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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 3 page 1
  It was not only in [[Mansfield|Mansfield]] and the district immediately connected with the crime that public feeling was excited and al ...r a pleasure than otherwise, was well know and hated by the farmers of the district before he became an outlaw. Two or three miles from the scene of Power’s
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• Cookson, 05 09 1911 3
  ...h-eastern district to arrest Ned. I left Melbourne with a man who knew the district as well as I did. After three months search I discovered one of his haunts, ...the whole country was searched. We heard that the bushrangers crossed the Ovens River, and that they intended to go to New South Wales.
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 2 page 1
  ...he 1st January, 1854, as a lieutenant. I was sent off at once to the Ovens district, and my first duty was to take charge of the gold escort from Beechworth to In 1855 I was staying for the night at a station owned by Dr. Mackay, on the Ovens River . Mrs. Mackay was very ill, and the doctor, who was a tall, slight ma
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 2 page 5
  ...was well known to be a confederate of the horse and cattle stealers in the district, but he always escaped detection. A bridge having been erected over the riv Most wonderful accounts would immediately be spread all over the district that some very rich ground had been discovered, and at once people would fl
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• The Argus at KellyGang 16/8/1860 (2)
  ...avail themselves of it. Had I, or many other persons now residing in that district, been assisted by the Government, I flatter myself that our local knowledge ...d over, comparatively untried, to push forward to a prospected part of the district, of which, though apparently unknown to the Government, your files of 1858
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• The Argus at KellyGang 22/8/1860
  ...opeans, and an increase of 539 Chinese. The nature of the diggings in this district is almost entirely alluvial-nine-tenths of which are under 30 feet in depth ...he Nine-mile Division, the most important work in operation is that of the Ovens Water Company, on which 142 men ore employed opening up the springs, excava
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• The Argus at KellyGang 31/8/1860 (2)
  ...; and so extensive was the view, that we recognized the water-sheds of the Ovens, the Mitta Mitta, and the Dargo rivers - the same slate ranges running into
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• The Argus at KellyGang 2/4/1861
  ...ON APPOINTED TO INQUIRE INTO THE SUBJECT OF WATER RIGHTS IN THE BEECHWORTH DISTRICT ...tem of Water Rights now prevailing in the [[Beechworth|Beechworth]] Mining District; the best means of preventing litigation with regard to Water Bights; and t
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• The Argus at KellyGang 2/4/1861 (2)
  ...version of water. For about nine months after the discovery of gold on the Ovens, cradling was the only means adopted for its extraction, and no distinction Many miners left the district despairing of payable ground being discovered within a reasonable distance
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• The Argus at KellyGang 2/4/1861 (4)
  INCREASE OF WATER SUPPLY TO THE OVENS DISTRICT. ...of knowledge of the subject than would suffice to double the supply of the district. It should be the duty of this officer to act with the local water boards,
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• The Argus at KellyGang 12/3/1862
  ...], Reid's Creek, and the Napoleon, all suffer from the common misfortune,- Ovens Murray Advertiser March 8.
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• The Argus at KellyGang 15/8/1864
  '''THE OVENS DISTRICT, ITS PHYSICAL CHARACTER, AND MINERAL RESOURCES''' ...on the physical character and mineral resources of a portion of the Ovens district has been lately received by the Honourable the Minister of Mines:
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• The Argus at KellyGang 15/8/1864 (2)
  ...ared, with my present limited knowledge of the adjoining divisions of this district, to recommend any particular scheme of water supply, I am led to conclude t ...ntages that would be derived from a half-inch geological map of the entire district.
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• The Argus at KellyGang 8/7/1865
  (BY THE CORRESPONDENT OF THE OVENS ADVERTISER, JUNE 27) ...me there were six or seven gentlemen in attendance, all well known in this district as being squatters, or farmers, in the vicinity of the land open for select
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• The Argus at KellyGang 15/8/1865
  ...tension at Morse's Creek, and the probable discovery of a deep lead on the Ovens River.
