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  • ...d 43 ½ bushels to the aera. '''Tumut''' boasts an excellent school-house, and the teacher, I am given to understand by the parents, is the right man in t ...is an excellent idea. The number on the roll for the past (?) year is 85, and the average attendance reaches 69.4.
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  • [[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 12/3/1870 (2)|see previous]] ...e crowning summit. These are forty miles distant from Tooma to their base, and the day I saw them were obscured by the smoke of fires rolling across the M
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  • [[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 12/3/1870 (2)|see previous]] ...he little head drew to land, diving under dead sticks, leaves, and timber, and drew after it a black body, four feet long, passing under the jays, who see
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  • ...hoice vines, competing for fame and excellence in the markets of Melbourne and Sydney. ...side-pruning, which; seems to have been avoided in the larger vineyards - and it is calculated that the yield of must will not be , more than half of wha
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  • [[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 19/3/1870|see previous]] ...vineyard. The proprietor was going to Corowa, having met with an accident, and referred me to his second in command, who would give me every information.
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  • [[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 19/3/1870 (2)|see previous]] ...hite clusters. As a general rule we may say black grapes for strong soils, and white grapes for light soils.
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  • ...op to a square yard may fall; but as a rule it is a comparatively rainless country. On remarking to a resident, in the simple language of a correspondent of t ...hade - will have to be imported into our designs before we shall lay out a town perfectly suited to tho dry, hot, tempestuous summers of Australia.
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  • [[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 26/3/1870|see previous]] ...lars were fairly proficient, and the teachers hard at work 85 on the roll, and 65 in average attendance for February. Ophthalmia, terribly prevalent, but,
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  • [[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 26/3/1870 (2)|see previous]] ...brick; the farming neighbour hood being at least as extensively settled on and around Brown's Plains as the New South Wales side.
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 2/4/1870 (2)|see next]]) ...of nine summers, was a host in herself, and posted me up in the geography and topography of the neighbourhood in five minutes.
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 2/4/1870|see previous]]) ...n; but the site is rather low. Two steam mills "grind the corn," and at Mr '''Chapman''''s, of the firm of Chapman Brothers, Sydney, preparation
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  • ...ke, "blanket bay" can be reached at half-an-hour after midnight, and the Sydney cit., who had all his Monday at business in the metropolis, may ...arren and miserable enough. This, however, is better taken note of by day; and of it more ''anon'', as they of stage proclivities have it.
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 25/6/1870|see previous]]) ...d. Strolling along, the streets had positively an appearance of desertion, and not a soul was to be seen after leaving the precincts of our hotel.
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  • '''The [[Wool Wheat and Meat|Sheep]] at [[Jerilderie|Jerilderie]] Show,''' Dr. '''Louis Ducrow''', a gentleman of acknowledged experience as a judge and a classer of sheep, has furnished to the Wagga Wagga Express some critical
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 20/8/1870|see previous]]) ...e London market has for the last eight years averaged about 2s 11d per lb. and particular a samples have gone as high as 4s l½d. Those sheep are capable
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  • '''ECHUCA AND MOAMA DEVASTATED''' ...equence was that Hopwood's Ferry became the most favourite crossing place, and the Victorian rail way system has long since penetrated to that point. Mr H
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 19/11/1870|see previous]]) ...nty, for a deph of eighteen foot all over his floor; the goods in the shop and the mattresses in the bed rooms wore only a foot clear.
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 19/11/1870 (2)|see previous]]) ...the high land on their own side. The flood rose there during Sunday night and compelled the inhabitants to clear out at the earliest dawn on Monday. On t
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  • ...y:1870s]] [[Category:November 1870]] [[Category:Australian Townand Country Journal]] [[Category:River Murray]] [[Category:1870]] [[Category:Echuca]] [[Categor
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  • ...re this rot has not  appeared the crop is everywhere looking magnificent, and a fine sample of wine, is expected. ...thoroughly well acquainted with the disease in the Hunter River vineyards, and ho at once declared the specimens to be affected with the true oidium. It i
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  • ...wearing the golden shoes he was the property of Mr Brown, of Wagga Wagga, and who was in Beechworth with his circus at that time. ...gory:1870s]] [[Category:April 1871]] [[Category:Australian Townand Country Journal]] [[Category:Beechworth]] [[Category:1850s]] [[Category:Gold shoes]] [[Cate
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  • ...ed, but all tho reds have throughout the district yielded abundantly well, and above the average in quantity. ...tively small crop, the total amount of new wine offered for sale in Albury and Corowa was greatly in excess of the yield of former years.
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  • '''THE BILLABONG AND THE MURRAY''' [[Riverina area|YARRA YARRA]], the estate and station of '''James M'Laurin,''' Esq., M.L.A., is a magnificent property, a
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 7/9/1872|see previous]]) ...y are all settled down for winter quarters, as if they intended to remain, and believed in the diggings.
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 7/9/1872 (2)|see previous]]) ...g grapes and figs in the garden; barns filled with the riches of the soil, and warm hearted hospitable people I found at Ournie.
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 7/9/1872 (3)|see previous]]) ...a rumour that a council of believers and unbelievers will shortly be hold; and that the gentlemen composing it will be of unimpeachable reputation.
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  • ...its rise from the time when there were gum trees in the principal streets, and an old shanty near the bridge. The present population of the municipality i ...t wanted but the other old explorer, Mr. Hamilton Hume, who is still alive and hearty in Yass, to be present to complete the scene.
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 13/4/1872|see previous]]) ...der tuition. The education ,in the convent seems to be of a high standard, and quite equal to any ladies' school in the colony.
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 13/4/1872 (2)|see previous]]) ...cellars, where we were introduced to Mr P. E. Fallon, Mr W. Evans Dignam, and Mr J D '''Lankester''', all connected with the establishment.
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  • ...ory:1870s]] [[Category:April 1872]] [[Category:Australian Town and Country Journal]] [[Category:Albury]] [[Category:1872]] [[Category:history]]
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 27/4/1872|see previous]]) ...rmed that is easily worked and as I have seen is capable of a fine polish, and hardens considerably on being exposed to the atmosphere. Immense blocks of
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 27/4/1872 (2)|see previous]]) ...zed traces of ironstone, clay, sand, limestone, copper, and other minerals and fossils in it.
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  • '''COROWA AND WAHGUNYAH''' ...t up into allotments with a judicious number of reserves on which churches and other public buildings are now erected.
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 18/5/1872|see previous]]) ...that such a system in New South Wales would greatly be taken advantage of, and our revenue would be increased. On the uniform principle (as a uniform 2d p
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 18/5/1872 (2)|see previous]]) ...of the vineyard is planted with vines four feet apart or 1700 to the acre and the other half is planted seven feet apart, about 900 to the acre. No diffe
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 18/5/1872 (3)|see previous]]) ...e past ten years at least £25,000 has been expended in fencing, clearing, and the erection of buildings for station purposes.
