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  • ..., and cross the Murray with them, and there, among the “old hands” and settlers, “swop” or sell them. This profitable trade was carried on for years, b
    5 KB (806 words) - 21:06, 20 November 2015
  • ...ross the. Murray with them, and there, among the "old hands" and settlers, "swop'" or sell them. This profitable trade was carried on for y
    6 KB (887 words) - 21:03, 20 November 2015
  • ...en of Quinn and his companion in that neighbourhood. They told some of the settlers that they were looking for horses, and others that they were gone up for a ...ained for the horses after they had left the neighbourhood of the friendly settlers. Many of the slopes were quite bare of herbage, and covered only with sharp
    9 KB (1,526 words) - 21:06, 20 November 2015
  • ...rd from the [[Hedi|Hedi]] Upper King that the rain was most welcome to the settlers in those elevated regions; and that the spread of the bush fires had been s
    6 KB (1,012 words) - 15:43, 20 November 2015
  • ...they should not be harmed by his "demons," while they spared the settlers and did not spear their cattle. For this he is by many accounted a visionar
    3 KB (561 words) - 21:06, 20 November 2015
  • Cross examined-It was customary for settlers when in town to call for and deliver neithbours letters. Lynch sometimes ca
    4 KB (701 words) - 21:05, 20 November 2015
  • ...e Kelly sympathisers. The only persons who suffer would appear to be those settlers who have shown an honest sympathy with the law and a detestation of the cri
    3 KB (486 words) - 21:05, 20 November 2015
  • The peaceable, orderly, and law-abiding portion of the settlers, too, residing in the district where there are many KELLY sympathisera live
    3 KB (529 words) - 21:05, 20 November 2015
  • ...f his wanderings in the district; of his various sojourns at the houses of settlers; of his chance companions, on one occasion, supplying four armed men in the
    4 KB (722 words) - 15:45, 20 November 2015
  • ...vicinity has in the past been so overrun with cattle stealers that honest settlers have to a considerable extent been discouraged in their efforts to establis
    5 KB (890 words) - 21:00, 20 November 2015
  • One of the oldest settlers in the Greta district, who was an eye witness to the encounter with the Kel
    5 KB (809 words) - 15:45, 20 November 2015
  • ...nder that so abject a terror existed; because in that wild region isolated settlers were absolutely at the mercy of evil-disposed persons.  It was not merely
    6 KB (1,120 words) - 15:45, 20 November 2015
  • ...the expenditure, and looked with as much favour upon the campaign as Natal settlers are said to bestow upon a South African war , and for the same reason Mr Gr
    4 KB (645 words) - 21:06, 20 November 2015
  • ...y. Witness believed that the outlaws received much assistance from Chinese settlers. Ned Kelly, after his capture, led witness to believe that. Kelly also said
    5 KB (768 words) - 21:04, 20 November 2015
  • ...opulation – a consequence of their murderous acts – which rendered the settlers unwilling to assist the police in any way, could not be anticipated. So wit
    9 KB (1,465 words) - 21:04, 20 November 2015
  • ...alley of the King was looked upon us an uncanny place, and its industrious settlers had not only to live in dread of the young outlaws but had to bear the odiu ...ts of the district whilst the representatives of Wangaratta and one or two settlers from the Upper King advocated a line from Wangaratta.
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  • Among it a number of stalwart, intelligent settlers met with here was Mr James Kiely, of [[Hedi|Hedi]], who gave some valuable ...though it is at present peopled by hundreds of industrious and law abiding settlers, it is capable of maintaining many hundreds more.
    9 KB (1,581 words) - 21:05, 20 November 2015
  • ...for so long. The active support of sympathisers, and the fact that honest settlers were deterred by fear from giving the police assistance account for the del
    9 KB (1,608 words) - 21:05, 20 November 2015
  • ...having put my horses in his paddock. I did so; but I put my horses in many settlers' paddocks whilst I was out searching for the Kellys. Some people there cons
    6 KB (1,008 words) - 21:02, 20 November 2015
  • ...this does not detract, however, from the kindness with which the resident settlers received one when any chance brought one to their homes. The names of Alfre
    7 KB (1,202 words) - 23:52, 20 November 2015

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