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In what is now the Naval Yard are shown the Commissariat building, and westward the old North Barracks, which were used by Artillerymen who manned the first batteries (including Murray's and Elliot's). There are barracks shown on the site of the present Murray Barracks, and the cricket ground of to-day has an Ordnance Shed in the middle with a pier on the seaward side. This concludes the military premises in the central city except for a block named the Climatizing Barracks, shown approximately on the site of the present Government offices (not then built). These barracks suggest that they were used as some form of convalescent quarters, or else for newcomers: otherwise the name is a mystery. Not far from the place was the old Murray Battery.
En passant it might be noted that the old Queen's Road is shown going over a bridge which then spanned the nullah that runs down by the side of Murray Barracks.
The original Government offices were referred to yesterday; there is the Post Office and Land Office, on, and above, the site of St. John's Cathedral, apparently the only administrative offices of the earliest years. Approximately on the Botanic Gardens site is the first Government House (the present Government House was completed in 1856). A house on the site of the present French Mission is marked "Johnston," and was most probably the property of Mr. A.R. Johnston, who was Acting Governor for a period in 1841. The whole area is named Government Hill; while the military area became known as Cantonment Hill.
The Harbour Master's quarters are shown on the high ground which was later known as Pedder's Hill; while the site of the present National City Bank (corner of Duddell Street and Queen's Road) was then only a few years from the waterfront, and had coal sheds, shortly afterwards replaced by the first Ice House (which gave the name to the adjoining street). It is intended in a day or two to reproduce a sketch plan of this area, showing the most striking city changes, and comment thereon in detail.
Moving still further westward, we have the Musjid shown near the bottom end of Shelley Street. It is on record that the first Mosque was built as early as 1843; and in a sale plan dated 1849 we find lots offered north and east of the Musjid, entitled "Crown land for sale by public auction, November 27, 1849, for Indian squatters, near the Mosque." This is a most interesting reference to the fact that Indian settlement there was encouraged, and suggests the origin of the name Lascar Row.
An old Police Station is marked at the waterfront, in the West Point district, near the Lower Bazaar; while a little more westward is shown a tank, and a spot marked Watering Place. Further on is Possession Point, and seaward of that historic spot is a street named, curiously enough, the Rope Walk, suggesting an origin in the days when junks were pulled by ropes pulled by men who tracked them, walking the length of the original path which became Queen's Road. At the extreme western end of the plan, near the present Kennedy Town, are shown the first Naval Stores.
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In what is now the llaval Yard are shown the Commissariat building, and westward the old North Barracks, which were used by Artillerymen who manned the first batteries (including Murray's and Elliot's,) There are barracks shown on the site of the present Murray Barracks, and the cricket ground of to-day has an Ordnance Shed in the middle with a pier on the seaward side. This concludes the military premises in the central city except for a block named the Climatizing Barracks, shown approximately on the site of the present Government offices (not then built.) These barracks suggest that they were used as some form of convalescent quarters, or else for newcomers: otherwise the name is a mystery. Not far from the place was the old Murray Battery.
En passant it might be noted that the old Queen's Road is shown going over a bridge which then spanned the nullah · that runs down by the side of Murray Barracks.
The original Government offices were referred to yesterday there is the Post Office and Land Office, on, and above, the site of St. John's Cathedral, apparently the only a dministrative offices of the earliest years. Approximately on the Botanic Gardens site is the first Government House (the present Government House was completed in 1856). A house on the site of the present. French Mission is marked "Johnston," and was most probably the property of Mr. A.R. Johnston, who was Acting Governor for a period in 1841. The whole area is named Government Hill; while the military area became knovm as Cantonment Hill.
The Harbour Master's quarters are show on the high ground which was later known as Pedder's Hill; while the site of the present National City Bank (corner of Duddell Street and Queen's Road) was then only a few years from the waterfront, and had coal sheds, shortly afterwards replaced by the first Ice House (which gave the name to the adjoining street). It is intended in a day or two to reproduce a sketch plan of this area, showing the most striking city changes, and corrient thereon in detail.
Moving still further westward, we have the Musjid shown near the bottom end of Sheely Street. It is on record that the first Mosque was built as early as 1843; and in a sale plan dated 1849 we find lots offered north and east of the lusjid, entitled "Crown land for sale by public auction, November 27, 1849, for Indian squatters, near the Mosque." This is a most interesting reference to the fact that Indian settlement there was encouraged, and suggests the origin of the name Lascar Row.
An old Police Station is marked at the waterfront, in the West Point district, near the Lower Bazaar; while a little more westward is shown a tank, nd a spot marked Watering Place. Further on is Possession Point, and seaward of that historic spot is a street named, curiously enough, the Rope Walk, suggesting an origin in the days when junks by ropes pulled by men who tracked them, walking the length of the original path which became Queen's Road. At the extreme western and of the plan, near the present Kennedy Town, are shown the first Naval Stores.
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