Search results

Jump to: navigation, search

Page title matches

  • For much of its course the Murray River forms the border between Victoria and New South Wales == The Country around the Murray River ==
    8 KB (1,114 words) - 23:50, 20 November 2015

Page text matches

  • ...an Morgan|Morgan]] and [[Harry Power|Power]], had both been at home in the river valleys and heavily forested ranges that cover much of the country. Only te ...om either bank. North of these is the [[Murray River at Kellygang|Murray]] River, forming the border of New South Wales and Victoria, and also flowing, in i
    5 KB (825 words) - 23:52, 20 November 2015
  • ...he birds had frown. The police officer had with him an aboriginal from the River Darling, who was an intelligent tracker, and from the camp he followed the
    4 KB (706 words) - 15:50, 20 November 2015
  • ...reaching the main stream, but were forced to abandon the attempt, for the river was higher than it had been for many years, and accordingly they turned the On November 3 they were seen in the neighbourhood of the Murray, and on the same day near [[Wangaratta|Wangaratta]], a township more than f
    4 KB (688 words) - 15:50, 20 November 2015
  • ...safe place already prepared for them. I will have four on each side of the river to watch upper and lower side. I have a place fixed where you will be safe. ...o the police sergeant near [[Howlong (2)|Howlong]], at the junction of the Murray and Indigo rivers, between Albury and Bungowunnah where the proposed crossi
    4 KB (644 words) - 15:50, 20 November 2015
  • ...to prevent reports of their flight across the [[Murray River at Kellygang|Murray]] reaching Melbourne.
    5 KB (890 words) - 23:52, 20 November 2015
  • ...getting the [[Police Trackers|black tracker]] who had been with him on the Murray on his former search, and who was a patient in the hospital. He was, howeve
    6 KB (997 words) - 23:52, 20 November 2015
  • ...ver to watch a crossing place where a chain of hills on either side of the river runs all the way to Goulburn.
    3 KB (501 words) - 15:50, 20 November 2015
  • ...on the Murray, but without the least effect. Probably they arrived at the river too late, but at any rate it was soon commonly known that the Kellys were a ...ed Kelly, disguised and muffled up, was recognised by a farmer on the King River some forty miles from Benalla at whose house he called, and others were awa
    4 KB (598 words) - 15:50, 20 November 2015
  • ...anty, -beyond that I was to protect all boats on the Victorian side of the river and dutiable articles that might be landed on the Victorian shore. I had a ..., and he told me his orders were to seize all boats that were found on the Murray. I told him my orders were to protect these boats against seizure.
    5 KB (882 words) - 23:52, 20 November 2015
  • == A Sporting party on the Murray == ...oceeding to Echuca by train, started off to our destination lower down the Murray. We camped the first night at a water hole near Gunbower, and next morning
    8 KB (1,347 words) - 21:06, 20 November 2015
  • ...he [[Murray River at Kellygang|Murray]]. They evidently meant to cross the river, but it was flooded, and they got on some of the islands and were very near
    5 KB (910 words) - 21:06, 20 November 2015
  • ...nd the officer in charge of the district that the Kellys were to cross the Murray on the night of the 9th December 1878. The [[Nicolson|inspecting superinten ...information was furnished to the police on the New South Wales side of the Murray, and they were told that Goulburn was the probable place they would make fo
    7 KB (1,218 words) - 23:52, 20 November 2015
  • [[Jerilderie|Jerilderie]] is a town about sixty miles from the Murray river on the New South Wales side of the border. It had a population at that time
    6 KB (964 words) - 21:06, 20 November 2015
  • ...rne mounted his horse and started off alone in the direction of the Murray river, leading a pack horse with the treasure strapped across the saddle. This wa
    6 KB (1,091 words) - 23:52, 20 November 2015
  • ...once took steps to give instructions to all crossing places on the Murray river to keep a sharp look out, and sent men during the night to every known cros
    7 KB (1,163 words) - 21:06, 20 November 2015
  • ...ie]] some months afterwards found in the mountains at the head of the King river in Victoria, which the gang were known to frequent. It was a strange coinci ...w, there were dozens of places where they could cross, and no one knew the river better than they did, and in consequence they were able to return without b
