Kilmore Shire
Counties – Dalhousie and Bourke

Paries – Glenburnie and Willowmavin; part Bylands, Goldie and Moranding

Providence – Southern, Division – Kilmore

Members Council- Hons Thomas Brunton, Donald Melville and Sir William John Clarke. Bart,

MLCs

Electoral District – Kilmore Dalhousie and Lancefield
Division – Kilmore and Moranding
Member Assembly – Hon John Gavan Duffy, MLA

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Constituted a Shire, 1874

Area – 98 sq miles, Population – 2130, Valuation – £18,717 for 94/5, £18400 for 95/6
Rate – 1s in the pound for 95/6, Revune – £1685 for 94/5, Number of assessments – 797
Ratepayers in Rate Book – 663, Voterss Roll – 534, Amount of loan – £2000

Sinking Fund – £126 11s 1d
President – James Nicholas Ryan, JP

COUNCILLORS
Bylands and Glenburnie Riding

Name Address Retires
James Nicholas Ryan JP Wandong Aug 1896
Francis Walwyn Wortley Sydney St, Kilmore Aug 1897
Walter Leonard Taylor Glenburnie, Wandong Aug 1898

Willowmavin and Moranding Riding

Edmund Clarke Goldie Aug 1896
Michael O’Donohue Willowmavin, Kilmore Aug 1897
Michael A’Hearn JP* “The Pines”, Willowmavin Aug 1898

Kilmore Riding

Patrick Skehan Sydney Street, Kilmore Aug 1896
Thomas Phillips JP* Albert Street, Kilmore Aug 1897
Thomas Francis Murray* Royal Oak Hotel, Kilmore Aug1898

These gentlemen have occupied the presidential chair
Council meets at Council Chambers, Kilmore, first Tuesday in month 11am
Secretary attends Monday, Tuesday and Saturday, 10am to 4pm

OFFICERS
Secretary, Engineer and Valuer, Henry James Hunt
Official Address – Kilmore
Treasurer – David Hope Straughan
Inspector Slaughter Houses, Markets, Weights and Measures, Collector, and Collector Statistics –
Laurence Dunphy
Inspector Nuisances – Henry Jackson
Poundkeeper – Charles George Anderson
Health Officer – William Henry Semple, MD, Powlett Street, Kilmore
Analyst – William Edward Matthews, FCS Lond, Stawell
Government Auditor – Frederick George Wilson, 108 Queen Street, Melb
Local Auditor – John Hayes
Bankers – Bank of Victoria Limited

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Bailiwick – Central, Police Magistrate – George Cowie Morrison
Justices – Michael Ahearn, Michael Kilgour Beveridge, Thomas Hunt, John M’Burney, John
M’Kenzie, Patrick O’Connor, Thomas Phillips, Thomas Joseph Rush, John Taylor, and James
Nicholas Ryan (President)
Sessions – Kilmore, Thursday and Saturday, 10am, Clerk – Patrick Harold Elliget
Electoral Registrar – Henry James Hunt, Kilmore, Deputy – Thomas Hickey, Wandong
Nature of Country – Hilly, auriferous and agricultural
Leading Indistries – Farming and gold mining.

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KILMORE – An important municipal, agricultural and mining township, 39.5 miles N of Melbourne, with telegraph station, post and money order office and savings bank, situated in hollow nook in range. Excellent public and private buildings, including hospital, court-house, mechanics’ institute and free library (with nearly 3000 volumes), oddfellows’ and masonic halls, hotels, State and private schools, six churches, butter factory, branches of two banks and agencies of twelve
insurance companies. Climate is one of the healthiest. The soil is of volcanic origin, exceedingly fertile and well adapted for grazing and agricultural purposes, producing heavy wheat crops.

Fortnightly markets of cattle, horses and dairy produce are held. Two newspapers are published.
Population of district 2130 – 1100 residing in in township.

Miss Mabel White, postmistress.
Railways – Kilmore East, a station 39.5 miles from Melbourne on Melbourne to Wodonga and
Sydney line. 1.5 miles from townshjp; fares 7s 3d and 4s 10d. Cabs meet trains; fares 1s. Kilmore,
a station on Wallan to Bendigo line, 42.75 miles; fares 7s 10d and 5s 1d.
Waterworks Trust – Kilmore

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Copies of Victorian Municipal Directories (titles vary) for various years for the period 1866 to 199 can be found on microfiche at the State Library of Victoria.