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• Queensland police
  Early in December 1878 Mr. D. T. '''Seymour''', the Queensland Commissioner, offered to place a number of native trackers at the service o The varying importance of Queensland is illustrated by the cost. ([[Royal Commission report day 3 page 5|RC735]]
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  | Queensland trackers | Queensland trackers
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 5 page 1
  ...of the Victorian police force; and Mr Stanhope [[O'Connor|O’Connor]], a Queensland officer, whose services were borrowed by Victoria at a later date, together
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 8 page 5
  ...s]] in Victoria at that time, and even later, when the [[Queensland police|Queensland Government]] offered to send some of theirs to Victoria, Captain Standish,
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 14 page 6
  ...the trackers in so far as to allow of the acceptance of the men offered by Queensland. On their arrival he met them and their officer, Mr O’Connor, at Albury, ...lungs, and all of them seemed to feel the change from the warm climate of Queensland to the frosty air of the Victorian highlands. For a time Mr O’Connor, Mr
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 15 page 5
  ...gravated a spirit of ill feeling between Captain [[Standish|Standish]] the Queensland officer, Mr [[O'Connor|O’Connor]], which seriously hampered the operation
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 17 page 3
  ...ined at Benalla the outlaws would be afraid to come into the open, and the Queensland Government, which considered that their officer had not been particularly w
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 18 page 1
  ...ned, and pointing out the urgency of the case, obtained authority from the Queensland Government for Mr O’Connor to act with the Victorian police. Mr Ramsay th
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• The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 19 page 4
  ...’Connor]] considered that he held it, most of the men, not recognising a Queensland officer, if they looked to anybody for direction looked to [[SConst John Ke
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• Cookson, 15 09 1911 1
  ...s purchased by the well-known firm of Messrs, Graham and Co., Maryborough, Queensland, for £1760. In coming up the coast to her new owners, however, she came in
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 9 page 5
  ...rted off with my party and a black fellow called [[Moses|Moses]]. He was a Queensland man, and a capital tracker. He had been with me on several occasions before
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 10 page 1
  ...ere dreadfully afraid of the black trackers. I mean the men that came from Queensland. I was told it was marvellous how these men could follow a track across the ...red." I never could understand why they did not separate and make for Queensland as swagmen; but Sherritt was quite right; they never did leave, beyond goin
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 10 page 2
  ...etter opportunity of falling across them. Besides, the [[Queensland police|Queensland]] authorities wanted their trackers back, as they belonged to their force o
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 10 page 6
  ...ers]], "[[Moses|Moses]]" and "[[Spider|Spider]]," both Queensland men, but they did not come specially to Victoria as trackers. I kept them,
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 12 page 1
  ...hdrawn from the Kelly country. They were on the eve of their departure for Queensland, and were staying at Essendon. Captain [[Standish|Standish]] ordered the sp
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 13 page 5
  ...so curtly treated, and he communicated with Mr Palmer, Chief Secretary of Queensland, and at two o'clock on Sunday morning he obtained the required permit.
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• The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 13 page 7
  ...at had been reported officially, and had been communicated by residents of Queensland who had visited Victoria, it appeared that a considerable amount of jealous
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• The Complete Inner History of the KellyGang and their Pursuers (34)
  ...e outlaws, or the time they made if we knew where they came from.  Moses (Queensland tracker) picked up the tracks next morning, and went back again and worked
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• The Complete Inner History of the KellyGang and their Pursuers (46)
  The offer of the Queensland Government to send six blacktrackers, in charge of a senior constable, unde
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• The Complete Inner History of the KellyGang and their Pursuers (48)
  ...Connor would not agree to this, and received the following wire from the Queensland Government: -
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• The Complete Inner History of the KellyGang and their Pursuers (54)
  ...o square them.  The sympathisers did not know enough of the habits of the Queensland blacks to attempt to get in direct touch with them.  Otherwise the Kellys
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• The Complete Inner History of the KellyGang and their Pursuers (55)
  ...ised they would not have the same whole-hearted support from the people in Queensland as they had where they were best known.  It was better to work with the ob
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• The Complete Inner History of the KellyGang and their Pursuers (57)
  ...eft Benalla for Melbourne on Friday, June 25, 1880, en route for Brisbane, Queensland.  The new blacktrackers had not yet arrived.  Supt Hare decided to contin
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• The Complete Inner History of the KellyGang and their Pursuers (63)
  ...ow Mr O’Connor and the [[Police Trackers|backtrackers]] to return.  The Queensland Chief Secretary agreed, and Mr O’Connor was at the Essendon railway stati
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• The Complete Inner History of the KellyGang and their Pursuers (64)
  ...elly]], Barry, Gascoigne, Phillips, Arthur, Inspector O’Connor, and five Queensland blacktrackers.
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• The Complete Inner History of the KellyGang and their Pursuers (90)
  ...ation of the courtesy and promptitude displayed by the [[Queensland police|Queensland]] Government in forwarding a contingent of native trackers to Victoria to a “The Queensland contingent did good service, and your Commissioners trust the Victorian Gov
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• The Argus at KellyGang 12/12/1931
  To the [[Queensland police|Commissioner]] of Police, Brisbane from Benalla - Confidential - Can ...e white police have effaced the tracks - H S Palmer, Colonial Secretary of Queensland .
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• Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 20/7/1872 (3)
  ...the fattening stations of the squatters lying north-westerly, as also from Queensland, to our rather absurdly protective neighbours in Victoria.
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• Alexandra Times at KellyGang 22/11/1873
  We quote '''useful wethers in wool''' 13s. to 15s. 6d. Queensland, at from 11s. to 12s. 3d. Culls, 10s; ewes, 11s. Good and prime shorn wethe
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• Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 1/1/1876 (2)
  ...les, owing, the butchers say, to the splendid country between Victoria and Queensland, the great source from which this country draws its meat.
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• The Argus at KellyGang 9/11/1878
  ...Kellys have numerous friends on the other side and all along the route to Queensland . Something definite ought to be known in a few days.