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  • ...ttended with the most gratifying success. Year after year flocks improved, and a few good men have already their side-boards decked with trophies won by t ...characteristic of the great Riverina squatages. A really well kept garden, and rows of poplars, with hedges of prickly acacia, ornaments the grounds. The
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 25/5/1872|see previous]]) ...quin. It is fed by several smaller creeks, amongst which is the Bellabulla and Warnock. About two miles from the bridge a white gate on the left hand side
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  • ...eat wrestler, says the local legend. A giant was he, 6 feet 7 inches high, and having a frame powerful in proportion. He died in Deniliquin only a dozen y ...any's properties, Mr '''James Tyson''' bought the Deniliquin runs (three), and, after holding them some years, sold to Landale Brothers, the present owner
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  • ...egory:1870s]] [[Category:June 1872]] [[Category:Australian Townand Country Journal]] [[Category:Deniliquin]] [[Category:1872]] [[Category:history]] [[Category
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 1/6/1872 (2)|see previous]]) ...ould mention, stands on three acres of land to the south-west of the town, and is under the immediate management of Mr H L Lindsay.
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  • ...m Melbourne. The whole distance from Deniliquin to Echuca being over level country, the construction of a railway line has been strongly agitated. The cost ha ...ing the Edward River, which could only be done by special favour of Taylor-and the use of his punt. A pound fare was charged for crossing, subject to bein
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 1/6/1872 (2)|see previous]]) ...his. Travellers can point out many districts with much undeveloped wealth, and resources almost deserted for the want of a few leading minds whose example
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 8/6/1872 (2)|see previous]]) ...he latter. In this instance system was set at defiance, confusion reigned, and in the Babel the master was not Die least noisy of the lot. To my mind the
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 8/6/1872 (3)|see previous]]) ...s thoroughly enjoyed on that fine afternoon. We passed through open forest country, mp the left bank of the Murray for several miles.
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 8/6/1872 (4)|see previous]]) ...ploys 160 hands, two steamers, answering as tugs, and four or live barges; and in wages he pays over£1500 per month.
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  • ...egory:1870s]] [[Category:June 1872]] [[Category:Australian Townand Country Journal]] [[Category:Melbourne]] [[Category:1872]] [[Category:history]]
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang15/6/1872|see previous]]) ...ian Church. ''' The residence of the Catholic Bishop, the Scotch College, and the Catholic College, are also here.
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang15/6/1872 (2)|see previous]]) ...called for, and Messrs. Barnes and Reed obtained the first prize of £200 and Mr John Barry, also of Melbourne, the second prize of £50 for the second h
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang15/6/1872 (3)|see previous]]) ...well furnished and fitted up. The panelled doors and ceilings, sideboards, and robe-chests, of polished cedar, are in good taste with the character of the
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  • ...egory:1870s]] [[Category:June 1872]] [[Category:Australian Townand Country Journal]] [[Category:Billabong]] [[Category:Edwards River]] [[Category:Riverina]] [
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 22/6/1872|see previous]]) And now it's a scratch or a boil;
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 22/6/1872 (2)|see previous]]) ...fficulty. There were about a dozen bower-birds at this rendezvous, running and playing about.
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 22/6/1872 (3)|see previous]]) .... In a short time it disappeared, but in its place came other water views, and as we proceeded the lakes sometimes seemed so close that we had difficulty
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  • ...rivate bar is to the left, past which a second hall runs to the public bar and private apartments of the host, Mr. Menzies. ...y and sumptuously furnished. Bath-rooms, where shower, ''plunge'', vapour, and "needle" baths may be had, are also on this floor.
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 22/6/1872 (5)|see previous]]) ...for the district. After leaving Kyneton, we passed more comfortable farms and homesteads.
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 22/6/1872 (6)|see previous]]) ...t pleasant evening was spent, and early on the following morning refreshed and in exuberant spirits, I was prepared for an inspection of this fine homeste
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 22/6/1872 (7)|see previous]]) ...rina area|Gillenbah lnn]]''' . The public-house is a large brick-building, and is kept by Mrs '''[[Riverina area|Hyland]]''' . Continuing the road up the
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  • ...t also is supplied with water from water-holes and dams. Sheep and cattle, and a few hundred head of horses arc bred on the station. Mr Lupton resides in ...is about half a mile from the roadside. A fine lagoon is before the door, and at the rear of the house there is a good lucerne paddock.
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  • ...ike in time, features by no means attractive. "We pity first, endure, and then embrace." ...will form a tolerable idea of some of the principal business places in the town.
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 6/7/1872|see previous]]) ...mas W Hammond, Walter O Windeyer, F A Thompson, J S Lavender, J J Fernell, and Francis E Murphy, Esquires;''' '''E H Thompson''', Esq., is CPS.
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  • ...retty vine-covered cottage next to it is the residence of Dr '''Morgan''', and that on the hill side, further on, the residence of Dr '''Robinson'''. ...and 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
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  • ...teen by twelve feet. Its cost was £1500. The Revs Father '''Bermingham''' and '''Dunn''' officiate. A school is held in the church on week days. Mr O'Doh ...been suggested that they could build a splendid edifice in any part of the town from the proceeds of the sale of the land on which the present church stand
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  • ...olloway, were driven across the river. The cattle were fine large animals, and were being sent to market. ...this is done in stockyards, they often by their united force break through and get away, as many a poor stockman knows to his sorrow.
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 20/7/1872|see previous]]) ...rick and wood is on the river bank. Au orchard is in front; and large oaks and willows dip their foliage gracefully in the water.
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 20/7/1872 (2)|see previous]]) ...]]''' , the station homestead of the previous owner. Poplar trees, shrubs, and hedges surround the premises. A good orchard of two acres was in the rear.
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 20/7/1872 (3)|see previous]]) ...nagogue of the Jewish residents, but now, I am told, used by the Wesleyans and others.
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 20/7/1872 (4)|see previous]]) ...to all good colonists. There you can, at times, find the reckless gamblers and thieves, whose voices are only heard when they quarrel about loaded dice, m
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  • ...ry:1870s]] [[Category:August 1872]] [[Category:Australian Town and Country Journal]] [[Category:Murrumbidgee]] [[Category:Riverina]] [[Category:1872]] [[Categ
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 17/8/1872|see previous]]) ...lbury and the Upper Murray, and the other to the right goes to Wagga Wagga and down the Murrumbidgee. The latter I followed.
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 17/8/1872 (2)|see previous]]) ...y entrance to the town. This is also a large building, in a good position, and under the management of host '''Strayfull'''.
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 17/8/1872 (3)|see previous]]) ...hey were so burnt than not a piece could be found larger than a halfcrown; and positive identification was impossible. Some distance beyond, a short time
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  • ...ry:1870s]] [[Category:August 1872]] [[Category:Australian Town and Country Journal]] [[Category:Murrumbidgee]] [[Category:Riverina]] [[Category:1872]] [[Categ
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 31/8/1872|see previous]]) ...attle. The sheep are chiefly the descendants of the flocks of Bayley, Cox, and other celebrated western breeders. The wool from North Yanco last year aver
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 31/8/1872 (2)|see previous]]) ...ms are on the back of the run. It is stocked by about 4000 head of cattle, and over 200 head of horses.