    6 KB (995 words) - 21:06, 20 November 2015
  • ...Billy the Puntman"-In Charge of new Rushes-Border Difficulties on the Murray Sporting Party on the Murray-" Winkle"-How to take Aim-After the Ducks-A Night with the Snakes
    4 KB (567 words) - 23:51, 20 November 2015
  • At the Buckland River Station Border Difficulties on the Murray
    4 KB (628 words) - 23:52, 20 November 2015
  • ...Murray River . They knew there was a punt there, and expected to cross the Murray in It to reach Howlong on the other side. ...arten|Baumgartens]], who told them there was no hope of getting across the Murray while the flats on both sides were flooded, and that the police were about
    7 KB (1,155 words) - 15:46, 20 November 2015
  • ...eing with Ned and Dan Kelly were William [[Greta|King]] and Charles [[King River|Brown]]. ...ee days before (31/10/78) between [[Banawatha|Barnawartha]] and the Murray River.  Detective [[Det Kennedy|Kennedy]], with a part of police, searched this
    4 KB (571 words) - 15:46, 20 November 2015
  • ...iver and swam across, but the strength of the current carried him down the river and he could not land.  He nearly got drowned.  After a great struggle he ...e was Kain, and that he had sold a team of bullocks to a bullocky over the river, and wanted to go across to collect the cheque.  The publican saw the pros
    6 KB (1,108 words) - 15:46, 20 November 2015
  • ...ould divide on their way back from Jerilderie, and meet on the bank of the Murray at the crossing place opposite Bourke’s public-house, near Burramine. ...ught the horses back to Greta, and turned them out at the head of the King River.
    8 KB (1,341 words) - 15:46, 20 November 2015
  • The gang met, as arranged, on the banks of the Murray, where they had left the publican’s boat in the early hours of the previo ...£2300, and, therefore they had to be careful.  Joe Byrne strolled up the river, and discovered the boat used by the '''Boomanoomanah''' Station.
    7 KB (1,162 words) - 15:46, 20 November 2015
  • ...fe place already prepared for them.  I will have four on each side on the river to watch upper and lower sides.  I have a place fixed where you will be sa
    6 KB (1,100 words) - 15:46, 20 November 2015
  • ...what I was doing.  I went next to the Little River, and then to the Upper Murray by way of Cotton Tree Hill, but found no traces, and returned to Benalla an ...ging to the police murdered at the Wombat.  There were floods in the King River, which interfered with the search I was directed to make.  I returned to W
    7 KB (1,297 words) - 15:46, 20 November 2015
  • ...nd Joe Byrne entered Jerilderie, on the New South Wales side of the Murray River , and imprisoned Devine and his assisting constable. Donning the policemen' ...y had heard that he had boasted that they were too frightened to cross the Murray from Victoria .
    2 KB (272 words) - 21:06, 20 November 2015
  • ...t of 1858 I commenced working there. Before our party began operations the river had been more or less prospected for many miles, both up and down, and four ...ch creek." This claim we also worked out, following the gold into the river, so far as it was payable, nearly, if not quite, half way across. We subseq
    4 KB (632 words) - 21:04, 20 November 2015
  • ...and on the completion of the railway to Echuca to forward slates, via the Murray, to the Melbourne and provincial markets. ...the country bounded by Futter's Range, the Australian Alps, and the river Murray .
    5 KB (656 words) - 21:04, 20 November 2015
  • ...reas, some solitary and some in clusters, have been proclaimed high up the Murray, and in the mountain district between Merton and [[Mansfield|Mansfield]]. ...ast of the Sydney road and the country between the Goulburn and the Broken River.
    5 KB (819 words) - 21:06, 20 November 2015
  • ...der to promote unanimous action on the part of the people of the Ovens and Murray districts, the North-Eastern Railway League should be reconstructed by the ...road boards, and other local public bodies and societies in the Ovens and Murray districts, in congress assembled tit Wangaratta,
    5 KB (877 words) - 21:04, 20 November 2015
  • ...engineering resources of the colony upon a cheap single line to the Upper Murray, it would be neither novel nor extraordinary if the line should be open for ...e moment. Ostensibly the line is to he made for the purpose of tapping the Murray, and reaching the commerce of Riverina.
