A Night Scene in Melbourne single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1873... 1873 A Night Scene in Melbourne
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An encounter with a drunk on Bourke street leads the narrator to a wretched shanty where he meets a dying woman he had known before her marriage in New Zealand. Pictures the suffering of beaten wives and penniless women on city streets. (PB)

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