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  • ...ine (not then constructed) which branches away from the main North Eastern railway many miles to the south. [[Wangaratta|Wangaratta]], [[Glenrowan|Glenrowan]] [[Category:Documents]] [[Category:Books]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:CH Chomley]] [[Category:December 1803]] [[Category:The True St
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  • ...and many other stations in the disturbed district, and on the main line of railway from Melbourne to Sydney. At the same time, after communication with the Ch [[Category:Documents]] [[Category:Books]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:CH Chomley]] [[Category:December 1805]] [[Category:The True St
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  • ...ugh Wangaratta during the night, and were seen next day crossing under the railway line at a place known as the One Mile Bridge, after which they disappeared ...ly from the fact that the One Mile Creek was running bank high beneath the railway bridge, and that no one without intimate knowledge of the place could possi
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  • ...to Beechworth, had declared that the track taken under the One Mile Creek Railway Bridge near [[Wangaratta|Wangaratta]] could only had been ventured upon, in ...ing the railway beneath a bridge under a dangerously swollen creek, when a railway crossing quite near was available for anyone not supremely anxious to avoid
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  • ..., and about five miles from [[Greta|Greta]], which lies to the east of the railway line connecting the two first named places. The informant was a platelayer [[Category:Documents]] [[Category:Books]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:CH Chomley]] [[Category:December 1808]] [[Category:The True St
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  • ...iderable extra police protection to Seymour and all other townships up the railway line as far as [[Avenel|Avenel]], beyond which the stations were under Mr N [[Category:Documents]] [[Category:Books]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:CH Chomley]] [[Category:December 1809]] [[Category:The True St
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  • ...tt neglected to make an exception of the police officers when he urged the railway men to preserve a calm and unconcerned demeanour to everybody. His own evid ...]] Creek, which lies in full view of and only a few hundred yards from the railway line. Watt came again along the footplate to Mr Wyatt, telling him it was i
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  • ...e concerning the requisite aid and material very fully to Mr Gorman, the [[Railway Stations|stationmaster]], and informed him that the line was ‘down throug [[Category:Documents]] [[Category:Books]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:CH Chomley]] [[Category:December 1809]] [[Category:The True St
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  • ...ted, and between them, he and Mr Wyatt finding both the Government and the railway’s telegraph wires in a hopeless tangle, and satisfying themselves that th ...ion, Mr Wyatt told the stationmaster to say nothing to passengers or other people, but to telegraph to Melbourne that the line was down, which could be done
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  • ...l's]] Creek Station homestead, standing as it does in full sight of a main railway line and close to the old Sydney Road, less than four miles distant from a [[Category:Documents]] [[Category:Books]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:CH Chomley]] [[Category:December 1810]] [[Category:The True St
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  • ...d excited Mr [[Wyatt|Wyatt,]] and while thus engaged they encountered four railway gangers, who were arrested and added to the squad of prisoners in the store [[Category:Documents]] [[Category:Books]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:CH Chomley]] [[Category:December 1810]] [[Category:The True St
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  • ...s distant not more than forty yards, and the bank was also in sight of the railway station. It so happened that a large number of residents were absent from E [[Category:Documents]] [[Category:Books]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:CH Chomley]] [[Category:December 1811]] [[Category:The True St
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  • ...lvers and singing songs in praise of their gang. It was well for the towns people that no mischief happened to them after Ned Kelly and Byrne had gone, for t [[Category:Documents]] [[Category:Books]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:CH Chomley]] [[Category:December 1813]] [[Category:The True St
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  • ...em. The way to the hut where the Kellys were expected to be lay across the railway line; and there was the usual delay in opening the railways gates at the cr [[Category:Documents]] [[Category:Books]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:CH Chomley]] [[Category:December 1815]] [[Category:The True St
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  • ...e assistant, and with all his faults he seems to have won regard from many people who knew him, while his wife and his old mother were overwhelmed by grief a ...were in addition the residences of the stationmaster and one or two other railway employees.
