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FOOTY WEEK LATEST Page 66
TRIBUTE TO GAGS MOORE Page 14
● Rebecca Gibney, Packed To The Rafters
■ The Seven Network’s Packed To The Rafters dominates nominations for next month’s Logies awards.
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■ Daisy Brady joins her father Mike Brady at The Regent Theatre for the opening of Riverdance, which continues until this weekend. Mike will be broadcasting his 3AW Saturday night show next month from The Comedy Theatre, with a special evening of Rock Of Ages.
Gold Logie. - Most Popular Personality on Television ■ Adam Hills (Spicks And Specks, ABC1) ■ Asher Keddie (Offspring, Network Ten) ■ Chrissie Swan (The Circle, Network Ten) ■ Jessica Marais (Packed To The Rafters, Channel Seven) ■ Karl Stefanovic (Today, Nine Network) ■ Rebecca Gibney (Packed To The Rafters, Channel Seven) Silver Logie - Most Popular Actor ■ Callan Mulvey (Rush, Network Ten) ■ Don Hany (Offspring, Network Ten / Tangle, Showcase (Foxtel)) ■ Erik Thomson (Packed To The Rafters, Channel Seven) ■ Hugh Sheridan (Packed To The Rafters, Channel Seven) ■ Michael Caton (Packed To The Rafters, Channel Seven) Silver Logie - Most Popular Actress ■ Asher Keddie (Offspring, Network Ten) ■ Jessica Marais (Packed To The Rafters, Channel Seven) ■ Margot Robbie (Neighbours, Network Ten) ■ Rebecca Gibney (Packed To The Rafters, Channel Seven) ■ Zoe Ventoura (Packed To The Rafters, Chan■ Turn To Page 66 nel Seven)
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JEALOUSY LEADS TO MURDER
MELBOURNE mechanic Lino Manour murdered his pregnant wife Juana Legge, 29, after she told him not to sleep in their bed, because she had slept with some-one else in it, the Supreme Court has been told. Manour inflicted multiple stab wounds to his wife with a kitchen knife, killing her, and he immediately went to Dandenong Police Station to admit to his crime.
● Melbourne radio man Leigh Drew was at the opening night of Riverdance at The Regent Theatre this week, accompanied by his sister, Denise Mercer. Leigh conducts a Life And Style radio program on Casey Radio 97.7 FM, 11am-1.30pm Fridays.
Judge Paul Coghlan heard that Manour, 42, who was born in southern Sudan, had drunk a miniature bottle of whisky before the murder. A medico, Dr Sullivan, said Manour told him that Juana had pulled up a chair in front of her, told Manour to sit on it and said: “If you are not a coward, kill me.” Manour took a large 34cm knife from a cupboard, and stabbed a number of times to the back and chest. “Styab wounds to the horacic aorta and the right centricle to the heart were each capable of causing death,” Judge Coghlan said.
PORTSEA PUB GLASSING: PRISON TERM REDUCED
■ Ryan Scott Trowsdale, 28, has had his jail sentence reduced after ‘glassing’ a 19-year-old man at the Portsea Hotel. Trowsdale threw a glass at Michael James Shale, 19, from 2-3 metres, causing it to shatter, and causing serious injuries to Shale’s right eye and face. Trowsdale told Police he had “four to five” beers and was “in the best mood ever”. Trowdale at first said the incident was accidental, but did persist in what Judge Bernard Bongiorno called “an obvious lie”. Shortly after the assault, Trowsdale was heard to say “tell your
friend I hope gets a f------ glass eye”. Trowsdale phoned one of Shale’s friends, Derek Walter, “if you tell the cops who I am I’m going to kill you”. The Court of Appeal heard
that Trowsdale had seen Shale dance with his former girlfriend, ‘Nikki’. After the assault, Shale received very serious injuries, and has been left with severe dimunition of vision in his right eye.
Trowsdale pleaded guilty to recklessly causing serious injury and to making a threat to kill. Trowsdale was sentenced to four years’ jail, with a non-parole period of two years and three months. Judges Bongiorno, Harper and Hansen heard that Trowsdale another man in a St Kilda street, 14 months after the Portsea Hotel incident. The judges reviewed current sentencing practices in other cases, and Trowsdale’s submission that the sentencing was “manifestly excessive”. They reduced his non-parole period by three months.
“One of those injuries followed from the knife having passed through the sternum, which would have required a significant amount of force. Juana also suffered a number of defensive injuries.” Judge Coghlan said he was prepared to believe that Manour had limited recollection of the event. Manour attended the Dandenong Police Station telling an interpreter that Juana had showed him some clothing, saying “See my lover, the one who loves me bought me this,” Judge Coghlan said: “I proceed on the basis that there is no evidence from which it could be concluded that your wife was unfaithful to you. “I accept that for some reason you had decided that she had been and that led to animosity you held towards her which culminated in you killing her. Judge Coghlan said that Manour was of Bari ethnic origin, was Christian, had studied accounting, and worked part-time as a mechanic. He had lived at Warrnambool, where he had worked at the meatworks, and trained as a butcher. Manourt had had a relationship with a woman named Estar between 2004-07, and had a daughter called Jofil who is now about five. Manour had known his future wife Juana In Sudan and they married there in 2008. She was on Centrelink benefits, and was three months pregnant at the time of her death. Manour has been ordered to a minimum 14 years jail, which would have been four years more had he not pleaded guilty so early.
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Quill awards ■ The Melbourne Press Club conducted its Quill Awards on Friday night.Winners were: ■ Monash University Gold Quill. Jill Baker, Herald Sun ■ Lifetime Achievement Award. Geoff Wilkinson, Herald Sun ■ Young Journalist of the Year Award. Henrietta Cook, Fairfax Community Network ■ RACV Transport Quill. Reid Sexton, The Sunday Age ■ Grant Hattam Quill Award for Investigative Journalism in any Medium. James Campbell, Sunday Herald Sun ■ Best Columnist/ Blogger. John Silvester and Andrew Rule, The Age ■ Best Sports Story in any Medium. Nick McKenzie and Richard Baker, The Age ■ Best Business Story in any Medium. Richard Gluyas, The Australian ■ Best TV Camerawork in News and Current Affairs. Will Pristel, Seven News ■ Best News Photograph. Michael Dodge, Herald Sun ■ Best Sports Photograph. Alex Coppel, Herald Sun ■ Best Features Photograph. David Caird, Herald Sun ■ Best Three Headlines in any Medium . Warwick Green, Herald Sun ■ Best Illustration in any Medium. Frank Maiorana, The Age ■ Best Graphics in any Medium. Travis Kennedy, Sunday Herald Sun ■ Best Cartoon. Ron Tandberg, The Age ■ Best Deadline Report in any Medium. Paul Austin and David Rood, The Age ■ Best Use of the Online Medium. Finn Bradshaw, herald sun.com.au ■ Best Suburban Report in Print . Goya Dmytryshchak, Fairfax Community Network ■ Best Regional or Rural Affairs Report in any Medium. Andrew Mole, The Weekly Times ■ Best TV News Report. Tim McMillan Nine News ■ Best Radio News Report. Heidi Murphy, 3AW ■ Best TV Current Affairs/Feature Under 10 minutes. Jill Singer and LisaWhitehead. 7:30 Report, ABC TV ■ Best TV Current Affairs/Feature Over 10 minutes. Belinda Hawkins and Elena Christie Australian Story, ABC TV ■ Best News Report in Print. Philip Dorling, The Age
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● Michelle Stamper, chief of Channel Nine publicity in Melbourne, was pictured with Suzanne Carbone of The Age at the Myer 100th birthday party held at the Bourke St store on Thursday night.
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■ Johnny Young has finished his seven year stint as a breakfast radio presenter in Perth. John, who was in Melbourne recently for The Go! Show gold reunion, is moving to Adelaide, to pursue showbiz opportunities there.
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● Jill Baker ■ Jill Baker of the Herald Sun won the ward for the Best Feature in Print at the Quill Awards held by the Melbourne Press Club on Friday night. Neil Mitchell of 3AW was named as awardee for Best Radio Current Affairs Report. Philip Dorling, Richard Baker and Nick McKenzie of The Age shared in the gong for the Best Coverage of an Issue or Event. The big night was staged at the Crown Palladium.
■ A trip to the United States has included a tour of Oak Park, Illinois, to see the famous architecture of icon Frank Llod Wright for Melbourne musician Wilbur Wilde (also known as Nicholas Aitken).
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● Debra Byrne ■ Following on from the successful Melbourne season of Mary Poppins at Her Majesty’s Theatre, Debra Byrne has enjoyed a family holiday in Fiji. Daughter Arja encouraged her mother to try snorkelling, and Deb was in awe of the underwater beauty of the Fijian oceans. Deb’s grandkids shared in the holiday - in a week that included her 54th birthday.What a way to celebrate!
● Tom Elliott
■ After a summer of weekends behind the microphone, hosting the Saturday and Sunday afternoon programs at 3AW, Tom Elliott and his partner Elise Mooney have headed for the highaltitude ski-fields. Tom has been expanding his media career to include The 7pm Project (so has Steve Vizard!). Tom also included daughter Ava in recent radio shows.
● John Bowles ■ John Bowles will joinMichelle Fitzmaurice and Brian Hannan to present a show about singer-songwriter Peter Allen later this year. Tenterfield Saddler will play at The Clocktower Centre, Moonee Ponds, and include I Go To Rio, I Honestly Love You and I Still Call Australia Home. The show traces Peter Allen’s life from country NSW to NewYork’s Radio City Music Hall. Bookings are already been taken for the show on Saturday-Sunday, May 28-29 May. Phone: 9243 9191 or www.clocktower centre.com.au Tickets: $31 - $41
Shriners meet ■ Melbourne men are gathering to form their own Shrine Club to raise funds to assist disadvantaged children, especially those suffering from burns. The Shriners are an institution in America, and the local group - complete with ceremonial fezes - have begun to meet under the presidency of Mal Hurst. The group has been asked to run the Freemasons Home Charity Bowls Day fundraiser.
● Simon Owens and Bruce Mansfield took the 3AW Nightline broadcast to Myer late last week for the department store’s 100th birthday. A listener says Bruce managed to confuse the Myer Mural Hall with the Myer’s My Ladies Lounge which was in a different location.
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● Eleven-year-old Lily Nicolson plays Alice in the musical play, Wonderland, at Café Amici, Frankston from April 11 to April 20. ■ Join Alice, the Mad Hatter, March Hare and Dormouse in Wonderland, being presented on April 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20 at 3.00pm at Café Amici in the Beach St. Garden Gallery, 167 Beach St., Frankston. This madcap school holiday entertainment
includes live entertainment, fun games, music and mayhem. Tickets: $25 per head (incl. afternoon tea). Adults at children's prices. Dress code: A funny hat. Bookings are essential on 9789 9978.
Easter publishing arrangements ■ There are two more editions of the ‘Melbourne Observer’ prior to the Easter holiday break. Issues will be published on April 13 and 20. There will be no edition on Wednesday, April 27, which will allow our staff to take mid-year leave.
POLICE TO BE SUED OVER WORK INJURY Observations John Kraus has stepped down as ★ President of Melbourne Jewish Radio - Lion FM. Rival groups started court action over members having a special general meeting.
Raymond Sieber of Hurstbridge ★ has been spared a jail term after he pleaded guilty to stalking his exwide Deena Sieber.
The St Kilda Busking Festival ★ will be held on Sundays in three locations. Fitzroy St will host the festival on April 10-17; St Kilda Sea Baths is the venue on April 24 and May 1-8; and Acland St is the location on May 15-22-29.
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RSL headquarters expects that the sale of the Eltham subbranch building will net a windfall of more than $1 million. The property could sell for up to $2.5 million. Glen Eira Council ha charged ★ the operators of an alleged illegal boarding house at Hotham St, East St Kilda.
From Our Court Roundsman ■ Former policeman John Colahan has been given County Court permission to sue the Victoria Police and Worksafe Victoria over a depressive disorder. Colahan told the Court that he suffered a permanent severe mental or permanent severe behavioural disturbance or disorder. Colahan, 60, married, with three daughters, joined the Victoria Police in 1975, working as an officer until 2006. He has not worked since. The Court heard that Colahan worked at Camberwell Police Station, but had difficulty working under the supervision of Sgt Rodgers, who he discribed as behaving “in a belligerent and belittling manner towards him in both his behaviour and his speech”. Colahan said he felt uncomfortable, and felt his confidence and self-esteem were being undermined. Colahan said there were a number of incidents caused a depressive disorder. He attempted to apply for a transfer to Ashburton Police Station, sought medical treatment and was provided with an anti-depressant for about six months. “His claim for WorkCover was accepted. He was paid weekly payment of compensation and his medical and like expenses were also covered.” Judge Misso said he believed the pain and suffering deserved to be regarded as “severe”.
From Our Court Roundsman ■ Convicted dug trafficker Steven Peter Mustica has had his minimum jail sentence reduced from 11 years to 6½ years. Mustica appealed to the Court of Appeal which was told of offences of trafficking in “not less than a large commercial quantity” of methyl-amphetamine, cannabis and dealing with proceeds of crime. Judges Ashley, Bongiorno and Hansen considered if it was open to find that Mustica had the intention from the outset of trafficking at this level. The Court heard that Police conducted an investigation, Operation Kearns, in which Ismayel Ramadan trafficked a quantity of methylamphetamine to an undercover policeman. Intercepted calls on Ramadan’s mobile phone revealed persistent drug traccking with numerous associates, including Mustica. Operation Kearns accumulated some 20,000 telephone intercepts. The Court was told that Mustica had trafficked in 2.7 kilograms of methylamphetamine, valued at $500,000 at the wholesale level. The MDMA comprised 1.3 kg, in the form of 6500 tablets, with a wholesale value of $98,000. Estimated street value was $230,000. After extensive discussion on intention, and intricate legal points, the Judges agreed to reduce Mustica’s minimum jail term by 4½ years.
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‘Drunken thuggery’ ■ Albury man Alexander Ferguson has avoided a jail sentence over punching another man which caused him to fall and crack the back of his skull.
17-y-o drank 5 days ■ A drunk 17-year-old youth who sparked an incident at Warrnambool’s Lake Pertobe which led to a policewoman being hit by a bottle has been fined $500.
