Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Australian Idylls and Bush Rhymes: Poems
These Poems, with the exception of a few, were written in various parts of Australia and Fiji by the late Hon. Ernest G. Henty, member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia, and have been collected and published by his sister. He was the eldest son of Richmond Henty - well known in Australia as being the first white native born in the colony of Victoria, when the pioneers (the Hentys) settled there. Born at Albury, on the banks of the Murray, New South Wales, he had spent most of his life in Victoria, but went in 1891 to Western Australia, where he died suddenly, in 1895, at Coolgardie, and his promising young life was cut of? At the early age of thirty-two.(50 mrs. Stephen henty.
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