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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 14/9/1872|see previous]]) ...often exhibited in "the House" itself. As population in creases country stores gradually assume the business aspect of city shops and less of debat
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  • ...Riverina area|Riverina]], - its vast extended resources; its watercourses, towns, villages, and princely stations, was no light one. The courses of the [[Mu ...perience generally admit that the most exasperating of all troubles in the country, is a jibbing horse. Like others I devised all kinds of punishment to make
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  • ...and taken up by free selectors within this district next month. Two of our towns men have purchased sheep, and others are about doing so, with the intention [[Category:1870s]] [[Category:November 1872]] [[Category:Australian Town and Country Journal]] [[Category:Jerilderie]] [[Category:Riverina]] [[Category:1872]] [
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  • ...one who did not know the powers and privileges enjoyed by those up-country towns whose interests have been adequately looked after from time to time at the ...year. Upon the proposition to rate town allotments on a frontage value and country lots upon their acreage, the president confessed that his council was not a
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  • ...ed since then, and we now find several important towns in this part of the country; some of which can justly, demand that courts of higher jurisdiction than t ...rms of imprisonment, and appoint Courts of General Sessions in some of the towns of the district where they do not now exist with the view of saving a porti
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  • ...From Benalla to [[Glenrowan|Glenrowan]], a distance of about 14 miles, the country is level, and may be said to present no engineering difficulties. Near Glen ...ccording to the last census, 1,469 inhabitants. It is one of the principal towns of the district, and ranks next in importance to Beechworth. The distance f
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  • ...y last letter we had some heavy rain, which has had a marked effect on the country, which just now looks very well; the grass looks green, and is everywhere a ...to make it a free bridge, and so place Wagga on the same footing as other towns. The promoters of this petition are not very sanguine us to its success, as
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  • ...e often promised myself a trip to Wodonga and Albury, the two great border towns of Victoria and New South Wales, and a look at that grand inland river, the ...own]], a very acceptable place with a good show of buildings, although the country, at any rate near the line, seems very poor and scrubby.
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  • ...North-Eastern line of railway at Wangaratta, the distance between the two towns being 22½ miles. The line was divided into two sections; the first one fro ...aracter of the country. The first section runs through a nearly dead level country, Everton being only 277ft. higher than Wangaratta. The junction is 502ft. a
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  • ...gs. Early last week the police gave intimation to the banks in the country towns bordering in the Kelly district that one or other of them was to be "s ...er, if we may judge from the altered tone of an impor- tant section of the country press, is beginning to be found out and we trust that by the time the next
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  • ...ce can be of service in defending, the banks and places of business in the towns near the ranges, the corps will be placed at his disposal. The rumour repor ...ks of the horses hoofs might be lost on the top of the ranges and in rough country, yet they could be picked up at once in the valleys which would have to be
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  • ...rned to town in the evening. It is understood that the men will patrol the towns where the are stationed, and their presence will be in a great measure put ...the outlying stations. Stodart's is close to the Puzzle Range , and as the country around there is very hilly and scrubby, the outlaws would have no difficult
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  • ...eaving the outskirts of the district? Never leaving the flats and the open country? Why, it is notorious that the Kelly mob is laughing at them. How is this k
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  • ...to the proposition of making an appeal to the population of the threatened towns. ...'s minds the fact that the warfare against crime, more especially in a new country, cannot always be delegated entirely to the police, and that times arise wh
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  • ...r notable performances of the ‘Rent Day’ gained them praise from other towns besides their own. In this instance they confined their efforts to farce an
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  • ...ething to do with a preconcerted plan for enabling tho outlaws to quit the country, there is a very strong impression abroad that the movement may, after all, ...such measures be adopted as will render property in the larger cities and towns reasonably secure? If it is necessary to keep a portion of the colony perma
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  • ...ined has been of a very different nature and throughen that portion of the country an outbreak on the part of the gang has been daily expected. The renewed ac ...d, which have given the police a considerable amount of annoyance, and the country has been involved in expense in the shape of special trains to convey the p
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  • ...m their haunts in the Strathbogie Ranges, traversed a vast extent of level country, and crossed the Murray.  The raid on Jerilderie was attended by the astou
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  • ...enalla, Wangaratta, and Beechworth. I also told them that at each of these towns I would have a full party of men stationed, so that, if any information was ...d the outlaws, and directed them to obtain private horses, and go into the country they knew best, and knock about amongst their friends and relatives, in ord
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  • ...enalla, Wangaratta, and Beechworth. I also told them that at each of these towns I would have a full party of men stationed, so that if any information was ...d the outlaws, and directed them to obtain private horses, and go into the country they knew best, and knock about amongst their friends and relatives, in ord
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