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No.1263, p. 873, unit 106, VPRS 1187/P, outward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office,Victoria. 95.03.19

Preferred Citation:

Charles Topp to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1895-03-19. R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora, J.H. Voigt and Monika Wells (eds), Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, <https://vmcp.rbg.vic.gov.au/id//letters/1890-6/1895/95-03-19-final.odt>, accessed June 15, 2026

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Document is a circular sent to the heads of 19 sub-departments. The file copy is unsigned but Topp was Undersecretary of the Chief Secretary's Department at the time.
Chief Secretary's Office
Melbourne, 19th March, 1895.
Sir,
I have the honor to inform you that with the view of enabling as many troops as possible to muster for the purpose of lining the streets on the 25th instant, the date of the departure of his Excellency the Governor
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John Ådrian Louis Hope, Earl of Hopetoun, Governor of Victoria from 28 November 1889 to 12 July 1895. Sir John Madden was administrator from 27 March 1893 until the next Governor, Lord Brassey, was sworn in on 25 October 1895.
from Australia, the Honorable the Premier directs that arrangements may be made to afford every facility to members of the Forces in the Public Departments to parade on that afternoon, and I have to request that the necessary steps may be taken to give effect to that instruction as regards your branch of the Department.
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your obedient servant,