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• The Argus at KellyGang 25/5/1866
  TO THE OVENS AND MURRAY DISTRICTS ...es were also requested to attend from the border city of Albury, which the Ovens and Murray districts claim almost as their own, but a telegram announced th
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• The Argus at KellyGang 25/5/1866 (2)
  ...ous obstacles to be overcome in the construction of a railway to the Ovens District, and that even the present amount of traffic would pay for the outlay on th ...ying been taken towards the initiation of a line of railway to connect the Ovens and Murray Districts with the capital city of the colony." He said tha
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• The Argus at KellyGang 25/5/1866 (3)
  ...d it as good a gold-field as Ballarat; in fact, the returns from the Ovens district were much greater, and with a railway the capitalists would very soon see a ...all aware that there were hundreds of reefs known to be idle all over the district that would yield more than that, but which, even with that yield, would pay
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• The Argus at KellyGang 25/5/1866 (4)
  ...y was higher now than it was when the other loans were contracted; but the Ovens people had put forward no such plea when called upon to make those roads an ...o the Ovens was for their benefit even more than that of the people of the district. The resolution was carried unanimously.
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• The Argus at KellyGang 25/5/1866 (5)
  ...present the same to the Executive Government; and that the members for the district and leading men in Melbourne be invited to accompany the deputation, and su ...g a main trunk line of railway from Melbourne through the Ovens and Murray District, without referring to any particular route."
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• The Argus at KellyGang 23/8/1866
  '''THE OVENS AND MURRAY EXHIBITION''' FROM THE [[Newspapers|OVENS CONSTITUTION]], AUG 20)
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• The Argus at KellyGang 8/10/1866
  ...in clusters, have been proclaimed high up the Murray, and in the mountain district between Merton and [[Mansfield|Mansfield]]. ...en registered with the local scab inspector since June, 1865, although his district embraces the areas east of the Sydney road and the country between the Goul
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• The Argus at KellyGang 15/7/1867
  '''THE OVENS AND MURRAY RAILWAY''' ...garatta|Wangaratta]]. The object was to take steps for combining the whole district in an association for the purpose of urging upon the Government tho great n
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• The Argus at KellyGang 15/7/1867 (5)
  ...hat, in order to promote unanimous action on the part of the people of the Ovens and Murray districts, the North-Eastern Railway League should be reconstruc ...councils, road boards, and other local public bodies and societies in the Ovens and Murray districts, in congress assembled tit Wangaratta,
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• The Argus at KellyGang 29/10/1867
  (FROM THE OVENS ADVERTISER OCT 19) ...nd damage-not to speak of the deaths-occasioned by the late floods in this district. [[Whorouly (2)|Whorouly]] is very flat and low lying, but for five-and-twe
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• The Argus at KellyGang 3/9/1868
  '''OVENS AND MURRAY RAILWAY''' ...ic. There was a great deal of ignorance existing regarding the line of the Ovens and Murray Railway, and the country through which it would pass; and he bel
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• The Argus at KellyGang 3/9/1868 (2)
  ...shortly as he could, to show the importance of the proposed railway to the Ovens and Murray districts, but he believed the line would be of still more impor ...e primary object of the present movement should be to get a railway to the Ovens and the Murray .
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• The Argus at KellyGang 2/9/1869
  '''BUSHRANGING IN THE OVENS DISTRICT''' (FROM THE OVENS AND MURRAY ADVERTISER)
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• The Argus at KellyGang 31/1/1871
  The first surveys of a line from Melbourne to, the Ovens district were made about fifteen years ago, but they gave such unpromising results t ...answer, where amore direct one was possible, it was then proposed that the Ovens line should turn off from the Echuca line at a point much nearer to Melbour
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• Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 8/4/1871
  ...was Cameron. He was the first member of Parliament returned for the Ovens district. The horse was shod with gold for him to ride. It was the old trick horse C
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• The Argus at KellyGang 28/7/1873 (2)
  ...eaviest works upon it are the bridges over the Ovens River and between the Ovens and Reids Creek. The bridge at Wangaratta will cost about as much as the Be ...in November is to be celebrated as an important event in the Upper Murray district.