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• The Argus at KellyGang 14/12/1878
  ...ckers-one being "[[Spider|Spider]]," a well known Cleveland Bay (Queensland) tracker, and the other "[[Police Trackers|Harry]]," of Yorke Pen
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• The Ovens and Murray Advertiser 18/1/1879
  ...e belief that the reports of their having crossed the border, en route for Queensland is a true one and the following from the Sydney Evening News from Hay would
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• The Argus at KellyGang 12/2/1879 (2)
  ...cers have the men well under control, and know how to utilise them. If the Queensland Government were asked for the services of the best trackers and the best of
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• The Ovens and Murray Advertiser 13/2/1879
  ...by the Upper Murray into the Manaro country, or had made their way towards Queensland . We incline to the former view that they have, until recently, remained in
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• The Ovens and Murray Advertiser 13/2/1879 (3)
  ...ed back to their old haunts, and others that they have gone on towards the Queensland border, with the intention of clearing out. We have hitherto, purposely ref
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• The Argus at KellyGang 15/2/1879
  ...is experience would be almost invaluable, as he was during my residence in Queensland noted for his energy and skill in all undertakings that require bravery com
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• The Argus at KellyGang 10/3/1879
  ...The ''[[Albury|Border Post]]'' of Saturday says that "a detachment of Queensland police, consisting of Sub inspector O'Connor, Senior sergeant [[SConst King
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• The Argus at KellyGang 11/3/1879
  Sub inspector [[O'Connor|O'Connor]] arrived here on Saturday, and six Queensland aboriginal troopers came by train from [[Wodonga (2)|Wodonga]] to day. They
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• The Argus at KellyGang 12/3/1879
  The Queensland aboriginal [[Police Trackers|troopers]], under the command of Sub-inspector
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• The Argus at KellyGang 13/3/1879
  THE QUEENSLAND NATIVE POLICE A correspondent of the ''South Australian Advertiser'', who has travelled in Queensland, supplies the following information respecting the [[Police Trackers|native
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• The Argus at KellyGang 13/3/1879 (2)
  '''Trackers from Queensland'''
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• The Ovens and Murray Advertiser 13/3/1879
  ...ow where the outlaws are, so completely are their movements concealed. The Queensland black trackers, under the Command of Lieutenant O’Connor ? ? ? ? ? day wa
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• The Argus at KellyGang 14/3/1879
  ...isgrace to Australia. His second in command is Constable King, a native of Queensland , and so skilled in bush craft as to be himself a match for a Myalla. Six b
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• The Argus at KellyGang 14/3/1879 (2)
  ...Kellys would soon remove or be captured. Still I have some hopes that the Queensland police will do something, for they possess certain qualifications which I w ...ere they know it exists. They may be sneaking away just as Gardiner did to Queensland. It is most unsatisfactory that the police who went down the Murray recentl
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• The Argus at KellyGang 19/3/1879
  ...endent Sadleir, Sub- inspector [[O'Connor|O'Connor]], eight troopers, five Queensland [[Police Trackers|black trackers]], and five pack horses. Although the cold
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• The Argus at KellyGang 19/3/1879 (2)
  A Queensland [[Police Trackers|black tracker]] arrived here last night, and will leave s
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• The Argus at KellyGang 20/3/1879
  ...d this evening It is supposed that he caught cold while on the voyage from Queensland .
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• Alexandra and Yea Standard, Gobur, Thornton and Acheron Express at KellyGang 22/3/1879
  ...endent Sadleir, Sub- inspector [[O'Connor|O'Connor]], eight troopers, five Queensland [[Police Trackers|black trackers]], and five pack horses. Although the cold A Queensland [[Police Trackers|black tracker]] arrived here last night, and will leave s
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• Illustrated Australian News at KellyGang 12/4/1879
  '''THE QUEENSLAND NATIVE POLICE''' ...ext heard of. A detachment of this able body of men arrived in Sydney from Queensland several weeks ago under the command of Mr. Inspector Stanhope [[O'Connor|O'
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• The Argus at KellyGang 19/5/1879 (2)
  ...essary to have brought [[Police Trackers|black trackers]] all the way from Queensland to amuse themselves about Benalla at the expense of the Victorian public. A
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• The Argus at KellyGang 20/5/1879
  '''Tom Halligey (Spider)''' the Queensland black tracker examined by Mr Smyth. - Remember going with Mr Toohey to exam
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• The Argus at KellyGang 18/8/1879
  ...or Lieut [[O'Connor|O'Connor]] and his "boys." By the way, these Queensland aboriginals consider themselves insulted if they are called "blackfell
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• The Argus at KellyGang 20/11/1879
  ...ago a miner, formerly a resident of Sandhurst was travelling overland from Queensland to this colony. In passing through Wagga he noticed some persons in the bus
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• The Argus at KellyGang 22/5/1880
  ...awal from Benalla and their restoration to Queensland of the detachment of Queensland [[Police Trackers|native police]], who, under the leadership of Lieutenant It is generally recognised that the fear of the tracking power of the Queensland “boys” has been a strong deterrent of further crimes by the gang―inde
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• Ovens & Murray Advertiser (10)
  ...e description answered that of the outlaw [[Joe Byrne|Joseph Byrnes]]. The Queensland black trackers and six constables, in charge of Lieutenant [[O'Connor|O’C
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• The Age (2)
  ...hdrawn from the Kelly country. They were on the eve of their departure for Queensland , and were staying at [[Essendon|Essendon]]. Captain Standish ordered the s
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• The Age (10)
  ...so curtly treated, and he communicated with Mr Palmer, Chief Secretary of Queensland , and at two o'clock on Sunday morning he obtained the required permit.
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• The Age (11)
  ...at had been reported officially, and had been communicated by residents of Queensland who had visited Victoria, it appeared that a considerable amount of jealous
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• The Argus (4)
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• The Argus (7)
  ...Jerilderie affair,’ remarked a spectator, ‘we thought you had gone to Queensland .’
