3-021-316 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Reception of the Duke of Edinburgh at Geelong, Australia, 1868. Engraving from a photograph by Mr. J. Turner, photographic artist, showing '...the Prince's reception on landing at the wharf. His Royal Highness is dressed in a light drab suit; at his right hand upon the dais is his Excellency Sir J. H. T. Manners Sutton, Governor of Victoria, and at the Governor's right (with a black band on a drab hat), is Lord Newry, the Equerry in Waiting. The Mayor, Mr. Bruce Johnstone, and the Town Clerk, Mr. W. Weir, appear in their robes of office; around these are the various members of the Corporation and other public bodies. In the background are H.M.S. Victoria, lying stern-on, and the clipper-ship Lanarkshire, just about to start with her valuable cargo of wool for the London market...[Geelong 's] harbour is at once convenient, safe, and capacious; and already quite a little fleet of clipper-ships regularly load wool here for the English markets. Indeed, from its peculiarly favourable position, Geelong is, perhaps, destined to become at no distant period "the Liverpool of the Australian colonies".' From "Illustrated London News", 1868.