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  • ...eir conduct to the particular end in view. This was the destruction of the railway line at a point some distance on the Wangaratta side of [[Glenrowan|Glenrow ...el]]. This hotel, which stood among trees about two hundred yards from the railway platform, and facing it, was a weatherboard building, with a verandah in fr
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  • ...red scarf, and matches which he had in readiness, and, rushing away to the railway line, ran as fast as he could between the rails in the direction of the app [[Category:Documents]] [[Category:Books]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:CH Chomley]] [[Category:December 1819]] [[Category:Recollectio
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  • ...lla]] at 12.30, it had been delayed for half an hour by smashing through a railway gate and injuring the breaks—a delay which probably was the salvation of [[Category:Documents]] [[Category:Books]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:CH Chomley]] [[Category:December 1819]] [[Category:Recollectio
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  • ...trongly dissuaded by the ladies, who had pluckily kept their places in the railway carriage, with bullets whistling past them, Mr Hare made an effort to go ba [[Category:Documents]] [[Category:Books]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:CH Chomley]] [[Category:December 1819]] [[Category:Recollectio
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  • ...over for ever, he was presently stripped of his armour and carried to the railway station where a doctor attended to his wounds. [[Category:Documents]] [[Category:Books]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:CH Chomley]] [[Category:December 1820]] [[Category:Recollectio
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  • ...but all this demonstration was a mere hoax which successfully deluded the people. The train in which [[Ned Kelly|Kelly]] travelled pulled up at North Melbou [[Category:Documents]] [[Category:Books]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:CH Chomley]] [[Category:December 1821]] [[Category:Recollectio
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  • ...k-out amongst them - are invisible - they have not been seen for days, the people say. Clouds envelop them and roll heavily along their steep wooded slopes. ...emarks Joe, as we swish-swash through a partially submerged paddock. "People round here have a lot of respect for him. The way he looks after his mother
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  • ...ds fairs to go on living for ever. Over the firesides, on winter evenings, people listen to the winds howling in the lofty ranges, and talk of the wild happe ...f Kingdom Come, "there's more though here yet. This country's full of people, that thinks the other fellow's only belongs to him by accident. And most o
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  • ...te of that memorable battle on June 28, 1880. In front of the hotel is the railway station. Beyond that again is the new police camp. Part of the old battle g There is a street, now, along the railway frontage to the old battle ground, where once was nothing but open country.
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  • ...t away up the line towards Wangaratta. My daughter saw them pulling up the railway line, but I did not. ...ory:Documents]] [[Category:Newspapers]] [[Category:Sydney Sun]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:BW Cookson]] [[Category:September 1911]] [[Category:Cookson]]
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  • GLENROWAN AND ITS PEOPLE AS THEY ARE TODAY ...able [[Const Hugh Bracken|Bracken]] on the way. He was galloping along the railway line.
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  • Most of the people who took prominent part in the hunting and ultimate capture of the Kelly bu This arrest dates from the opening of the Beechworth railway. The story may as well be told by Ward himself, as he related it:-
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  • ...esumed Mr Ward, "[[Ned Kelly|Ned Kelly]] was lying under guard at the railway station. He said it was Jones's whisky that had killed them-that it would k ...ory:Documents]] [[Category:Newspapers]] [[Category:Sydney Sun]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:BW Cookson]] [[Category:September 1911]] [[Category:Cookson]]
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  • ...after the encounter. They were plainly seen passing under a culvert on the railway, and the report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry makes the fact of their ...estead of Mr [[Faithfull's Creek (2)|Younghisband]]'s station, assured the people there that they had nothing to fear, and asked for food for themselves and
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  • ...ff more wire than an ordinary repairer would carry with him. Three or four railway men who saw them at work endeavoured to ??? fere; but in a few minutes they It is a remarkable thing that all these stirring events happened without the people in the town knowing anything that was going on.