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• The Argus (12)
  ...eparted to day. Mr Ramsay telegraphed last week to the [[Queensland police|Queensland]] Chief Secretary, asking that they might be allowed to stop some short tim ...to be withdrawn. Some inquiry into the cause of the discontent between the Queensland police and our own seems to be necessary,
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• The Argus at KellyGang 29/6/1880 (2)
  ...they were to have departed to-day. Mr Ramsay telegraphed last week to the Queensland Chief Secretary, asking that they might be allowed to stop some short time ...to be withdrawn. Some inquiry into the cause of the discontent between the Queensland police and our own seems to be necessary.
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• The Argus (13)
  Dealings between Victoria and Queensland
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• Ovens & Murray Advertiser (19)
  ...owever, that the [[Police Trackers|black trackers]] are to be sent back to Queensland ; if they are, it would look as if the “pursuit” of the Kellys were to
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• The Argus (17)
  ...to track in the Victorian bush, and said he himself could track an emu in Queensland . The prisoners were then all called together, and Ned said, ‘If any of y
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• The Argus (18)
  ...Victoria would see me held blameless, as we were under orders to leave for Queensland . On our arrival at Glenrowan we heard that the rail had been taken up some
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• The Argus (19)
  ...s a matter for regret, but it will not prevent our Government thanking the Queensland Ministry for its ready sympathy, and Lieutenant O’CONNOR and his men for
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• Sydney Morning Herald (32)
  ...rilderie affair," remarked a spectator, “we thought you had gone to Queensland ."
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• The Argus (23)
  ...ies, and a large body of police accompanied by the black trackers from the Queensland native police, was sent to Euroa, which township had been quite unprotected
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• The Argus (24)
  ...he police by murdering Sherritt. Being then frightened of being tracked by Queensland [[Police Trackers|black trackers]], they took steps to destroy them by wrec
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• Ovens and Murray Advertiser (6)
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• Ovens and Murray Advertiser (8)
  ...Jerilderie affair,” remarked a spectator, “we thought you had gone to Queensland .”
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• The Argus (32)
  ...ch, and always ride on horseback if they get a change. The presence of the Queensland aborigines in district often compelled the gang to walk. In order to avoid
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• Herald (20)
  ...ve not been prominently or sensationally brought forward, a small force of Queensland blacks is to be permanently attached to the police force of Victoria .
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• The Age (25)
  ...During Saturday afternoon the new [[Police Trackers|black trackers]] from Queensland arrived and took up their quarters at Benalla. There are five of them in al
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• Herald (26)
  ...however, refused to allow them to divide, and the authorities then sent to Queensland for five trackers -- one of the present lot remained here -- so as to make
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• The Argus at KellyGang 6/7/1880 (2)
  ...nt [[Chomley (2)|Chomley]], with the five black trackers he has engaged in Queensland to replace Mr O’Connor’s “boys”, arrived in Benalla.  They are to
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• The Argus at KellyGang 8/7/1880 (2)
  ...e police, who were at this time aided by a body of black trackers from the Queensland native police, under the direction of Sub-inspector [[O'Connor|O’Connor]]
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• The Argus at KellyGang 8/7/1880 (8)
  ...riends by the murder of Sherritt, and then, afraid of being tracked by the Queensland native police―of whom the gang had a great dread―took steps to destroy
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• The Argus (41)
  ...tended stationing [[Police Trackers|black trackers]], whom I expected from Queensland, at Benalla, Wangaratta, and Beechworth. I also told them that at each of t ...case anything happened before Mr [[Chomley (2)|Chomley]], who had gone to Queensland for a fresh supply of trackers for our own force, returned, as I did not ex
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• The Argus (42)
  ...from Melbourne were as follows:—Mr. O'Connor, his wife and sister, five Queensland trackers, and six gentlemen connected with the press.
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• The Argus (44)
  ...high appreciation of the conduct and services of the police force, both of Queensland and Victoria, who by their steadiness and courage seconded my efforts and c ...ers were removed on the 25th June; the outlaws believing they had left for Queensland, showed out on the 26th. On the 28th the gang was destroyed, and its leader
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• The Argus (46)
  "The conduct of the Queensland [[Police Trackers|trackers]] was excellent, and shows, certainly, that in g
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• Ovens and Murray Advertiser at KellyGang 24/7/1880 (6)
  ...ormed them that I intended stationing black trackers, whom I expected from Queensland, at Benalla, Wangaratta, and Beechworth. I also told them that at each of t
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• Ovens and Murray Advertiser at KellyGang 24/7/1880 (7)
  ...two trackers in case anything happened before Mr Chomley, who had gone to Queensland for a fresh supply of trackers for our own force, returned, as I did not ex
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• Ovens and Murray Advertiser at KellyGang 24/7/1880 (8)
  ...from Melbourne were as follows:—Mr O’Connor, his wife and sister, five Queensland trackers, and six gentlemen connected with the press.