3-hour chase for man ■ Police embarked on a three-hour chase of a registered sex offender Paul Incani, 43, of Ivanhoe, catching him in the Wangaratta area.
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Royal Wedding soon ■ I am so looking forward to the Royal Wedding. It will be good to celebrate something. It’s all a bit sad lately with floods, tsunamis and sad stories. A royal romance is what everyone needs. Don’t get me wrong. I don’t believe in fairy-tale romances but love a good piece a theatre and a royal wedding certainly suits the bill. A time for unabashed sentimentality, and speculation. Love it, the engagement, the ring, the dress, the in-laws, the cathedral, the English tradition of austere simplicity, the bridesmaids, the wave, the balcony, the kiss, pomp and ceremony, young love, the whole damn thing. It’s going to be glorious ! I found a poem which I thought appropriate on the eve of the Royal Wedding called In Homage, so this is for Kate and Wills. From the white cliffs and the tide-race, to the wide-flung weald, from the lone lochs and the high hills, To the three-acre field, When a maid’s won and a maid’s wed, And the love –troth sealed , There are not words like the old words, And the old songs sung, There are no thoughts like the old thoughts Her own folk among, Where love lives and love thrives In the strong English tongue. And the heart of this England Is your own heart, Princess A strong heart and a proud heart Of true steadfastness, But a light heart and a gay heart, And a kind heart to bless. Here’s the old wish and the handshake, And the old shoe thrown, For the old ways are the best ways, And bone of our bone, And the ways of our forebears, ‘Tis English – our own. ■ In Homage was an epithalamium, a lyric ode in honour of bride and groom, written in 1922 for the wedding of Princess Mary, only daughter of George V to Viscount Lascelles, later the Earl of Harewood.
Di’s Observations ■ Observations around town from me. Spotted ex DJ boss Mark McInnes with family in tow at Melbourne Airport in the President’s Club. Very charming I must say. I wished him all the best and he was all smiles. ■ The how must go on! Belgium chanteuse Micheline Van Hautem didn’t disappoint a full house at Melbourne Recital Centre Salon when during her last performance in town the entire theatre precinct at Southbank was plunged into darkness. No sound, no lights, just candlelight. She performed her entire concert to a spellbound audiences with candles – it was a performance everyone who attended will never forget. ■ I love Maria Venuti. No doubt about her. She will be launching her memoir, A Whole Lot of Front, at Dymocks,234 Collins Street, tonight (Wed., April 6) from 6.30pm onwards.
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■ The things I didn’t know! I went to school like everyone else in this country. I learned by ABC’s, how to write, how to type and how to cook. I went to a domestic girls school and I was taught it was more important to wear gloves, have my pleats straight and not to talk to boys. The only time I was allowed to talk to boys was in dancing class once a week. I learned gardening, how to mash potatoes and things to do in science class, and about how to add up in a class called Maths. I wasn’t good at Maths and the teacher spent most of her time throwing chalk at us and telling us how stupid we all were. “You stupid girls” was a mantra I grew up with at school and at home. However I did love Science and my teacher was Miss Strefford. I remember her to this day. She was sexy and glamorous and had a lovely smile and the best voice,. Heaven knows why she ever took on teaching. She should have been a movie star. However I loved her and she never threw chalk me and never called me stupid. I remember I loved her name Paula Strefford. I wonder where she is now. Wherever she is I know she would be proud of me.
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■ What we didn’t get taught at school was how fantastic our own country is,. Oh sure we learned Dorothea Mackellar, My Country.
● Samantha Armytage with Di Rolle Last week I visited south west of Alice Alice Springs and I Springs, on the eastlearned a whole lot of ern port of the Haasts beautiful wonderful Bluff Land Trust. The people of things about this Sunburnt Country of Areyonga are of the Pitjhantjatjara tribal ours. An opal-hearted group with a few country, a wilful, lav- Arrernte and Walpiri ish land, all you who who have joined the have not loved her, you community through will not understand, marriage. though earth holds many splendours, wherever I may die, I know to what brown ■ The total populacountry my homing thoughts will fly. I now know what this really means. I visited Areyonga in the Southern Region of the Northern Territory.
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tion is around 217 people. So much for the red desert, it was so green up there and lush the rains had made the ground green with smatterings of red. The country has been reserved for the Aborigines, although natural mining resources have been exploited from time to time. It was the most beautiful country I have ever seen, breathtaking and so quiet – so quiet the surroundings speak to you. Areyonga does not experience major seasonal movement of population between other communities and urban centres. The relative permanence of core groups provides stability in management of community affairs and lifestyle. Its relationship with other communities is essentially on the basis of visiting related families. The people of Areyonga, Mutitjulu and Docker River
Community ■ It was an advance visit to do a “reccie” on the location for a visit to Areyonga and Alice Springs of Soweto Gospel Choir. Soweto Gospel Choir are going to visit Alice Springs as the start of their Australian tour and will visit the Aboriginal community in Areyonga and perform with the Areyonga Women’s Choir,. 240 kms west
all related Pitjantjatjara people. Houses are rented at rate of $20 per week, five adults and three children are the average per household. Mail comes by plane ever Wednesday. The community has no banking facilities, however the Council office provides assistance with phone and internet banking to community members unable to manage these themselves. There is an established power station. All homes have meter card boxes of which a meter card can be purchased from the community store. Water is serviced by the com munity bores.
It’s magic! ■ I slept in the Manse in a sleeping bag over the road from the Lutheran Church where the Aboriginal Women’s Choir sang for us. It’s hard to really put into words the magic of the Northern Territory but the longing to go back is powerful. And to see those stars just amazing. I urge everyone who has never been to the Alice to go. Soweto Gospel Choir arrives in Australia in May and will be performing in Melbourne on Saturday 28 May at The Palais Theatre. Two shows: 4pm and 8pm. Tickets at areTicketmaster 136 100.
Bubbly ● Candice De Ville and Nicole Jenkins
■ Met up with the delightful Samantha Armytage at the launch of the Mannequin Exhibition at
Como House and Garden last Thursday evening. It was a beautiful night and all the guests appropriately to honour the event which honours fashion modelling in the 1950 and 1960s. Part of the L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival Cultural Program to June 19, it’s a must visit. Samantha MC’d the event and told stories of the history of the house as she is one of the Armytage family who owned and lived in the house. Como House and Garden is located in the heart of Melbourne’s fashion district in South Yarra. The exhibition delved into the vast archive of photographs, newspaper and magazine spreads and the fashion that inspired them, held in the private collections of wellknown career models. Coral Knowles looked fabulous on the night as did other models of the generation Diane Masters and Janice Wakely. All these gorgeous women were photographed by the leading image makers of their time – Helmut Newton and Athol Shmith. These collaborations gave Melbourne fashionitsowndistinctive and influential style. Was thrilled to discuss with Samantha Armytage about her forthcoming appearance on Dancing With The Stars. She will be fabulous and I will be voting for her at every opportunity, I invite all Melbourne Observer readers to watch and vote for her. She is a lovely person and so bubbly. Good company.
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Jailed ■ Allan Weacer, 23, and Bulleen, and another man who cannot be named, have been jailed after a terrifying home invasion and assault of 86-year-old greatgrandfather Ken Peachey at Bulleen. Judge Punshon said it was a prolonged, cruel and degrading act on Mr Peachey.
Derailed ■ P re - e l e c t i o n promises to upgrade Upwey railway station have been dropped by the Baillieu government.
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● Former Diamond Valley Football League Secretary Peter Floyd (right) has died, just weeks before he was due to face Court on theft and false accounting charges. He was pictured with 3AW personality Bruce Mansfield in 1998 at a Channel 31 TV production. ■ Football official Peter Floyd has died, just weeks ahead of being scheduled to face Melbourne Magistrates’ Court, accused of stealing more than $150,000 from the former Diamond Valley Football League. Floyd, 68, of Phillip Island, and formerly of Bundoora, died after a long illness. He was due to face Court on April 17 on theft and false accounting charges. Floyd was accused of conducting a secret credit card account using League funds. Victoria Police conducted a four-year investigation into the fraud allegations.
‘Gambling addiction’ Floyd was said to have admitted to a gambling addiction. He was alleged to have paid himself an extra $20,000 a year, and to have used the secret card for nine years. The League’s former treasurer, Loyd Hansen, pleaded guilty to charges of theft and false accounting last year, and was ordered to pay $8000, and placed on a good behaviour bond. The Diamond Valley Football League was disbanded after the scandal was revealed, and replaced with a newly constituted Northern Football League.
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■ Vision Australia says it is disappointed with the reasons presented by Channel Seven executives which led to the shock exit of contestants Kelly and Ash from My Kitchen Rules. The couple were reportedly forced out of the show after Kelly lost her sight in her right eye due to optic neuritis. Her sight returned to normal after a few weeks. “It is disappointing that Channel Seven felt it was a liability to have a vision impaired contestant on their program.”
Hoax on French Island ● Maureen O’Hara is on Melbourne radio ■ Hollywood screen legend Maureen O'Hara will be special interview guest on That's Entertainment with Kevin Trask at 12 noon this Sunday (April 10) on radio station 96.5 Inner FM. Maureen O'Hara starred in some wonderful films including The Quiet Man, The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, The Parent Trap, Miracle On 34th Street and How Green Was My Valley. Maureen will talk about her films and her co stars. She is currently involved in raising funds for her project, The Maureen O'Hara Foundation, which will provide training for Irish students in all areas of film making. There is a museum planned in County Cork which will feature exhibitions of the Maureen O'Hara films and will be a great Irish tourist attraction. Maureen is 90 these days and lives in Ireland. Interview producer David Miller has been inundated with enquires about this interview. David says of all the celebrity interviews he has arranged over the years this rare radio chat has created the most interest. Maureen O'Hara is dearly loved by film fans throughout the world.
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Aries (Mar 21 - Apr 20) The planets are making many of the signs disagreeable. You'd be best not to rise to any bait laid before you. Standing tall today gives you the confidence to take your career to the next level. Taurus (Apr 21 - May 21) Stop looking to the past for the answers you need. It is only by looking to the future that you will ever find the truth you are seeking. You know this deep down, don't you? Gemini (May 22 - June 21) Impress new faces with your personality, instead of saying what you think they want to hear. It's sure to find you far more supporters, as I'm sure you'll agree if you think about it. Cancer (June 22 - July 23) This is a good day for your career as you should at long last find out not only where superiors see your career heading, but also how appreciated you are for your recent efforts. Leo (July 24 - Aug 23) Someone you have not seen in a long time is back on your mind for a very important and relevant reason. You're re-opening an important chapter, but this time you're armed with experience and wisdom. Virgo (Aug 24 - Sept 23) Flirtations take a turn for the serious and you could well end up finding yourself willing to commit to things you would normally run a mile from. Don't worry; this is actually a compatible union. Libra (Sept 24 - Oct 23) Make sure you get a second opinion on all contracts you receive at this time; you may not be seeing things from the most straightforward of views. Paying to go the professional route will pay off. Scorpio (Oct 24 - Nov 22) Someone you didn't think you'd get on with in your career proves how flexible you can be when you keep an open mind with offers that come after 4pm. Jupiter brings messages in dreams. Sagittarius (Nov 23 - Dec 21) Don't let rumours, gossip and hearsay ruin what should be a happy time now for you. It's time to start enjoying what should be a really fun time of the year. Romance waits if you do. Capricorn (Dec 22 - Jan 20) Someone that you were hoping to see has not been avoiding you on purpose. Please do not jump to conclusions but work on the rest of the week rather than overanalysing. Aquarius (Jan 21 - Feb 19) You may not have got on with a certain person as you wanted, but what you will have learned is that you're allowed to be different people. You both just need to live and let live. Pisces (Feb 20 - March 20) The dreamy mood that has influenced you of late is finally starting to lift and you should be able to see clearly the opportunities that lie before you. Venus puts the flavour back into romance.
■ One of the best April Fools Day hoaxes was published by Cam McCullough’s Mornington Peninsula News Group.it announced that French Island, near Hastings, was to ‘return’ to French Gov-ernment control.The hoax said the French ceded control in 1911, but now, 100 years later, were exercising a ‘get-out’ clause.
● Posing as ‘Francois’ Smith on French Island
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Crackers! ■ And now to the important things in life ... could the Arnotts biscuit company organise itself to have at least one packet of Salada biscuits delivered to Melbourne supermarkets ... without the contents having crumbled on the way, or being smashed to pieces by the night-time shelf-fillers who seem to delight in throwing food stocks to the aisle floors?
■ MTR 1377 is still moaning about their signal strength as being a factor in their low ratings. Their Rowville transmitter is the same piece of equipment that sent out the 3MP signal, which was once the toprater across Melbourne. It’s all about programming, not technology!
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■ Actor Steve Abbott has retired his ‘Sandman’ character after several decades. He was best known as ‘third wheel’ to breakfast radio duo Mikey Robins and Helen Razer in the 1990s.
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Luke leaves TV series ● Robert Dobrzynski ■ A former Victorian municipal senior executive, Robert Dobrzynski, has been embroiled in a Tasmanian council scandal. Robert Dobrzynski, who has worked in local government for 27 years, and was CEO at Moorabool Shire for 7½-years, has faced accusations from marine biologist Dr Lisa-ann Gershwin at Launceston City Council. Mr Dobrzynski is now General Manager at the Tasmanian municipality, and is in the centre of a storm, where there have been allegations of misconduct, bullying and mismangement. Dr Gershwin, who has a tattoed breast, alleges her appearance was deemed to constitute sexual harassment. “Mr Dobrzynski ... appeared to have a disturbing fixation about my breast.” Dr Gershwin’s tenure was terminated, and her former director Patrick Filmer-Sankey was suspended. Both Dr Gershwin and Mr Filmer-Sankety have set up detailed websites in their bid to seek “natural justice”. Dr Gershwin’s site, launcestoncityscandal.com, details allegations from former staff. “I have been portrayed by my staff and by Launceston City Council as a bully and a harasser, a dangerous person, a witch. I am none of these things,” said Dr Gershwin, who came to Australia from America. “It was a clash of cultures: the enthusiastic, successful scientist with the funny accent and unfamiliar behaviours, "versus" the long-suffering staff, defending the old guard no matter what the cost. I leave it to you to decide whether I am a witch or if something smelly happened at the Launceston City Council.”