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 31/8/1872 (3)|see previous]]) ...the plains for six miles brought me into some splendid salt-bush country, and then I found myself at Bringagee, the beginning of the leviathan station of
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  • ...he '''Gwynnes, D'Archys, and Rudds''' are perhaps all that are left on the country first taken up by them. ...hough half a mile from, the roadside. It is prettily designed, well built, and tastefully furnished. A well arranged, geometrically planned garden is arou
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 7/9/1872 (5)|see previous]]) ...y the infant municipality. The camp fires have long ago been extinguished, and the weary traveller from the Darling, the Paroo, or the Great Gulf itself,
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  • ...ghnan, P G Milne, W Threlkeld, J M Gordon, J É Blake, George Butterworth, and Alfred Tartakover'''. ...ate a better feeling in schools than would exist without it. Altogether Mr and Mrs Hyde deserve success for the creditable manner in which the school is b
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 14/9/1872|see previous]]) ...cial mails made up. Mr '''R S Arnott''' performs the double duties of post and telegraph master.
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 14/9/1872 (2)|see previous]]) ...nd contains twenty-two rooms, beside billiard &c. It does a good trade and is carried on by Mr '''William Sabine'''. The public school is opposite to
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  • ...Mr '''H G Lomax'''. About thirty men are employed here in the busy season; and 120 bales of wool can be scoured weekly. The Victorian judges at the last H ...oss of which would have been impossible to replace) I resumed the journey, and it was after dark when I reached the next station, ten miles lower down the
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 21/9/1872|see previous]]) ...glad to accept his invitation to remain for the night, being pretty tired and disgusted with my lignum experience.
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  • ...ew years ago a party consisting of Mr '''Peter Tyson''', Mr '''D'Archy''', and a number of shearers, rode into the reed beds amongst these nests, which th ...station the property of Mr Tyson. The residence is a fine brick building, and before it there is a splendid lake.
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  • ...had a row on the lake in a well built boat. It was a most enjoyable pull, and the lake, like others in the district, was alive with swans, pelicans wild ...pines - all fine, well - shaped trees. Meilmam carries about 12,000 sheep, and 5000 head of cattle. The short track to '''Euston''' was impassable in cons
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  • ...1870s]] [[Category:September 1872]] [[Category:Australian Town and Country Journal]] [[Category:Murrumbidgee]] [[Category:Riverina]] [[Category:1872]] [[Categ
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 7/9/1872 (8)|see previous]]) ...nnection with the church there is a Sunday school attended by 90 scholars, and nine teachers, at the head of which is the indefatigable clergyman, Mr Cock
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  • '''THE MURRAY AND EDWARD RIVERS''' ...avy rain the flood waters overflow the river banks and fill these lagoons, and cover the roadway. Considerable difficulty is experienced in travelling, pa
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 19/10/1872 (2)|see previous]]) ...ridges, and a few creeks, almost swimable, another ten miles was got over, and Landale's woolshed was passed to the right. Following a wire fence running
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 19/10/1872 (2)|see previous]]) ...ks. As the day wore on, my progress was little better than a snail's pace, and the track was frequently lost, crossing the plains. I was at length obliged
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  • ...occasional flying off at a tangent right and left to inspect the Billabong and back blocks. I merely mention this to show the difficulty of clearly indica ...or an hour refused to advance; then I got him to go on for a mile further, and he again jibbed. The best temper in the world would have been ruffled by su
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 2/11/1872 (2)|see previous]]) ...re, refreshments were appreciated. Towards mid-day we reached [[Hay|Hay]], and for the first time for a month the punt over the Murrumbidgee was crossable
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 2/11/1872 (2)|see previous]]) ...'s run. Two miles further we came to the home station, called '''Tubbo''', and were hospitably received by the manager, Mr '''James Burt'''. Mr '''Peters'
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  • ...themselves properly established here. I cannot understand how this large, and wealthy district is neglected in the way at is by the Sydney Government. ...n neglecting the great salt bush plains. There are several men in the town and a dozen or so in the district, who are capable of discharging the duties of
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  • ...There are three of these, the first separated from the second by a swamp, and the second from the third by a range of low hills. ...illy country, and occasionally good views were obtained-deep gullies below and mountains clad in purple in the far distance.
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 5/4/1873|see previous]]) ...reakfasted at the hotel there. We had now travelled 282 miles from Sydney, and were still upwards of ninety miles from our destination.
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  • ...onths, for disease is pretty rife here in the shape of dysentery, measles, and its satellites. ...Deniliquin]], which is situated on a much lower level than the south side; and these two cases in particular occurred on the very margin of a swamp:
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  • ...nd Company, on the [[Murrumbidgee River|Murrumbidgee]], 25 miles from Hay, and 470 from Sydney. ..., the others by dams and wells. Twenty-four dams at a cost of over £6000; and fourteen wells, at a cost of £7000 have been constructed on Burrabogie. On
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  • ...lan it is abundant. In these favoured, parts fat stock are being mustered, and large mobs of stock travelling for feed. After such an unfavourable season, ...g to the Lachlan are 8000 [[Riverina area|Landale]]'s, 8000 M'Farland’s, and 7000 Parker's.
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  • [[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 1/5/1875|still earlier]] . ...y mention that the grave was about live font deep, and the rugs, blankets, and other worldly goods of the poor unfortunate, were burled with her.
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  • ...ery fair notion of Venice. In 1870 it was about five feet higher than now, and boats were plying to the Eight-mile.''' == ...ioned below will keep our Victorian friends in dripping for a week or two, and in every direction from the interior they are swarming this way, like ants
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  • [[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 1/5/1875 (3)|see erlier]]. == Messrs. Louis Morash and James Mahood have been appointed members et the Public School Board, at [[J
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  • [[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 1/5/1875 (4)|see earlier]] ...g sheep on a run and not branding them with a registered brand. Fined £3, and 5s 6d costs. ==
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  • ...ho are much against the movement. The petition will be presented this week and numbers are anxiously awaiting the result, as it is a question which deeply ...ddresses were delivered by several gentlemen from Melbourne and elsewhere, and the whole affair passed off with great success.
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  • ...is the large and handsome warehouse of Mr W A '''Terrance''', auctioneer, and in close proximity are the new warehouses of Messrs '''O'Callaghan'''. Brot ...st week, another for the Wesleyan denomination, which is nearly completed, and a third for the Episcopalians, which is expected to be finished by the end
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  • ...n a branch here, The '''NSW Bank''' is the longest established, and the '''Australian Joint Stock''' makes the fourth. ...nced an action for the recovery of the ground whereon the building stands, and two of the principal masons have been served with writs. The trial case com
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 16/10/1875|see previous]]) ...nding its way to [[Melbourne|Melbourne]] in vast quantities by road, rail, and river.
