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  • ...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
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  • ...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.
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  • 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.
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  • ...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
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  • ...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
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  • ...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 .
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  • ...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
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  • ...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 .
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  • ...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.
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  • ...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,
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  • ...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.
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  • ...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.
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  • ...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 .
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  • ...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
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  • ...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
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  • ...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
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  • ...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
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  • ...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
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  • ...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
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  • ...'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
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