■ The Deputy Commissioner of Taxation has made an appointment at 10am this morning (Wed.) at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court, to make a civil claim against Peter Markovic, against whom is claimed State Tax.
Footy CEO stands down ■ The Northern Football League’s CEO, Kevin Crompton, has quit suddenly, citing health reasons. His departure came just weeks before the start of the 2011 season. He has been replaced by Geoff Dempster, who recently joined the NFL board, after a career at the Eastern Football League. ● Kevin Crompton
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● Luke Jacobz ■ Actor Luke Jacobz (real name: Luke Jacob Ashwood) is about to leave the Home & Away TV series because scriptwriters have run out of storyline ideas for his character of ‘Angelo’. Jacobz, who was a favourite on last year’s Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal telethon on Melbourne’s Channel 7. Jacobz recently auditioned for a role in the network’s new series, Wild Boys, but missed out on a role. He is due to start filming his hosting role on The X Factor later this month, after stepping in at short notice for Matthew Newton, who had to quit the role to undergo psychiatric treatment.
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■ Football identity Sam Newman has backed out of a commitment given on TV that he would visit the Banyule junior football club. “I will not be going down to Banyule ... where is it?” said Newman, to boos from the Footy Show audience. ■ The 48-year-old drink-driving Mornington mum, Jane Spence, has avoided prison after a grog-fuelled drive down the wrong side of the Mornington Peninsula Freeway. She blew .177. She has been banned from driving for four years and fined.
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■ Locals are protesting about plans for a restaurant, brewery and function centre at Cape Schanck.
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ABC axes publicity chief ■ The Rumour Mill hears that the national broadcaster continues its drive to be Sydney-centric. Rumour reaches us that Liz Green, head of Auntie’s Publicity Unit in Melbourne, has been told that the ABC is moving all its publicity efforts ● Liz Green out of Victoria to headquaters in NSW. The loyal publicist is reportedly having to clear her desk, with not even the option of moving to Sydney. Fortunately, the wellrespected PR woman is unlikely to be out of work for long. She has previously had her own business, and worked for the Seven Network during the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
Another fraud case? ■ Has Maribyrnong City Council been the victim of a second fraud case? Probes are underway to suggestions of over-payments in regard to car servicing. Discussions are reportedly underway with contractors regarding payments that have been made. In 2008, staff member was found guilty of defrauding Maribyrnong Coucnil of $600,000 to pay for a luxury lifestyle and a mistress. ● Dr Lisa-ann Gershwin showing her tattooed breast
● Anna Bligh ■ Queensland Premier Anna Bligh tanked as a subject for last month’s Women’s Weekly cover, reports local newsagents. They are hoping for better sales in April with Magda Szubanski on the front-page.
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■ Developers have given the thumbs down to participating in a rejuvenation of the Broadmeadows railway station area. The upgrade is under a cloud after no submissions could be attracted for the commercial project.
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■ The Deputy Commissioner of Taxation has made a civil claim against Richard Lo Nigro, alleging Commonwealth tax is owed. A p re - h e a r i n g con-ference is due to be held at 9am today (Wednesday) at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court.
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■ BMW Australia Finance Ltd has a Melbourne Magistrates’ Court appointment with Lazar Dimeski this morning (Wed.) at 9.30am. The car company has asked for a rehearing of a case where there has been a civil claim alleging “monies due”.
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■ It’s been many years since I’ve been in the garden shed at the rear of our property. It is covered in ivy and except for an occasional item a workman has thrown in, it has remained undisturbed by human hands for yonks. Tall bamboo provides a great cover from the rest of the garden, and except for the possums frolicking on the roof it’s almost invisible. Looking for a basket that I thought might be in the shed I ventured in wearing long gloves to escape any spiders that may become aggressive at being disturbed. I couldn’t believe the mess that greeted me. When we were first married a garden shed was part of setting up house. It had shelves, and hooks on the walls for gardening tools. Everything was in its place and I even remember we used to write the exact contents on the outside of a tin or box.
■ Over the years, it became the domain of our now departed gardener, and it was not part of my usual housekeeping schedule and I was appalled at what met my eyes. Everything had been chucked in and it was a mess. Goodness knows where I would find the basket, and over time my neat labels had worn off or had been eaten by whatever inhabits the shed at night. I opened a box and to my delight found something that belonged to another era. If I gave you a million dollars you wouldn’t guess what I found. It belonged to my mother and played an important part in her entertaining way back in the 60s. Have you guessed yet? Give up?
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■ Allegations have been made that a family which offered help to homeless people in bushf i re - a f f e c t e d Flowerdale have been victims of a ‘ r u n - t h ro u g h ’ bash and destroy attack. Police are investigating.
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● Fondue time music of the day such as The Beatles, The Supremes, and Sonny and Cher, then Twist away on the verandah to the sound of Chubby Checker.
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■ It was a long wooden sausage dog with holes in his back, and gosh it brought back memories. It was big in the 60s and the holes held toothpicks with pieces of cabana, cheese, and coloured pickled onions. Every house had one. The dog gradually lost favour and gave way to an orange studded with toothpicks, and in my day they disappeared all together. I haven’t even seen one of these cocktail savoury dogs at any Op Shop and here I held a vital part of the cocktail era in my hands. My mother loved to entertain and all stops were pulled out with her menu on these occasions. Dressing was important. I wonder if this was when the ‘little black cocktail frock’ came into vogue. I can’t imagine anyone in the 60s showing a bare belly or breasts as big as watermelons being exposed, although short frocks and very trendy gear were coming in. Food trends have changed over the years, and now Donna Hay shows us how to make cocktail food for the busy hostess, with fat free being the operative word.
■ Eskander’s Betstar Pty Ltd is making a civil complaint against Sam Ali, alleging a “debt” is owed. The claim is due to be put to a Registrars’ Hearing scheduled to be held at 10.30am tomorrow (Thurs.) at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court.
Yvonne’s Column
■ Fortunately fondues were not in vogue or somehow mum would have found a place for them at her party. I should give a fondue a go because I still have a fondue set which I was given as a gift. It’s the preparation time that puts me off. It can take hours to chop up the food. It still surprises me that food is so inexpensive at a Chinese restaurant considering the hours it takes to prepare the ingredients. It really is labour intensive. Mum would serve a hot dish, usually a chicken or a lamb casserole and a 60s version of risotto. From then on the sky was the limit. Little egg and bacon pies, later to become quiches. Small frankfurts that were called in some circles “little boys.” But never in mum’s hearing. She’d leave the party to go into the kitchen and fry crumbed scallops, so that she could bring them steaming hot and add them to the table already groaning with food.
Enormous pleasure ■ Dips were all the rage, and pate was vital to the success of the night: homemade of course. I used to make my own when we were first married, but once I found a shop that sold the very best it was goodbye to mountains of chicken livers. There is a lot to be said for the food of that era. It was a lot of work, but it gave mum enormous pleasure,
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and I’m sure she drank in the praise for “her table” as it was called. ‘Devils on horseback’ were prunes wrapped in bacon and grilled. They were delicious. Would the cook of today go to this much trouble? I feel that barbecues are a cop out. Just throw a few sausages on the grill, a loaf of bread and a large bottle of tomato sauce. If you are lucky, a salad will be provided, and if you are indeed fortunate seating will be provided. And if you are very very lucky then you are asked to provide your own meat. From my experience, my contribution is always nicked and I am left with a few sausages, and not even gourmet at that. My motto is: don’t take expensive meat to a barbeque because you’ll never see it again. It has become the fashion of the day for people to skull their beer from the bottle – even the Prime Minister skulled a beer recently. .
Fruit punch cocktails ■ Drinks were important at her cocktail parties and clean glasses were a pre-requisite. It was my job to make the glasses sparkle like diamonds. I wonder if those who dined al fresco appreciated my efforts, after all I was only a kid. Although mum wasn’t a drinker, perhaps a sip of sherry would pass her lips or a martini now and then, she liked to keep up with the latest. She would make a non-alcoholic fruit punch in a huge silver bowl for the teetotalers, and a friend would be in charge of the rest. Apparently he was a dab hand at mixing wonderful cocktails. He would arrive early to set up his ‘work table’. The young in-crowd would listen and groove to the
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■ But it was the food that made mums cocktail parties. Food by the ton, and I never saw her get into a tizzy in the kitchen. I have to write myself a note with the menu so that I don’t forget something and find it when the last guest has gone. I’m fortunate that Peter likes to cook and he never gets into a tizzy either. You either have it or you don’t. My piece de resistance that is left over from the 60s, and it seemed mum made it at the drop of a hat for any occasion is the Chocolate Ripple Cake. Seeing that the fad of bringing a plate has made a return I always take a Chocolate Ripple cake. It is devoured in a second. I notice that the male guests, who normally give anything sweet a big miss, take to my cake of the 60s like locusts. Fortunately you can still buy chocolate ripple biscuits? I’ll put them on my shopping list as I think of it and make one this weekend.
Laughing about those nights
■ It’s a shame that the Cocktail Party at home is from a bygone era. And it’s a pity that I will never relive the joy of mum letting me put the toothpicks in the long wooden dogs body. I’d eat more than went onto the picks, and trying to show my own flair I stuck a flower on the end of the long wooden tail. Mum was not amused and it was removed forthwith. The best thing about finding the cocktail dog was the memories that it evoked. Peter and I sat in the garden and talked and laughed about those nights as I regaled him with tales of mum’s cocktail nights. It does you good to sometimes leave the dishes in the sink or the beds unmade and talk about those days of yore. And if you have a cocktail dog, hang on to it. It is a collector’s item. Yvonne Melbourne Observer, P.O. Box 1278, Research Vic 3095 Radio 3WBC 94.1FM, P.O Box 159, Box Hill 3128
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Praise for Kevin Trask ■ Reservoir reader Maureen Bramwell writes to praise Melbourne Observer columnist Kevin Trask: “Just wanted to tell you how much I enjoy your ‘Whatever Happened To’ series in the Observer. “I like to hear about vintage stars, especially when the stars were really special, in my opinion. “The florist shop I worked in, in my youyth, made flowers for Elizabeth Taylor, when she came here with Mike Todd. We received a ‘thank you’ from her. “My hobby of writing for photos from the stars included Elizabeth Taylor. I received quite a few photos and some very nice hand-written notes. I received a bottle of perfume - I was quite surprised to receive that. “I was interested in your mention of Maureen O’Hara. She sent me the cover of her book, Tis Herself, which was nicely autographed. “In the time of working in the City florist shop, I also spoke to Tony Perkins here, making On The Beach. I remember him being very tall. \ “Everybody came in including people from Hit Parade, Eric Pearce and many more. “I hope you do not mind me asking if you could me some information on Geoff Hiscock. I knew him from our time at Ziegfield’s, where we would listen to the great Dorothy Baker. I was fortunate to see him again at a celebrity luncheon. “I have read Diana Trask’s book, which I enjoyed. She is a great artist with a lovely voice. “Keep up the column.”
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■ Mount Eliza retirement village operator Chas Jacobsen says he is not homophobic, as he fights for a fence around a nearby coastal reserve. Jacobsen has previously told Mornington Peninsula Shire Councillors that a fence was needed around the reserve to stop gay men accessing the site in the Sunnyside Beach North area. “I am trying to do the ● Chas Jacobsen morally, socially acceptable procedure to help Police (prevent lewd acts),” he told the Mornington Peninsula Leader. Jacobsen had agreed to hand over the land for the coastal reserve as part of a controversial deal allowing him to subdivide his land in the green wedge of Mt Eliza, reported Christine Tatman of the Leader. The matter is now due to return to the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal.
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Every Wednesday in the Observer “There are only two types of journalism - dull journalism and exciting journalism. The true journalism is exciting and decidely unobjective. True journalism, in my view, is devoted entirely to the revelation of facts which someone does not want revealed. That is the high point of journalism; it is the real meaning of being a journalist; it is also exciting and is interesting to read.” - Maxwell Newton
■ The Director of Public Transport has been ordered to have another look at Mahamoud Ali Abdi’s application for a taxi licence. Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal Member R Davis heard that particulars had not been completed on an application form, and the application had been refused. Abdi applied for one of the 530 new taxi cab licences in Melbourne, offered on a 10-year fixed term. “Had I been contacted and told about the deficiencies in my application I would have rectified those,” Mr Abdi submitted to VCAT.
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● Geoff Hiscock ■ Editor Ash Long replies: Maureen, thank you for your comments about Kevin Trask’s column. Kevin is an important member of the Melbourne Observer team, and we all enjoy his column too! Geoff Hiscock was best known as a multi-talented media and live performer, Geoff had extensive experience working in television, theatre, and radio. He was widely known as the host of a range of music and variety shows, and made nightly appearances on In Melbourne Tonight in the 1960s. Geoff’s career as a newsreader included a stint working for ABC-TV and radio. Geoff went onto running his own video production house, operating a business video service to corporate clients. I had a six-month stint working in Canberra in 1994, and Geoff was a newsreader for Prime TV’s nightly news bulletin. We caught up for a drink at a tavern in Kingston, ACT, but that was 17 years ago! Geoff was hosting the bulletin with a much younger Melissa Doyle, who these days is best known as co-host of Sunrise, with David Koch, on the Seven Network.
● Geoff Hiscock and Melissa Doyle on Prime TV, Canberra, circa 1994
13½ YEARS FOR MURDER
■ Danilo Guingah has been sentenced to a minimum 13½-years for the murder of Luvina Dayang, whose body was found wrapped in black plastic bags in the front yard of a property in View Rd, Springvale. Judge Terrence Forrest said there was no apparent motive for the strangling murder, to which Guingah pleaded not guilty. Ms Dayang, 50, was a resident ordinarily of the Philipines, and was the mother of four adult children. She had overstayed her three-month visa, and worked as a casual cleaner. Guingah was separated from his wife, who still lived at the same address in Heatherton Rd. Gunigah was in a homosexual relationship, Judge Forrest said. Guingah has been imprisoned at Port Philip Prison, sharing a cell with another man. “You have made a complaint to Police that over the course of some days this man assaulted you, and performed various sexual acts upon you, which involved non-con-
sensual anal penetration with an implement and ultimately his penis.” Judge Forrest said he accepted the assaults took place, that Guingah was hospitalised for some time, and that he had been regarded as a suicide risk. “I consider that you are at a greater risk of harm than most other prisoners.”