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 16/10/1875 (2)|see previous]]) ...f our population at present. There are some fine brawny fellows among them and it does one good to see them dispose of a quart of beer. There is a roadsid
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  • ...eople forebodings about drought are visitations as regular as the seasons, and they seem to take a lively satisfaction in looking at the miserable probabi ...ifference in the houses; some don't do mach of a Saturday afternoon trade, and these of coarse go in for the Saturday half-holiday, whilst others, who do
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 6/11/1875|See previous]]) ...piece of ground at Newtown, and are about to erect a large hall, and lodge and reading rooms.
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  • ...g. I noticed, however, a defect which you protested against in one of your Town Talk articles - the wide mouths of the boxes enable the anxious to read pla ...hose in your colony. The public office is not worthy of a large community, and it closes at 8 o'clock. There is a bell concealed about the letter-box some
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 1/1/1876|see previous]]) ...either corporate or private, has made, a fine lagoon out of a dirty swamp, and sailing matches take place on it.
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 1/1/1876 (2)|see previous]]) ...of produce and meat by the hundred, as well as Cheap Jacks, medicine men, and other leathern lunged itinerants who keep up an unceasing din.
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  • ...d 43 ½ bushels to the aera. '''Tumut''' boasts an excellent school-house, and the teacher, I am given to understand by the parents, is the right man in t ...is an excellent idea. The number on the roll for the past (?) year is 85, and the average attendance reaches 69.4.
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  • [[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 12/3/1870 (2)|see previous]] ...e crowning summit. These are forty miles distant from Tooma to their base, and the day I saw them were obscured by the smoke of fires rolling across the M
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  • [[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 12/3/1870 (2)|see previous]] ...he little head drew to land, diving under dead sticks, leaves, and timber, and drew after it a black body, four feet long, passing under the jays, who see
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  • ...hoice vines, competing for fame and excellence in the markets of Melbourne and Sydney. ...side-pruning, which; seems to have been avoided in the larger vineyards - and it is calculated that the yield of must will not be , more than half of wha
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  • [[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 19/3/1870|see previous]] ...vineyard. The proprietor was going to Corowa, having met with an accident, and referred me to his second in command, who would give me every information.
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  • [[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 19/3/1870 (2)|see previous]] ...hite clusters. As a general rule we may say black grapes for strong soils, and white grapes for light soils.
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  • ...op to a square yard may fall; but as a rule it is a comparatively rainless country. On remarking to a resident, in the simple language of a correspondent of t ...hade - will have to be imported into our designs before we shall lay out a town perfectly suited to tho dry, hot, tempestuous summers of Australia.
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  • [[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 26/3/1870|see previous]] ...lars were fairly proficient, and the teachers hard at work 85 on the roll, and 65 in average attendance for February. Ophthalmia, terribly prevalent, but,
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  • [[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 26/3/1870 (2)|see previous]] ...brick; the farming neighbour hood being at least as extensively settled on and around Brown's Plains as the New South Wales side.
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 2/4/1870 (2)|see next]]) ...of nine summers, was a host in herself, and posted me up in the geography and topography of the neighbourhood in five minutes.
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 2/4/1870|see previous]]) ...n; but the site is rather low. Two steam mills "grind the corn," and at Mr '''Chapman''''s, of the firm of Chapman Brothers, Sydney, preparation
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  • ...ke, "blanket bay" can be reached at half-an-hour after midnight, and the Sydney cit., who had all his Monday at business in the metropolis, may ...arren and miserable enough. This, however, is better taken note of by day; and of it more ''anon'', as they of stage proclivities have it.
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 25/6/1870|see previous]]) ...d. Strolling along, the streets had positively an appearance of desertion, and not a soul was to be seen after leaving the precincts of our hotel.
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  • '''The [[Wool Wheat and Meat|Sheep]] at [[Jerilderie|Jerilderie]] Show,''' Dr. '''Louis Ducrow''', a gentleman of acknowledged experience as a judge and a classer of sheep, has furnished to the Wagga Wagga Express some critical
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 20/8/1870|see previous]]) ...e London market has for the last eight years averaged about 2s 11d per lb. and particular a samples have gone as high as 4s l½d. Those sheep are capable
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  • '''ECHUCA AND MOAMA DEVASTATED''' ...equence was that Hopwood's Ferry became the most favourite crossing place, and the Victorian rail way system has long since penetrated to that point. Mr H
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 19/11/1870|see previous]]) ...nty, for a deph of eighteen foot all over his floor; the goods in the shop and the mattresses in the bed rooms wore only a foot clear.
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 19/11/1870 (2)|see previous]]) ...the high land on their own side. The flood rose there during Sunday night and compelled the inhabitants to clear out at the earliest dawn on Monday. On t
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  • ...wearing the golden shoes he was the property of Mr Brown, of Wagga Wagga, and who was in Beechworth with his circus at that time. ...gory:1870s]] [[Category:April 1871]] [[Category:Australian Townand Country Journal]] [[Category:Beechworth]] [[Category:1850s]] [[Category:Gold shoes]] [[Cate
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  • '''THE BILLABONG AND THE MURRAY''' [[Riverina area|YARRA YARRA]], the estate and station of '''James M'Laurin,''' Esq., M.L.A., is a magnificent property, a
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 7/9/1872|see previous]]) ...y are all settled down for winter quarters, as if they intended to remain, and believed in the diggings.
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 7/9/1872 (2)|see previous]]) ...g grapes and figs in the garden; barns filled with the riches of the soil, and warm hearted hospitable people I found at Ournie.
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 7/9/1872 (3)|see previous]]) ...a rumour that a council of believers and unbelievers will shortly be hold; and that the gentlemen composing it will be of unimpeachable reputation.
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  • ...its rise from the time when there were gum trees in the principal streets, and an old shanty near the bridge. The present population of the municipality i ...t wanted but the other old explorer, Mr. Hamilton Hume, who is still alive and hearty in Yass, to be present to complete the scene.
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 13/4/1872|see previous]]) ...der tuition. The education ,in the convent seems to be of a high standard, and quite equal to any ladies' school in the colony.
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 13/4/1872 (2)|see previous]]) ...cellars, where we were introduced to Mr P. E. Fallon, Mr W. Evans Dignam, and Mr J D '''Lankester''', all connected with the establishment.
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  • ...ory:1870s]] [[Category:April 1872]] [[Category:Australian Town and Country Journal]] [[Category:Albury]] [[Category:1872]] [[Category:history]]
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 27/4/1872|see previous]]) ...rmed that is easily worked and as I have seen is capable of a fine polish, and hardens considerably on being exposed to the atmosphere. Immense blocks of
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 27/4/1872 (2)|see previous]]) ...zed traces of ironstone, clay, sand, limestone, copper, and other minerals and fossils in it.