    5 KB (840 words) - 21:05, 20 November 2015
  • ...y applicable as an argument against making any railway at all to the Upper Murray. But the idea is based on incorrect data; and to prove it, we have only to ...£9,000 or £10,000 would be all that is required to lay the rails to the Murray.
    4 KB (751 words) - 21:05, 20 November 2015
  • ...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 importance to th ...ct of the present movement should be to get a railway to the Ovens and the Murray .
    5 KB (879 words) - 21:05, 20 November 2015
  • ...rendered both difficult and dangerous; and when there is a freshet in the river it becomes absolutely impassable, except by means of boats. Nothing has yet ...the Wodonga terminus of the North-eastern Railway to the bank of the river Murray. Those who voted in favour of such a measure could not have understood the
    6 KB (1,038 words) - 21:04, 20 November 2015
  • ...the day I saw them were obscured by the smoke of fires rolling across the Murray from Victoria; on a clear day there must be a splendid view from here. ...rne, at the same time of year, and is formed by the junction of the Swampy River and the Indi heading, from Kosciusko, and flowing almost parallel to one an
    5 KB (852 words) - 21:00, 20 November 2015
  • ...e, and the stones you descend to examine scorch like a hot-poker. True the Murray is close by; so are snakes, rocks, and snags - besides, bathing in the sun ...landscape or animal painter might do a more idle thing than stroll up this river for sketches from Nature. In the lagoons below '''Welaregang''' ducks are a
    4 KB (651 words) - 20:59, 20 November 2015
  • ...ghted Laps in the north of Europe, a town of New South Wales, on the River Murray, forty miles below Albury, and two miles before reaching it stand Mr Edward
    5 KB (748 words) - 20:59, 20 November 2015
  • ...hen the Victorian Railway terminating at Wodonga, on the other side of the river, shall have made Albury the depôt of the [[Riverina area|Riverine]] traffi ...in the tributary creeks, which has the ridiculous habit of boring into tho river leech, and burying his person in the carcass of the large leech. -Mem. : Ne
    5 KB (869 words) - 21:00, 20 November 2015
  • ...to Hume, the discoverer - or rather one of the discoverers-of the Hume or Murray, November 17th, 1824. Some person or persons the persons unknown, perhaps i The connecting link which spans the river between the two colonies is rightly named the '''Union bridge'''. It is a s
    5 KB (795 words) - 20:59, 20 November 2015
  • ...'rivers'' indeed ! if you call ''them'' rivers) the people look across the river to Victoria to Melbourne for their goods, and to Beechworth for their marke
    2 KB (357 words) - 21:00, 20 November 2015
  • Great Floods on the Murray ...since penetrated to that point. Mr Hopwood built a pontoon bridge over the Murray of 354 feet in length.
    4 KB (639 words) - 20:59, 20 November 2015
  • ...nger at any moment of the railway line at the back being overcome, and the Murray sweeping down upon the shops from the rear. Beyond these eleven shops there ...s dry. One or two buildings between the middle part of Hare-street and the river were in difficulties.