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  • ...and, holding a light behind a red handkerchief, saved a couple of hundred people from almost certain destruction. It was a brave act, and it was cleverly pe ...ory:Documents]] [[Category:Newspapers]] [[Category:Sydney Sun]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:BW Cookson]] [[Category:September 1911]] [[Category:Cookson]]
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  • ...hin two hundred yards of one of the principal stations on the main line of railway between Melbourne and Sydney, as the last resource for the capture of four The first feeling that will arise in the minds of English people on reading this, will be one of wonder. How came it that four men should ha
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  • When the [[Echuca|Echuca]] [[Railways|railway]] was being built the New South Wales Government claimed the [[Murray River [[Category:Documents]] [[Category:Books]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:Sup Hare]] [[Category:December 1802]] [[Category:Recollections
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  • ...or two convincing proof was given that the four men seen passing under the railway were the bushrangers. An effort was then made to follow their tracks. This [[Category:Documents]] [[Category:Books]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:Sup Hare]] [[Category:December 1805]] [[Category:Recollections
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  • ...account of what took place is as follows:—"We had just reached the railway gates where there is a crossing to Mr. Younghusband's station, three of us [[Category:Documents]] [[Category:Books]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:Sup Hare]] [[Category:December 1806]] [[Category:Recollections
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  • ...nger was immediately sent to me in breathless haste to come quickly to the railway station. I pretended to be very much surprised, but, of course, Aaron did n [[Category:Documents]] [[Category:Books]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:Sup Hare]] [[Category:December 1808]] [[Category:Recollections
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  • ...mpathizers. You could tell them in a moment, they were to be seen on every railway station. It is not to be understood that all these men could communicate wi [[Category:Documents]] [[Category:Books]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:Sup Hare]] [[Category:December 1809]] [[Category:Recollections
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  • ...lway gates]] at Glenrowan. We often found great difficulty in crossing the railway, for many of the gate keepers were in league with the friends of the Kelly [[Category:Documents]] [[Category:Books]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:Sup Hare]] [[Category:December 1809]] [[Category:Recollections
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  • ...rails. He said, "We were at Beechworth last night, and killed several people. I expect a special train will be sent from Benalla with a number of police [[Category:Documents]] [[Category:Books]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:Sup Hare]] [[Category:December 1810]] [[Category:Recollections
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  • ...a prison-house by the outlaws. By the evening they had captured sixty two people. Amongst those thus detained was Constable Bracken, an excellent ex constab ...He took the key from his boot, opened the front door, and ran towards the railway station. The first thing the Kellys did when they came out of the side room
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  • We sent to the railway station and ordered a special train to be ready in case the trackers were n It was decided by the railway authorities at Benalla that the engine that came from Melbourne should act
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  • ...ailway crossing, through which we intended to pass, we noticed a number of people about the hotel, and at the crossing. I said, 'Mrs Jones must be dead; she ...ng, and that the gang had forced Reardon and others to tear up part of the railway line beyond the station, for the purpose of wrecking a special train of pol
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  • "Ned Kelly and Byrne then went from the railway crossing to [[Jones' Glenrowan Inn|Mrs Jones's hotel]], preceded by the maj [[Category:Documents]] [[Category:Books]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:Sup Hare]] [[Category:December 1810]] [[Category:Recollections
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  • ...t, and I told him that Mr Stanistreet possessed a loaded revolver from the railway department, and advised them for their safety to obtain it, as, some one mi [[Category:Documents]] [[Category:Books]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:Sup Hare]] [[Category:December 1810]] [[Category:Recollections
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  • ...d yards, leaving the outlaws and their captives ready to start back to the railway station. As soon as we were out of hearing of the outlaws, I announced to m ..., candle, and matches, to go to Benalla, intending to keep as close to the railway line as I could, in case of the special coming before I could reach there.