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  • '''COROWA AND WAHGUNYAH''' ...t up into allotments with a judicious number of reserves on which churches and other public buildings are now erected.
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 18/5/1872|see previous]]) ...that such a system in New South Wales would greatly be taken advantage of, and our revenue would be increased. On the uniform principle (as a uniform 2d p
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 18/5/1872 (2)|see previous]]) ...of the vineyard is planted with vines four feet apart or 1700 to the acre and the other half is planted seven feet apart, about 900 to the acre. No diffe
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 18/5/1872 (3)|see previous]]) ...e past ten years at least £25,000 has been expended in fencing, clearing, and the erection of buildings for station purposes.
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  • ...ttended with the most gratifying success. Year after year flocks improved, and a few good men have already their side-boards decked with trophies won by t ...characteristic of the great Riverina squatages. A really well kept garden, and rows of poplars, with hedges of prickly acacia, ornaments the grounds. The
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 25/5/1872|see previous]]) ...quin. It is fed by several smaller creeks, amongst which is the Bellabulla and Warnock. About two miles from the bridge a white gate on the left hand side
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  • ...eat wrestler, says the local legend. A giant was he, 6 feet 7 inches high, and having a frame powerful in proportion. He died in Deniliquin only a dozen y ...any's properties, Mr '''James Tyson''' bought the Deniliquin runs (three), and, after holding them some years, sold to Landale Brothers, the present owner
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 1/6/1872 (2)|see previous]]) ...ould mention, stands on three acres of land to the south-west of the town, and is under the immediate management of Mr H L Lindsay.
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  • ...m Melbourne. The whole distance from Deniliquin to Echuca being over level country, the construction of a railway line has been strongly agitated. The cost ha ...ing the Edward River, which could only be done by special favour of Taylor-and the use of his punt. A pound fare was charged for crossing, subject to bein
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 1/6/1872 (2)|see previous]]) ...his. Travellers can point out many districts with much undeveloped wealth, and resources almost deserted for the want of a few leading minds whose example
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 8/6/1872 (2)|see previous]]) ...he latter. In this instance system was set at defiance, confusion reigned, and in the Babel the master was not Die least noisy of the lot. To my mind the
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 8/6/1872 (3)|see previous]]) ...s thoroughly enjoyed on that fine afternoon. We passed through open forest country, mp the left bank of the Murray for several miles.
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 8/6/1872 (4)|see previous]]) ...ploys 160 hands, two steamers, answering as tugs, and four or live barges; and in wages he pays over£1500 per month.
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang15/6/1872|see previous]]) ...ian Church. ''' The residence of the Catholic Bishop, the Scotch College, and the Catholic College, are also here.
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang15/6/1872 (2)|see previous]]) ...called for, and Messrs. Barnes and Reed obtained the first prize of £200 and Mr John Barry, also of Melbourne, the second prize of £50 for the second h
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang15/6/1872 (3)|see previous]]) ...well furnished and fitted up. The panelled doors and ceilings, sideboards, and robe-chests, of polished cedar, are in good taste with the character of the
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 22/6/1872|see previous]]) And now it's a scratch or a boil;
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 22/6/1872 (2)|see previous]]) ...fficulty. There were about a dozen bower-birds at this rendezvous, running and playing about.
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 22/6/1872 (3)|see previous]]) .... In a short time it disappeared, but in its place came other water views, and as we proceeded the lakes sometimes seemed so close that we had difficulty
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  • ...rivate bar is to the left, past which a second hall runs to the public bar and private apartments of the host, Mr. Menzies. ...y and sumptuously furnished. Bath-rooms, where shower, ''plunge'', vapour, and "needle" baths may be had, are also on this floor.
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 22/6/1872 (5)|see previous]]) ...for the district. After leaving Kyneton, we passed more comfortable farms and homesteads.
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 22/6/1872 (6)|see previous]]) ...t pleasant evening was spent, and early on the following morning refreshed and in exuberant spirits, I was prepared for an inspection of this fine homeste
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 22/6/1872 (7)|see previous]]) ...rina area|Gillenbah lnn]]''' . The public-house is a large brick-building, and is kept by Mrs '''[[Riverina area|Hyland]]''' . Continuing the road up the
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  • ...t also is supplied with water from water-holes and dams. Sheep and cattle, and a few hundred head of horses arc bred on the station. Mr Lupton resides in ...is about half a mile from the roadside. A fine lagoon is before the door, and at the rear of the house there is a good lucerne paddock.
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  • ...ike in time, features by no means attractive. "We pity first, endure, and then embrace." ...will form a tolerable idea of some of the principal business places in the town.
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 6/7/1872|see previous]]) ...mas W Hammond, Walter O Windeyer, F A Thompson, J S Lavender, J J Fernell, and Francis E Murphy, Esquires;''' '''E H Thompson''', Esq., is CPS.
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  • ...retty vine-covered cottage next to it is the residence of Dr '''Morgan''', and that on the hill side, further on, the residence of Dr '''Robinson'''. ...and 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
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  • ...teen by twelve feet. Its cost was £1500. The Revs Father '''Bermingham''' and '''Dunn''' officiate. A school is held in the church on week days. Mr O'Doh ...been suggested that they could build a splendid edifice in any part of the town from the proceeds of the sale of the land on which the present church stand
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  • ...olloway, were driven across the river. The cattle were fine large animals, and were being sent to market. ...this is done in stockyards, they often by their united force break through and get away, as many a poor stockman knows to his sorrow.
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 20/7/1872|see previous]]) ...rick and wood is on the river bank. Au orchard is in front; and large oaks and willows dip their foliage gracefully in the water.
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 20/7/1872 (2)|see previous]]) ...]]''' , the station homestead of the previous owner. Poplar trees, shrubs, and hedges surround the premises. A good orchard of two acres was in the rear.
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 20/7/1872 (3)|see previous]]) ...nagogue of the Jewish residents, but now, I am told, used by the Wesleyans and others.
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 20/7/1872 (4)|see previous]]) ...to all good colonists. There you can, at times, find the reckless gamblers and thieves, whose voices are only heard when they quarrel about loaded dice, m
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  • ...ry:1870s]] [[Category:August 1872]] [[Category:Australian Town and Country Journal]] [[Category:Murrumbidgee]] [[Category:Riverina]] [[Category:1872]] [[Categ
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 17/8/1872|see previous]]) ...lbury and the Upper Murray, and the other to the right goes to Wagga Wagga and down the Murrumbidgee. The latter I followed.
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 17/8/1872 (2)|see previous]]) ...y entrance to the town. This is also a large building, in a good position, and under the management of host '''Strayfull'''.
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 17/8/1872 (3)|see previous]]) ...hey were so burnt than not a piece could be found larger than a halfcrown; and positive identification was impossible. Some distance beyond, a short time
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  • ...ry:1870s]] [[Category:August 1872]] [[Category:Australian Town and Country Journal]] [[Category:Murrumbidgee]] [[Category:Riverina]] [[Category:1872]] [[Categ
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 31/8/1872|see previous]]) ...attle. The sheep are chiefly the descendants of the flocks of Bayley, Cox, and other celebrated western breeders. The wool from North Yanco last year aver
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 31/8/1872 (2)|see previous]]) ...ms are on the back of the run. It is stocked by about 4000 head of cattle, and over 200 head of horses.