    4 KB (658 words) - 20:59, 20 November 2015
  • ...seshoe, the steamer passed some five or six buildings on both sides of the river. ...olwashing establishment. In order to pass from the ordinary channel of the river to the Horseshoe, the steamer had to navigate her way through numerous gum
    5 KB (864 words) - 21:00, 20 November 2015
  • ...er 1870]] [[Category:Australian Townand Country Journal]] [[Category:River Murray]] [[Category:1870]] [[Category:Echuca]] [[Category:Moama]] [[Category:Flood
    422 B (46 words) - 15:45, 20 November 2015
  • ...ividing Range, and strike into the Sydney road at Seymour, on the Goulburn River, 60 miles from Melbourne. ...]]; and the third from Benalla to [[Wodonga (2)|Wondonga]], near the River Murray, and opposite to the New South Wales town of Albury. The heavy works are al
    5 KB (857 words) - 21:06, 20 November 2015
  • '''THE BILLABONG AND THE MURRAY''' ...tion, sixteen miles from Yarra Yarra, and about the same distance from the Murray. It is the property and residence of Mr '''James Robertson''', and will be
    6 KB (957 words) - 21:00, 20 November 2015
  • The sixteen miles from Copabella [[Jingellac|Jingellic]] (Murray River) is a dreary journey. In places the country is rugged, and the traveller ha ...n I got out of the range and arrived at Jingellic, a cattle station on the Murray, thirty-two miles from Yarra Yarra. The distance is equal to fifty miles ov
    6 KB (1,079 words) - 21:00, 20 November 2015
  • ...c station; high mountains rising abrupt from three sides, the broad Murray River flows between, and a stretch of green fields on the fouth side combine to r ...ls of rock as high as Govett's Leap, through which escapes the head of the Murray, there called the [[../../places/plN_R/pl6Riverina_A.html|'''Indi''']], and
    6 KB (1,002 words) - 20:59, 20 November 2015
  • ...thickness. They are said to be harmless, and' excellent eating; perhaps my Murray friend will take the hint and try them. They are very fat now. ...Marraket'''. There is a very fine vineyard and orchard on the banks of the river below the house, and I was glad to eat of the grapes of the vineyard on tha
    6 KB (1,039 words) - 20:59, 20 November 2015
  • ...n honour of '''Hamilton Hume''', Esq., to commemorate his discover of this river on the 17th November, 1824. The other memorial is a large white gum tree be ...ials there is a wharf, and above that again a noble '''bridge''' spans the Murray, crossing which you are in the colony of Victoria, that wonderful result of
    6 KB (1,030 words) - 21:00, 20 November 2015
  • ...and cultivated fields, the Murray River winding, the Tumbarumba and Upper Murray Ranges in the distance; south and south-west, Albury, and beyond, in Victor Next week I start ‘down the Murray' to Corowa.
    5 KB (781 words) - 20:59, 20 November 2015
  • ...it was intended by the Government, should be 1 mile or two lower down the river, but the present natural site was eagerly taken possession of by the people ...g this is Mr Levin's private residence. At the rear and on the bank of the Murray is the Corowa steam flour mill the property of Mr Levin. It has just been c
    5 KB (789 words) - 20:59, 20 November 2015
  • ...large number of steamers are seen passing in the wool season and when the river is up, make a pleasant picture. The residence is of pine, and looks very co ...ed, being a mile from the main road, and the same distance from the Murray river. It is a much older township than Corowa. Police courts are hold periodical
    6 KB (1,002 words) - 20:59, 20 November 2015
  • ...This is appropriately named, for the [[Murray River at Kellygang|Murray]] river flows past the garden, and then takes complete bend. Corks thrown on the wa ...from it wool can be shipped at high water on board vessels trading on the Murray. The Boomoonooinana woolshed is two miles north of the home-station. About
    6 KB (1,035 words) - 21:00, 20 November 2015
  • ...nd running in a line north-west with the Deniliquin road joins the, Edward River, near the township of Deniliquin. It is fed by several smaller creeks, amon ...ategory:Boomoonoomana]] [[Category:1872]] [[Category:Riverina]] [[Category:Murray]] [[Category:history]] [[Category:New South Wales]]
    6 KB (969 words) - 20:59, 20 November 2015
  • ...ds Commissioner at Wellington. He was succeeded by Mr '''W [[Riverina area|Murray]],''' now of Orange. At the great sale of the Royal Banking Company's prope ...forming the great southern bend of the [[Murray River at Kellygang|Murray River]], the first settler was Mr '''Lewis''', of [[Moira|Moira]], now of Geelong
    6 KB (956 words) - 21:01, 20 November 2015
  • ...prisingly well, notwithstanding the grasshopper plague of this season. The river flows at the back of the house, and on its banks were native willows dippin ln conjunction with Warbreccan there is worked another station on the Murray about forty miles away. It is called '''[[Riverina area|Balubla]]''' . Its
    4 KB (690 words) - 20:59, 20 November 2015
  • [[Deniliquin|DENILIQUIN]] is about fifty miles from [[Echuca|Echuca]], on the Murray, to which pince a line of railway runs from Melbourne. The whole distance f ...s. The story is well known regarding the difficulty in crossing the Edward River, which could only be done by special favour of Taylor-and the use of his pu
    5 KB (729 words) - 21:00, 20 November 2015
  • ...apable of holding10,000 gallons, and the water is pumped up to it from the Murray by engines. "The Echuca White Elephant" it was called, for it was ...The wharf is 600 feet long and 40 feet higher than the summer level of the river. The Echuca ferry, formerly known as "Hopwood's," is just below t
    5 KB (850 words) - 21:00, 20 November 2015
  • ...reached. It is built on a slight eminence, and is kept by Mr '''Alexander Murray'''. ...ralian Townand Country Journal]] [[Category:Billabong]] [[Category:Edwards River]] [[Category:Riverina]] [[Category:1872]] [[Category:history]] [[Category:N
    7 KB (1,158 words) - 20:59, 20 November 2015
  • ...e, is a fine sheet of water (thrown buck by dams), from which abundance of Murray cod and porch are obtained. Other large sums of money have been expended in ...ralian Townand Country Journal]] [[Category:Billabong]] [[Category:Edwards River]] [[Category:Riverina]] [[Category:1872]] [[Category:Boonoke]] [[Category:h
    6 KB (1,033 words) - 21:00, 20 November 2015
  • ...ransacted in '''Fitzmaurice street''', which runs nearly parallel with the river. In this street are the Government offices, banks, mechanics' institute and
    6 KB (967 words) - 21:01, 20 November 2015
  • ...(640), the property of Messrs Devlin and Holloway, were driven across the river. The cattle were fine large animals, and were being sent to market. ...the dam and grand dam of many of the fine cattle written of on the Murray River. The blood represented in the Oak Hill herds includes the progeny of Grand
    7 KB (1,079 words) - 20:59, 20 November 2015
  • ...are two roads at Lower Tarcutta; one branches off to Albury and the Upper Murray, and the other to the right goes to Wagga Wagga and down the Murrumbidgee. ...bridge and take up the ground where I left off, 40 miles further down the river.
    5 KB (895 words) - 20:59, 20 November 2015
  • ...ts forward a claim to have been the first to attempt the navigation of the Murray in the Mary Ann, fully twelve months before Captain Cadell tried this feat.
    6 KB (1,080 words) - 20:59, 20 November 2015
  • ...ger than English ones. Eighteen miles from Balranald along thr bank of the river for a short distance, then through scrubby country and small plains, I came ...'Euston''' was impassable in consequence of the flood water from the great river, here very wide, having overflowed its banks in many places.
    6 KB (974 words) - 21:01, 20 November 2015
  • ...his, Mr Richardson drove me to the junction of the Darling with the Murray river, half a mile below the town. The scenery about here is rather picturesque,
    6 KB (985 words) - 20:59, 20 November 2015
  • ...o keep out of the way of the police, in his haunts at the head of the King River, and while he was still lying perdu Skelton took his departure for the old
    2 KB (368 words) - 21:06, 20 November 2015
  • '''THE MURRAY AND EDWARD RIVERS''' ...ock team crossing one of those dangerous spots near Wentworth. The winding river is seen to the left, breaking over its banks across the track.
    6 KB (996 words) - 20:59, 20 November 2015
  • ...situated at the junction of the [[The Billabong|Billabong]] with [[Edwards River|Edward]], is remarkable as being the oldest township in Riverina. Before De ...October 1872]] [[Category:Australian Town and Country Journal]] [[Category:Murray]] [[Category:Edwards]] [[Category:Riverina]] [[Category:1872]] [[Category:B
    6 KB (983 words) - 21:00, 20 November 2015
  • The residence is a nice comfortable one on [[Edwards River|Edward]] River, 50 miles from Deniliquin. Wishing to reach [[Deniliquin|Deniliquin]] next ...'Fred Peppin''''s station residence, situated in a nice bend of the Edward River. Wanganella and Morago stations join, and are situated between the Edward a
    4 KB (679 words) - 20:59, 20 November 2015
  • ...umbidgee River|Murrumbidgee]], the [[Edwards River|Edward]], the [[Lachlan River|Lachlan]], and the Darling, were to be followed up one side, and down the o ...ssed the country to Hay, on the Murrumbidgee, and up the left bank of that river to Wagga Wagga. The distance from Deniliquin to Hay is about 70 miles. I le
    7 KB (1,146 words) - 20:59, 20 November 2015
  • (FROM THE OVENS AND MURRAY ADVERTISER. FEB 17) ...structure when completed will be about 700ft; the span over the bed of the river proper, on each side of which the 7ft. cylinders are placed, about 120ft. A
    2 KB (365 words) - 21:05, 20 November 2015
  • ...ve and finest works of the kind in the colony. It spans the [[Murrumbidgee River|Murrumbidgee]], stretches across the flats (the site of old [[Riverina area ...y was short, but I had time while there to visit Victoria, by crossing the Murray to the rising township of Belvoir or [[Wodonga (2)|Wodonga]], on the opposi
    6 KB (968 words) - 20:59, 20 November 2015
  • ...from [[Benalla|Benalla]] township, 22 from Violet Town, 30 from the Murray River, and 38.from Wangaratta; in the centre of a large agricultural district, wh
    5 KB (882 words) - 21:06, 20 November 2015
  • Benalla station has been elected a few hundred yards beyond the river. The Government in the choice of site has favoured the bulk of the inhabita ...n laid. The contractors have to some extent been obliged to make the River Murray the base of operations. Rails and ironwork have been forwarded to Wodonga b
    4 KB (776 words) - 21:05, 20 November 2015
  • ...er next when the line is to be finished - or rather opened up to the River Murray at Wodonga about 60 miles beyond Benalla.
    4 KB (721 words) - 21:05, 20 November 2015
  • ...rs had not, like their brethren on the first section, to buy timber on the Murray, and get it brought down from Echuca to Melbourne by rail. ...ree quarters of a mile or a mile apart from one another. The fact that the river floods the land between prevents persons from occupying the vacant ground,
    4 KB (706 words) - 21:05, 20 November 2015
  • ...ulburn, from its rise in the Woods point ranges to its confluence with the Murray ? As compared with other districts, there has been absolutely nothing done ...ooey of Melbourne - only 75 miles, and along the valley of Victoria's only river, and our inexhaustible resources are allowed to languish from the neglect o
    5 KB (818 words) - 20:59, 20 November 2015
  • ...der of the line extending from Benalla to Wodonga, where it taps the River Murray, near Albury, a distance of about 66 miles. It was the original intention o
    4 KB (647 words) - 21:06, 20 November 2015
  • ...of a very large and important district of New South Wales adjacent to the Murray, and it was hoped that the trade of the Tumut district would also be obtain ...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 , the Lin
    6 KB (891 words) - 21:04, 20 November 2015
  • ...oods the rush of water in the Goulburn is tremendous, and the banks of the river are frequently overflown. It was considered safer to erect an iron bridge o ...in. in thickness, filled with concrete, and sunk 15ft below the bed of the river, until they rest upon a stratum of very hard cemented gavel. The cylinders
    5 KB (882 words) - 21:05, 20 November 2015
  • After crossing the [[Ovens River|Ovens]], the line passes through a mile or two of low swampy land known as ...y it would have to go above the effluence of Wodonga Creek from the Murray River, and then wind round and by a sharp curve get back to Albury.