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  • ...em to surround the hotel and see that no one escaped, whilst I went to the railway platform to have my arm bandaged. It was bleeding fearfully; a bullet had e [[Category:Documents]] [[Category:Books]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:Sup Hare]] [[Category:December 1811]] [[Category:Recollections
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  • ...Hare, with one or two of the police, proceeded in the pilot engine to the railway station, closely followed by the special. On arriving at the station the ho ...isoner in the hotel, courageously made his escape, and running towards the railway station, quickly spread the information that the Kellys, with about forty p
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  • ...nwilling witnesses of the terrible scene. They retained their seats in the railway carriage, and the courage which they displayed, notwithstanding that the bu ...are frightened to come out for fear the police will kill them. Amongst the people who are in there are:— James and Michael Reardon, my husband and son, Cat
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  • ...SConst John Kelly|Senior constable Kelly]], with Mr [[Dowsett|Dowsett]] (a railway guard), fired on the ruffian. The contest became one which, from its remark ...pped of his armour, and then became quite submissive, and was borne to the railway station by Sergeant Steele, Constable Dwyer, and two representatives of the
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  • ...em to advance towards where they were located, but many of the unfortunate people were so terror stricken that they ran hither and thither screaming for merc ...hizers. They were accordingly handcuffed, and taken with the others to the railway station. Young Reardon, who with his father had been confined in the hotel,
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  • ...it, but did no damage. His armour was taken off, and he was carried to the railway-station, where he was searched, but only threepence was found on him, a sil [[Category:Documents]] [[Category:Books]] [[Category:People]] [[Category:Sup Hare]] [[Category:December 1813]] [[Category:Recollections
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  • ...provided themselves with another set of horses on the opposite side of the railway, so that had they been obliged to cross the line in a hurry, they would hav ...the opposite side of the river, and it was their intention to blow up the railway bridge at Benalla, so as to stop the traffic on the line. I believe they ha
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  • ...nges , and were observed by some people while in this neighbourhood. These people reported to the police what they had seen. On this report the police organi ...e very comfortable, watching train loads of police passing up and down the railway line. Next day the owner of the crop happened along and suddenly came on th
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  • ...11 the Kellys were reported as having been seen on that date crossing the railway at Glenrowan, going from Greta to Warby Ranges.  Supt Nicolson met Supt Sa [[Category:People]] [[Category:JJ Kenneally]] [[Category:The Complete Inner History of the Ke
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  • ...ou are not seen here; do not go into the town, but get some hotel near the railway station.’ I gave him £2 for coming down to give this information.” [[Category:People]] [[Category:JJ Kenneally]] [[Category:The Complete Inner History of the Ke
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  • ...  Mrs Skillion and her cousin blacksmith met the Glenrowan man at Benalla railway station and secured three first-class return tickets to Melbourne.  The th ...They waited till 11 o’clock in their cramped positions, but as country people are not always punctual, the police made allowances, and waited on and on,
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  • ...four outlaws would next get ready to capture the police train at Glenrowan railway station. [[Category:People]] [[Category:JJ Kenneally]] [[Category:The Complete Inner History of the Ke
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  • ...d at Glenrowan and went down to where the rails were to be lifted from the railway line.  They applied their own spanners and screw wrenches to the nuts, but ...amped in tents near the [[Stanistreet (2)|stationmaster]]’s house at the railway gates, as they suspected there were detectives amongst them.  They then ba
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  • ...e Queensland Chief Secretary agreed, and Mr O’Connor was at the Essendon railway station with his blacktrackers and equipment at 9.45 p.m. on Sunday, 27/6/1 ...on the railway station, and Mrs Jones’ hotel, on the western side of the railway station.  McDonald was a genuine friend of the Kellys, and therefore his p
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  • ...ken that the Kellys were in Jones’ hotel, and that the place was full of people bailed up there by the Kellys, he then called the men to let the horses go ...e house.”  Supt Hare then retired from the field.  He went over to the railway station and ordered the train back to Benalla so that he could receive medi
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  • ...d for a long time nobody spoke.  And then Guard Dowsett came out from the railway station, and, as I was not able to get there alone, he helped me to the sta [[Category:People]] [[Category:JJ Kenneally]] [[Category:The Complete Inner History of the Ke
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  • == James Reardon - Railway line repairer == ...he horse of a friend, and I went down, and Sullivan was coming through the railway fence, and I said, ‘What is the matter?’ and he said, ‘I am taken pri
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  • ...ey were all in a state of great excitement, and Ned Kelly was taken to the railway station and examined by Dr John Nicholson.  t was now known that Joe Byrne ...ound, although serious, was not dangerous to life, I made all haste to the railway station and accompanied Mr Sadleir and party to Glenrowan.  Mr Sadleir ask
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  • ...rer to him on his left, and Constables Dwyer, Arthur and Phillips near the railway fence in his rear.  There was also someone at the upper side, but I do not [[Category:People]] [[Category:JJ Kenneally]] [[Category:The Complete Inner History of the Ke
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  • ...you go in at the front door? — I was then close down to the gate at the railway crossing, and I started from there direct for the front of the house.  I t ...of numbers that way, but I thought there could not be less than 500 or 600 people.