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 31/8/1872 (3)|see previous]]) ...the plains for six miles brought me into some splendid salt-bush country, and then I found myself at Bringagee, the beginning of the leviathan station of
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  • ...he '''Gwynnes, D'Archys, and Rudds''' are perhaps all that are left on the country first taken up by them. ...hough half a mile from, the roadside. It is prettily designed, well built, and tastefully furnished. A well arranged, geometrically planned garden is arou
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 7/9/1872 (5)|see previous]]) ...y the infant municipality. The camp fires have long ago been extinguished, and the weary traveller from the Darling, the Paroo, or the Great Gulf itself,
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  • ...ghnan, P G Milne, W Threlkeld, J M Gordon, J É Blake, George Butterworth, and Alfred Tartakover'''. ...ate a better feeling in schools than would exist without it. Altogether Mr and Mrs Hyde deserve success for the creditable manner in which the school is b
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 14/9/1872|see previous]]) ...cial mails made up. Mr '''R S Arnott''' performs the double duties of post and telegraph master.
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 14/9/1872 (2)|see previous]]) ...nd contains twenty-two rooms, beside billiard &c. It does a good trade and is carried on by Mr '''William Sabine'''. The public school is opposite to
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  • ...Mr '''H G Lomax'''. About thirty men are employed here in the busy season; and 120 bales of wool can be scoured weekly. The Victorian judges at the last H ...oss of which would have been impossible to replace) I resumed the journey, and it was after dark when I reached the next station, ten miles lower down the
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 21/9/1872|see previous]]) ...glad to accept his invitation to remain for the night, being pretty tired and disgusted with my lignum experience.
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  • ...ew years ago a party consisting of Mr '''Peter Tyson''', Mr '''D'Archy''', and a number of shearers, rode into the reed beds amongst these nests, which th ...station the property of Mr Tyson. The residence is a fine brick building, and before it there is a splendid lake.
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  • ...had a row on the lake in a well built boat. It was a most enjoyable pull, and the lake, like others in the district, was alive with swans, pelicans wild ...pines - all fine, well - shaped trees. Meilmam carries about 12,000 sheep, and 5000 head of cattle. The short track to '''Euston''' was impassable in cons
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  • ...1870s]] [[Category:September 1872]] [[Category:Australian Town and Country Journal]] [[Category:Murrumbidgee]] [[Category:Riverina]] [[Category:1872]] [[Categ
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 7/9/1872 (8)|see previous]]) ...nnection with the church there is a Sunday school attended by 90 scholars, and nine teachers, at the head of which is the indefatigable clergyman, Mr Cock
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  • '''THE MURRAY AND EDWARD RIVERS''' ...avy rain the flood waters overflow the river banks and fill these lagoons, and cover the roadway. Considerable difficulty is experienced in travelling, pa
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 19/10/1872 (2)|see previous]]) ...ridges, and a few creeks, almost swimable, another ten miles was got over, and Landale's woolshed was passed to the right. Following a wire fence running
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 19/10/1872 (2)|see previous]]) ...ks. As the day wore on, my progress was little better than a snail's pace, and the track was frequently lost, crossing the plains. I was at length obliged
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  • ...occasional flying off at a tangent right and left to inspect the Billabong and back blocks. I merely mention this to show the difficulty of clearly indica ...or an hour refused to advance; then I got him to go on for a mile further, and he again jibbed. The best temper in the world would have been ruffled by su
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 2/11/1872 (2)|see previous]]) ...re, refreshments were appreciated. Towards mid-day we reached [[Hay|Hay]], and for the first time for a month the punt over the Murrumbidgee was crossable
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 2/11/1872 (2)|see previous]]) ...'s run. Two miles further we came to the home station, called '''Tubbo''', and were hospitably received by the manager, Mr '''James Burt'''. Mr '''Peters'
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  • ...themselves properly established here. I cannot understand how this large, and wealthy district is neglected in the way at is by the Sydney Government. ...n neglecting the great salt bush plains. There are several men in the town and a dozen or so in the district, who are capable of discharging the duties of
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  • ...There are three of these, the first separated from the second by a swamp, and the second from the third by a range of low hills. ...illy country, and occasionally good views were obtained-deep gullies below and mountains clad in purple in the far distance.
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 5/4/1873|see previous]]) ...reakfasted at the hotel there. We had now travelled 282 miles from Sydney, and were still upwards of ninety miles from our destination.
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  • ...onths, for disease is pretty rife here in the shape of dysentery, measles, and its satellites. ...Deniliquin]], which is situated on a much lower level than the south side; and these two cases in particular occurred on the very margin of a swamp:
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  • ...nd Company, on the [[Murrumbidgee River|Murrumbidgee]], 25 miles from Hay, and 470 from Sydney. ..., the others by dams and wells. Twenty-four dams at a cost of over £6000; and fourteen wells, at a cost of £7000 have been constructed on Burrabogie. On
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  • ...lan it is abundant. In these favoured, parts fat stock are being mustered, and large mobs of stock travelling for feed. After such an unfavourable season, ...g to the Lachlan are 8000 [[Riverina area|Landale]]'s, 8000 M'Farland’s, and 7000 Parker's.
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  • [[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 1/5/1875|still earlier]] . ...y mention that the grave was about live font deep, and the rugs, blankets, and other worldly goods of the poor unfortunate, were burled with her.
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  • ...ery fair notion of Venice. In 1870 it was about five feet higher than now, and boats were plying to the Eight-mile.''' == ...ioned below will keep our Victorian friends in dripping for a week or two, and in every direction from the interior they are swarming this way, like ants
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  • [[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 1/5/1875 (3)|see erlier]]. == Messrs. Louis Morash and James Mahood have been appointed members et the Public School Board, at [[J
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  • [[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 1/5/1875 (4)|see earlier]] ...g sheep on a run and not branding them with a registered brand. Fined £3, and 5s 6d costs. ==
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  • ...ho are much against the movement. The petition will be presented this week and numbers are anxiously awaiting the result, as it is a question which deeply ...ddresses were delivered by several gentlemen from Melbourne and elsewhere, and the whole affair passed off with great success.
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  • ...is the large and handsome warehouse of Mr W A '''Terrance''', auctioneer, and in close proximity are the new warehouses of Messrs '''O'Callaghan'''. Brot ...st week, another for the Wesleyan denomination, which is nearly completed, and a third for the Episcopalians, which is expected to be finished by the end
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  • ...n a branch here, The '''NSW Bank''' is the longest established, and the '''Australian Joint Stock''' makes the fourth. ...nced an action for the recovery of the ground whereon the building stands, and two of the principal masons have been served with writs. The trial case com
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 16/10/1875|see previous]]) ...nding its way to [[Melbourne|Melbourne]] in vast quantities by road, rail, and river.