Payments ordered
● Judge Terry Forrest
■ West Meadows Homes has been ordered to pay $35,032 to Roslyne and Joseph Chetcuti, following a hearing at the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal. Orion Kitchens Pty Ltd, now de-registered, have also been ordered to pay $1000 to the Chetcutis. This follows a complaint that the Chetcuti’s timber floor was defective. VCAT member Lothian was told that the flooring was not performed in a proper and workmanlike manner. Parties have until April 22 to apply for costs.
So timely
● Alan Pearsall ■ Full marks to 3AW weekend overnight presenter Alan Pearsall on his choice of music when daylight saving finished at 3am Sunday ... with the clocks reverting to 2am. Alan played Turn Back The Hands Of Time which includes the lyric “Let’s do it all over again”.
Publicity stunt
● Anthony Lehmann ■ Mix 101.1 FM breakfast show co-host Anthony ‘Lehmo’ Lehmann offered to swap jobs with mother-of-triplets Anastasia Hajis as part of a publicity stunt for the low rating show he fronts with Brigitte Duclos. ‘Lehmo’ offered to look after six-year-olds Christovalantis, George and Konstantinos at their Bentleigh home, before school. The Mix breakfast show audience ratings fell to 3.5 per cent in the survey figures announced last week.\
Circus ■ Michael Edgley’s Great Moscow Circus is playing at St Kilda from today (Wed.) until April 26.
Advice ■ Don’t fry bacon in the nude.
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Bushwacked
by Ally Fonseca ■ Melbourne born and bred, I bid goodbye to my city slicker ways to embrace life as a country chick. And I'll never forget the first day I set foot in the beautiful town of Mildura five months ago. I left behind my family, friends and the life I had known for 25 years, loaded my car and headed north-west. Unchartered territory beckoned. I arrived during a sultry Sunday sunset in Sunraysia. It was the day after Derby Day and the day before I'd transform into a full-time reporter for the Sunraysia Daily. Even the journey to Mildura was amazing. Driving past places like Boort, TeddyWaddy West and Dooboobetic was a joy. To me, the Calder Highway is akin to The Wizard of Oz's Yellow Brick Road because it, indeed, led me to Somewhere Over The Rainbow. But, instead of a pot of gold at the end, there are just hearts of gold. Country folks are so generous, as I discover every day while writing stories, such one about a young boy whose bike was stolen, destroyed and dumped in a dam.Within hours of the news hitting shelves, three people had called up offering to donate a bike of their own. I've learnt it is the little things in life which can sometimes make profound difference to someone. Even if it's letting somebody know if crickets are perched on their back. Or, in my case, orange nectar on my teeth. As well as a country chick, I am also a crime scene girl, having been a police reporter in both Melbourne and Mildura. I see old and young people fighting battles here in Mildura. But it's heartening to make a difference, like when my story resulted in a whopper of donations for a young cystic fibrosis suffer's donor drive. And when I gave a voice to a young quadriplegic girl about how dire her need was for the National Disability Insurance Scheme. Instantly smitten by the sparse surrounds of this country town, the laid-back approach of locals was a welcome relief from my hectic work life on Collins Street.While I miss treasures exclusive to Melbourne, such as the vintage glamour of W-Class city circle trams, there are gems of beauty I have found here in the country. I recently spotted a hot air balloon hovering over the sunrise in Mildura which reminded me of a quote in the film, American Beauty: "There's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst." The smell of fresh aromas wafting along Mildura's celebrated restaurant precinct brings me pure joy. It reminds me of local growers who I've met at farmers' markets whose passion for vegetables is almost palpable. If it were possible, I reckon they'd take a cabbage to the harness racing and show it a good time. Gaining an awareness of country life is amazing and something I believe everybody should experience. Unlike the red and yellow sticks being a gateway to Melbourne on the Tullamarine Freeway, the ‘Yellow Brick Road’ to Mildura is lined with pretty palm trees, akin to the St Kilda beach esplanade. But instead of attractive young bucks languishing along Port Phillip Bay, you have an army of Murray Cods awaiting you at the banks of the Murray River. And remember: keep the lid on your coffee, lest creepy crawlies take liberty in taking a dip.
OBITUARY:
HUNDREDS HONOUR GRAEME MOORE
■ Parkdale's Graeme ‘Gags’ Moore passed away suddenly on March 17 and theatre friends and family joined together last Thursday to celebrate his life at the Salvation Army Citadel in Essendon. A talented scenic artist, painter and life member of Mordialloc Theatre Company, Graeme's work was always in high demand by Bayside theatre companies and his magnificent murals have become legendary. In the moving service conducted by Graeme's cousin, Jenifer Hunt, Mordialloc Theatre Company actor/directors Martin Gibbs and Eric Heyes paid tribute to Graeme's work in local theatre. Martin spoke of his long-time friendship with Graeme, who became ‘Uncle Gags’ to his children Stephanie, Andrew and Adrian. Eric shared humorous anecdotes, including the incompatibility between show deadlines and Graeme's relaxed, creative artistry. Most importantly, Eric told of Graeme's personal
● Graeme "Gags" Moore is "painted in" on the stage of the Shirley Burke Theatre, Parkdale. Photo: Marie Skitt qualities, a kind, good-natured, dedicated man From The Outer whose friendship was unconditional. He never drove a car and either walked to theatres or used public transport. Graeme was part of a Melbourne special family at the Mordialloc Theatre Comkojak@ pany for almost 40years mmnet.com.au and will be particularly With John Pasquarelli dearly missed at their Sunday ‘Dad's Army’set■ What a mess we are in – Labor wiped out build sessions. in NSW but Juliar and Bob Brown set to conBill Rendall from Entinue driving this country toward the cliffs of core Theatre recalled afdisaster a la Thelma and Louise. ter the service that not only Our borders are now a sick joke and our did Graeme paint sets for Senate will be a real mess when the Greens their January pantomime take over in July – with the nutty Green Lee Aladdin, but also helped Rhiannon sure to hog the headlines with her out by appearing onstage particular brand of anti-Semitism. as a soldier, travelling by Australia is paying a huge price for those bus from Parkdale to of us who in a moment of weakness voted Clayton for each perforGreen for all the wrong reasons and unless mance. that bus comes rolling along we have to enPhotos of behind-thedure more than two years of the worst governscenes contributors are ment in Australia’s history. hard to find, so thanks to Those stupid Liberals who preferenced Martin Gibbs for kindly the Greens in the past will never be properly providing this rare photo punished. of ‘Gags’. The treachery, nastiness and sheer stuGraeme ‘Gags’ Moore pidity of Windsor and Oakeshott is beyond was a genuine, humble belief as they cling to the Labor/Green govman who could never ernment purely for their own self-preservahave imagined that one tion but even at this late stage they could set day so many people forth on the road to redemption by allowing would gather together to the Australian people to sort this mess out at celebrate his life. the ballot box. His beautiful artwork is In the meantime, the Coalition must keep a wonderful legacy, but so grinding away – getting out and about at every too is the memory of a opportunity. great bloke who never You can send an e-mail said a bad word about anyto John Pasquarelli: body. kojak@mmnet.com.au - Cheryl Threadgold
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Whatever Happened To ... Dickie Valentine By Kevin Trask of 3AW and 96.5 Inner FM
● Dickie Valentine ■ Several years ago I rediscovered an old song titled The Finger Of Suspicion by the English singer Dickie Valentine. I played it on 96.5FM and also in my radio segments on 3AW and 4BC. The song created a lot response from listeners. 4BC radio host, Ian Maurice, included it on his compilation CD, What is That Song? Ian said he fell in love with the song after we had aired it on his show. Does anyone remember The Finger Of Suspicion or the fabulous singer, Dickie Valentine? Richard Maxwell was born in Marylebone, London, in 1929. At the age of three he appeared in two films, Lord Babs and Jack's The Boy. When his mother remarried he was given the name of Richard Bryce. His birth father was a singer and entertainer and it soon became obvious that young Richard had a beautiful singing voice. He was 20and working as a page boy at His Majesty's Theatre, London in 1949 when actor Bill O'Connor was appearing there in the stage production of Brigadoon. Bill heard Richard sing and very kindly paid for singing lessons for him. He was signed to sing with the famous Ted Heath Band and changed his name to Dickie Valentine. Dickie sang with the band for many years and was a featured vocalist along with Lita Roza and Dennis Lotis. Dickie was also was very good at doing impersonations of the famous stars of the day. Dickie was with the Ted Heath Band for five years before going solo. He began making recordings and his first hit song in 1953 All The Time And Everywhere sold over 100,000 copies. In 1955 Dickie was England's most popular singer with two great hit songs The Finger Of Suspicion and Christmas Alphabet. He married Elizabeth Flynn, who was a professional ice skater, in the Caxton Hall Registry Office, and more than 4000 fans were there to get a glimpse of the newly weds. Dickie went straight from the wedding to perform in a Royal Command Performance at The London Palladium. In 1956 he had his own television program, The Dickie Valentine Show. In 1963 Dickie Valentine was playing the night clubs in Melbourne and appeared on the Delo And Daly television show. He did a very funny sketch with Jonathan Daly - Jonathan was at the grand piano accompanying Dickie and kept interrupting the song and continually moving Dickie around so that Jonathan wasn't being masked from the camera. The style of music changed with the arrival of The Beatles in 1964 and in later years Dickie worked the smaller clubs. Dickie Valentine was killed in a car crash in Wales on May 6, 1971, together with his pianist Sid Boatman and drummer Dave Pearson. Dickie was only 41 years old. If you get a chance to hear a song by Dickie Valentine I am sure you will appreciate the talent of this wonderful English singer from a bygone era. - Kevin Trask The Time Tunnel - with Bruce & Phil- Sundays at 8.30pm on 3AW That's Entertainment - 96.5FM Sundays at Noon. 96.5FM is now streaming on the internet. www.innerfm.org.au and follow the prompts, or listen on the Telstra T - Hub.
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Missing millions, ready to be claimed E&OE. The Melbourne Observer publishes lists of unclaimed moneys to Victorians from financial institutions. We list the name of the owner on the books and last known address. Please contact the organisation listed to make a claim.
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ANZ Banking Group Dividends Phillips, Douglas B. 334 High St, Echuca. $7203.90. Phillips, Gladys. 69A Elizabeth St, Newport. $6612.72. Phillips, Mary Aileen. 102 Grosvenor St, St Kilda East. $16,461.00. Philp, Henry Claude. 25 Hope St, Preston. $7954.38. Pierson, Alan Richard. 31 Clunies Ross Cres, Mulgrave. $7695.96. Portbury, Ivy Jean. 3 Mountainview Ret. Village. 5 Upper Blackwood Ave, Warburton. $6692.37. Potts, Suzanne. 52 School Rd, Trafalgar. $6897.69. Poulter, Robert Arthur. 52/70 Centre Dandenong Rd, Dingley. $10,074.84. Prince, Shirley. 84 Perry St, Alphington. $4364.82. Purdy, Edna Joan. 52 Ellis St, Flora Hill. $7331.34. Purnell, David Keith. 3/65 Fernside Ave, Briar Hill. $346.92. Purnell, Jacqui. 3/65 Fernside Ave, Briar Hill. $346.92. Putt, Pamela Lee. Est. Kenneth Neal McDonald A/C. Unit 1, 6Arcadia St, Box Hill South. $1430.16. Quin, Ernest William. 1341 Nepean Hwy, Cheltenham. $7141.95. Racher, Pamela Jean. 5 Studley Pl, Mt Martha, $7141.95. Racher, Wilfred. 5 Studley Pl, Mt Martha. $7141.95. Ralph, Adrienne Carlene. 36 Mitchell St, Northcote. $3177.15. Raman, Bob. 5 Alpine Cres, Noble Park North. $1433.70. Rath, Bluebell Victoria. 2/14 Gordon St, Croydon. $8306.61. Rath, Mervyn Douglas. c/- Grace Dale Manor Hostel, 209 Warrandyte Rd, Ringwood North. $10,635.93. Rattle, Geoffrey Colin. 109 Bayswater Rd, Croydon. $7481.79. Rawlins, Jessie R. 13 Mahnke St, Stawell. $6580.86. Reid, Alan Norman. 9 Silvan Rd, Mount Evelyn. $7327.80. Reid, Valerie. 4 Meteorite St, Murchison. $7956.15. Rewell, Ernest J. 141 Highfield Rd, Camberwell. $10,271.31. Riley, Gregory Stephen. c/- H Riley, 124 Gertrude St, Geelong West. $8455.29. Riley, Harold Roughley. 124 Gertrude St, Geelong West. $10,204.05. Riley, Joan. 124 Gertrude St, Geelong West. $7120.71. Rintoul, Eleanor. 1 Killara Ave, Camberwell. $4290.48. Risstrom, Raymond Francis. 12 Madeline St, Doncaster. $10,168.65. Robison, Terry Joseph. 11 Alvaston St, Deer Park. $1770.00. Rohner, Sarah Louise. PO Box 8078, Rhyll. $295.59. Rourke, Diane. 36 Bursaria Ave, Ferntree Gully. $2573.58. Rowland, Graeme Bruce. Bung Bong, via Maryborough. $7541.97. Rudalski, Christopher John. 6/13 Wattle Rd, Bayswater North. $17,388.48. Rumble, Alan John. 21 Bunnerong Cres, Noble Park. $8826.9. Russell, Tillie. 18 Phillip Rd, Knoxfield. $1715.13. Ryan, Cheryl Lee. 228 North Rd, Langwarrin. $2145.24. Sack, Allan Leslie. 20 Racecourse Rd, Pakenham. $7476.48.
