DTSE  21. 4.1864 Opens, Alfred Henry Willis, Manager. Expect better prices for gold. Union pays 2/- to 3/- less than Dunolly.

DTSE  23. 5.1864 Positive benefits of second bank reflecting in Escort returns.

DTSE  28. 7.1864 Alterations to Company's Hotel. Removes cornice, front stuccoed, etc. An ornament to the town.

TC    24. 6.1865 Seeks tenders for removal building corner Commercial Rd
                 and Poverty Street.

TC    12. 8.1865 Plans for new building.

TC    16. 9.1865 Tenders called for roofing stable.

TC    30. 9.1865 Davis and Trevaskis commence work Wednesday 27. 9.1865.

TC    21.10.1865 Excavations in hand.

TC    18.11.1865 Foundation stone laid.

TC    10. 2.1866 Rapidly approaching completion.

TC    19. 5.1866 Good report on new building.

TC     2. 6.1866 Additional vigour to get completed.

TC    30. 6.1866 On the verge of completion.

TC     7. 7.1866 To be finished in a day or so.

TC    10.10.1866 Manager A H Willis, Teller Mr MacKay.

TC    15. 6.1867 Willis defalcation.

TC    22. 6.1867 Ditto.

TC    29. 6.1867 Ditto.

TC     6. 7.1867 Ditto.

TC    21. 9.1867 W Boully (Relieving Manager) contributes L1-10/- to Titus Relief Fund.

TC     5.10.1867 First meeting of Masonic Lodge held in the building.

TC    12.10.1867 Manager W Stamp elected Wizard Master.

TC    30.11.1867 Firecracker fight from balcony during Duke of Edinborough celebrations. Great fun.

TC    19.12.1868 Open agency at Llanelly.

TC    18. 2.1871 Reference to Colonial Bank. Llanelly.

TC    22. 4.1871 J C Stamp, Manager. D Newlands, Accountant. Llanelly  Agency, H L Manton.

TC    27. 4.1872 Llanelly Agency closed. Manager E Symonds.

TC    21. 9.1872 Llanelly Agency re-opened on Thursday afternoons, 
                 E H Warren, acting manager.

TC    21. 9.1872 E Symonds sells up and leaves.

TC    11. 1.1873 Newbridge Agency open Monday and Friday afternoons.

TC     8. 2.1873 Specimens from London and Lancashire claim on Poverty  Reef on show in the bank window.

TC    15. 3.1873 Newbridge agency adjoining London Hotel, near the Flour Mill.

TC     6.12.1873 Opens agency at Eddington, E H Warren, Manager.

TC    15. 1.1876 Warren still manager.

TC     4. 3.1876 E H Warren transferred to Kilmore Branch, replaced by
                 Mr Figgis, of Ballarat.

TC    16. 5.1885 Benjamin J Figgis transferred to Echuca.

TC     8. 8.1885 Mr Thompson, late of the Colonial Bank, dislocates a  shoulder.

TC     8. 8.1885 His name is Joe Thomson.

TC     6. 3.1886 Splendid gold on display in the Bank from the Invicta  Mine, Kangaroo Reef.

TC     3. 9.1887 H Bristol junior transferred to Fitzroy.

TC    17.12.1887 H M Stobie?.

TC    18. 2.1888 Colonial Bank will be closed Tuesday 21. 2.1888,
                 all business will then be transferred to Union Bank.

TC    25. 2.1888 Send off to Stobie and his assistant, Carden.

TC    19. 4.1890 Mr N Howells secretary Tennis Club.

TC    21. 3.1891 WATER LAID ON TO UNION BANK.

TC    31.12.1892 Henry Bristol Jnr. who started as a clerk in the Colonial Bank, promoted to manager of Yarra Glen Branch.

TC    23.10.1897 H A Bristol dies, good reading on his career.

TC   4.10.1902 B J Figgis dies. 

 
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