Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 1/6/1872 (3)
A cordial manufactory where the summer drinks of the district are made is in connection with the business, and provided with one of Tyler's No. 1 soda-water machines. In regard to the quality of the brew it is only necessary to state that the "Sandhurst" ales have a famous Australian reputation, and Mr G Elliott, the owner of the " Riverine Brewery" is also proprietor of the Sandhurst Brewery. The Riverine brewery, I should mention, stands on three acres of land to the south-west of the town, and is under the immediate management of Mr H L Lindsay.
Being Deniliquin, it was suggested that "Warbreccan, or Warbracum, one of the largest stations, was well worth a visit. A pleasant canter of three miles in a westerly direction across a plain brought me there.
Warbreccan (in the aboriginal tongue meaning the burial-place of Warbra, the chief of the tribe) is the property of P A Jennings, Esq., MP. The residence, on the southern bank of the Edward River, consists of a cluster of pleasant houses, with trees around. In front was a well kept garden and orchard, in which oranges and bananas were growing surprisingly well, notwithstanding the grasshopper plague of this season. The river flows at the back of the house, and on its banks were native willows dipping their graceful foliage in the water.
Warbreccan has an area of about 95,000 acres, all fenced and sub divided into 9 or 10 paddocks. About 15,000 acres are purchased land, and the magnificent pastoral property has a frontage to the Edward of about fifteen miles. It is further intersected by three different creeks. It at present carries about 40,000 sheep, and a few hundred head of cattle. By the construction of many hundreds of miles of fencing at Warbreccan and other places, the days of shepherding have been numbered. The advantages of allowing sheep to run free in paddocks are very many. At one station I was assured' that besides being more healthy, an average yield of a pound more wool from each sheep was obtained. Among the prizes which dock the side board of Warbreccan was one for the best twelve fleeces from the salt-bush country. The wool has since obtained a certificate of merit from the Great Exhibition Commissioners of last year.
It may be here stated that the wool from Warbreccan has been described by the Bradford Chamber of Commerce aa " a combing wool." The London woolbrokers and the judges at the Agricultural Society’s exhibitions confirm this opinion, which upsots the theory that Riverina flock masters cannot grow combing wool. It is well-known that this is a most profitable wool to grow. Mr Jennings in place of introducing expensive now blood ia attaining this result solely by selection and classification.
ln conjunction with Warbreccan there is worked another station on the Murray about forty miles away. It is called Balubla . Its area is about 30,000 acres, and it carries about 15,000 sheep. I was obliged to decline a pleasant visit involving a 350 miles ride to the Darling, to see a third station belonging to the jolly and hospitable lord of Warbreccan, Mr Jennings, in conjunction with a partner, Shanahan. The Darling station is an immense one of 350,000 acres, nearly all fenced in, and having eight largo paddocks, with a front ago of about thirty-five miles to the Darling. The station carries about 40,000 sheep. Unfortunately I had not on opportunity of mooting Mr Jennings, but their superintendent, Mr Aubert Loughnan, kindly took me in hand and made my visit agreeable, by supplying information of the country, which it would have been difficult to have otherwise procured.
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