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Sayers, Spencer. 32 James St, Glen Huntly. $4290.48. Sebire, Edna Gertrude. c/- A B Natoli Pty, PO Box 121, Kew. $9326.13. Seddon, Douglas George. 36 Johnson Ave, Hoppers Crossing. $7269.39. Seedy, Megan. 1/228 Burwood Hwy, Burwood. $1715.13. Semmens, Dorothy Mary. 9 Lorraine Ct, Hampton Park. $9904.92. Seventh Day Adventist Church (Vic. Conf.) Ltd. PO Box 215, Nunawading. $21,537.36. Sherriff, Cliff George. RMB 7079A, Horsham. $7099.47. Simons, Brian Keith. Mowbray House. PO Box 172, Melton. $7596.84. Simpson, Bernard Robert. 30 Beckington Cres, Hampton Park. $6563.16. Smart, Kylie Anne. 38 Glen Katherine Dr, St Helena. $1053.15. Smart, Neville. RMB 4540, Euroa. $7416.30. Smith, Aileen. 7 Fifth Ave, Rowville. $1715.13. Smith, Ernest George. 36 Dawn Ave, Dandenong. $6989.73. Smith, Kenneth Albert. 14 Ring Rd, Boort. $7240.38. Smith, Mona Pearl. 7 Verene Ave, Lower Templestowe. $6561.66. Smith, Vera. Girrawheen. 1/80 Outer Cr, Brighton. $9131.43. Smyrk, Beryl Jean. 359 Eliz-abeth Dr, Sunbury. $2373.57. Southern, Beryl. 40 Rayment St, Fairfield. $6724.23. Sponheimer, Lucy Lillian. 12 Bevis St, Bentleigh East. $12,499.74. Squire, Eva May. Unit 2/97 Gertrude St, Geelong West. $4290.48. Squire, Glenn. 8 Bolton St, Beaumaris. $1235.46. St Clair, Kelly. 12 Clendon Rd, Ferntree Gully. $1715.13. St John, Grace Dorothy. 4 Jesson Cres, Dandenong. $9285.42. Stafford, Hugh Charles. 4/285 Greensborough Rd, Watsonia. $10,257.15. State Trustees Ltd. Est L Labrum 3662699 A/C. GPO Box 3008FF, Melbourne. $11,011.17. State Trustees Ltd. Est V Latham 3652440 A/C. GPO Box 3008FF, Melbourne. $20,835.09. Steart, David. Unit 2/8 Macartney St, Reservoir. $7936.68. Steel, May. Apt 278, The Lodge, 100 Harold St, Wantirna. $6596.79. Stephens, Rupert Wilfred. 18 Wilma Ave, Dandenong. $7141.95. Stevenson, John Leffers. PO Box 736, Bacchus Marsh. $7527.81. Stone, Ronald David. Nicholson St, Pyalong. $4290.48.
Street, Desma. Unit 5, 18-22 Capon St, Malvern. $4364.82. Sutherland, Thelma Doris. 6 Milton St, Pascoe Vale. $11,586.42. Tarrant, Lewis Alan. 211 Princes Hwy, Drouin. $4290.48. Tayler, Harold Spurway. Casey Manor. 445 Ormond Rd, Narre Warren South. $4290.48. Tayler, Nancye Olive. Caseyminca. 445 Ormond Rd, Service Draw 9A & 9B, Narre Warren South. $4290.48. Taylor, Sharon Jean. 2 Colesbourne Ct, Kilsyth. $3.54. Thomas, Ida Mavis. c/- Andrew Kerr Complex. 67-69 Tanti Ave, Mornington. $6499.44. Thomson, Craig. 6 Allowah Tce, Richmond. $58.41. Thorburn, Peter. 1 Pine Way, Doncaster East. $442.50. Tilson, James. 144 Sturt St, Echuca. $8648.22. Tooggod, Douglas James. Gruyere Rd, via Coldstream. $7373.82. Traynor, Lila May. 1112 Lydiard St, Ballarat. $6706.53. Trembath, Cecil Niccholas. 5 Tait St, Footscray. $6972.03. Trembath, Gregory John. 5 Tait St, Footscray. $9014.61. Trigg, Brian Richard. 120 Skene St, Warrnambool. $8529.63. Trott, Charles Yeandle. Po Box 332, Kilmore. $9616.41. Tudball, Ella. 419.300 Pigdon St, Carlton North. $7518.96. Tudball, Gertrude Maria. 43 The Crescent, Sassafras. $7533.12. Tully, Barrie Lawrence. PO Box 191, Hurstbridge. $7596.84. Turner, Wendy. PO Box 386, Gembrook. $2573.58. Twining, Joy. 488 Victoria St, Brunswick West. $7582.68. Van Landenberg, Frank Percival. 37 Rembrandt Dr, Wheelers Hill. $22,951.59. Viebrock, Edgar John. Glengollan Village, 1A Hutton Ave, Ferntree Gully. $10,416.45. Viecell, Carmel. 118 Keys Rd, Keysborough. $8363.25. Villiers-Thomson, Percy J. Unit 2/ 2 Birdwood Ave, Rosebud. $7120.71. Wajsbort, Deborah. 296 Orrong Rd, Caulfield North. $493.83. Walsh, Norman A. 1 Woodland Dr, Cheltenham. $7954.38. Warlond, Maxwell James. 2/183 Hotham St, East Melbourne. $12,174.06. Warren, Audrey Lillian. GPO Box 1461N, Melbourne. $4290.48. Warren, June Margaret. 52 Ellis St, Flora Hill. $7724.28. Wells, Michael Ian. PO Box 4198, Langwarrin. $1980.63.
White, Brian Harold. 181 Bottings Lane, Dixons Creek. $8979.21. White, Douglas Maldon. PO Box 58, Berwick. $7099.47. White, Tarnia. 9 Cameron Ct, Wantirna. $1715.13. Wigley, Damien. 141 Brighton St, Richmond. $9717.30. Wilkins, Edwin Dean. 25 Boyle St, Forest Hill. $4290.48. Willcox, Noel Edward. 15 Anvil Cres, Cobram. $8943.81. Williams, William J. 155 Tucker Rd, Bentleigh. $8276.52. Wolfenden, Donald Norman. 2 McKenzie Rd, Cowes. $8529.63. Wolfenden, Norman Edward. 22 Hartley St, Cowes. $7161.42. Wood, Norma Lillian. 21A Smith St, Parkdale. $6724.23. Wookey, Colin William. PO Box 4074, Melbourne University. $6085.26. Yeats, Nellie E. 106 Hoffmans Rd, Niddrie. $21,121.41. Yee, Brian Stephen. 583 High St Rd, Mt Waverley. $5929.50. Yee, Desmond Robert. 453 Doncaster Rd, Doncaster. $5828.61. Ammtec Ltd Compulsory Acquisition By Australian Laboratory Services Pty Ltd Phone: (08) 9625 9400 Cheslett, Louise & Gregory. Anthony. Bullfish Super Fund. 101A Canterbury Rd, Brown Hill. $458.15. Farmer, Jamie David & Price, Andrew. PO Box 2185, Footscray. $7700.00. Goodwin, Denise. RMB 6139, Wangaratta Forward. $3850.00. Gurney, Cheryl & Christopher. Gurney Family S/F. c/- Capital Creation Pty Ltd. Locked Bag 899, Elsternwick. $21,945.00. Holmes, Terence. Pristine Life. 62 Ryans Rd, Eltham. $519.75. James, Robert & Rhonda Joy. James Heritage S/Fund. 39 Blossom Park Dr, Mill Park. $5575.00. Lane, Donna & Anthony. Lane Super Fund. Po Box 315, Wangaratta. $19,250.00. Lewand, Viesha. 136 Main Rd, Hepburn Springs. $1925.00. Martin, Adam Paul. 5 Heath Cl, Altona Meadows. $5698.00. Read, June Deidre. PO Box 453, Mentone. $19,250.00. Tang, Hung Hung. 29 Airedale Ave, Hawthorn East. $19,250.00. Werner, Patricia Margaret. 3 Leicester Sq, Malvern. $15,400.00. Young, John Ronald & Miriam Elizabeth. 98 Fenaughty St, Kyabram. $21,945.00. Adtrans Group Ltd Compulsory Acquisition By A P Eagers Limited Phone: (03) 9415 5000 Clifford, Jason Daniel. 23 Harcourt Ave, Frankston South. $686.00. Craig Ross Nominees Pty Ltd. Ross Super Fund. 8 Talma Close, Eltham. $1792.00. Creed, Shirley Elita and Creed, Geoffrey Tulloh. 1 Cedarville Cl, Highton. $68,992.00. Gypsy Securities Pty Ltd. Gypsy Retirement Fund. 76 William St, Brighton. $12,453.00. Hamilton, Alan Averell. 228 Canterbury Rd, St Kilda. $2625.00. Harnath, Dorothy Joyce. 19/100 Harold St, Wantirna. $17,500.00
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Holyoak, Penny. Holyoak Super Fund. Unit 20, 174 Pell St, Windsor. $4245.50. Morillo, Willy. Unit 16, 360 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne. $3150.00. Muston, Stephen. 307 South Gippsland Hwy, Cranbourne. $3514.00. Pinel,Adam David & Sorgiovanni, Susan Margaret. Pinel Family Super Fund. 97 Bank St, South Melbourne. $3531.50. Purdie, Joyce. 3 Jan Ct, Lara. $255.50. Reynolds, John Leo & Patricia Margaret. c/- Foley Wilson & Co P/ L, PO Box 165, Ballarat. $7000.00. Roklem Holdings Pty Ltd. Roklem Holdings S/Fund. 8 Stewart St, Brighton. $12,950.00. Thompson, Stewart Lachlan. 12 Merchiston Gr, Strathmore. $3500.00. Ausmelt Pty Ltd Compulsory Acquisition By Outotec Pty Ltd Phone: (03) 9415 5000
Baidina, Alla. 79 Chute St, Mordialloc. $675.00. Collins, David Hayden & Christine Elizabeth. Collins Super Fund. 25 Waters Edge, Highton. $16,200.00. Evans, Caroline Bernice. 47 O’Grady St, Albert Park. $1123.20. Fairley, David John. c/- Peter R Purcell, 438 Hampton St, Hampton. $5062.50. Firth, Lois Jean. 4 Jacqueline Rd, Mount Waverley. $186.30. Frances Williams/Kitchener Alexander Phillip. Countrywide Finance S/F. 83 Wentworth Rd, Wonthaggi. $13,500.00. Franceswilliams, Marita & Kitchener. 83 Wentworth Rd, Wonthaggo. $9211.05. Gerraty, Kevin F & Gerraty, Rosemary C. c/- Chambeyron Pty Ltd. 74 Winfield Rd, Balwyn North. $803.25. Hopper, Janice. 11 Alexander Ave, Horsham. $810.00. Kral, Petrer. 21/110 Caroline St, South Yarra. $2025.00. Lane, Donna & Anthony. Lane Super Fund. PO Box 315, Wangaratta. $4495.50. Lightfoot, Brian William. Lot 19 Messmate Ct, Emerald. $2025.00. McKenzie, Hazel Jean. 10/7 Keith Ct, Brighton. $1215.00. N A Robson Nominees Ptyt Ltd. c/ - Hill Innes & Dooley. 28 Drummond St, Carlton. $4050.00. Oing, Eng Chew. PO Box 215, Hawksburn. $2859.30. Patagonia Trading Pty Ltd. 8 Elgin Ave, Armadale. $4050.00. Perkins, David Anthony. 216 Rouse St, Port Melbourne. $1498.50. Rajaj Pty Ltd. 18 Victoria St, Brighton. $15,187.50. Short, Leigh. 5 Carrington St, Hawthorn. $6885.00. Stephens, Vic. 7 Villea Ct, Bundoora. $1883.25. Wong, Bruce. B Wong Super Fund. 2/105 Palmerston St, Carlton. $27,000.00. DMC Mining Ltd Compulsory Acquisition By Cape Lambert Resources Ltd Phone: (08) 9380 9555
Corneby, Lucina Claree. 110 Tesbury Rd, Bostsocks Creek. $583.00. Duff, Paul. Unit 4, 18 Nursery Ave, Frankston. $12,529.20.