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 16/10/1875 (2)|see previous]]) ...f our population at present. There are some fine brawny fellows among them and it does one good to see them dispose of a quart of beer. There is a roadsid
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  • ...eople forebodings about drought are visitations as regular as the seasons, and they seem to take a lively satisfaction in looking at the miserable probabi ...ifference in the houses; some don't do mach of a Saturday afternoon trade, and these of coarse go in for the Saturday half-holiday, whilst others, who do
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 6/11/1875|See previous]]) ...piece of ground at Newtown, and are about to erect a large hall, and lodge and reading rooms.
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  • ...g. I noticed, however, a defect which you protested against in one of your Town Talk articles - the wide mouths of the boxes enable the anxious to read pla ...hose in your colony. The public office is not worthy of a large community, and it closes at 8 o'clock. There is a bell concealed about the letter-box some
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 1/1/1876|see previous]]) ...either corporate or private, has made, a fine lagoon out of a dirty swamp, and sailing matches take place on it.
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  • ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 1/1/1876 (2)|see previous]]) ...of produce and meat by the hundred, as well as Cheap Jacks, medicine men, and other leathern lunged itinerants who keep up an unceasing din.
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  • [[The Ovens and Murray Advertiser 15/3/1879|previous page]]
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  • === I supported selection against the squatters and was involved in most of the important decisions involving the hunt for the ...t after a short time returned to England. I came back to Australia in 1857 and in 1860 I bought the Collingwood Observer. In the same year I was elected t
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  • ...rray]] on the boarder between the colonies of Victoria and New South Wales and on the main inland route from [[Melbourne|Melbourne]] to [[Sydney|Sydney]]. '''Hamilton Hume''' memorial ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 13/4/1872|T&C13/4/1872]])([[Alexandra Times at KellyGang 1
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  • == One of the original properties in the Kelly Country == Owned by Patrick, Robert and Thomas [[Properties|McFarland]].
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  • ...shed in the area in [[1824-1853 Events|1852]]. For the first few years the town consisted of tents with very few buildings. ...often known as Spring Creek or Reid's Creek. In 1853 the town was surveyed and named Beechworth. By 1856 the area had a population of about 10,000.
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  • Between the [[Edwards River|Edwards]] and [[Murrumbidgee River|Murrumbidgee]] Rivers in the [[Riverina area|Riverina] == The Country around The Billabong ==
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  • == One of the original properties in the Kelly Country == Owned byMr William Hay ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 25/5/1872|T&C25/5/1872]])
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  • ...ay Flats|Murray Flats]], on the [[Murray River at Kellygang|River Murray]] and west of Wodonga'''.''' It was the site of punt across the River Murray '''Mr Dight''' owned the run in 1870 ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 26/3/1870 (2)|T&C26/3/1870]])
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  • == One of the original properties in the Kelly Country == Messers Gayer and Grosse ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 18/5/1872 (4)|T&C18/5/1872]])
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  • ...h|Wahgunyah]] Run. The first houses were built in the town in 1861 and the town developed as a centre for the area north of the [[Murray River at Kellygang ...r a long time Corowa was the camp on the north bank to the big gold mining town of Rutherglen. [[!!FIXME \homeReference.html|!!MISSING]]
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  • == One of the original properties in the Kelly Country == <blockquote>First selected in 1836 by F [[Properties|Dutton]] and C [[Properties|Fowler]], overlanders from New South Wales.
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  • ...oon, meaning &quot;wrestler's ground,&quot; ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 1/6/1872|T&amp;C1/6/1872)]] ...2 the runs were owned by the '''Landale'''s ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 1/6/1872|T&amp;C1/6/1872)]]
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  • Hopwood's Ferry ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 8/6/1872 (2)|T&amp;C8/6/1872]]) Echuca was a major port and [[Customs|Customs]] town for the control of the [[Murray River at Kellygang|Murray River]] trade.
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  • == The Country around the Edwards River == ...homas Mitchell named the river the Thyalite ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 1/6/1872|T&amp;C1/6/1872]]).
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  • ...owns of New South Wales. It was the main administrative centre for all the country south to the Victorian boarder. Goulburn had a lage number of industries involved with the wool trade and many fine buildings that are still standing
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  • Hay was the headquarters for Cobb and Co ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 16/10/1875|T&amp;C16/10/1875]]) See ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 17/8/1872|T&amp;C17/8/1872]])
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  • See also [[Howlong|Howlong]] Station and Oolong. see also ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 26/3/1870 (2)|T&amp;C26/3/1870]]) '''Photograph'''
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  • ...92). Also: 'reedy place'. (McCarthy; 1863). ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 22/6/1872 (4)|T&amp;C22/6/1872]]) ...borne, 9311 1/2 acres to Mr. Samuel Wilson, ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 1/5/1875 (3)|T&amp;C17/7/1875]])
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  • == One of the original properties in the Kelly Country == ...P [[Riverina area|Southwick]], 50,000 acres ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 7/9/1872|T&amp;C6/4/1872]]))
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  • .... People came from Melbourne to enjoy the spars and the hills. Most of the town's historic buildings had been built by 1870 '''Photograph''' ...railway]] line between Melbourne and Echuca ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 22/6/1872 (6)|T&amp;C29/6/1872]])
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  • == The Country around the Lachlan River == == Properties and Towns along the way ==
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  • ...h places like [[Ballarat|Ballarat]], Bendigo and [[Beechworth|Beechworth]] and a rich agricultural area with a powerful squatter class. ...outside Melbourne, the city was the site of the headquarters of the police and the centre of Government. But it was much more. It was the centre of a comm
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  • Hopwood's Ferry ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 8/6/1872 (2)|T&amp;C8/6/1872]]) See ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 8/6/1872|T&amp;C8/6/1872]])
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  • == One of the original squatting runs in the Kelly Country == Purchased in 1860 by M O'Shannesy ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 1/6/1872|T&amp;C1/6/1872]])
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  • == One of the original properties in the Kelly Country == First selected in 1836 by F [[Properties|Dutton]] and C Fowler, an overlander from New South Wales. x '''Where did the name [[Pro
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  • Part of Mulwalla station, Alexander Sloane ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 18/5/1872 (4)|T&amp;C18/5/1872]]) see description of the town ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 18/5/1872 (4)|T&amp;C18/5/1872]])
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  • For much of its course the Murray River forms the border between Victoria and New South Wales == The Country around the Murray River ==
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  • == The Country around the Murrumbidgee River == ...the [[Murray River at Kellygang|Murray]]. The [[The Billabong|Billabong]] and the [[Edwards River|Edwards]] are part of the Murrumbidgee.