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  • ...think you said you went in at the front door, that is the door facing the railway line? — Yes. [[Category:People]] [[Category:JJ Kenneally]] [[Category:The Complete Inner History of the Ke
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  • ...? — Well, as I was passing along in the front of the house, along by the railway line like - was questioning myself afterwards about that - I think I saw so [[Category:People]] [[Category:JJ Kenneally]] [[Category:The Complete Inner History of the Ke
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  • ...ned back from the room I first entered, because I was standing between the people and the blaze, and every movement of mine, I believe, they could see with t ...n my arrival there. I became aware of it soon - at least that the innocent people had been allowed to remove from the house some time about half-past nine or
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  • ...left-hand side of the house looking at the house from the direction of the railway gate. I saw you there with a party of men, and then I sent Miss Kelly to go ...question is with regard to the woman that approached the building from the railway gates. — It does not matter if we both understand we mean the same person
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  • ...iven to cease firing and surround the house; you mean after they knew that people were in it?—It was considerably before I came there; but I remarked alrea ...ring upon the house when there were only two outlaws and a lot of innocent people in?—If there was one innocent life to be lost amongst them, I would say t
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  • ...of Dan Kelly and Steve Hart were plainly visible; they were removed to the railway platform, and Supt. Sadleir handed them over to Mrs [[Margaret Skillion|Ski [[Category:People]] [[Category:JJ Kenneally]] [[Category:The Complete Inner History of the Ke
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  • A very large number of people attended the funeral of these two youths, who were buried in the Greta Ceme ...He was taken from the train to the Melbourne Gaol, while a great crowd of people were anxiously waiting the arrival of the train at Spencer street.
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  • '''[[!!FIXME \home.html|!!MISSING]]''' '''[[people|people]]''' '''[[Places|places]]''' '''[[1833--events|events]]''' '''[[things inde ...ior constable Kelly; Constable Bracken; Sergeant Steele; Mr Jesse Dowsett, railway guard; and Senior constable Johnston (who set fire to Mrs Jones’ hotel, w
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  • ...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 and railw ...he latter would cost the colony £12 10s. per mile per annum more than the railway. It was evident therefore that they ought not to "dilly-dally" an
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  • ...e, otherwise half the interests in the district would be ruined before the railway was carried out. Mr WITT wished to ask whether there was any report from the Railway League, because as tho conference had also brought one up, it was better, p
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  • ...take independent action. They were not supposed to know anything about the Railway League. ...ves; they were there to organise such a powerful body that they must get a railway. (Hear, hear.)
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  • ...he people in the Ovens or Gipps Land sought any particular line, the Ovens people ought to recommend the one that would benefit tho colony to the greatest ex ...at this meeting form an association, to be called the United North-Eastern Railway Association."
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  • ...he part of the people of the Ovens and Murray districts, the North-Eastern Railway League should be reconstructed by the addition of twelve new committees, to ...bjection hitherto urged by the Government to the immediate carrying out of railway extension to the Ovens district has been shown not now to exist by the succ
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  • '''THE ALBURY-RAILWAY''' ...be open for traffic in three or four years. But although we are to have a railway, and that as quickly as possible, there is still a good deal to be done in
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  • ...ewhere are full of the surplus. This traffic can only be brought on to the railway by giving steam-boat owners facilities for loading and unloading, without t ...king their necks in the venture, is simply ridiculous. Why, if the Wodonga people only knew the effect of their own arguments, they must collapse at once.