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• Ovens and Murray Advertiser at KellyGang 24/7/1880 (10)
  ...high appreciation of the conduct and services of the police force, both of Queensland and Victoria, who by their steadiness and courage seconded my efforts and c
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• Ovens and Murray Advertiser at KellyGang 24/7/1880 (11)
  ...ers were removed on the 25th June. The outlaws believing they had left for Queensland, showed out on the 26th.On the 28th the gang was destroyed, and its leader
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• Ovens and Murray Advertiser at KellyGang 24/7/1880 (13)
  “The conduct of the Queensland [[Queensland police|trackers]] was excellent, and shows, certainly, that in good company
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• Herald (28)
  ...also that he could have shot, Superintendent Nicolson and the whole of the Queensland black-trackers one day, when near McVean’s homestead, near Greta, but ref
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• The Argus at KellyGang 17/9/1880
  Lieutenant [[O'Connor|O'Connor]], of the Queensland native police, has made a further application to the Victorian Government f
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• The Argus at KellyGang 12/11/1880 (5)
  ...ued to elude the hands of justice.  A party of black trackers, hired from Queensland, had evidently the effect of deterring the gang from showing themselves ope
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• The Argus at KellyGang 19/3/1881 (2)
  In March, 1879, I arrived in Victoria from Queensland, and placed myself and men under Captain Standish, chief commissioner of po ...arried it into official matters. He made a series of communications to the Queensland Government, tending to depreciate me, and to remove the men from my control
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• The Argus at KellyGang 19/3/1881 (3)
  ...gain appeal to you to grant me the inquiry, for which I have returned from Queensland. Sub-Inspector of Queensland Police
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• The Argus at KellyGang 19/3/1881 (5)
  ...odges with a family in a two roomed cottage. The man (a brief visitor from Queensland) boarded with the family, but lodged in the single men's hut, near the hop
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• The Argus at KellyGang 24/3/1881 (3)
  ...asked him to return to Beechworth. Mr O'Connor, who was about to return to Queensland with his trackers, rather reluctantly consented to go. A special train left
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• The Argus at KellyGang 29/3/1881 (2)
  ...ring the gang. One of the oflicers under him was Sub-inspector O'Connor, a Queensland native police officer, whose services, together with six aboriginal tracker
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• The Argus at KellyGang 30/3/1881 (3)
  ...inquiry, had no intention of leaving the Queensland police. Have left the Queensland police. Came down to Victoria at first at the request of the Victorian Gove ...unt of official instructions from my Government. [Read a telegram from the Queensland Government containing such instructions] I never objected to let my men go
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• The Argus at KellyGang 31/3/1881
  ...t I say that Captain Standish "made a series of communications to the Queensland Government tending to depreciate me, and to remove the men from my control ...plication was refused, as were also others to the same effect. At last the Queensland Government allowed him to take over one man that I had enlisted in Victoria
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• The Argus at KellyGang 31/3/1881 (2)
  ...s on June 25, 1880 . Stopped at Flemington. Made arrangements to ship in a Queensland steamer leaving on June 29. On Sunday, June 27, at half past 7 pm received ...here was no ruse on my part to make the Kellys believe I was going back to Queensland . Told Captain Standish my wife would accompany me to Beechworth, as the tr
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• The Argus at KellyGang 31/3/1881 (3)
  ...ne this and that, and why Mr Hare had done everything, I felt annoyed. The Queensland commissioner of police was hurt at my resignation, and begged of me to with ...t Captain Standish denied there was any jealousy between the Victorian and Queensland police.
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• The Argus at KellyGang 6/4/1881 (2)
  ...trackers were left in the district. Other trackers had been sent for from Queensland. On Sunday, June 27,1880, about half past 2 pm, I received a message from B
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• The Argus at KellyGang 7/4/1881
  ...o take these two men into his force. Subsequently William Sherritt went to Queensland, with letters of recommendation from Mr Nicolson, but did not get employmen
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• The Argus at KellyGang 16/4/1881
  ...hat the sums set opposite the names of the black trackers be handed to the Queensland and Victorian Governments to be dealt with at their discretion.
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• The Argus at KellyGang 16/4/1881 (2)
  ...ers|trackers]], are allotted £50 each, to be handed to the Governments of Queensland and Victoria to be spent at their discretion.
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• The Argus at KellyGang 20/4/1881 (2)
  ..., 1880 . I strongly advised Captain Standish against the withdrawal of the Queensland trackers. I recommended Mr Hare not to come to the district, because I disa
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• The Argus at KellyGang 9/5/1881 (2)
  ...nspector Montfort, and Mr O'[[O'Connor|Connor]], late sub inspector in the Queensland native police force, has been offered the position of second in command. Th ...generally disapproved of here and elsewhere. Both the New South Wales and Queensland Governments have protested against the report being acted upon, the latter
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• The Argus at KellyGang 16/5/1881
  ...ckers there now. They came about July, 1880. Mr O'Connor's men returned to Queensland . The new men were now as well disciplined as, if not better than, Mr O'Con
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• The Argus at KellyGang 16/5/1881 (2)
  ...ered Mr O'Connor severed his connexion with the police when he started for Queensland . Was out frequently with Mr O'Connor and his trackers. They seemed to like
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• The Argus at KellyGang 26/5/1881
  ...em, and I would therefore suggest that Mr O'Connor, who came here with the Queensland trackers and who served here with our force for some 16 months, be asked to
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• The Argus at KellyGang 2/6/1881
  ...cuments in the possession of the commission of the correspondence with the Queensland Government with regard to Mr O'Connor's appointment. ...the effect that the heaviest indiscriminate firing was on the part of the Queensland police.
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• The Argus at KellyGang 3/6/1881 (2)
  ...s employed in the search after the outlaws twice the salary he received in Queensland . Did not know of any official document on the subject. The information on ...O'Connor personally, never having seen him until he (witness) was going to Queensland to engage fresh trackers. Mr Sadleir thought Mr O'Connor's appointment woul
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• The Argus at KellyGang 10/6/1881
  Mr O'Connor - In Queensland the trackers were bound to obey no one but the officer over them.
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• The Argus at KellyGang 15/6/1881
  ...hout producing a certificate that his health was bad. Had been told by the Queensland authorities recently that he would soon have been promoted to the position ...pies of certain correspondence he had sent to Queensland . Was told by the Queensland commissioner that Captain Standish had repeatedly tried to get him recalled
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• The Argus at KellyGang 18/6/1881 (2)
  ...ween Captain Standish and myself. Captain Standish's communications to the Queensland Government adverse to me were influenced by the private quarrel. Previously ...e in parties of less than five or six. Witness had been eight years in the Queensland native police force. If two or three men, who were blood relations were tog
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• The Argus at KellyGang 22/6/1881
  ...declined to consent to the production of his private communications to the Queensland chief commissioner of police on tho same subject. When the expected corresp ...on to the official correspondence which had passed between himself and the Queensland Government in regard to Mr O'Connor being placed at the disposal of the com
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• The Argus at KellyGang 30/6/1881 (2)
  ...s of the letters which had passed between Mr [[O'Connor|O'Connor]] and the Queensland commissioner of police having been received from the latter, they were now
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• The Argus at KellyGang 30/6/1881 (4)
  ...urriedly to catch the mail, and being aware that I would return at once to Queensland, I omitted details.