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A Child’s History of England CHAPTER 24. ENGLAND UNDER EDWARD THE FIFTH Continued from last week THE late King’s eldest son, the Prince of Wales, called EDWARD after him, was only thirteen years of age at his father’s death. He was at Ludlow Castle with his uncle, the Earl of Rivers. The prince’s brother, the Duke of York, only eleven years of age, was in London with his mother. The boldest, most crafty, and most dreaded nobleman in England at that time was their uncle RICHARD, Duke of Gloucester, and everybody wondered how the two poor boys would fare with such an uncle for a friend or a foe. The Queen, their mother, being exceedingly uneasy about this, was anxious that instructions should be sent to Lord Rivers to raise an army to escort the young King safely to London. But, Lord Hastings, who was of the Court party opposed to the Woodvilles, and who disliked the thought of giving them that power, argued against the proposal, and obliged the Queen to be satisfied with an escort of two thousand horse. The Duke of Gloucester did nothing, at first, to justify suspicion. He came from Scotland (where he was commanding an army) to York, and was there the first to swear allegiance to his nephew. He then wrote a condoling letter to the QueenMother, and set off to be present at the coronation in London. Now, the young King, journeying towards London too, with Lord Rivers and Lord Gray, came to Stony Stratford, as his uncle came to Northampton, about ten miles distant; and when those two lords heard that the Duke of Gloucester was so near, they proposed to the young King that they should go back and greet him in his name. The boy being very willing that they should do so, they rode off and were received with great friendliness, and asked by the Duke of Gloucester to stay and dine with him. In the evening, while they were merry together, up came the Duke of Buckingham with three hundred horsemen; and next morning the two lords and the two dukes, and the three hundred horsemen, rode away together to rejoin the King. Just as they were entering Stony Stratford, the Duke of Gloucester, checking his horse, turned suddenly on the two lords, charged them with alienating from him the affections of his sweet nephew, and caused them to be arrested by the three hundred horsemen and taken back. Then, he and the Duke of Buckingham went straight to the King (whom they had now in their power), to whom they made a show of kneeling down, and offering great love and submission; and then they ordered his attendants to disperse, and took him, alone with them, to Northampton. A few days afterwards they conducted him to London, and lodged him in the Bishop’s Palace. But, he did not remain there long; for, the Duke of Buckingham with a tender face made a speech expressing how anxious he was for the Royal boy’s safety, and how much safer he would be in the Tower until his coronation, than he could be anywhere else. So, to the Tower he was taken, very carefully, and the Duke of Gloucester was named Protector of the State. Although Gloucester had proceeded thus far with a very smooth countenance — and although he was a clever man, fair of speech, and not illlooking, in spite of one of his shoulders being something higher than the other — and although he had come into the City riding bare-headed at the King’s side, and looking very fond of him — he had made the King’s mother more uneasy yet; and when the Royal boy was taken to the Tower, she became so alarmed that she took sanctuary in Westminster with her five daughters. Nor did she do this without reason, for, the Duke of Gloucester, finding that the lords who were opposed to the Woodville family were faithful to the young King nevertheless, quickly resolved to strike a blow for himself. Accordingly, while those lords met in council at the Tower, he and those who were in his interest met in separate council at his own residence, Crosby Palace, in Bishopsgate Street. Being at last quite prepared, he one day appeared unexpectedly at the coun-
● Charles Dickens cil in the Tower, and appeared to be very jocular and merry. He was particularly gay with the Bishop of Ely: praising the strawberries that grew in his garden on Holborn Hill, and asking him to have some gathered that he might eat them at dinner. The Bishop, quite proud of the honour, sent one of his men to fetch some; and the Duke, still very jocular and gay, went out; and the council all said what a very agreeable duke he was! In a little time, however, he came back quite altered — not at all jocular — frowning and fierce — and suddenly said, — ‘What do those persons deserve who have compassed my destruction; I being the King’s lawful, as well as natural, protector?’ To this strange question, Lord Hastings replied, that they deserved death, whosoever they were. ‘Then,’ said the Duke, ‘I tell you that they are that sorceress my brother’s wife;’ meaning the Queen: ‘and that other sorceress, Jane Shore. Who, by witchcraft, have withered my body, and caused my arm to shrink as I now show you.’ He then pulled up his sleeve and showed them his arm, which was shrunken, it is true, but which had been so, as they all very well knew, from the hour of his birth. Jane Shore, being then the lover of Lord Hastings, as she had formerly been of the late King, that lord knew that he himself was attacked. So, he said, in some confusion, ‘Certainly, my Lord, if they have done this, they be worthy of punishment.’ ‘If?’ said the Duke of Gloucester; ‘do you talk to me of ifs? I tell you that they HAVE so done, and I will make it good upon thy body, thou traitor!’ With that, he struck the table a great blow with his fist. This was a signal to some of his people outside to cry ‘Treason!’ They immediately did so, and there was a rush into the chamber of so many armed men that it was filled in a moment
‘First,’ said the Duke of Gloucester to Lord Hastings, ‘I arrest thee, traitor! And let him,’ he added to the armed men who took him, ‘have a priest at once, for by St. Paul I will not dine until I have seen his head of!’ Lord Hastings was hurried to the green by the Tower chapel, and there beheaded on a log of wood that happened to be lying on the ground. Then, the Duke dined with a good appetite, and after dinner summoning the principal citizens to attend him, told them that Lord Hastings and the rest had designed to murder both himself and the Duke if Buckingham, who stood by his side, if he had not providentially discovered their design. He requested them to be so obliging as to inform their fellow-citizens of the truth of what he said, and issued a proclamation (prepared and neatly copied out beforehand) to the same effect. On the same day that the Duke did these things in the Tower, Sir Richard Ratcliffe, the boldest and most undaunted of his men, went down to Pontefract; arrested Lord Rivers, Lord Gray, and two other gentlemen; and publicly executed them on the scaffold, without any trial, for having intended the Duke’s death. Three days afterwards the Duke, not to lose time, went down the river to Westminster in his barge, attended by divers bishops, lords, and soldiers, and demanded that the Queen should deliver her second son, the Duke of York, into his safe keeping. The Queen, being obliged to comply, resigned the child after she had wept over him; and Richard of Gloucester placed him with his brother in the Tower. Then, he seized Jane Shore, and, because she had been the lover of the late King, confiscated her property, and got her sentenced to do public penance in the streets by walking in a scanty dress, with bare feet, and carrying a lighted candle, to St. Paul’s Cathedral, through the most crowded part of the City. Having now all things ready for his own ad-
vancement, he caused a friar to preach a sermon at the cross which stood in front of St. Paul’s Cathedral, in which he dwelt upon the profligate manners of the late King, and upon the late shame of Jane Shore, and hinted that the princes were not his children. ‘Whereas, good people,’ said the friar, whose name was SHAW, ‘my Lord the Protector, the noble Duke of Gloucester, that sweet prince, the pattern of all the noblest virtues, is the perfect image and express likeness of his father.’ There had been a little plot between the Duke and the friar, that the Duke should appear in the crowd at this moment, when it was expected that the people would cry ‘Long live King Richard!’ But, either through the friar saying the words too soon, or through the Duke’s coming too late, the Duke and the words did not come together, and the people only laughed, and the friar sneaked off ashamed. The Duke of Buckingham was a better hand at such business than the friar, so he went to the Guildhall the next day, and addressed the citizens in the Lord Protector’s behalf. A few dirty men, who had been hired and stationed there for the purpose, crying when he had done, ‘God save King Richard!’ he made them a great bow, and thanked them with all his heart. Next day, to make an end of it, he went with the mayor and some lords and citizens to Bayard Castle, by the river, where Richard then was, and read an address, humbly entreating him to accept the Crown of England. Richard, who looked down upon them out of a window and pretended to be in great uneasiness and alarm, assured them there was nothing he desired less, and that his deep affection for his nephews forbade him to think of it. To this the Duke of Buckingham replied, with pretended warmth, that the free people of England would never submit to his nephew’s rule, and that if Richard, who was the lawful heir, refused the Crown, why then they must find some one else to wear it. The Duke of Gloucester returned, that since he used that strong language, it became his painful duty to think no more of himself, and to accept the Crown. Upon that, the people cheered and dispersed; and the Duke of Gloucester and the Duke of Buckingham passed a pleasant evening, talking over the play they had just acted with so much success, and every word of which they had prepared together
CHAPTER 25. ENGLAND UNDER RICHARD THE THIRD
KING RICHARD THE THIRD was up betimes in the morning, and went to Westminster Hall. In the Hall was a marble seat, upon which he sat himself down between two great noblemen, and told the people that he began the new reign in that place, because the first duty of a sovereign was to administer the laws equally to all, and to maintain justice. He then mounted his horse and rode back to the City, where he was received by the clergy and the crowd as if he really had a right to the throne, and really were a just man. The clergy and the crowd must have been rather ashamed of themselves in secret, I think, for being such poor-spirited knaves. The new King and his Queen were soon crowned with a great deal of show and noise, which the people liked very much; and then the King set forth on a royal progress through his dominions. He was crowned a second time at York, in order that the people might have show and noise enough; and wherever he went was received with shouts of rejoicing — from a good many people of strong lungs, who were paid to strain their throats in crying, ‘God save King Richard!’ The plan was so successful that I am told it has been imitated since, by other usurpers, in other progresses through other dominions. While he was on this journey, King Richard stayed a week at Warwick. And from Warwick he sent instructions home for one of the wickedest murders that ever was done — the murder of the two young princes, his nephews, who were shut up in the Tower of London. Sir Robert Brackenbury was at that time Governor of the Tower. To him, by the hands of a
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Observer Classic Books From Page 17 messenger named JOHN GREEN, did King Richard send a letter, ordering him by some means to put the two young princes to death. But Sir Robert — I hope because he had children of his own, and loved them — sent John Green back again, riding and spurring along the dusty roads, with the answer that he could not do so horrible a piece of work. The King, having frowningly considered a little, called to him SIR JAMES TYRREL, his master of the horse, and to him gave authority to take command of the Tower, whenever he would, for twenty-four hours, and to keep all the keys of the Tower during that space of time. Tyrrel, well knowing what was wanted, looked about him for two hardened ruffians, and chose JOHN DIGHTON, one of his own grooms, and MILES FOREST, who was a murderer by trade. Having secured these two assistants, he went, upon a day in August, to the Tower, showed his authority from the King, took the command for four-and-twenty hours, and obtained possession of the keys. And when the black night came he went creeping, creeping, like a guilty villain as he was, up the dark, stone winding stairs, and along the dark stone passages, until he came to the door of the room where the two young princes, having said their prayers, lay fast asleep, clasped in each other’s arms. And while he watched and listened at the door, he sent in those evil demons, John Dighton and Miles Forest, who smothered the two princes with the bed and pillows, and carried their bodies down the stairs, and buried them under a great heap of stones at the staircase foot. And when the day came, he gave up the command of the Tower, and restored the keys, and hurried away without once looking behind him; and Sir Robert Brackenbury went with fear and sadness to the princes’ room, and found the princes gone for ever. You know, through all this history, how true it is that traitors are never true, and you will not be surprised to learn that the Duke of Buckingham soon turned against King Richard, and joined a great conspiracy that was formed to dethrone him, and to place the crown upon its rightful owner’s head. Richard had meant to keep the murder secret; but when he heard through his spies that this conspiracy existed, and that many lords and gentlemen drank in secret to the healths of the two young princes in the Tower, he made it known that they were dead. The conspirators, though thwarted for a moment, soon resolved to set up for the crown against the murderous Richard, HENRY Earl of Richmond, grandson of Catherine: that widow of Henry the Fifth who married Owen Tudor. And as Henry was of the house of Lancaster, they proposed that he should marry the Princess Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of the late King, now the heiress of the house of York, and thus by uniting the rival families put an end to the fatal wars of the Red and White Roses. All being settled, a time was appointed for Henry to come over from Brittany, and for a great rising against Richard to take place in several parts of England at the same hour. On a certain day, therefore, in October, the revolt took place; but unsuccessfully. Richard was prepared, Henry was driven back at sea by a storm, his followers in England were dispersed, and the Duke of Buckingham was taken, and at once beheaded in the market-place at Salisbury. The time of his success was a good time, Richard thought, for summoning a Parliament and getting some money. So, a Parliament was called, and it flattered and fawned upon him as much as he could possibly desire, and declared him to be the rightful King of England, and his only son Edward, then eleven years of age, the next heir to the throne. Richard knew full well that, let the Parliament say what it would, the Princess Elizabeth was remembered by people as the heiress of the house of York; and having accurate information besides, of its being designed by the conspirators to marry her to Henry of Richmond, he felt that it would much strengthen him and weaken them, to be beforehand with them, and marry her to his son. With this view he went to the Sanctuary at Westminster, where the late King’s widow and her daughter still were, and besought them to come to Court: where (he swore by anything and everything) they should be safely and honourably entertained. They came, accordingly, but had scarcely been at Court a month when his son died suddenly — or was poisoned — and his plan was crushed to pieces. In this extremity, King Richard, always active, thought, ‘I must make another plan.’ And he
made the plan of marrying the Princess Elizabeth himself, although she was his niece. There was one difficulty in the way: his wife, the Queen Anne, was alive. But, he knew (remembering his nephews) how to remove that obstacle, and he made love to the Princess Elizabeth, telling her he felt perfectly confident that the Queen would die in February. The Princess was not a very scrupulous young lady, for, instead of rejecting the murderer of her brothers with scorn and hatred, she openly declared she loved him dearly; and, when February came and the Queen did not die, she expressed her impatient opinion that she was too long about it. However, King Richard was not so far out in his prediction, but, that she died in March — he took good care of that — and then this precious pair hoped to be married. But they were disappointed, for the idea of such a marriage was so unpopular in the country, that the King’s chief counsellors, RATCLIFFE and CATESBY, would by no means undertake to propose it, and the King was even obliged to declare in public that he had never thought of such a thing. He was, by this time, dreaded and hated by all classes of his subjects. His nobles deserted every day to Henry’s side; he dared not call another Parliament, lest his crimes should be denounced there; and for want of money, he was obliged to get Benevolences from the citizens, which exasperated them all against him. It was said too, that, being stricken by his conscience, he dreamed frightful dreams, and started up in the night-time, wild with terror and remorse. Active to the last, through all this, he issued vigorous proclamations against Henry of Richmond and all his followers, when he heard that they were coming against him with a Fleet from France; and took the field as fierce and savage as a wild boar — the animal represented on his shield. Henry of Richmond landed with six thousand men at Milford Haven, and came on against King Richard, then encamped at Leicester with an army twice as great, through North Wales. On Bosworth Field the two armies met; and Richard, looking along Henry’s ranks, and seeing them crowded with the English nobles who had abandoned him, turned pale when he beheld the powerful Lord Stanley and his son (whom he had tried hard to retain) among them. But, he was as brave as he was wicked, and plunged into the thickest of the fight. He was riding hither and thither, laying about him in all directions, when he observed the Earl of Northumberland — one of his few great allies — to stand inactive, and the main body of his troops to hesitate. At the same moment, his desperate glance caught Henry of Richmond among a little group of his knights. Riding hard at him, and crying ‘Treason!’ he killed his standard-bearer, fiercely unhorsed another gentleman, and aimed a powerful stroke at Henry himself, to cut him down. But, Sir William Stanley parried it as it fell, and before Richard could raise his arm again, he was borne down in a press of numbers, unhorsed, and killed. Lord Stanley picked up the crown, all bruised and trampled, and stained with blood, and put it upon Richmond’s head, amid loud and rejoicing cries of ‘Long live King Henry!’ That night, a horse was led up to the church of the Grey Friars at Leicester; across whose back was tied, like some worthless sack, a naked body brought there for burial. It was the body of the last of the Plantagenet line, King Richard the Third, usurper and murderer, slain at the battle of Bosworth Field in the thirty-second year of his age, after a reign of two years.
