish of Parrie Yalloak in the county of Ripon [between Ararat and Dunkeld] in favour of Sarah Ann Simmons for 21 years at the rate of £2/12/8. Madden, was an Australian judge and politician who was the fourth and longest-serving Chief Justice of Victoria, in office from 1893 until his death. He was acting governor on a number of occasions. One of the more interesting cases that Madden presided over was Bloomfield v Dunlop Tyre Co Ltd, decided 8 May 1902, and thought to be the first court case involving a car accident in Victoria. A demonstration vehicle owned by the Dunlop Tyre company was being driven towards the Royal Melbourne Showgrounds by the general manager & the advertising manager of the company. As they were passing Flemington Racecourse, they slowed but did not stop, and after startling some horses, collided with one, injuring its leg. The horse’s owner sued Dunlop. The case came before Madden, who admitted that he didn’t know anything about cars, and requested a demonstration outside the court building in William St. After viewing the car’s performance, and the driving skill of the two managers, he promptly found in favour of the horse owner, awarding him £250 in damages. Madden, however, quickly warmed to automobiles and became the first president of the Royal Automobile Club of Victoria in 1903 $100–200 ❖ 208 29