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• The Argus at KellyGang 6/7/1881
  ...ed over 40 witnesses. It was felt that, apart from the courtesy due to the Queensland Government, who had so promptly responded to the application of the Victori
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• The Argus at KellyGang 10/8/1881 (2)
  ...urderers. There are also stationed in the district six black trackers from Queensland . The Government finds them in good clothing, and also a constable and sub-
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• The Argus at KellyGang 10/8/1881 (3)
  ...try £130 a month at the very least, and the sub-inspector could return to Queensland , as he is never troubled with the trackers. Is Detective Ward and the assi
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• The Argus at KellyGang 20/8/1881
  ...sentenced to a term of seven years' imprisonment for perjury at Ipswich , Queensland. It will be remembered that William Sherritt was dismissed from the Victori
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• The Argus at KellyGang 9/9/1881 (3)
  ...during the years 1879 and 1880. in charge of the black trackers sent from Queensland : to assist in the pursuit of the Kellys.
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• The Argus at KellyGang 13/9/1881
  ...el at Eldorado, in which the latter stated that be had just come down from Queensland with Wright on a cattle droving expedition, and that they were returning to
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• The Argus at KellyGang 19/10/1881 (3)
  ...he North-Eastern District should have led to unpleasant complications. The Queensland contingent did good service, and your commissioners trust that the Victoria
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• The Argus at KellyGang 20/10/1881 (3)
  ...serious estrangement between the chief commissioner and the officer of the Queensland contingent, and from the wording of the report it seems clear that the comm
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• The Argus at KellyGang 20/10/1881 (4)
  ...to whether the Kellys were really in the country, or had gone northward to Queensland.
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• The Argus at KellyGang 23/12/1881
  ...or''' addresses the Chief Secretary, as the late officer in command of the Queensland native trackers, and a witness who was examined by the Police Commission He
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• The Argus at KellyGang 11/7/1892
  ...tober, 1878. From that time the pick of the Victorian police, aided by six Queensland trackers, were in pursuit of them; but aided by a wonderful system of bush
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• The Argus (56)
  '''Autum 1879''' The Queensland trackers arrived in Victoria.([[The Argus at KellyGang 10/3/1879|Argus10/3/
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• Royal Commission Appendix 20 for 15 March 1881
  From the same, reiterating the request. From Sub-Inspector O'Connor, of the Queensland police, requesting a Board. From the same, repeating the request. Also Supe
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• Untitled Document
  ...ch certainly was proved." He continued to take his first swipe at the Queensland police officer who was the leader of the trackers, Inspector O'Connor, &quo ...s death came through they were in Melbourne waiting to catch the ship home Queensland. Standish had the unpleasant task of asking them to stay and to off on the
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• Royal Commission report day 1 page 7
  ...[O'Connor|O'Connor]] and six black trackers, and a senior constable of the Queensland police, were sent by steamer to [[Sydney|Sydney]], and from Sydney to Albur
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• Royal Commission report day 1 page 11
  .... [[O'Connor|O'Connor]], who had come down to Melbourne on his way back to Queensland with the trackers, and to request him and urge upon him the propriety of as
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• Royal Commission report day 2 page 14
  ...here to the hospital to get that black I had before- the [[Police Trackers|Queensland]] black that I had before at [[William Baumgarten|Baumgarten]]'s. I found h
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• Royal Commission report day 3 page 7
  753 I mean the special detachment?- Yes; the [[Police Trackers|Queensland blacks]]. There were two went out on those enquiries. There were other thin
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• Royal Commission report day 3 page 16
  ..., as at Euroa and Jerilderie, since the arrival of the [[Queensland police|Queensland]] [[Police Trackers|native trackers]] here. The presence of the latter, and
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• Royal Commission report day 4 page 1
  ...tendent [[Sadleir|Sadleir]] and Sub Inspector [[O'Connor|O'Connor]] of the Queensland police; but I never allowed it to interfere with my work. As an instance, w
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• Royal Commission report day 4 page 11
  ...What were you formerly?- Formerly Sub-Inspector of the [[Queensland police|Queensland]] police; and at the time when I applied for this enquiry I was in the poli 1068 You have left the Queensland police now?- I have. I met Captain [[Standish|Standish]] in [[Albury|Albury
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• Royal Commission report day 4 page 12
  1083 Did all those [[Police Trackers|trackers]] come from [[Queensland police|Queensland]]?- Yes, up to this time.
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• Royal Commission report day 4 page 13
  ...g to do without our assistance. In Captain Standish's evidence he says the Queensland police had such a train of men and baggage horses, and that we would be so ...rian tracker or was he a Queensland man?- I believe he was originally from Queensland, but he had been at Coranderrk since he was a youngster.
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• Royal Commission Appendix 20 for 30 March 1881
  ...took place in reference to the transfer of a tracker named Moses from the Queensland to the Victorian service.
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• Royal Commission report 30/3/1881
  ...unication between Queensland and Victoria concerning the engagement of the Queensland trackers.