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  • See ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 17/8/1872 (3)|T&amp;C17/8/1872]]) ...'''Hotels''' The Royal (Mrs '''Phillips''') ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 17/8/1872 (3)|T&amp;C17/8/1872]])
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  • == One of the original squatting runs in the Kelly Country == First taken up in about 1840 by '''JH and GC [[Properties|Rowan]]''' and the Green Bros (162,560 Acres)
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  • ...ina takes in the area of southern New South Wales between the River Murray and the Murrumbidigee River. '''[[Adelong|Adelong]]''' Adelong Crossing Place [[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 17/8/1872|$]]
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  • == Places of interest in the wider area - linked to the Kelly Country and Ned Kelly's story == Adelong crossing place [[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 5/4/1873 (2)|$]]
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  • ...anged to Rutherglen after John Wallace's (publican of the Star Hotel) home town in Scotland. In 1864 the Black Dog Load was discovered. It was named the Fifeshire, and the prospects obtained from it were at the rate of a penny- weight lo the d
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  • ...bourne|Melbourne]] by [[Telegraph|telegraph]] in [[1854-1863 Events|1858]] and by [[Railways|rail]] later in the 1870s ...rip from Sydney to [[Goulburn NSW|Goulburn]]([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 25/6/1870|T&amp;C25/6/1870]])
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  • The name ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 6/7/1872|T&amp;C6/7/1872]]) ...al at KellyGang 2/4/1870|T&amp;C2/4/1870]]) ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 6/11/1875|T&amp;C6/11/1875]])
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  • == One of the original squatting runs in the Kelly Country == '''Victoria Inn''', '''B Vincent''' ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 7/9/1872 (4)|T&amp;C6/4/1872]])
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  • The town, founded in 1856 by John [[Wahgunyah|Foord]], soon grew as a river port on See also for a look at the town ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 26/3/1870 (2)|T&amp;C26/3/1870]])
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  • == One of the original squatting runs in the Kelly Country == See also ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 7/9/1872 (3)|T&amp;C6/4/1872]])
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  • == One of the original squatting runs in the Kelly Country == ...d Sons (George and Frederick) in 1858. They sold it to '''Albert Austin''' and '''Thomas Millear''' in 1878
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  • == One of the original squatting runs in the Kelly Country == Owned by WO Windeyer in 1872 ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 20/7/1872 (2)|T&amp;C20/7/1872]])
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  • == One of the original properties in the Kelly Country == ...ng 1/6/1872|T&amp;C1/6/1872]]) 95,000 acres ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 1/6/1872 (3)|T&amp;C1/6/1872]]) '''Where did the name [[../../
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  • == One of the original squatting runs in the Kelly Country == Founded in [[1824-1853 Events|1835]]-36 by Paul and Charles '''[[Properties|Huon]]''' (Huon de Kerrilleau), overlanders from Ne
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  • ...e Hume Highway, the last town in Victoria. [[Albury|Albury]] is the sister town in New South Wales Up until [[1874-1877 Events|1876]] the town was known as '''Belvoir''' (the name of the home built by Charles Huon on h
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  • ...at Whisky Flat, Kirby’s Flat, Osborne’s Flat and Doctor’s Flat. The town’s population swelled to 3000. See also [[Yackandanda|Yackandanda]] run The town of Yackandandah continued to prosper and grow long after the early gold rush days.
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  • Their base near [[Stringy Bark Creek|Stringy Bark Creek]] was one such area and it is likely that they did some mining in the [[Yackindanda|Yackandandah]] The riches of gold built [[Beechworth|Beechworth]] and made it Victoria's 4th largest city. The city was the centre of the Ovens g
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  • ...ost all of north east Victoria was part of the squatting runs listed below and that they were owned by the squatters listed. Such a large area of the best ...anged for ever when gold was discovered in the early 1850s. While Ballarat and Bendigo were the first major strikes, [[Beechworth|Beechworth]] became a ma
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  • ...the need for meat rather than wool. In the 1860's many former gold miners and others were looking for land. Many of the squatting runs had selections cut ...th Eastern Victoria. These articles give a good view of the struggle faced and the pressures on families like the Kellys. ([[The Argus at KellyGang 19/4/1
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  • ...p to 16 police horses. The '''KellyGang''' could hear them from miles away and set up any sort of ambush. The trackers were not trained police. Many of th ...formation or reports of sitings of the '''KellyGang''' that were quite old.and unreliable.
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  • Large numbers of Chinese came to Victoria in the 1860s and 70s to work on the [[Gold mining (2)|gold]] fields. They tended to work ove Tension between the European and Chinese miners sometimes came to the surface and there were race riots at [[Buckland|Buckland]] on the [[Ovens River|Ovens]]
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  • ...field]] was linked to Melbourne by various coach routes who took people to and from the railway line. See the history of [[!!FIXME \documents\Sadlier\Sadl The difference between coaching and rail ([[The North Eastern Ensign at KellyGang 15/8/1873|Ensign15/8/1873]])
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  • == Importance of Hotels Pubs and Shanties == The importance of Hotels Pubs and Shanties has not changed. Any town had at least one hotel. Many a selector or other person sold grog to weary
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  • Sheep farming was a major industry in the Kelly country. Sheep show at Jerilderie ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 20/8/1870|T&amp;C20/8/1870]])
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  • == Importance of Stock and Station Agents == ...on Agents in the Kelly Country. They bought and sold properties and cattle and sheep.
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  • ...e first gold was found in Rutherglen near the Seppelts Winery in the 1850s and a wine industry was under way by 1865. ...eveloped by the end of the 1870s. At that time wine was exported to Europe and won a gold medal at the Paris Exhibition of 1878.
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  • .... AssCom [[Nicolson|Nicolson]] told the Royal Commission about the problem and said, that while the stock are frequently recovered, the offenders, said to ...New south Wales police ([[The Alexandra and Yea Standard, Gobur, Thornton and Acheron Express at KellyGang 23/11/1878|Alexandra23/11/1878]])
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  • ...e [[Beechworth|Beechworth]]. The line meant that the wealth of the Benalla and Albury regions also could be quickly brought to Melbourne. Towns like [[Gre ...es by transporting wool produced in New South Wales from [[Echuca|Euchca]] and [[Wodonga (2)|Wodonga]] to Williamstown at a reduced rate
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  • ...graph in 1870s meant that messages could be sent from one end of the Kelly country to the other in a matter of hours instead of days. In [[1864-1873 Events|18 ...llyGang 22/2/1879 (2)|Alexandra22/2/1879]]) ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 18/5/1872 (2)|T&amp;C18/5/1872]])
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  • ...at Kellygang|Murray]] was the border between Victoria and New South Wales and it was policed by the colonies to raise revenue. The customs men added to t ...4-1873 Events|1864]] and coincided with a customs dispute between Victoria and New South Wales. ([[Royal Commission report day 9 page 4|RC1602]]) ([[The L
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  • ...made up of the Legislative Assembly, which was elected by most adult males and the upper house or Legislative Council which was elected by land owners. Building Parliament House ([[Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang15/6/1872 (2)|T&amp;C15/6/1872]])
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