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• The Argus at KellyGang 28/10/1873 (2)
  ...de. Just outside Wangaratta a large iron bridge has to be erected over the Ovens River . With the exception of the bridge over the Broken River, this is the The low swampy ground on the other side of the river known as the Ovens Flats necessitates the line being carried for a distance of 128 yards on a
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• The Argus at KellyGang 20/11/1873 (2)
  ...Wales adjacent to the Murray, and it was hoped that the trade of the Tumut district would also be obtained for this colony. ...e over the Goulburn is not so large as those over the Broken River and the Ovens River , on the second and third sections. About 32 miles from Melbourne , t
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• The Argus at KellyGang 20/11/1873 (4)
  ...very high and romantic looking. One of the curiosities of this part of the district is a large block of granite known as the Flat Rock. It is half-a-mile in le ...A large iron bridge, consisting of 15 openings, has been thrown across the Ovens River . The main span is 120ft. in width. The approaches consist of 14 open
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• The Argus at KellyGang 20/11/1873 (5)
  ...and consequently extensive water provision has had to be made. Between the Ovens and Reid's Creek, which runs at the northern end of the flats, there are no ...Glenrowan Ranges, a splendid view of the Buffalo Ranges, in the Beechworth District, can be obtained. Mount Nelson and Mount Feathertop, the southernmost and n
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• The Argus at KellyGang 22/1/1876
  ...s long, the road difficult to travel. The miners who had ventured into the Ovens, undeterred by its very suggestive name, moreover, had been so-successful t ...arriage of flour, sugar, tea, &c. from Melbourne to the capital of the Ovens should sometimes have run up to as high as £120 per ton, the highest rate
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• The Argus at KellyGang 22/1/1876 (2)
  '''Beechworth - centre of Ovens gold field''' ...laims or pleasant prospects nearer at hand, became fully aware of what the district had been, and could form any idea of what it was likely to be in the future
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• The Argus at KellyGang 22/1/1876 (3)
  '''Beechworth - centre of Ovens gold field''' ...previous year there were not less than 1,073 miles of races at work in the district, constructed at a cost of nearly £186,000. None of the other mining distri
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• The Argus at KellyGang 5/11/1878 (4)
  ...ould meet with if they turned back immediately is the flooded state of the Ovens, which they would hardly be able to cross on horseback with safety between ...but the manner in which the deceased trooper had conducted himself in the district would have made him (Father Scanlan) proud to call him a kinsman. The rever
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• The Argus at KellyGang 7/11/1878
  ...ncealing their movements cannot be very easily followed. The [[Ovens River|Ovens River]] is very high at [[Wangaratta|Wangaratta]], and the flood here may b ...a well-manned station should be established in the heart of the suspected district, and that the men should explore every gully and ravine until they know the
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• The Ovens and Murray Advertiser 7/1/1879 (3)
  ...pletely abortive. With so many friends and relatives resident all over the district, with spies in every township, and at every railway station, it is but natu ...and vagabonds, who for years past have been the curse of the North-Eastern District. The move is a right one, even although (though it is very unlikely,) some
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• The Ovens and Murray Advertiser 11/1/79
  ...roclamation have every publicity by means of calico handbills all over the district. Ned Kelly is now playing the role of Frank Gardiner. Everyone knows that G '''.1. , [[The Ovens and Murray Advertiser 11/1/79 (2)|.2.]] ,'''
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• The Ovens and Murray Advertiser 11/1/79 (2)
  The Ovens and Murray Advertiser [[The Ovens and Murray Advertiser 11/1/79|see previous]]
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• The Ovens and Murray Advertiser 24/1/1879
  ...ed by the Government from the inhabitants of the [[Lake Rowan|Lake Rowan]] district praying for the release of [[Joe Ryan|Joseph Ryan]], one of the men apprehe [[The Ovens and Murray Advertiser 23/1/1879|Previous edition]] [[Ovens & Murray Advertiser|Next edition]]
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• The Ovens and Murray Advertiser 13/2/1879
  ...formation received, the police have scoured the whole of the North eastern district of Victoria, and yet have never met with the men they were in pursuit of; w ...e former view that they have, until recently, remained in hiding about the district they knew so well, awaiting a chance.