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• Royal Commission report day 5 page 2
  ...communications were these, and I may state that I applied for them to the Queensland Government, whom I am representing officially now, and they evidently misun ...the Victorian Government's. Captain Standish asked the [[Queensland police|Queensland]] Government for my men to remain without me, and without letting me know t
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• Royal Commission report day 5 page 3
  ...t?- Yes, I put up at Flemington. I made arrangements to take berths in the Queensland steamer that was leaving on the 29th, but on Sunday the 27th June, at half ...portunity. The only condition I made was, being under orders to proceed to Queensland, I was disobeying the head of my department, and therefore I must request t
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• Royal Commission report day 5 page 7
  ...ector O'Connor to remain here and assist for a few days. He will return to Queensland to-morrow, unless you telegraph to-night to contrary. - ROBERT RAMSAY, [[Ch
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• Royal Commission report day 5 page 9
  ...report published in it. My Government met me on the steamer when I went to Queensland. A report was handed me by the constable, and I did not get this till five ...lice, but I mean it was really the cause of my resigning my appointment in Queensland not being able to get the enquiry into this. I have been laboring under tha
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• Royal Commission report day 5 page 10
  ...e to detain Mr. O'Connor and the native troopers when on their way back to Queensland. Mr. O'Connor and his men were present during the whole of the encounter wi
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• Royal Commission report day 5 page 12
  ...y in capturing the Kellys, you being an officer of the service here and of Queensland?- Well, the first principal point I always considered was the want of knowl
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• Royal Commission report day 6 page 6
  ...One of my men answered, “Yes, they are wonders these [[Police Trackers|Queensland blacks]].” He said, “Do you mean to say that they can track in the dark
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• Royal Commission report day 6 page 13
  ...ormed them that I intended stationing black-trackers, whom I expected from Queensland , at Benalla, Wangaratta, and Beechworth.” Was that in confirmation of th
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• Royal Commission report day 7 page 5
  ...erview with Mr. Ramsay concerning this business, more especially about the Queensland [[Police Trackers|trackers]], and I then said to him, “Suppose I make cer
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• Royal Commission report day 8 page 1
  ...Police Trackers|black trackers]], whom I expected from [[Queensland police|Queensland]] , at Benalla, Wangaratta, and Beechworth. I also told them at each of tho
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• Royal Commission report day 8 page 5
  ...Mr. [[O'Connor|O’Connor]] and the black trackers were to be sent back to Queensland . ...ed before [[Chomley (2)|Mr. Chomley]], who had gone to [[Queensland police|Queensland]] for a fresh supply of trackers for our force, returned, as I did not expe
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• Royal Commission report day 8 page 6
  ...ere was a group around me, there may have been four or five, there was one Queensland man among them. I ran towards the extreme left of Jones's hotel, and whilst
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• Royal Commission report day 9 page 3
  ...ng our leavings. Subsequently [[William Sherritt|Willie Sherritt]] went to Queensland , and I am informed took letters of recommendation from Mr. Nicolson to the
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• Royal Commission report day 11 page 3
  <span id="rc2015">[[#rc2015|2015]]</span> Those were not Queensland men?— No, Coranderrk or any man we could pick up. On the morning of the 1
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• Royal Commission report day 11 page 4
  ...rmation, and we were then driven to fall back upon the [[Queensland police|Queensland]] [[Police Trackers|trackers]]. Mr. Hare proposed this—that we should sen
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• Royal Commission report day 11 page 5
  ...fter the [[Euroa|Euroa]] bank robbery, an offer of black trackers from the Queensland police. 2037 By the Queensland Government?— By the Queensland Commissioner of Police.
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• Royal Commission report day 12 page 10
  ...en, in particular in the one case that came under my knowledge, that those Queensland [[Police Tactics|trackers]] were highly efficient men, and that if a track
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• Royal Commission report day 12 page 11
  ...derie Robbery|March 6th]], when the [[Police Trackers|trackers]] came from Queensland, occurred 35 of the 40 appearances I have mentioned; and from March 1879 to
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• Royal Commission report day 12 page 12
  ...h as soon as I beard that he contemplated removing the [[Queensland police|Queensland]] [[Police Trackers|black trackers]].
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• Royal Commission report day 13 page 9
  The conduct of the Queensland trackers was excellent, and shows, certainly, that in good company at least
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• Royal Commission report day 14 page 4
  ...formed them that I intended stationing black trackers whom I expected from Queensland, at Benalla, Wangaratta, and Beechworth.” Those are the black trackers yo
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• Royal Commission report day 19 page 6
  ...es, he used to go out with black trackers—He and a senior-constable from Queensland and six trackers, together with our men.
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• Royal Commission report day 19 page 14
  ...50">[[#rc6250|6250]]</span> If he was relieved, and was on his way back to Queensland, and volunteered with his black trackers, and of his own free will and acco
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• Royal Commission report day 19 page 16
  ...his rank as an officer as he came, as an officer from [[Queensland police|Queensland]], and there would be nothing to alter that here, as he was sworn in.
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• Royal Commission report day 19 page 17
  ...orian police?— He would be in charge of the black trackers who came from Queensland, and Mr. Sadleir in charge of the six white troopers from here. 6343 How many went away belonging to the Queensland Police?— Five. We retained the Corranderrk man that was attached to Mr. O
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• Royal Commission report day 19 page 18
  ...e had charge of them after Constable [[SConst King|King]] was sent back to Queensland under Mr. O'Connor, and held charge of them till they went away, and then t
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• Royal Commission report day 19 page 22
  ...ad charge of the troop that came across, and that you were an officer from Queensland . ...her?— You would be sent by the Chief Commissioner of [[Queensland police|Queensland]] , and might be sent without being a volunteer.
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• Royal Commission report day 19 page 38
  ...9]]</span> You have also been in charge of the black trackers brought from Queensland since?— Yes.
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• Royal Commission report day 19 page 40
  ...gone out of the district, and, so far as you knew, being about to sail for Queensland, would you consider yourself under him when he came back with the black tra ...or, at all events, as having left the Victoria police when he was going to Queensland?— I did.
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• Royal Commission report day 20 page 7
  ...I did not look upon you as an officer here. I believed you had started to Queensland at the time you came to Glenrowan. ...ny man say, “He has nothing to do with us—[[O'Connor|he]] is only from Queensland ”?— Yes; I have heard several say, “He has nothing to do with us.”
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• Royal Commission report day 24 page 1
  ...Kelly swore that the indiscriminate and heavy fire was on the part of the Queensland police?— Yes, I did hear him say the [[Police Tactics|blackfellows]] were ...at effect, that the indiscriminate and heavy firing was on the part of the Queensland police?— He did make the remark on one occasion, I believe.