CHAPTER 26. ENGLAND UNDER HENRY THE SEVENTH KING HENRY THE SEVENTH did not turn out to be as fine a fellow as the nobility and people hoped, in the first joy of their deliverance from Richard the Third. He was very cold, crafty, and calculating, and would do almost anything for money. He possessed considerable ability, but his chief merit appears to have been that he was not cruel when there was nothing to be got by it. The new King had promised the nobles who had espoused his cause that he would marry the Princess Elizabeth. The first thing he did, was, to direct her to be removed from the castle of Sheriff Hutton in Yorkshire, where Richard had placed her, and restored to the care of her mother in London. The young Earl of Warwick, Edward Plantagenet, son and heir of the late Duke of Clarence, had been kept a prisoner in the
same old Yorkshire Castle with her. This boy, who was now fifteen, the new King placed in the Tower for safety. Then he came to London in great state, and gratified the people with a fine procession; on which kind of show he often very much relied for keeping them in good humour. The sports and feasts which took place were followed by a terrible fever, called the Sweating Sickness; of which great numbers of people died. Lord Mayors and Aldermen are thought to have suffered most from it; whether, because they were in the habit of over-eating themselves, or because they were very jealous of preserving filth and nuisances in the City (as they have been since), I don’t know. The King’s coronation was postponed on account of the general ill-health, and he afterwards deferred his marriage, as if he were not very anxious that it should take place: and, even after that, deferred the Queen’s coronation so long that he gave offence to the York party. However, he set these things right in the end, by hanging some men and seizing on the rich possessions of others; by granting more popular pardons to the followers of the late King than could, at first, be got from him; and, by employing about his Court, some very scrupulous persons who had been employed in the previous reign. As this reign was principally remarkable for two very curious impostures which have become famous in history, we will make those two stories its principal feature. There was a priest at Oxford of the name of Simons, who had for a pupil a handsome boy named Lambert Simnel, the son of a baker. Partly to gratify his own ambitious ends, and partly to carry out the designs of a secret party formed against the King, this priest declared that his pupil, the boy, was no other than the young Earl of Warwick; who (as everybody might have known) was safely locked up in the Tower of London. The priest and the boy went over to Ireland; and, at Dublin, enlisted in their cause all ranks of the people: who seem to have been generous enough, but exceedingly irrational. The Earl of Kildare, the governor of Ireland, declared that he believed the boy to be what the priest represented; and the boy, who had been well tutored by the priest, told them such things of his childhood, and gave them so many descriptions of the Royal Family, that they were perpetually shouting and hurrahing, and drinking his health, and making all kinds of noisy and thirsty demonstrations, to express their belief in him. Nor was this feeling confined to Ireland alone, for the Earl of Lincoln — whom the late usurper had named as his successor — went over to the young Pretender; and, after holding a secret correspondence with the Dowager Duchess of Burgundy — the sister of Edward the Fourth, who detested the present King and all his race — sailed to Dublin with two thousand German soldiers of her providing. In this promising state of the boy’s fortunes, he was crowned there, with a crown taken off the head of a statue of the Virgin Mary; and was then, according to the Irish custom of those days, carried home on the shoulders of a big chieftain possessing a great deal more strength than sense. Father Simons, you may be sure, was mighty busy at the coronation. Ten days afterwards, the Germans, and the Irish, and the priest, and the boy, and the Earl of Lincoln, all landed in Lancashire to invade England. The King, who had good intelligence of their movements, set up his standard at Nottingham, where vast numbers resorted to him every day; while the Earl of Lincoln could gain but very few. With his small force he tried to make for the town of Newark; but the King’s army getting between him and that place, he had no choice but to risk a battle at Stoke. It soon ended in the complete destruction of the Pretender’s forces, one half of whom were killed; among them, the Earl himself. The priest and the baker’s boy were taken prisoners. The priest, after confessing the trick, was shut up in prison, where he afterwards died — suddenly perhaps. The boy was taken into the King’s kitchen and made a turnspit. He was afterwards raised to the station of one of the King’s falconers; and so ended this strange imposition. There seems reason to suspect that the Dowager Queen — always a restless and busy woman — had had some share in tutoring the baker’s son. The King was very angry with her, whether or no. He seized upon her property, and shut her up in a convent at Bermondsey. One might suppose that the end of this story would have put the Irish people on their guard; but they were quite ready to receive a second
impostor, as they had received the first, and that same troublesome Duchess of Burgundy soon gave them the opportunity. All of a sudden there appeared at Cork, in a vessel arriving from Portugal, a young man of excellent abilities, of very handsome appearance and most winning manners, who declared himself to be Richard, Duke of York, the second son of King Edward the Fourth. ‘O,’ said some, even of those ready Irish believers, ‘but surely that young Prince was murdered by his uncle in the Tower!’ — ‘It IS supposed so,’ said the engaging young man; ‘and my brother WAS killed in that gloomy prison; but I escaped — it don’t matter how, at present — and have been wandering about the world for seven long years.’ This explanation being quite satisfactory to numbers of the Irish people, they began again to shout and to hurrah, and to drink his health, and to make the noisy and thirsty demonstrations all over again. And the big chieftain in Dublin began to look out for another coronation, and another young King to be carried home on his back. Now, King Henry being then on bad terms with France, the French King, Charles the Eighth, saw that, by pretending to believe in the handsome young man, he could trouble his enemy sorely. So, he invited him over to the French Court, and appointed him a body-guard, and treated him in all respects as if he really were the Duke of York. Peace, however, being soon concluded between the two Kings, the pretended Duke was turned adrift, and wandered for protection to the Duchess of Burgundy. She, after feigning to inquire into the reality of his claims, declared him to be the very picture of her dear departed brother; gave him a body-guard at her Court, of thirty halberdiers; and called him by the sounding name of the White Rose of England. The leading members of the White Rose party in England sent over an agent, named Sir Robert Clifford, to ascertain whether the White Rose’s claims were good: the King also sent over his agents to inquire into the Rose’s history. The White Roses declared the young man to be really the Duke of York; the King declared him to be PERKIN WARBECK, the son of a merchant of the city of Tournay, who had acquired his knowledge of England, its language and manners, from the English merchants who traded in Flanders; it was also stated by the Royal agents that he had been in the service of Lady Brompton, the wife of an exiled English nobleman, and that the Duchess of Burgundy had caused him to be trained and taught, expressly for this deception. The King then required the Archduke Philip — who was the sovereign of Burgundy — to banish this new Pretender, or to deliver him up; but, as the Archduke replied that he could not control the Duchess in her own land, the King, in revenge, took the market of English cloth away from Antwerp, and prevented all commercial intercourse between the two countries He also, by arts and bribes, prevailed on Sir Robert Clifford to betray his employers; and he denouncing several famous English noblemen as being secretly the friends of Perkin Warbeck, the King had three of the foremost executed at once. Whether he pardoned the remainder because they were poor, I do not know; but it is only too probable that he refused to pardon one famous nobleman against whom the same Clifford soon afterwards informed separately, because he was rich. This was no other than Sir William Stanley, who had saved the King’s life at the battle of Bosworth Field. It is very doubtful whether his treason amounted to much more than his having said, that if he were sure the young man was the Duke of York, he would not take arms against him. Whatever he had done he admitted, like an honourable spirit; and he lost his head for it, and the covetous King gained all his wealth. Perkin Warbeck kept quiet for three years; but, as the Flemings began to complain heavily of the loss of their trade by the stoppage of the Antwerp market on his account, and as it was not unlikely that they might even go so far as to take his life, or give him up, he found it necessary to do something. Accordingly he made a desperate sally, and landed, with only a few hundred men, on the coast of Deal. But he was soon glad to get back to the place from whence he came; for the country people rose against his followers, killed a great many, and took a hundred and fifty prisoners: who were all driven to London, tied together with ropes, like a team of - Continued on Page 55
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Observer Classic Books From Page 18 cattle. Every one of them was hanged on some part or other of the sea-shore; in order, that if any more men should come over with Perkin Warbeck, they might see the bodies as a warning before they landed. Then the wary King, by making a treaty of commerce with the Flemings, drove Perkin Warbeck out of that country; and, by completely gaining over the Irish to his side, deprived him of that asylum too. He wandered away to Scotland, and told his story at that Court. King James the Fourth of Scotland, who was no friend to King Henry, and had no reason to be (for King Henry had bribed his Scotch lords to betray him more than once; but had never succeeded in his plots), gave him a great reception, called him his cousin, and gave him in marriage the Lady Catherine Gordon, a beautiful and charming creature related to the royal house of Stuart. Alarmed by this successful reappearance of the Pretender, the King still undermined, and bought, and bribed, and kept his doings and Perkin Warbeck’s story in the dark, when he might, one would imagine, have rendered the matter clear to all England. But, for all this bribing of the Scotch lords at the Scotch King’s Court, he could not procure the Pretender to be delivered up to him. James, though not very particular in many respects, would not betray him; and the everbusy Duchess of Burgundy so provided him with arms, and good soldiers, and with money besides, that he had soon a little army of fifteen hundred men of various nations. With these, and aided by the Scottish King in person, he crossed the border into England, and made a proclamation to the people, in which he called the King ‘Henry Tudor;’ offered large rewards to any who should take or distress him; and announced himself as King Richard the Fourth come to receive the homage of his faithful subjects. His faithful subjects, however, cared nothing for him, and hated his faithful troops: who, being of different nations, quarrelled also among themselves. Worse than this, if worse were possible, they began to plunder the country; upon which the White Rose said, that he would rather lose his rights, than gain them through the miseries of the English people. The Scottish King made a jest of his scruples; but they and their whole force went back again without fighting a battle. The worst consequence of this attempt was, that a rising took place among the people of Cornwall, who considered themselves too heavily taxed to meet the charges of the expected war. Stimulated by Flammock, a lawyer, and Joseph, a blacksmith, and joined by Lord Audley and some other country gentlemen, they marched on all the way to Deptford Bridge, where they fought a battle with the King’s army. They were defeated — though the Cornish men fought with great bravery — and the lord was beheaded, and the lawyer and the blacksmith were hanged, drawn, and quartered. The rest were pardoned. The King, who believed every man to be as avaricious as himself, and thought that money could settle anything, allowed them to make bargains for their liberty with the soldiers who had taken them. Perkin Warbeck, doomed to wander up and down, and never to find rest anywhere — a sad fate: almost a sufficient punishment for an imposture, which he seems in time to have half believed himself — lost his Scottish refuge through a truce being made between the two Kings; and found himself, once more, without a country before him in which he could lay his head. But James (always honourable and true to him, alike when he melted down his plate, and even the great gold chain he had been used to wear, to pay soldiers in his cause; and now, when that cause was lost and hopeless) did not conclude the treaty, until he had safely departed out of the Scottish dominions. He, and his beautiful wife, who was faithful to him under all reverses, and left her state and home to follow his poor fortunes, were put aboard ship with everything necessary for their comfort and protection, and sailed for Ireland. But, the Irish people had had enough of counterfeit Earls of Warwick and Dukes of York, for one while; and would give the White Rose no aid. So, the White Rose — encircled by thorns indeed — resolved to go with his beautiful wife to Cornwall as a forlorn resource, and see what might be made of the Cornish men, who had risen so valiantly a little while before, and who had fought so bravely at Deptford Bridge. To Whitsand Bay, in Cornwall, accordingly, came Perkin Warbeck and his wife; and the
lovely lady he shut up for safety in the Castle of St. Michael’s Mount, and then marched into Devonshire at the head of three thousand Cornishmen. These were increased to six thousand by the time of his arrival in Exeter; but, there the people made a stout resistance, and he went on to Taunton, where he came in sight of the King’s army. The stout Cornish men, although they were few in number, and badly armed, were so bold, that they never thought of retreating; but bravely looked forward to a battle on the morrow. Unhappily for them, the man who was possessed of so many engaging qualities, and who attracted so many people to his side when he had nothing else with which to tempt them, was not as brave as they. In the night, when the two armies lay opposite to each other, he mounted a swift horse and fled. When morning dawned, the poor confiding Cornish men, discovering that they had no leader, surrendered to the King’s power. Some of them were hanged, and the rest were pardoned and went miserably home. Before the King pursued Perkin Warbeck to the sanctuary of Beaulieu in the New Forest, where it was soon known that he had taken refuge, he sent a body of horsemen to St. Michael’s Mount, to seize his wife. She was soon taken and brought as a captive before the King. But she was so beautiful, and so good, and so devoted to the man in whom she believed, that the King regarded her with compassion, treated her with great respect, and placed her at Court, near the Queen’s person. And many years after Perkin Warbeck was no more, and when his strange story had become like a nursery tale, SHE was called the White Rose, by the people, in remembrance of her beauty. The sanctuary at Beaulieu was soon surrounded by the King’s men; and the King, pursuing his usual dark, artful ways, sent pretended friends to Perkin Warbeck to persuade him to come out and surrender himself. This he soon did; the King having taken a good look at the man of whom he had heard so much — from behind a screen — directed him to be well mounted, and to ride behind him at a little distance, guarded, but not bound in any way. So they entered London with the King’s favourite show — a procession; and some of the people hooted as the Pretender rode slowly through the streets to the Tower; but the greater part were quiet, and very curious to see him. From the Tower, he was taken to the Palace at Westminster, and there lodged like a gentleman, though closely watched. He was examined every now and then as to his imposture; but the King was so secret in all he did, that even then he gave it a consequence, which it cannot be supposed to have in itself deserved. At last Perkin Warbeck ran away, and took refuge in another sanctuary near Richmond in Surrey. From this he was again persuaded to deliver himself up; and, being conveyed to London, he stood in the stocks for a whole day, outside Westminster Hall, and there read a paper purporting to be his full confession, and relating his history as the King’s agents had originally described it. He was then shut up in the Tower again, in the company of the Earl of Warwick, who had now been there for fourteen years: ever since his removal out of Yorkshire, except when the King had had him at Court, and had shown him to the people, to prove the imposture of the Baker’s boy. It is but too probable, when we consider the crafty character of Henry the Seventh, that these two were brought together for a cruel purpose. A plot was soon discovered between them and the keepers, to murder the Governor, get possession of the keys, and proclaim Perkin Warbeck as King Richard the Fourth. That there was some such plot, is likely; that they were tempted into it, is at least as likely; that the unfortunate Earl of Warwick — last male of the Plantagenet line — was too unused to the world, and too ignorant and simple to know much about it, whatever it was, is perfectly certain; and that it was the King’s interest to get rid of him, is no less so. He was beheaded on Tower Hill, and Perkin Warbeck was hanged at Tyburn. Such was the end of the pretended Duke of York, whose shadowy history was made more shadowy — and ever will be — by the mystery and craft of the King. If he had turned his great natural advantages to a more honest account, he might have lived a happy and respected life, even in those days. But he died upon a gallows at Tyburn, leaving the Scottish lady, who had loved him so well, kindly protected at the Queen’s Court. After some time she forgot her old loves and troubles, as many people do with
Time’s merciful assistance, and married a Welsh gentleman. Her second husband, SIR MATTHEW CRADOC, more honest and more happy than her first, lies beside her in a tomb in the old church of Swansea. The ill-blood between France and England in this reign, arose out of the continued plotting of the Duchess of Burgundy, and disputes respecting the affairs of Brittany. The King feigned to be very patriotic, indignant, and warlike; but he always contrived so as never to make war in reality, and always to make money. His taxation of the people, on pretence of war with France, involved, at one time, a very dangerous insurrection, headed by Sir John Egremont, and a common man called John a Chambre. But it was subdued by the royal forces, under the command of the Earl of Surrey. The knighted John escaped to the Duchess of Burgundy, who was ever ready to receive any one who gave the King trouble; and the plain John was hanged at York, in the midst of a number of his men, but on a much higher gibbet, as being a greater traitor. Hung high or hung low, however, hanging is much the same to the person hung. Within a year after her marriage, the Queen had given birth to a son, who was called Prince Arthur, in remembrance of the old British prince of romance and story; and who, when all these events had happened, being then in his fifteenth year, was married to CATHERINE, the daughter of the Spanish monarch, with great rejoicings and bright prospects; but in a very few months he sickened and died. As soon as the King had recovered from his grief, he thought it a pity that the fortune of the Spanish Princess, amounting to two hundred thousand crowns, should go out of the family; and therefore arranged that the young widow should marry his second son HENRY, then twelve years of age, when he too should be fifteen. There were objections to this marriage on the part of the clergy; but, as the infallible Pope was gained over, and, as he MUST be right, that settled the business for the time. The King’s eldest daughter was provided for, and a long course of disturbance was considered to be set at rest, by her being married to the Scottish King. And now the Queen died. When the King had got over that grief too, his mind once more reverted to his darling money for consolation, and he thought of marrying the Dowager Queen of Naples, who was immensely rich: but, as it turned out not to be practicable to gain the money however practicable it might have been to gain the lady, he gave up the idea. He was not so fond of her but that he soon proposed to marry the Dowager Duchess of Savoy; and, soon afterwards, the widow of the King of Castile, who was raving mad. But he made a money-bargain instead, and married neither. The Duchess of Burgundy, among the other discontented people to whom she had given refuge, had sheltered EDMUND DE LA POLE (younger brother of that Earl of Lincoln who was killed at Stoke), now Earl of Suffolk. The King had prevailed upon him to return to the marriage of Prince Arthur; but, he soon afterwards went away again; and then the King, suspecting a conspiracy, resorted to his favourite plan of sending him some treacherous friends, and buying of those scoundrels the secrets they disclosed or invented. Some arrests and executions took place in consequence. In the end, the King, on a promise of not taking his life, obtained possession of the person of Edmund de la Pole, and shut him up in the Tower. This was his last enemy. If he had lived much longer he would have made many more among the people, by the grinding exaction to which he constantly exposed them, and by the tyrannical acts of his two prime favourites in all moneyraising matters, EDMUND DUDLEY and RICHARD EMPSON. But Death — the enemy who is not to be bought off or deceived, and on whom no money, and no treachery has any effect — presented himself at this juncture, and ended the King’s reign. He died of the gout, on the twenty-second of April, one thousand five hundred and nine, and in the fifty-third year of his age, after reigning twenty-four years; he was buried in the beautiful Chapel of Westminster Abbey, which he had himself founded, and which still bears his name. It was in this reign that the great CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, on behalf of Spain, discovered what was then called The New World. Great wonder, interest, and hope of wealth being awakened in England thereby, the King and the merchants of London and Bristol fitted out
an English expedition for further discoveries in the New World, and entrusted it to SEBASTIAN CABOT, of Bristol, the son of a Venetian pilot there. He was very successful in his voyage, and gained high reputation, both for himself and England.