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• The Ovens and Murray Advertiser 13/2/1879 (2)
  [[The Ovens and Murray Advertiser 13/2/1879|see previous]] ...Kelly''' scare; but it is no exaggeration to say that in the North-Eastern district, in country places, men are fearful of telling what they know, so wide-spre
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• The Ovens and Murray Advertiser 20/2/1879
  ...he country, and who have incumerable confederates scattered throughout the district, who participate in their plunder and do their utmost to screen them. ...as common criminals; were not acquainted with the demoralised state of the district; went about the business of capturing them in a perfunctory and stupid mann
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• The Ovens and Murray Advertiser 20/2/1879 (2)
  '''[[The Ovens and Murray Advertiser 20/2/1879|see previous]]''' (Before Mr Bedford, of the Land Office, and Mr E Morres, District Surveyor)
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• The Ovens and Murray Advertiser 27/2/1879
  ...orth|Beechworth]], on Tuesday afternoon, when the various divisions of the district were made and allotted. '''OVENS DISTRICT HOSPITAL'''
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• The Ovens and Murray Advertiser 4/3/1879
  ...purpose of suspending the right of ''habeas coprpus'' in the north-eastern district directly it became apparent. It is on account of the difficulties, we presu ...present passing through a sea of troubles (we might say the North-Eastern District, but we prefer dealing with ourselves), which will require all the efforts
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• The Ovens and Murray Advertiser 15/3/1879
  ...o announce that this vexed question is at length settled. Every one in the district knows how the road from MacKay’s to the [[Pioneer Brigde hotel|Pioneer br '''.1. , [[The Ovens and Murray Advertiser 15/3/1879 (2)|.2.]] ,'''
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• The Ovens and Murray Advertiser 15/3/1879 (2)
  [[The Ovens and Murray Advertiser 15/3/1879|previous page]] ...ing half-a-dozen of my old chums, there isn’t a man in the North-eastern district would move a peg to save me from perdition. All that which appears in the p
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• The Argus at KellyGang 19/4/1880
  ...erefore been decided to take certain typical or illustrative cases in each district, and to make a beginning where free selection seems to have been completely THE BENALLA DISTRICT
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• Ovens & Murray Advertiser (11)
  ...d Mansfield districts, and purposes making a vigorous search of the entire district in the neighborhood of the Strathbogie Ranges with a picked body of trooper [[Ovens & Murray Advertiser (10)|Previous edition]] [[Ovens & Murray Advertiser (12)|Next edition]]
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• Ovens & Murray Advertiser (12)
  ...should not exist, to the effect that the Kelly gang are no longer in this district we have no hesitation in pledging ourselves to the assertion that they are [[Ovens & Murray Advertiser (11)|Previous edition]]
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• The Melbourne Daily Telegragh (2)
  ...ody of police arrived from Benalla, having been collected from around that district, under Inspector [[Sadleir|Sadlier]], who took command of the siege, and se [[Ovens & Murray Advertiser (13)|Previous edition]] [[The Melbourne Daily Teleg
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• The Melbourne Daily Telegragh (5)
  ...o 2228 stationed at Glenrowan, said: I have been long acquainted with this district, but I have only been on duty here for about a month or so. At 11 o’clock [[Ovens & Murray Advertiser (13)|Previous edition]] [[The Melbourne Daily Teleg
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• The Melbourne Daily Telegragh (6)
  ...hew Gibney|Gibney]], of Perth, Western Australia, who is on a visit to the district, was most attentive in administering religious consolation to the outlaw, a ...whose name, for the last two years, has been a terror in the North eastern District. The police sustained great difficulty in keeping back the crowd, and it wa
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• Ovens & Murray Advertiser (14)
  ...e effect that [[Aaron Sherritt|Aaron Sherritt]], who is well known in this district, had been shot dead in his house at the Woolshed the previous evening. Cons ...ray Advertiser (17)|.4.]] , [[Ovens & Murray Advertiser (18)|.5.]] , [[Ovens & Murray Advertiser (19)|.6.]] ,'''
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• Ovens & Murray Advertiser (15)
  ...of outlaws, as furnished by our correspondents in the various parts of the district mentioned in connection therewith. We may also here mention our indebtednes ...ray Advertiser (17)|.4.]] , [[Ovens & Murray Advertiser (18)|.5.]] , [[Ovens & Murray Advertiser (19)|.6.]] ,'''
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• Ovens & Murray Advertiser (16)
  [[Ovens & Murray Advertiser (15)|see previous]] Some fifty policemen''''''from all parts of the district surrounded Jones’s public-house at Glenrowan this morning. Ned Kelly woke
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• Ovens & Murray Advertiser (19)
  [[Ovens & Murray Advertiser (18)|see previous]] ...om the police. Unfortunately, such is the low condition of morality in the district that the Kellys are better supplied with intelligence than the police.
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• Ovens and Murray Advertiser
  ...ducted as to prevent the possibility of the escape of the outlaws from the district. Had it been otherwise, they would have been away long ago. All who saw the [[Ovens and Murray Advertiser (2)|continued]]
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• Ovens and Murray Advertiser (2)
  [[Ovens and Murray Advertiser|see previous]] ...which were read with intense interest by hundreds of persons all over the district.
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• Ovens and Murray Advertiser (8)
  [[Ovens and Murray Advertiser (7)|see previous]] ...as not burned alive. Cherry, who was unmarried, was an old resident of the district and was employed as a platelayer, and resided about a mile from Glenrowan.
