The Bendigo Independent was a newspaper published in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia.
The Independent was founded in Bendigo (also named Sandhurst) in or before March 1862. [1] E. A. Banks (1854–1920) was the editor for many years. [2]
In November 1918 the management of the Independent purchased its competitor The Bendigo Advertiser , and amalgamated the two titles under the banner of the latter. [3]
Copies of The Bendigo Independent of most issues from No. 8428 (1 January 1891) to No. 14910 (30 November 1918) have been digitized by the National Library of Australia and may be accessed via Trove. The newspaper was issued daily (except Sundays) during this period.
The Victorian gold rush was a period in the history of Victoria, Australia, approximately between 1851 and the late 1860s. It led to a period of extreme prosperity for the Australian colony, and an influx of population growth and financial capital for Melbourne, which was dubbed "Marvellous Melbourne" as a result of the procurement of wealth.
Women's Australian rules football, is the female-only form of Australian rules football, generally with some modification to the laws of the game.
Clarice Marjoribanks Beckett was an Australian artist and a key member of the Australian tonalist movement. Known for her subtle, misty landscapes of Melbourne and its suburbs, Beckett developed a personal style that contributed to the development of modernism in Australia. Disregarded by the art establishment during her lifetime, and largely forgotten in the decades after her death, she is now considered one of Australia's greatest artists.
Ernest Henry Clark Oliphant, commonly referred to as E. H. Oliphant or Professor Oliphant, was an Australian journalist, an authority on Elizabethan literature, a popular public speaker and occasional playwright.
The Bendigo Advertiser is an Australian regional newspaper. It is the daily (Monday–Saturday) newspaper for Bendigo, Victoria, and its surrounding region. The paper is published by Australian Community Media with a circulation between 5,000 and 7,000 depending on the day of publication.
During the Australian gold rushes, starting in 1851, significant numbers of workers moved from elsewhere in Australia and overseas to where gold had been discovered. Gold had been found several times before, but the colonial government of New South Wales had suppressed the news out of the fear that it would reduce the workforce and destabilise the economy.
Reginald Alberto Agrati Stoneham was an Australian composer and publisher of mostly topical songs, and a musical comedy F.F.F. He was perhaps Australia's leading exponent of jazz and ragtime piano styles in the first decades of the 20th century as both composer and performer. He was also a popular accompanist and recording artist.
The MacMahon brothers were entrepreneurs in Australian show business. Chief among them were James MacMahon and Charles MacMahon, who together and separately toured a large number of stage shows. Their younger brothers, Joseph and William, were involved in many of those activities.
The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM) provides services to professionals engaged in all facets of the global minerals sector and is based in Carlton, Victoria, Australia.
Samuel Henry McGowan was an Australian businessman involved in gold mining ventures in Bendigo, Victoria.
Richard "Dick" Hamilton was a mine manager at Boulder, Western Australia.
Grace Vale (1860–1933) was a pioneer Australian female doctor and suffragist who devoted much of her career to improvement of health services for women and children in Victoria and New South Wales in the late 1800s and early 1900s, especially in rural areas.
William James Holloway, known professionally as W. J. Holloway, was an Australian actor and stage manager who after some successes moved to London, from where he made several tours of South Africa. He married twice; and recognising the talent of his second wife's daughter, developed it to the full and drove her, as Essie Jenyns, to fame and exhaustion. He also made competent actors of his own children; he was an excellent teacher.
Frank Harvey was the nom de plume of John Ainsworth Hilton, born Jean François de Soissons de Latanac, actor and playwright, who was born and died in Manchester, England. His plays were popular in Australia.
George Curtis Fawcett Rowe, was an English actor, manager and dramatist, whose career began in Australia as George Fawcett; later he was billed as George F. Rowe and worked in Britain and America, where he died. Well known for his portrayal of Wilkins Micawber in his own version of David Copperfield, he was a talented, but "impatient", playwright and actor.
John Rodger Greville was an Irish-born comic actor, singer, songwriter and stage manager who had a long career in Australia.
Rosa Cooper was an English actor and manager, popular in Australia.
Grace Ethel Martyr was an Australian poet, short story writer and journalist. She often wrote as Ethel Martyr.
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The Theatre Royal, Ballarat was a theatre in Ballarat, Victoria. It was the first permanent theatre built in Inland Australia. When the theatre opened in 1858, it was the finest structure in the gold-rich town, and possibly the grandest and most up-to-date theatre in Victoria, outside Melbourne. A series of lessees and managers attracted well-known theatrical companies and artists to its stage, but one by one left disillusioned and none the richer, its periods of inactivity after each entrepreneur growing longer and longer. It declined irretrievably in the 1870s, according to one report due to an infestation of fleas which defied eradication, and piece by piece became a commercial establishment. Historian Ailsa Brackley du Bois attributed the theatre's decline to local activists of the temperance movement who viewed the culture surrounding the theatre as encouraging immoral behavior.