b'3540 in the Nicholson government from 1859 to 1860 and Treasurer A PRESENTATION SILVER TEA & COFFEE SERVICE in the Kerferd government from 1874 to 1875. His attempt to cut FROM THE ESTATE OF JAMES SERVICE (1823 - 1899),tariffs in his 1875 budget led to the fall of Kerferds government.12th PREMIER OF VICTORIA: When Graham Berrys radical ministry fell in March 1880, An ornate five-piece service by Martin Hall & Co (Sheffield,Service formed a minority government. In May Service admitted 1860; additionally marked for the importers, Kilpatrick & Co ofthat he could not go on and asked the Governor, Lord Normanby, Queen Street, Melbourne) with lengthy engraved endorsementfor a dissolution, which was granted. But the elections did to the elaborately decorated coffee pot PRESENTED to thenot improve Services position and in August he resigned, Honble JAMES SERVICE J.P., M.L.A. by the inhabitants ofallowing Berry to return to power. In March 1883 the liberals EMERALD HILL as an acknowledgement of his UNTIRINGunder Berrys successor, Sir Bryan OLoghlen were defeated AND SUCCESSFUL EFFORTS to have this Township theat elections, and Service formed a new and much stronger First PROCLAIMED Municipality in Victoria and to promotegovernment, taking the Treasury as well as the Premiership. its interests whilst he was a member of the MUNICIPALWhen Service agreed not to attempt to reduce tariffs, Berry COUNCIL - also as a mark of their esteem and high appreciationjoined him as a minister; such was the fluidity of party politics at of his IMPARTIALITY AND UPRIGHTNESS as the First andthis time. The young Alfred Deakin held office for the first time in Twice-elected Chairman and CHIEF MAGISTRATE of thethis government. The Service government lasted three years and MUNICIPALITY. Emerald Hill, October 1861 passed some important legislation, including a Public Service The four major pieces also bearing the family crest and mottoAct which removed political patronage from the public service, a Vivis Sperandum. All housed in a custom-built felt-lined timbernew Factories Act and a new Lands Act.case with brass fittings. $5,00010,000Emerald Hill was the name given to the municipality of South Melbourne during the period 1855-83. The name described the41elevated area which rose above land that was mostly swampy,J.M. WENDT Australian silver tankard engravedon alluvial soil and sand. The hill is a protruding area of volcanicJ. HURFORD, A Token Of Esteem And Respectorigin, giving rise to green vegetation which contrasted with theFrom Viscount Gormanston, 1899,dun-coloured, swampy vegetation. Emerald Hill had a censusstamped J.M. WENDT Jeweller & Silversmith,population of 3504 in 1854. Dissatisfaction with the councilAdelaide and Broken Hill, late 19th century,led to Emerald Hill being proclaimed a separate borough on 2611cm high, 13cm wide, 372 gramsMay 1855. It became a town on 1 March 1872 and a city on$1,5002,000 21 September 1883. Four days later the name was changed to South Melbourne.James Service was born in Scotland. As a young man he42worked in a Glasgow tea importing business, Thomas CorbettA sterling silver presentation goblet of substantial proportions; and Company. In 1853 he arrived in Melbourne as a companyby Richardson & Brown of London, circa 1878 and retailed in representative, and the following year went into business onAustralia by Flavelle Bros & Roberts. The cup is of Tasmanian his own forming James Service & Company, importers andprovenance and is engraved for Private W.J. GABRIEL 1895 and wholesale merchants, which became a large and prosperousSergeant C.H. PAYNE 1907, 1908 & 1909.organization still in business many years after his death. He21.5cm tall, 140gms.was a founding member of the Emerald Hill municipal council in$3005001855, and of the Commercial Bank of Australia in 1866, going on to become a prominent banker and representative of Melbourne business interests.Service was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Melbourne in a by-election in March 1857, retaining this seat until August 1859. He then represented Ripon and Hampden from October 1859 to around August 1862, Maldon from May 1874 to March 1881 and Castlemaine from June 1883 to February 1886. He was a moderate liberal in the context of Victorian politics, but as a free trader he increasingly sided with the conservatives, since all the more radical liberals were protectionists. He was President of the Board of Land and Works 42'