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Lieutenant Robertson, an officer in an Indian Cavalry Regiment
on sick furlough (father to Mrs Henry Hunter) , and Lieutenant Small,
a retired officer of a line regiment, with his family of daughters, etc.
Returning to our inn we were ' delig
·
except the
At
that time there was a fine large garden from the corner of Macquarie
to Collins streets, where Webb 's'
it had a high hedge of sweet-briar, which was then just breaking
into leaf,· and s'
the north of England used to be sold in pots as hot-house varieties .
Almonds and peach trees were also in blossom, and many garden flowers .
The contrast between these and the wintry aspect of Mount Wellington
surprised but gratified us, and made such an impression upon us·, that
forty-five years have not dissipated. Next day we were surprised
\'lith the visit from a Catholic gentleman, who had held an appointment
in the large charitable institution of our native town to which I was
one of the honorary medical officers . I was not aware that he was
in this part of the world; he was then an assistant to the father
of the present Hon. W.L. Crowther. Subsequently he practised in
Hobart Town, and ultimately removed to Victoria, where he made a
fine fortune, and attained an excellent position. He was
Mr J.P. Rowe.12
Pleased with their first acquaintance with Hobart Town, Hall had
now to earn a livng .
the Courier, carried a notice:
On Friday, September 27, 1833, a local newspaper,
Mr Edward Swarbreck Hall , Member of the Royal College of Surgeons
and Licentiate of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries, London,
informs the inhabitants of Hobart Town and neighbourhood that he
has taken up his residence in the house lateiy occupied by
Captain Briggs in Elizabeth St., adjoining the main Guard House,
where he intends practising all the branches of the medical
·
profession.
Mr Hall was educated in the first medical schools of both the Irish
and English metropolis and has subsequently been in private practice
six years, during five of which he was honorary su.rgeon to one of the
most extensive ' charities in the United Ki .
ngdom.
Elizabeth Street, September 25th, 1833.
The advertisement was repeated in the Colonist on October 8, 15 and 22 .
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E. S. Hall , "The Catholic Church in Tasmania, No. I II, Collections
and Recollections, Reminiscences of Catholicity in Tasmania
[By an old resident] 11, The Catholic Standard, May, 1879 .