:" The proudest possession of Lord Darnley is an earthenware urn containing the ashes which were presented to him by Melbourne residents when he captained the Englishmen in 1882.

The full version of the song from Melbourne Punch, the fourth verse of which is pasted onto the urn

This is the fourth verse of a song-lyric published in Melbourne Punch on 1 February 1883:

* 1835 – Melbourne, Australia is founded.

For example, John Yarwood of Melbourne is the first person to take a serious interest in British military money ( especially tokens ).

This is particularly so in Sydney and Melbourne, where headways on many lines in the core of the network reach 3 – 5 minutes in peaks and 10 – 20 minutes off peak ( about 18 hours a day ) and enter an underground loop for passenger distribution in the city centre ; and where ridership per capita exceeds the sum of metro and commuter rail in comparable North American urban areas such as Toronto, Boston or the San Francisco Bay Area.

Darcsyde Productions is a small-scale Australian web development and publishing concern, based in Melbourne, which has specialised in creating websites and role-playing games ( RPGs ).

Formed in 1871 as a junior club and as a senior club in 1873, it is headquartered at the Essendon Recreation Reserve ( Windy Hill ) in the Melbourne suburb of Essendon, Australia but match day home games are played at Etihad Stadium or the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

The Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit is a street circuit around Albert Park Lake, only a few kilometres south of central Melbourne.

Nevertheless, the event is reasonably popular in Melbourne and Australia ( with a large European population and a general interest in motorsport ).

In Australia, due to the increasing influx of migrants, fusion cuisine is being reinvented and is becoming increasingly the norm at numerous cafes and restaurants ; with Melbourne and Sydney now being considered as some of the best cities in the world with regard to the quality and creativity of Asian-fusion restaurants.

Melbourne is a prominent graffiti city of Australia with many of its lanes being tourist attractions, such as Hosier Lane in particular, a popular destination for photographers, wedding photography and backdrops for corporate print advertising.

The Governor's office and official residence is Government House next to the Royal Botanic Gardens and surrounded by Kings Domain in Melbourne.

Formed in 1859, Geelong is the second oldest club in the AFL after Melbourne and one of the oldest football clubs in the world.

It is the third oldest Australian Rules football club ( after the Melbourne Football Club and the Castlemaine Football Club ).

GM Holden Ltd is an automaker that operates in Australia, headquartered in Port Melbourne, Victoria.

Hobart is served by Hobart International Airport with flights to / from Melbourne ( Qantas, Virgin Australia, Jetstar Airways and Tiger Airways Australia ); Sydney ( Qantas, Jetstar and Virgin ); Brisbane ( Virgin ); Gold Coast ( Jetstar ); and Canberra ( Virgin ).

Harold Holt is most famously commemorated by the Harold Holt Swim Centre in the Melbourne ( Australia ) suburb of Glen Iris.

Heinz Australia's head office is located in Melbourne.

Cooks ' Cottage, his parents ' last home, which he is likely to have visited, is now in Melbourne, having been moved from England and reassembled, brick by brick, in 1934.

* 1892 – The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia.

After the war, Cade recuperated very briefly in Heidelberg Hospital, then took up a position at Bundoora Repatriation Mental Hospital in Melbourne.

The Kangaroos went on to win another premiership in 1977, but it very nearly wasn ’ t, as North Melbourne gave up a late lead against Collingwood in the second ever drawn VFL grand final.

In 1896, Richmond walked off the field in a match with South Melbourne at half time when they were a long way behind on a very wet day to protest the umpiring.

The results of a recent trial improved capacity by 9 % over the previous fixed time ramp metering system, average speeds increased by 20kmh and traffic throughput at bottleneck locations can be reliably maintained around 2200 PCE per lane ( note the M1 is major freight route to the Port of Melbourne and has a very high heavy articulated vehicle mix.

* A very large demonstration is held in Melbourne to protest against the Australian government's support for the USA's policy on Iraq.

When the Whig ministry of Lord Melbourne was dismissed by the King, The Times newspaper blamed the Queen's influence, though she seems to have had very little to do with it.

Traffic during peak hours in major Australian cities, such as Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Perth, is usually very congested and can cause considerable delay for motorists.

A Melbourne lawyer once remarked that Incitatus would have the numbers for premier in Victoria, and in act III of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard ( 1904 ) Pishchik says that his family is " descended from that very nag Caligula inducted in the Senate.

Liverpool is at the head of navigation of the Georges River and combined with the Great Southern Railway from Sydney to Melbourne reaching Liverpool in the late 1850s, Liverpool became a major agricultural and transportation centre as the land in the district was very productive.

Another brother, born in Melbourne, and a sister, born in Yackandandah, both died very young.

Finding that the novels of Émile Gaboriau were then very popular in Melbourne, he obtained and read a set of them and determined to write a novel of a similar kind.

In his influential A History of Australia ( Melbourne University Press 1961 ) Clark wrote: " Mr Thomas Townshend, commonly denominated Tommy Townshend, owed his political career to a very independent fortune and a considerable parliamentary interest, which contributed to his personal no less than his political elevation, for his abilities, though respectable, scarcely rose above mediocrity.

Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron has a building at St Kilda harbour, which has berths for boats and yachts and the Squadron also operates the St Kilda Marina on Marine Parade, one of the first marinas in Melbourne and still very popular.

Still very popular with the Australian public, there were elaborate and tearful farewell ceremonies in Melbourne and Sydney.

Melbourne became the centre of the Commonwealth Public Service, the Australian Defence Forces, the diplomatic corps ( very small until World War II ), and also to a large extent of the legal profession, all of which reinforced the supremacy of Melbourne University and exclusive schools such as Scotch College, Melbourne Grammar School and Xavier College.

Dudley's insistence on maintaining two very expensive Government Houses, in Sydney and Melbourne, on travelling around the country in vice-regal pomp, and on chartering a steam-yacht to circumnavigate the continent, infuriated Fisher, a frugal Scottish socialist.

Apart from Israel, Melbourne in Australia has the largest number of Jewish Biała Podlaska survivors-all now very aged.

Analysis of water hardness in major Australian cities by the Australian Water Association shows a range from very soft ( Melbourne ) to very hard ( Adelaide ).

The Myer retail group was started by Sidney Myer, who migrated from Russia to Melbourne in 1899 with very little money and little knowledge of English to join his elder brother, Elcon Myer ( 1875-1938 ), who had left Russia two years earlier.

* Mix ' 80s, a station that is named based on the local ' Mix ' station playing the very music best of the 1980s, This station is broadcast in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide.