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  • == Cost of the hunt for the KellyGang == ...id 1879 funds were cut back. '''Links to the KellyGang''' , Summary of the cost , Fitzpatrick Incident , [[#26/10/1878|Stringybark Creek Murders]] , Sebast
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  • ..., thus setting still more of the police free for active patrol work. The [[Cost of KellyGang|expense]] incurred by the country on account of the Kelly outb
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  • ...se the matter, which he did by buying the animal outright for £15, thus [[Cost of KellyGang|saving]] the Government £4 and getting the horse into the bar
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  • ...le to distinguish friend from foe, as some of the prisoners found to their cost, and indeed the only constable in the force for whom most of them had reaso
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  • ...them. But the Scot refused point blank. He said he only had £9 and it had cost him much hard work to earn the money. Part with it he would not. Then ensue
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  • ...r in that expedition, become the hunted. That was an error in tactics that cost himself and two other brave men their lives.
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  • ...e treacherous scoundrel to the fearful threats that a few hours afterwards cost him his life.
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  • ...is it much more easy of credence that the capture of this gang should have cost the state, from first to last, over £115,000. And yet these are facts whic
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  • ...den Gully. Our first duty was to take out a licence to dig for gold, which cost us 30s. each, and then to sink a hole, which we bottomed, and took two or t
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  • ...elt great confidence in using them. Each of these breech loading shot guns cost the Government about £8. However, we had to purchase some reliable weapons
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  • ...to them. Most of them looked upon the affair as a capital joke, which had cost them nothing but their confinement. At half past ten o'clock they all agree
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  • == What the Gang cost the Colony == ...ges of those engaged in the search had been included in this estimate, the cost would have been over £115,000—a large price to pay for the capture of fo
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  • ...tion which may be supplied on CD ROM for $59.50 (tax, postage and handling cost included). Please email us at if you would like a copy. === ...f the '''KellyGang'''-Katie Kelly's behaviour-Kelly's distrust of Hart-The Cost of the Destruction of the '''KellyGang'''
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  • The Cost of the Destruction of the Gang
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  • ...ir brands.  These horses showed breeding.  The horses were shod, and the cost charged to the New South Wales Government, whose police force had boasted w
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  • ...oss of these police, but rather that I thought more of the prospect at any cost of ending the horrid uncertainty that had oppressed us all so long." H Mr Sadleir says:—"The whole cost of this evil business, in life and treasure, might have been avoided by a b
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  • ...ton; a further quantity of 22 tons were insufficient to pay expenses. The cost of crushing has been from 20s. to 30s. per ton, according to agreement. Man
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  • ...substantial flumes, erected at considerable expense to the projectors, the cost of the works being over £3,000; and it is very clear that the persons unde ...f the Yackandandah Pioneer Company alone, still incomplete, having already cost above £7,000.
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  • ...tertained unless the objector lodge £10 with the commission, to cover the cost of entertaining such objection if not sustained. The deposits of the succes ...f £10 for the lease and £10 fine on renewals for all works the estimated cost of the construction of which shall not exceed £l,000, and £5 additional f
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  • ...ns annually. If these goods were conveyed by railway, the reduction on the cost of carriage on that amount alone would be at least £3 per ton, or more tha
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  • ...y one per cent, on the outlay above the working expenses, the latter would cost the colony £12 10s. per mile per annum more than the railway. It was evide
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  • ...here-tin-ore, for instance which was at present seriously affected by the cost of carriage, but would become at once highly important if carriage was redu
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  • ...money taken at the door will need to be considerable in order to clear the cost of the undertaking. Once in every two or three evenings there will be the a
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  • ...the matter. It was of very little consequence whether any particular line cost £1,546 17s. 6d. or £1,500,000, because they not only got the advantage of ...railway would cost £1,595,000. He for his part, did not suppose it would cost a million. Besides the large number of persons a railway would attract, it
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  • ...om the seaboard and other parts of the colony, which greatly increases tho cost of living and the price of all imported articles, and cuts us off from a ma ...sengers to these districts will more than pay the interest required on the cost of a railway, and, according to recent reliable estimates of the highest au
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  • ...own the spur, and report to this meeting upon the best method and probable cost of carrying out the proposed improvements. His report was now lying on the
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  • ...of bridging over the fiats would be only £10,400 in excess of the average cost of the whole line. If arrangements could be made to cause the same track to ...d justify a line being made to the latter village? These twenty miles will cost, at, £9,300 per mile, £180,000. Can the 150 people at Wodonga or the 100
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  • ...his fact shows the great want of machinery in the Beechworth district. The cost of transit makes the machinery most expensive, and the inconveniences of th
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  • These [[Beechworth|Beechworth]] bye-laws have cost and will continue to cost our miners thousands of pounds annually. Knowing and seeing this why does n
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  • ...r £15,000. Deduct the value of the sheep, say at 5s each, £5,000; do the cost or value of the various improvements, such as house, woolshed, yards, fenci ...debenture rate of six per cent, per annum, it will be found that the total cost at the end of the thirteen years would be only 10s 5d per acre, and if the
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  • ...lower approach to the township, is a cheap and useful construction having cost only about £75. The Jamieson River is a beautiful clear stream of water, a
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  • 2. It would enormously enhance the cost of the work without presenting any corresponding advantage to the Governmen ...y great, as a new bridge would have to be constructed over that river at a cost of not less than £30,000, while the station would be thus placed entirely
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  • ..., and expensively working out some of these problems at their own risk and cost. For it cannot be denied either that such wine as you taste in Mr '''Fallon
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  • ...es; in fact, so good has been the speculation that the bridge has paid its cost nearly three times over, realizing forty per cent. per annum, the half-year
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  • ...excelled in George-street, at quite twenty per centum under George-street cost; and in purchasing my daily supply of "cut-up" from friend Ball (
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  • ...a benevolent asylum, an hospital which contains 80 patients, a gaol which cost the country £30,000 (and will hold, when completed, 250 prisoners), and a ...practically inexhaustible; and the quartz-reefs may be said - owing to the cost of machinery - to be almost untouched. Nor need I refer to the diamonds, pr
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  • ...to the extent of £1 for every £4 paid up; to provide rolling stock at a cost to the company of £20,000; and to work the line for £12,800 per annum. Th ...are of the burden inflicted on the colony by the railways constructed at a cost of over £40,000 a mile. To us this was a grievous weight, as the facilitie
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  • ...m that, it will combine grandeur with ornament to a remarkable degree. The cost will be about £8000, and it will accommodate about 1500 persons. ...nt is acknowledged to be the prettiest in the colony, and was erected at a cost of £5000; possibly borrowing the idea from the bees in an economy of room,
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  • .... Over this there is a fine bridge being erect by the Yea Road Board, at a cost of about £1300. The Broadford Road Board, it is said, intend to cut the br
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  • ...ilways can be constructed on the Fairlie principle at little more than the cost of m in roads, there can be no reasonable objection to a Goulburn Valley li
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  • The Corowa and Wahgunyah bridge is a substantial structure, and cost about £10,000. It was erected by, and is still the property of a private c
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  • ...ountry, the construction of a railway line has been strongly agitated. The cost has been estimated at £120,00. It is said that a private company would hav
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  • .... These works, about three and a half mile above Echuca, were erected at a cost of about £12,000. Successive floods considerably damaged the property, and
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  • ...been in the habit of spending the public money. The country is put to the cost of at least a couple of hundred pounds, to repay Mr Liston's influence with
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  • ...cess devoted to the reception of the large organ, now being completed at a cost of £7000. To be more minute: at the northern end of the hall is the organ ...n Australia, and one of the largest in the world, when complete, will have cost £7000. Its size may be judged from the fact that it is fitted with 4500 pi
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  • ...liamstown, Sandridge, Emerald Hill, and St. Kilda. The Melbourne Town Hall cost something less than .£100,000 including purchase of some of the land. Mess
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  • ...other improvements every where visible. One dam alone, pointed out to me, cost over £600. The books of the station show that during the past ten years up
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  • ...at pastoral show''' held there. Splendid show yards have been erected at a cost of £400 or £500, for sheep, cattle, and horses, though principally the fo ...rails on the way. This matter should be seen to at once, and for the small cost it is a disgrace to the "powers that be."
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  • ...bough the station. There are over 150 miles of fencing on Widgiewa, which cost about .£50 per mile. After an inspection of all these improvements one mus
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  • ..., and lagoons, ten dams and tanks were constructed on the runs, at a large cost. Great attention seems to be paid to the division of the stations into padd ...s, we came to the wool-shed which is a most extensive affair, erected at a cost of about £1500. It is one of the most lofty buildings of the kind that I h
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  • ...girls, and two smaller rooms. It is built of brick, with shingle roof, and cost nearly £2500. Mr A G Jones headed the building list with a munificent gift ...is fine building, which has only recently been completed, was erected at a cost of nearly £3000. Mr James Markey was the contractor. The front elevation o
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  • ...neteen feet by seventeen feet, and the vestry fourteen by twelve feet. Its cost was £1500. The Revs Father '''Bermingham''' and '''Dunn''' officiate. A sc ...ile of the town, is a good one, and is paled in all round. The grand stand cost upwards of £400; it is a well constructed, spacious, and elegant arrangeme
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  • ...assignees and others, who have known him for years. I believe the theatre cost some £10 000, was burned, and ruined the proprietor, who previously was a
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  • ...t, between 70 and 80 miles of fencing have been erected; some of this at a cost of £50 or £60 per mile. The residence of Mr Bear is a very picturesque on
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  • ...ter supply by the construction of nine or ten dams, wells, and tanks, at a cost of over £5000. These statistics will give an idea of the expenditure conne
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  • ...gard to the drafting pens and yards connected with it. It was erected at a cost of nearly £32000. It may be here mentioned that a larger and more expensiv ...oks show the improvements on the station during the past six years to have cost £15,000. These are remarkable facts, as showing how the resources of River
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  • ...ne, having stoves and other cooking apparatus, and a pantry adjoining. The cost of this building was £350. A missionary is kept by Mr Learmonth on the sta
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  • ...town and district. The church was only opened on the 2nd of June last, and cost about £1000. The contractors are Messrs '''Witcombe''' Bros; it is only ju ...or reading desk on a raised platform. The church is faithfully built, and cost only £500. The Rev W '''Weston''' is the minister.
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  • ...e waters of the Lachlan by damming. The river is dammed in two places at a cost of over £800. One of the dams is 300 yards in length. About fourteen miles
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  • ...surrounded the courthouse. These improvements were carried out at the sole cost of Mr Mitchell. ...he rear is used ns a battery room, and stables. The whole was erected at a cost of .£1500.
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  • ...gle wire now stored at Longwood, the use of which would of course save the cost of carriage, and prevent waste of time. Longwood has a double or repeating
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  • ...g are 45 feet by 18 feet; and the spirelet will be 45 feet high. The total cost of the building will be £700. Mr Webber is the contractor. The foundation ...f Mr and Mrs Thomas Alcock. It is built of brick, and was completed at a I cost of ,£1200. The large school-room is 50 feet long and 14 feet wide; and the
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  • ...he high character 'of their flocks. The stations are greatly improved at a cost of many thousands of pounds.
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  • ...aving brick kitchen, &c. It has only been completed a short time, at a cost of £1200, by Mr Samuel Porter, the proprietor of the hotel. What surprised
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  • .... It is all fenced in, and has on it upwards of 250 miles of fencing which cost from £50 to £80 per mile. Large sums have been expanded in obtaining wate
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  • ..., Mr Whitelaw, suggested at the last Council meeting that a new punt, at a cost of £150, would meet the requirements of the traffic until the Council was
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  • ...ks, and a pump placed there. This would give at clear supply of water at a cost of about £15. No £15 could be better spent.
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  • ...rk, Mr Thomas Dalziel, engineer to the united shire, said that the average cost of constructing main roads in the shire, where there was not much rock-cutt
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  • ...dagai. The total length of the bridge is three-quarters of a mile, and the cost £45,000. [[Riverina area|Adelong crossing]], eight miles; [[Riverina area|
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  • '''COST OF JUSTICE''' ...From statistics which have been furnished to us we learn that the average cost of sending prisoners from Violet Town to Beechworth is £5 2s. 6d., and fro
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  • ...tream but in the time of floods a great body of water is brought down. The cost of the bridge may be stated at £12,000. Two or three incomplete bridges of
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  • ...River and between the Ovens and Reids Creek. The bridge at Wangaratta will cost about as much as the Benalla bridge, £30,000. About 30 miles of permanent
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  • ...nch post office, we should hear of a considerable amount of grumbling. The cost of the bridge at Benalla is estimated at £30,000. The contractors will not
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  • ...d cost of the building is £3,000 or £5 per sitting, being about half the cost of a stone building of similar dimensions and one third less than one of br
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  • ...ntry would have been attended to sooner had not the first estimates of the cost of railway construction in this direction deterred any Government from unde ...owever, that substantial railways could be constructed at a very much less cost than had formerly been the case, and at length some surveys were made with
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  • ..., the average cost of the line has been £5,500 per mile, exclusive of the cost of rails. fastenings, stations, and water supply. The total cost has been about what the engineer-in-chief estimated. The M'Culloch Governme
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  • ...upport the permanent way are of wrought iron, and weigh 220 tons more. The cost of the bridge is about £23,000. The ironwork was supplied and erected by t
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  • ...river must originally have been very much lower than it is at present. The cost of this bridge is about £30,000. The girders for it were supplied by Messr ...width. The approaches consist of 14 openings, each of 40ft. The estimated cost of this structure is £30,000. It will not be completed much before the end
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  • ...ng skill is required, and there are few lines in the country whose average cost per mile will not be larger than this. If a start were made, the shares wil
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  • ...he last section being through granite, and over a difficult country, would cost £15 000 to £20 000 a mile involving gradients which would require separat
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  • ...wells. Twenty-four dams at a cost of over £6000; and fourteen wells, at a cost of £7000 have been constructed on Burrabogie. One of the dams throws the w
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  • ...lay any claim to architectural display or any unnecessary adornment, will cost something like £800, including the price of the land on which it is built.
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  • ...y and night. For this privilege the Government charge five per cent on the cost of the wire need by the Company. The old telegraph line is to be taken down
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  • ...t 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 districts can show anything l
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  • ...'Yallock''', which Mr Beatty, of the Gap, bought from Mr Lyall lately at a cost of £23,000 (and dirt-cheap at that if the appearance of the animals grazin
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  • ...or is not good, but I am afraid it is overdone. The latest selections will cost £20 to clear and fence per acre.
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  • ...number of stonebreakers were at work. Of course Government undertakes the cost and erection of all public buildings, and these are very creditable indeed,
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  • ...ost per mile of the whole line has been £4,559. The great contrast in the cost of the two sections is, however, easily explained by the character of the c ...creek is 30ft. It is an ordinary pile bridge, as are all on this line; and cost £650.
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  • ...to the cost of the line. These culverts are 10ft in diameter, and vary in cost from £400 to £700, according to their length. The contractors have carrie ...ave said on a previous occasion of this kind, improvements that reduce the cost of transport are calculated to lower the price of every article brought to
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  • ...£12, and the journey took 48 hours, while the carriage of a ton of goods cost £200, and now it would be taken for as many shillings. He had to thank the
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  • ...finished, and after much delay the whole was completed. However, though it cost a lump sum of £17,000, sufficient surely to make six mles of tramway passa
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  • ...pense, however, of clearing off the timber is a very heavy item, it having cost on an average about £.10 per acre. Of this land Mr Robinson has about 500
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  • ...has been a general reduction in the ''personnel'', and consequently in the cost, of the civil service. The Gazette announces that the Governor in Council,
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  • ...pen to them, most of them looked upon the affair as a good joke, which had cost them nothing beyond their confinement. At length, at half past 10 o'clock,
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  • ...the machines. The wheat cut was worthless either for grain or hay, and the cost of seed, labour and time; I consider, was quite thrown away.
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  • ...d the almost absurd difference between dirty and clean seed, the labor and cost would be well expended. In some paddocks, five shillings an acre would be q
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  • ...ief Secretary who suggested to the two councils that they should share the cost of getting a surveyor to determine the precise location of the spot on the
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  • ...r, the day on which the murder was committed, those defies of the law have cost at least from £12,000 to £15,000.
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  • ...uca]] and [[Moama|Moama]], for public traffic. It may be premised that the cost of the work is to be borne in equal portions by the Government of Victoria
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  • ...owers of tracking are very great the Kelly gang may soon find out to their cost. In conclusion it may be well to state that the inspectors of native police
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  • ...hould take the road under their management. It was estimated that it would cost £1000 to put it in a state of proper repair and Mr Patterson promised that ...ital of £5000. We should like to see a full return of what the supply has cost the town first to last, the amount of water rate for each year, and the who
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