Walking Melbourne, Melbourne & Australian Architecture Topics, Theatres from a lost Melbourne Era, www site (The theatre was opened in 1855 and demolished by fire in 1872. It was remodelled an reopened in 1904 and finally demolished in 1933. A popular theatre, with many great performances, it was just one of several along the Bourke Street strip) http://www.walkingmelbourne.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=189
Check from the Theatre Royal Branch, Melbourne, The Bank of Public Opinion taken from Life Account or bearer for the sum of thirty thousand pounds, signed Bland Holt, 1883 t.p. (Theatre Royal)