Diary. Vol. 17, 1887 January 1-1887 December 27 Digital

Tarrangower races; the hottest three days in Australia in nine years; Victoria borrows £3 million from London; Jenkins' photograph appears in the Age newspaper; Jenkins suffers a fall; a public holiday is announced in order to encourage Victorians to go rabbit hunting; military parades for Good Friday; a rail accident occurs in N.S.W. ; he shares a meal with an Aboriginal man in his hut; his youngest daughter Anne wins a prize at her school in Kensington in London; 84,000 attend the Melbourne Cup and a young Welsh rider is killed; he suffers from toothache; he builds a new chimney for his hut.