THE MYSTERY OF MRS MACQUARIE’S EARRINGS

THE MYSTERY OF MRS MACQUARIE'S EARRINGS

 A PRICELESS GIFT On September 26 1968, Australia’s Consul-General in New York, Sir Reginald Sholl, received a visit from an elderly gentleman offering to present the Australian government with a pair of earrings associated with Governor Lachlan Macquarie’s wife Elizabeth. Sholl’s visitor was Edward Manley Hopkins, great-grandson

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