‘A journalistic, musical, dramatic and social power‘ in his adopted home town, Perth. That was how a Melbourne newspaper article described Francis Hart in 1894. Francis quite likely wrote the article himself. Yet the description was not too wild an
Big Sir John Forrest
I came across this item while looking for information about John Forrest and the mail shipping services in the 1890s. It appeared in the West Australian on 5 February 1895. Sir John Forrest was both Premier and Treasurer of Western