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• Ovens and Murray Advertiser (9)
  [[Ovens and Murray Advertiser (8)|see previous]] ...nd larcenies of this kind having been rather frequent of late in the Kelly district, the police had begun to suspect that the gang were preparing for action. N
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• Ovens and Murray Advertiser (11)
  Those who are not familiar with the district in which the '''Kelly''' have been enabled to shelter themselves during the ...brought to bear upon the Attorney-General during his present visit to this district.
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• Ovens and Murray Advertiser (12)
  [[Ovens and Murray Advertiser (11)|see previous]] ...e conversed, to the exclusion of election or other matters.  Even in this district there are many sympathisers of the gang and its adherents.  This is, espec
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• Ovens and Murray Advertiser at KellyGang 15/7/1880
  For our own part, from what we knew of the district and from its own internal evidence, we never for a moment doubted the subst [[Ovens and Murray Advertiser at KellyGang 15/7/1880 (2)|continued]]
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• Ovens and Murray Advertiser at KellyGang 24/7/1880
  ...laid against them; and so the matter ends.When Mr Hare took charge of the district, he had ''carte blanche'' to do as he pleased; but after being disabled, th ....]] , [[Ovens and Murray Advertiser at KellyGang 24/7/1880 (14)|.14.]] , [[Ovens and Murray Advertiser at KellyGang 24/7/1880 (15)|.15.]] ,'''
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• Ovens and Murray Advertiser at KellyGang 24/7/1880 (4)
  ([[Ovens and Murray Advertiser at KellyGang 24/7/1880 (3)|see previous]]) ...only quite recently relaxed—that men should not move without orders from district head-quarters, always seemed to us to be overstrained; while at the same ti
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• Ovens and Murray Advertiser at KellyGang 24/7/1880 (5)
  ([[Ovens and Murray Advertiser at KellyGang 24/7/1880 (4)|see previous]]) ...ssist in the reformation of the whole police system which the state of the district so absolutely requires.
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• Ovens and Murray Advertiser at KellyGang 24/7/1880 (6)
  ([[Ovens and Murray Advertiser at KellyGang 24/7/1880 (5)|see previous]]) ...ice was very scant and not of much service to me. I then started round the district to see the non-commissioned officers in charge of the principal stations. I
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• Ovens and Murray Advertiser at KellyGang 24/7/1880 (7)
  ([[Ovens and Murray Advertiser at KellyGang 24/7/1880 (6)|see previous]]) ...lla, at 10 o’clock a.m.I received telegrams from all the stations in the district that all was quiet.I made an appointment with the telegraph master to be at
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• Ovens and Murray Advertiser at KellyGang 24/7/1880 (10)
  ([[Ovens and Murray Advertiser at KellyGang 24/7/1880 (9)|see previous]]) ...rendered by Mr '''Saxe''', telegraph-master at Benalla. The police in the district found him always ready to assist them at any moment, day or night (Sunday i
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• Ovens and Murray Advertiser at KellyGang 24/7/1880 (11)
  ([[Ovens and Murray Advertiser at KellyGang 24/7/1880 (10)|see previous]]) “When I took charge of the district from the 2nd June last, as far as I was able to ascertain, no more was know
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• Herald (28)
  From the Ovens and Murray Advertiser of Tuesday we extract the following items from an acc ...his guards:— He asserted that he could have shot every policeman in the district had he so wished, as from time to time he had each of them covered with his
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• Herald at KellyGang - 8/8/1880
  ...he surprise of the police, who expected a large influx from Greta and that district and the Woolshed.[[Margaret Skillion|Mrs Skillian]], [[Tom Lloyd Jnr|Tom Ll ...gt; next day >>, Same day The Age, Argus, Melbourne Daily Telegraph, Ovens & Murray Advertiser, ==
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• The Age (31)
  .... He also regretted to say that a paper published in the district, the ''[[Ovens and Murray Advertiser (13)|Oven and Murray Advertiser]]'' , alluded to the
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• The Ovens and Murray Advertiser (2)
  ...ot;Duross," as I had heard Constable Duross, who was not known in the district, and had only recently come from Melbourne , say that he had never met the [[The Ovens and Murray Advertiser (3)|continued]]
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• The Argus at KellyGang 27/4/1881
  (FROM THE OVENS AND MURRAY ADVERTISER, APRIL, 26) ...ot;Duross," as I had heard Constable Duross, who was not known in the district, and had only recently come from Melbourne , say that he had never met the
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• The Argus at KellyGang 24/9/1881
  '''OVENS AND MURRAY AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL SOCIETY''' ...e shown. The excellence of these exhibits indicates the capability of this district to supply the whole of Victoria with this fruit. The preserves were very we
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• The Argus at KellyGang 13/9/1883
  ...g and bushranging. In it as in most parts of the picturesque North Eastern district, the robber found the means of gratifying his rapacity, as also safe places ...etude and a feeling of security has now been restored to the North Eastern district and agricultural settlement has acquired a new impetus along the King River
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• The Argus at KellyGang 11/7/1892
  ...personal encounter of the bush-ranger Meakin at Dr Mackay's station on the Ovens River in 1854. Meakin had come to stick up the station, and in search of a ...ith the notorious Kelly gang of bushrangers, Mr Hare having command of the district police at the time the gang were finally exterminated. They had been crimin
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• Royal Commission report day 4 page 9
  ...ly|Ned Kelly]] personally?- Yes. I visited [[Chiltern|Chiltern]], the same district, at the same time, 1877. ...in command of the [[NSW police|New South Wales police]], [[Albury|Albury]] district."