    6 KB (970 words) - 21:05, 20 November 2015
  • ...them their wages, accompanied them to the Murray , and saw them across the river. Dooley rode one of the station horses, and had a saddle and bridle given h
    5 KB (889 words) - 21:05, 20 November 2015
  • ...ng day by day till, in some cases, only the roof is visible. The [[Edwards River|Edwards]] has risen l0ft 9in since my last, and is now rising about 12 ½ i == At Wahgunyah the [[Murray River at Kellygang|Murray]] is falling, and we may expect an ebb here in a day or two, unless we have
    4 KB (689 words) - 20:59, 20 November 2015
  • ...Government propose to erect a new [[Telegraph|telegraph]] line between the Murray and Deniliquin. along the railway line. The poles are to be of iron. The co ...|Rutherglen]], is appointed secretary to the [[Deniliquin|Deniliquin]] and Murray Railway Company in the room of Mr '''Foden''', whose business does not allo
    6 KB (1,040 words) - 21:01, 20 November 2015
  • ...Going over the plain beyond Wangaratta, when the King River and the Ovens River, which join there, were in flood was a task that required great courage and ...te hill, the greatest inclination of which is to the north, or towards the Murray . A creek, at the entrance to the town from the Melbourne approach, forms a
    6 KB (957 words) - 21:05, 20 November 2015
  • ...f Victoria and New South Wales, and a look at that grand inland river, the Murray, more especially as so many of our old acquaintances have migrated to those
    5 KB (756 words) - 21:00, 20 November 2015
  • ...ds at every homestead which indicates that we are nearing the banks if the Murray, which is gaining wide respect for its vineyards and its wine. After travel ...reefs, situated about 10 miles from Wodonga, on the Victorian side of the river. As there was no conveyance running to the diggings, and my time was so sho
    5 KB (802 words) - 21:00, 20 November 2015
  • ...le time before they get a “pass.” The inhabitants on both sides of the river are disgusted with the delay and drawback to the traffic between the two co ...travel from home. Nine o’clock next morning found me enjoying some fine Murray cod after which I made my way to Messrs '''Kyle and Hall’s''' butchery es
    4 KB (710 words) - 20:59, 20 November 2015
  • ...sent position in a half circle, so the town in bordered on one side by the river and on the other with fine rising ground reaching for several miles, rind r
    5 KB (849 words) - 21:02, 20 November 2015
  • ...give general satisfaction. The buildings are situated near the bank of the Murray, and of about the same extent as our [[Alexandra|Lion Brewery]]. We then ca ...go alongside, and they generally had to use the natural landing stage, the river bank. But these are now things of the past. You can see grass growing on th
    4 KB (673 words) - 20:59, 20 November 2015
  • ...River in honor of Hamilton Hume Esq, to commemorate the discovery of this river the 17th of November 1824."
    4 KB (773 words) - 21:00, 20 November 2015
  • ...t its railway system to Wodonga on the southern bank of the dividing River Murray, It now remains for the Government and Parliament of New South Wales to pus
    5 KB (760 words) - 21:06, 20 November 2015
  • ...fter four o'clock one of the travellers at the [[Moama|Moama]] side of the river, fifty feet from the ground, upon which seven men were working, suddenly fe William Godfrey, one of the men injured at the Murray-bridge, died before he reached, the Sandhurst Hospital. The lives of two or
    3 KB (553 words) - 21:00, 20 November 2015
  • ...ss the desperadoes succeed in stealing other animals after crossing of the Murray, which they have probably forded by at this time, their chance of escape wi
    9 KB (1,423 words) - 21:19, 20 November 2015
  • ...posite Howlong, and are supposed to be waiting an opportunity to cross the river. ...rd Kelly and his band of Marauders had taken Kennedy with them to the King River, scarcely anybody ventured to do more than hope that the gallant officer, w
    4 KB (582 words) - 21:05, 20 November 2015
  • ...armers whose holdings are situated near the Bungowanah Punt, on the Murray River . Adjoining their lands is a farm belonging to Neil Christian, but although ...terday to the effect that the gang had bailed up a puntman and crossed the river. If this statement is correct and the other report authentic, the punt refe
    6 KB (976 words) - 21:04, 20 November 2015
  • '''KELLYGANG ON THE MURRAY''' ...n the track which Kelly would be likely to follow if he wanted to make the Murray; but all reports of this sort, even when circumstantially related, have to
    6 KB (1,082 words) - 21:04, 20 November 2015
  • ...armed, and they demanded provisions. They threatened to throw him into the river if he did not get what they wanted. He was detained for three hours, and wa ...ler townships, which, it was thought, might be stuck up, and to patrol the Murray . The authorities adopted the plan of securing all the mounted men who had
    9 KB (1,498 words) - 21:04, 20 November 2015

View (previous 100 | next 100) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)