Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne & Victoria
Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne & Victoria
Westgarth William
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We secured the land for them at a pound an acre, and the fact of their being so largely settled upon it raised its value at once considerably. All the land thereabout has now risen to many times this first cost. Many more Ger- mans have since, as I understand, settled upon other land. The exact value of the German immigration to Aus- tralia may be to us a differing estimate, but I think we mostly give it a decided welcome. Lord Grey, as I recollect, was attacked in Parliament by the political o...pposition for thus spending money on foreigners 124 Personal Recollections of which might have better gone to our own destitute, &c., &C. And I myself was repeatedly so attacked, but always in a like merely political opposition way, when anything is let fly at an opponent that will serve the momentary purpose. In the heat of the O'Shanassy contest for Melbourne, for instance, I was accused of having told the Silesian peasants that' they were wanted to set an example of sobriety to the drunken Irish.
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