CHAPTER 27. ENGLAND UNDER HENRY THE EIGHTH, CALLED BLUFF KING HAL AND BURLY KING HARRY PART THE FIRST
WE now come to King Henry the Eighth, whom it has been too much the fashion to call ‘Bluff King Hal,’ and ‘Burly King Harry,’ and other fine names; but whom I shall take the liberty to call, plainly, one of the most detestable villains that ever drew breath. You will be able to judge, long before we come to the end of his life, whether he deserves the character. He was just eighteen years of age when he came to the throne. People said he was handsome then; but I don’t believe it. He was a big, burly, noisy, small-eyed, large-faced, double-chinned, swinish-looking fellow in later life (as we know from the likenesses of him, painted by the famous HANS HOLBEIN), and it is not easy to believe that so bad a character can ever have been veiled under a prepossessing appearance. He was anxious to make himself popular; and the people, who had long disliked the late King, were very willing to believe that he deserved to be so. He was extremely fond of show and display, and so were they. Therefore there was great rejoicing when he married the Princess Catherine, and when they were both crowned. And the King fought at tournaments and always came off victorious — for the courtiers took care of that — and there was a general outcry that he was a wonderful man. Empson, Dudley, and their supporters were accused of a variety of crimes they had never committed, instead of the offences of which they really had been guilty; and they were pilloried, and set upon horses with their faces to the tails, and knocked about and beheaded, to the satisfaction of the people, and the enrichment of the King. The Pope, so indefatigable in getting the world into trouble, had mixed himself up in a war on the continent of Europe, occasioned by the reigning Princes of little quarrelling states in Italy having at various times married into other Royal families, and so led to THEIR claiming a share in those petty Governments. The King, who discovered that he was very fond of the Pope, sent a herald to the King of France, to say that he must not make war upon that holy personage, because he was the father of all Christians. As the French King did not mind this relationship in the least, and also refused to admit a claim King Henry made to certain lands in France, war was declared between the two countries. Not to perplex this story with an account of the tricks and designs of all the sovereigns who were engaged in it, it is enough to say that England made a blundering alliance with Spain, and got stupidly taken in by that country; which made its own terms with France when it could and left England in the lurch. SIR EDWARD HOWARD, a bold admiral, son of the Earl of Surrey, distinguished himself by his bravery against the French in this business; but, unfortunately, he was more brave than wise, for, skimming into the French harbour of Brest with only a few row-boats, he attempted (in revenge for the defeat and death of SIR THOMAS KNYVETT, another bold English admiral) to take some strong French ships, well defended with batteries of cannon. The upshot was, that he was left on board of one of them (in consequence of its shooting away from his own boat), with not more than about a dozen men, and was thrown into the sea and drowned: though not until he had taken from his breast his gold chain and gold whistle, which were the signs of his office, and had cast them into the sea to prevent their being made a boast of by the enemy. After this defeat — which was a great one, for Sir Edward Howard was a man of valour and fame — the King took it into his head to invade France in person; first executing that dangerous Earl of Suffolk whom his father had left in the Tower, and appointing Queen Catherine to the charge of his kingdom in his absence. He sailed to Calais, where he was joined by MAXIMILIAN, Emperor of Germany, who pretended to be his soldier, and who took pay in his service: with a good deal of nonsense of that sort, flattering
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From Page 55 enough to the vanity of a vain blusterer. The King might be successful enough in sham fights; but his idea of real battles chiefly consisted in pitching silken tents of bright colours that were ignominiously blown down by the wind, and in making a vast display of gaudy flags and golden curtains. Fortune, however, favoured him better than he deserved; for, after much waste of time in tent pitching, flag flying, gold curtaining, and other such masquerading, he gave the French battle at a place called Guinegate: where they took such an unaccountable panic, and fled with such swiftness, that it was ever afterwards called by the English the Battle of Spurs. Instead of following up his advantage, the King, finding that he had had enough of real fighting, came home again. The Scottish King, though nearly related to Henry by marriage, had taken part against him in this war. The Earl of Surrey, as the English general, advanced to meet him when he came out of his own dominions and crossed the river Tweed. The two armies came up with one another when the Scottish King had also crossed the river Till, and was encamped upon the last of the Cheviot Hills, called the Hill of Flodden. Along the plain below it, the English, when the hour of battle came, advanced. The Scottish army, which had been drawn up in five great bodies, then came steadily down in perfect silence. So they, in their turn, advanced to meet the English army, which came on in one long line; and they attacked it with a body of spearmen, under LORD HOME. At first they had the best of it; but the English recovered themselves so bravely, and fought with such valour, that, when the Scottish King had almost made his way up to the Royal Standard, he was slain, and the whole Scottish power routed. Ten thousand Scottish men lay dead that day on Flodden Field; and among them, numbers of the nobility and gentry. For a long time afterwards, the Scottish peasantry used to believe that their King had not been really killed in this battle, because no Englishman had found an iron belt he wore about his body as a penance for having been an unnatural and undutiful son. But, whatever became of his belt, the English had his sword and dagger, and the ring from his finger, and his body too, covered with wounds. There is no doubt
of it; for it was seen and recognised by English gentlemen who had known the Scottish King well. When King Henry was making ready to renew the war in France, the French King was contemplating peace. His queen, dying at this time, he proposed, though he was upwards of fifty years old, to marry King Henry’s sister, the Princess Mary, who, besides being only sixteen, was betrothed to the Duke of Suffolk. As the inclinations of young Princesses were not much considered in such matters, the marriage was concluded, and the poor girl was escorted to France, where she was immediately left as the French King’s bride, with only one of all her English attendants. That one was a pretty young girl named ANNE BOLEYN, niece of the Earl of Surrey, who had been made Duke of Norfolk, after the victory of Flodden Field. Anne Boleyn’s is a name to be remembered, as you will presently find. And now the French King, who was very proud of his young wife, was preparing for many years of happiness, and she was looking forward, I dare say, to many years of misery, when he died within three months, and left her a young widow. The new French monarch, FRANCIS THE FIRST, seeing how important it was to his interests that she should take for her second husband no one but an Englishman, advised her first lover, the Duke of Suffolk, when King Henry sent him over to France to fetch her home, to marry her. The Princess being herself so fond of that Duke, as to tell him that he must either do so then, or for ever lose her, they were wedded; and Henry afterwards forgave them. In making interest with the King, the Duke of Suffolk had addressed his most powerful favourite and adviser, THOMAS WOLSEY— a name very famous in history for its rise and downfall. Wolsey was the son of a respectable butcher at Ipswich, in Suffolk and received so excellent an education that he became a tutor to the family of the Marquis of Dorset, who afterwards got him appointed one of the late King’s chaplains. On the accession of Henry the Eighth, he was promoted and taken into great favour. He was now Archbishop of York; the Pope had made him a Cardinal besides; and whoever wanted influence in England or favour with the King — whether he were a foreign monarch or an En-
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glish nobleman — was obliged to make a friend of the great Cardinal Wolsey. He was a gay man, who could dance and jest, and sing and drink; and those were the roads to so much, or rather so little, of a heart as King Henry had. He was wonderfully fond of pomp and glitter, and so was the King. He knew a good deal of the Church learning of that time; much of which consisted in finding artful excuses and pretences for almost any wrong thing, and in arguing that black was white, or any other colour. This kind of learning pleased the King too. For many such reasons, the Cardinal was high in estimation with the King; and, being a man of far greater ability, knew as well how to manage him, as a clever keeper may know how to manage a wolf or a tiger, or any other cruel and uncertain beast, that may turn upon him and tear him any day. Never had there been seen in England such state as my Lord Cardinal kept. His wealth was enormous; equal, it was reckoned, to the riches of the Crown. His palaces were as splendid as the King’s, and his retinue was eight hundred strong. He held his Court, dressed out from top to toe in flaming scarlet; and his very shoes were golden, set with precious stones. His followers rode on blood horses; while he, with a wonderful affectation of humility in the midst of his great splendour, ambled on a mule with a red velvet saddle and bridle and golden stirrups. Through the influence of this stately priest, a grand meeting was arranged to take place between the French and English Kings in France; but on ground belonging to England. A prodigious show of friendship and rejoicing was to be made on the occasion; and heralds were sent to proclaim with brazen trumpets through all the principal cities of Europe, that, on a certain day, the Kings of France and England, as companions and brothers in arms, each attended by eighteen followers, would hold a tournament against all knights who might choose to come. CHARLES, the new Emperor of Germany (the old one being dead), wanted to prevent too cordial an alliance between these sovereigns, and came over to England before the King could repair to the place of meeting; and, besides making an agreeable impression upon him, secured Wolsey’s interest by promising that his influence should make him Pope when the next
vacancy occurred. On the day when the Emperor left England, the King and all the Court went over to Calais, and thence to the place of meeting, between Ardres and Guisnes, commonly called the Field of the Cloth of Gold. Here, all manner of expense and prodigality was lavished on the decorations of the show; many of the knights and gentlemen being so superbly dressed that it was said they carried their whole estates upon their shoulders. There were sham castles, temporary chapels, fountains running wine, great cellars full of wine free as water to all comers, silk tents, gold lace and foil, gilt lions, and such things without end; and, in the midst of all, the rich Cardinal outshone and out-glittered all the noblemen and gentlemen assembled. After a treaty made between the two Kings with as much solemnity as if they had intended to keep it, the lists — nine hundred feet long, and three hundred and twenty broad — were opened for the tournament; the Queens of France and England looking on with great array of lords and ladies. Then, for ten days, the two sovereigns fought five combats every day, and always beat their polite adversaries; though they DO write that the King of England, being thrown in a wrestle one day by the King of France, lost his kingly temper with his brother-in-arms, and wanted to make a quarrel of it. Then, there is a great story belonging to this Field of the Cloth of Gold, showing how the English were distrustful of the French, and the French of the English, until Francis rode alone one morning to Henry’s tent; and, going in before he was out of bed, told him in joke that he was his prisoner; and how Henry jumped out of bed and embraced Francis; and how Francis helped Henry to dress, and warmed his linen for him; and how Henry gave Francis a splendid jewelled collar, and how Francis gave Henry, in return, a costly bracelet. All this and a great deal more was so written about, and sung about, and talked about at that time (and, indeed, since that time too), that the world has had good cause to be sick of it, for ever. Of course, nothing came of all these fine doings but a speedy renewal of the war between England and France, in which the two Royal companions and brothers in arms longed very earnestly to damage one another. To Be Continued
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