Fortunate Melbourne.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1657, 13 March 1886, Page 2

Fortunate Melbourne.

; Lucky Australians hare many rotnanices of fortune-making. W& (Aye) believerthe Molbourne, Omnibus Company. Js equal: to; a high' class goldmine.Sljur--ing the thirteen v«ars of its life ft has grown from the sapling.to (he tree,, and .iyet Melbourne wag left for nearly : ten ! !years without omnibuses. Then, again, see how Freeinau Cobb weut to Victoria, thirty yearo agOj as agent for Adam's American Express .Company. Seizing an opportunity on his own account, he devised the network of.Cobb's coaches, a household word m Australia and New Zealand: • Another most enterprising mail, whose name occurs to us, was the late Me Becker, so well-known as a storekeeper iv the Murray and Murrumbridgee districts; and a kindred spirit is Mr Adcock who founded the same line of business at Port Darwin. Amongst the great names m gold miuing circles are Winter, Lansell, Kock, Watson, and Bohemian. Kochen,' of Warden Gully, Sandhurst 'went home to Germany stuffed with bank notes, after having been a woiking miner. Watson has lodged his Sandhurst. thousands m Melbourne property. Hblterharn, a woiking miner m New Fouth Wales, turned up the twelve" ' thousand pounds . nugget as: his first stroke oflluckV'Jock Winter, of Winters Freehold, Ballarat, has nothing to do but receive vast sums for mining privileges. What a stirring i history could be written of the Chief Court of Mines, with all the Ballarat fights, between the Winter's Freehold, Hand (afid if Hand, "/-. Bands of : H6pe, ; Koli-i-rior, Sir William Don, and so forth.