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  • ...sed railway, which will be used for goods and passenger traffic by all the people of Wood's Point, Gaffney's, Jamieson, Enoch's Point; Darlingford, Thornton,
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  • ...asant enough; seeing that one can well get over six hours in a comfortable railway carriage if the party consists of genial spirits who don’t object to thei ...h ?) almost took the end of one's nose off. Our dozen was a regular motley-people of all countries, creeds, and professions; but nil got on well together and
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  • ...sound. Goulburn didn't look lively in the morning; neither do I think the railway has benefited the city in this regard so much as was expected. Strolling al ...n in the time of starting the down-mail might be made, so as to enable the people to answer Sydney letters; and, as I am glad to see that the Works Minister
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  • ...has become evident that the nearest point to the North-Eastern [[Railways|Railway]] was at [[Longwood|Longwood]]. Every effort must therefore be made make a ...;Shanks's pony," the saving of 10 miles was important in reaching the railway. Longwood can be easily reached in one day, whereas the road via [[Tallaroo
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  • '''A BRANCH RAILWAY TO BEECHWORTH''' ...be forgotten by these towns, although it left Beechworth unprouded with a railway, to the great detriment of its traders and property.
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  • ...cuous building was the Junction Hotel, ns badly off as any of the rest. No people bad remained in the township they were either in Echuca or on the high land ...to-day that the flood was subsiding, some men were told off to repair the railway line between the station and the wharf. The line proved the salvation of ma
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  • ...oard. As there is no quorum left, the business (?) is over. There are many people in the Broadford district who feel the importance of getting even a portion ...elds and pastures new; more open and other families wore going, and to the people remaining things were looking what is generally ?.
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  • ...ot listen to the proposition for a transfer of the land, through which the railway would pass. ...ates the variations of the Riverina climate. It is either feast or famine. People who have visited it in other times tell of waving meadow-land for hundreds
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  • ...expense the corporation found that they could not legally enforce rates or people to take it. It is not compulsory now, though mains are laid on to the princ ...''Mr Shackles''', also the custom's offices, and the Echuca wharf, and the railway. stores. The stores, of galvanized iron, are 300 f long and 30 feet wide. T
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  • ...arks and recreation''' grounds there are treble the number that the Sydney people have. I do not know the area of the Melbourne reserves, but there is a very A private railway company run trains to the seven places just named, from the foot of Elizabe
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  • ...le by pointing out Narrandera as the terminus for a southern trunk line of railway.
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  • ...ll be ruined as soon as the railway passes through it, there are plenty of people who have faith in the resources of Benalla and believe there is a prosperou ...at credit on the enterprise of its owner. At the time it was projected the railway station was intended to be built on the south side of the river, but it wil
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  • ...rot for want of an occasional coat of paint; in the eyes of strangers and railway visitors we look indolent, dirty, shabby, and poverty stricken, and certain ...ogies for a Reading Room, which are offered as intellectual pabulum to the people of Benalla.
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  • ...e|Melbourne]] would place them in a position to compete with places having railway communication with the centre.
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  • ...dent they will receive, the vigilant care and patient consideration of the people of Victoria and of its representatives in the colonial Parliament generally The main line of the North-Eastern Railway, of which the new line to Beechworth is a branch and feeder, has already pr
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  • ...em. He believed he might say that the people of Beechworth, having secured railway communication after many difficulties, were now perfectly satisfied. The to ...among you on the interesting occasion of the opening of the branch line of railway which was to put you in communication with Melbourne and the rest of Victor
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  • ...ge loan had already been authorised, and it was their intention to push on railway communication to other parts of the colony. (Cheers. ) By so doing they wou ...ne lines. He could inform them that, with one exception on the Mount Cenis Railway, there was no gradient so steep as that over which they bad passed that day
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  • ...rom the top of one of these piers. Too much of the material, consisting of railway iron and bluestone, was taken off one side, and the cylinder canted over, a ...ight be dealt with on the spot. The principal objection, by the well to do people in Echuca, against the establishment of a local hospital is that it would b
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  • ..., provided that mining exemptions were removed from the land. The proposed railway from [[Tallarook|Tallarook]] via [[Yea|Yea]], Molesworth. and [[Doon|Doon]] ...merous industries had sprung up, giving employment to tens of thousands of people, and promising continual employment to the sons and daughters of the indust
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  • ...ed out of office to make room for Sir James M Culloch and 'is Hobson's Bay Railway swindle. They must not imagine that the grand Education Act was absolutely ...er was considered as good. and useful a man as the clergyman, and, by some people, even more valuable. The one supplied reading, writing, and arithmetic - us
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