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• Royal Commission report day 25 page 13
  ...correspondence between the Police Department here and his department in [[Queensland police|Brisbane]] , and they say they enclose copies of the correspondence. ...ion?— I understood Mr. O'Connor was to get double the pay he received in Queensland from this Government. The actual pay he received from this Government was,
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• Royal Commission report day 25 page 14
  ...9">[[#rc9839|9839]]</span> Do you know whether the black trackers received Queensland pay?— No, they received double pay from our department; that is all I kno ...I came over to Benalla, and he showed me written instructions he got from Queensland; he showed them me at the Benalla office, and I read them; they were writte
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• Royal Commission report day 25 page 16
  <span id="rc9883">[[#rc9883|9883]]</span> You went to Queensland ?— Yes. <span id="rc9886">[[#rc9886|9886]]</span> At the time you were in Queensland , did you attempt to make any arrangement for any officer who had any exper
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• Royal Commission report day 25 page 17
  ...ct because he had been for some time an officer in the [[Queensland police|Queensland]] police, in charge of the black trackers?— Yes, and for other reasons. M ...little about Mr. O'Connor at present. I saw him only just before I went to Queensland , so the I cannot speak myself from any personal experience about him; but
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• Royal Commission report day 25 page 18
  ...When you went to [[Police Trackers|black trackers]] in [[Queensland police|Queensland]], did you make any enquiry as to their competency for tracking and doing t ...hether the Queensland trackers would be efficient here when you were up in Queensland ?— Yes; I was told a good deal of what they could do, and the country is
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• Royal Commission report day 25 page 20
  ...2,700 a year for 500 men that is what is stated in the report. The cost in Queensland is £4,000 a year for 100 white troopers and 160 black troopers—that is 2
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• Royal Commission report 2/6/1881
  How did he come to be apointed to take charge of the trackers from Queensland?
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• Royal Commission report day 26 page 12
  ...f the following expression:— “In conclusion, I have to point out, as a Queensland officer of police, voluntarily serving in Victoria, assisting in searching
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• Royal Commission report 9/6/1881
  ...h 1881 - Report of Mounted-Constable Kirkham, 2986, relative to ability of Queensland trackers. - I respectfully report for the information of Inspector Montfort Insp O'Connor responded, &quot;The native police in Queensland are taught only to look to their officer-to take no commands from anybody e
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• Royal Commission report day 28 page 1
  ...ort of Mounted Constable [[Kirkham|Kirkham]], 2986, relative to ability of Queensland trackers. — I respectfully report for the information of Inspector [[Insp Return of Duties performed by Queensland trackers:—
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• Royal Commission report day 28 page 2
  ...an> For the purpose for which the present black trackers were brought from Queensland, have you heard any officer in the district, who had the opportunity of kno
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• Royal Commission report day 28 page 3
  ...black trackers from Queensland that he was better capable of managing the Queensland black trackers than anybody else. ''Mr. O'Connor'' — The native police in Queensland are taught only to look to their officer—to take no commands from anybody
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• Royal Commission Appendix 20 for 14 June 1881
  ''Ordered'' –That the secretary prepare a telegram for transmission to the Queensland Government or police authorities asking for copies of all papers and corres
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• Royal Commission report 14/6/1881
  ...tion with the Victorian police. He was a Sun Inspector of native police in Queensland. He explained how the native police system worked there. In mid June it was decided that the Queensland trackers would return home. The Royal Commission examined the politics surr
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• Royal Commission report day 29 page 1
  ...different to this service altogether. The fixed pay of all the officers in Queensland is very low, and the allowance is very hight. My travelling allowance as a ...fifteen years, he can retire without any certificate. The officers in the Queensland force are sub-inspectors, inspectors, travelling inspectors, and commission
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• Royal Commission report day 29 page 2
  ...Certainly; I was down on the roll of officers as if I was doing duty in Queensland. <span id="rc11456">[[#rc11456|11456]]</span> And you left the Queensland force voluntarily?— Well, hardly that. When I proceeded to Brisbane , aft
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• Royal Commission report day 29 page 3
  ...f the date of the first order directing your return to [[Queensland police|Queensland]]?— The first positive order to return, I believe, I got from Captain [[S ...Standish|Standish]]— “Memo. As Mr. [[Nicolson|Nicolson]] is aware, the Queensland Government not only refuse the [[Police Trackers|black trackers]] to be emp
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• Royal Commission report day 29 page 4
  ...]]</span> You ought to write to the Acting Chief Commissioner of Police in Queensland, or to the clerk in charge of the papers, and ask him if copies of all the ...as to the expediency of recalling your men, that this letter was sent from Queensland ?— Certainly.
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• Royal Commission report day 29 page 5
  ...I must point out that I am under great disadvantage here, a long way from Queensland, and my Commissioner of Police is at home in England on leave, and the Acti ...Yes, officially; and at the time I applied for this Commission was in the Queensland police, a very different position from what I am now. If I had resigned at
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• Royal Commission report day 29 page 6
  ...on]]—he asked for two to remain?— He said he had communicated with the Queensland Government, and they had eventually allowed him to keep Moses; but Captain ...ed if they consent to join our police. Moses was in our employ, but joined Queensland police on death of Sambo. It would be a great convenience to us to have two
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• Royal Commission report 15/6/1881
  The Royal Commission discussed correspondence between the Victoria and Queensland police relating to inst O' Connor
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• Royal Commission report day 30 page 1
  ...Chief Commissioner of Police here and the Chief Commissioner of Police in Queensland.
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• Royal Commission report day 30 page 8
  ...hat arrangements might have been made?— I heard you had actually gone to Queensland .
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• Royal Commission report day 30 page 10
  ...]]</span> “He made a series of communications to the [[Queensland police|Queensland Government]], tending to depreciate me”—do you think those came out of ...and supervision”—that is the correspondence that we are now asking the Queensland Government for the papers of?— Yes.