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• Royal Commission report day 6 page 9
  ...ve got anything further to say with regard to that. I was removed from the district some time after this.... ([[The Complete Inner History of the KellyGang and
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• Royal Commission report day 9 page 3
  ...transmitting one addressed to you by the inspector of police for the Ovens district, enclosing a communication from Dr. Mackay relative to the conduct of Lieut ...n consequence of the gallant conduct of Lieutenant Hare, of the Beechworth district, in having, unarmed and without assistance during the middle of the night o
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• Royal Commission report day 14 page 6
  ...ween the [[Woolshed|Woolshed]] and [[Sebastopol|Sebastopol]], in the Ovens district, by a Mr.—, a blacksmith at the Woolshed; he was riding and carried a gun ...October, five weeks—how would you employ yourself for five weeks in the district?— I will tell you where I was every day. On Monday, 9th September, at 2.3
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  3169 Did you occupy any position in the North-Eastern district formerly?— Yes. 3174 Did you know the police wants of the district intimately when you were up there?— Yes.
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  ...n> Do you know he was removed?— I think it was after I was away from the district. I cannot speak of that unless I saw the occurrence-book. I inspected the s ...e frequent in that district than in others?— Always. It was always a bad district; it was a focus of crime.
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• Royal Commission report day 19 page 12
  ...lenty of money, I would run them down. They would have to clear out of the district, and if they did we would catch them; but having plenty of money from the b ...?— After I joined the service in 1856, I went to the [[Ovens River|Upper Ovens]].
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  ...ess)''— You have been with the police from the very first murders in the district?— Yes. ...ght when some police with Mr. Hare and myself watched at the [[Ovens River|Ovens River]]?— I do.
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  ...about that, so as to be ready to intercept them at some other part of the district. ...n [[Whorouly (2)|Whorouly]] and Wangaratta, and watching the [[Ovens River|Ovens]].
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• Royal Commission report 31/5/1881
  ...mission asked Steele, 'With proper police supervision in the North-Eastern district you think there is no probability of another gang like the Kellys taking th ...news of the Wombat Murders was received Steele took a search party up the Ovens and King Rivers through to Mansfield.
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• Royal Commission report day 37 page 26
  ...sary not to publish it, because I am a truant officer travelling round the district, and it might injure me. ...ant officer?— Yes, I travel over [[Benambra|Benambra]] the [[Ovens River|Ovens]].
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• Royal Commission report day 45 page 9
  ...to the present I have been intimately connected as a magistrate with that district as I am now. My station was on the Murray opposite [[Peechelba at kellyGang ...y know what. It was some complaints that were made; the magistrates of the district appealed to Captain Standish through me, not to remove him, on the grounds
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• Royal Commission report day 47 page 14
  16213 Was it any officer in charge of that district?— No. ...mber upon whose recommendation the force was weakened in the North-Eastern district before the Kellys broke out. There were several stations closed—[[Glenmor
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• Royal Commission report day 48 page 9
  ...Mr. Nicholas , the superintendent in charge at Stawell, now in the Wimmera district. I was put over him and made a superintendent before him. It was years befo ...any better position for you to be in the Depot than to be out in a country district?— No, not at all. I liked it better; at least it was the head-quarters of
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• Royal Commission report day 50 page 16
  ...that I give as one great reason of the outbreak, want of knowledge of the district owing to the frequent removals. This return will, I think, show that-[''han LIST OF OFFICERS in North-Eastern District from 1854.
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  '''LIST OF OFFICERS IN THE NORTH-EASTERN DISTRICT FROM 1854.''' '''Ovens District.'''
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