Educated,
W. T. Cape's School, Sydney. Became a Squatter in Port Fairy district,
Victoria, at seventeen. Police Magistrate and Gold Fields Commissioner,
1870-1895. Wrote serials for `Town and Country Journal';
"Ups and Downs" (subsequently re-named "The Squatter's Dream",
London, 1879); "Robbery under Arms" (appeared in `Sydney Mail', 1882,
published in London, 1888); since then has issued seventeen other novels.
Now residing in Melbourne.
`Old Melbourne Memories' (Melbourne, 1884, prose and verse).
Cambridge, Ada (Mrs. Cross).
Born at St. Germains, Norfolk, England, 21st November, 1844;
eldest daughter of Henry Cambridge and Thomasine,
daughter of Dr. C. Emerson. Married Rev. George F. Cross, of Ely,
25th April, 1870. Arrived in Melbourne, 19th August, 1870.
Commenced writing serial stories for `Australasian', 1875; has since
published a number of novels in London and given an account of her life here
in "Thirty Years in Australia" (1901).
`Hymns on the Holy Communion' (London, 1866).
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