Excerpt from Annual Report for the Year Ended 31st December, 1902: Presented to the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the Municipal Council of the City of Sydney The Right Hon. The Earl. Of Hopetoun, p.c kt., the first governor-general of Australia, advanced to the style, title and dignity of a Marquis, the title subsequently adopted being that of Marquis of Linlithgow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.