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• Royal Commission report day 30 page 14
  ...a weapon is or what a horse is. They have been taken out of the bush up in Queensland and brought down here as trackers. They may be very good, but I am not goin
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  ...aordinarily safe, that the man alongside of me, Trooper [[Jimmy|Jimmy]], a Queensland tracker, was wounded, and I stood exactly the same chance of being wounded
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• Royal Commission report day 31 page 6
  ...rc11972">[[#rc11972|11972]]</span> ''By the Commission''— Mr. O'Connor's Queensland men?— Yes. I know there were four or five, and he refused to say anything
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  ...ing—that they are really enemies in their own country, and very often in Queensland it results in murder. ...to belong to the same tribe?— No, I do not say that. We never do that in Queensland . There must be two men of a detachment of the same tribe, but neighbouring
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• Royal Commission report day 31 page 8
  <span id="rc12000">[[#rc12000|12000]]</span> Myself and my men—the Queensland police; do you remember any conversation?— Yes.
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• Royal Commission report day 31 page 9
  ...c12022|12022]]</span> In reference to this series of communications to the Queensland Government, do you not; remember me telling you that I knew there were a se ...Will you inform the Commission about the fact of Moses' transfer from the Queensland police to the Victorian police?— There is a communication on the subject
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• Royal Commission report day 31 page 10
  ...iven to Mr. [[O'Connor|O'Connor]] by his department in [[Queensland police|Queensland]] . Will you look at that passage just at the end of it, there where they a <span id="rc12044">[[#rc12044|12044]]</span> To order him, an officer of the Queensland police, as if he was a Victorian officer?— Yes.
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• Royal Commission report day 31 page 11
  ...er of this force?— No, I did not; I looked upon you as an officer of the Queensland force attached to us. ...he time being in the police force here while he remained an officer of the Queensland force, and could be recalled at any time?— Yes, could be recalled at any
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• Royal Commission Appendix 20 for 21 June 1881
  ...declining to allow his private correspondence with the [[Queensland police|Queensland Government]], in reference to Mr O’Connor and his trackers, to be placed
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• Royal Commission report day 34 page 3
  ...of a new team. I think you must agree with me that the sooner we leave for Queensland the better; in fact I strongly recommend that you should take the initiativ
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• Royal Commission report day 34 page 5
  ...urriedly to catch the mail, and being aware that I would return at once to Queensland I omitted details.
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• Royal Commission report day 37 page 32
  ...ve seen trackers track on the road. I saw the last trackers that came from Queensland —they tracked on the main road between here and [[Wodonga (2)|Wodonga]],
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• Royal Commission report day 38 page 4
  ...is time?— I do not know whether they had. They had trackers, but not the Queensland [[Police Trackers|trackers]]. Then the next occurrence would be after I cam
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• Royal Commission report day 42 page 15
  ...try £130 a month at the very least, and the sub-inspector could return to Queensland , as he is never troubled with the trackers. Is Detective Ward and the Assi
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• Royal Commission report day 43 page 5
  ...brother said, if Mr. Nicolson would give him a recommendation to join the Queensland force, he would go there; and I believe he did give him a recommendation, b
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• Royal Commission report day 45 page 8
  ...etter?— It was a letter of introduction to the Chief Commissioner of the Queensland Police. ...aled envelope addressed to the Commissioner of [[Queensland police|Police, Queensland]] .
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• Royal Commission report 31/8/1881
  Did Standish support the use of the Queensland trackers?
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• Royal Commission report day 47 page 9
  ...doubt the trackers are of use to track in an almost uninhabited place like Queensland, but I am perfectly certain, if they had been put on the tracks of the Kell
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• Royal Commission report day 47 page 10
  ...men you speak of are [[Police Trackers|special trackers]] we have got from Queensland . ...Mr. O'Connor brought?— Yes; but those you allude to are those I got from Queensland myself.
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• Royal Commission report day 47 page 16
  ..., but the conversation did not last long. He was under orders to return to Queensland . ...If he had not been ordered home by the [[Queensland police|authorities at Queensland]]?
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• Royal Commission report day 47 page 17
  16267 “''By the Commission''— Mr. O'Connor's Queensland men?— Yes. I know there were four or five, and he refused to say anything
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• Royal Commission report day 48 page 3
  ...e had sent up to Queensland for black trackers; Mr. Chomley had gone up to Queensland to obtain them—in fact, they were on their way down at the time. ...was thought that others could be got down equally efficient—in fact, the Queensland Government were anxious to get those trackers back.
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• Royal Commission report day 48 page 16
  ...ers were removed on the 25th June; the outlaws believing they had left for Queensland , showed out on the 26th”?— Yes, what about it?
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• Royal Commission report day 49 page 7
  ...did not wait to consider whether he were strictly speaking a Victorian or Queensland officer. After talking with Mr. O'Connor for fifteen or perhaps twenty minu
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• Royal Commission report day 49 page 13
  ...rs were removed on the 25th June; the outlaws, believing they had left for Queensland , showed out on the 26th. On the 28th the gang was destroyed, and its leade
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• Royal Commission report day 49 page 15
  16826 And was it not stated in the papers that others were coming from Queensland ?— I could not tell you that. I know that Mr. O’Connor 's blacks were s 16832 Or would you have given a recommendation to the Queensland force?— Not to the police force; not without explaining all the circumsta
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• Royal Commission report day 50 page 7
  ...d occur again to-morrow under similar circumstances, unless we had skilled Queensland trackers, not such men as we had, or else that the police had exact informa
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• Royal Commission report day 50 page 8
  ...ound, tracking was an impossibility except to such skilled trackers as the Queensland blacks, who were then not in the colony. Before I arrived at Euroa I had se
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• Royal Commission report day 50 page 10
  ...rong there as here. As to Mr. Seymour (the Chief Commissioner of Police of Queensland), I wrote to him and explained the whole matter only about the younger Sher
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• Royal Commission report day 50 page 12
  ...guard the townships, and also had the services of the black trackers from Queensland . The system of search parties scouring the country was continued by Captai
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• Royal Commission report day 50 page 17
  ...housand eight hundred and eighty in charge of the black trackers sent from Queensland to assist in the pursuit of the Kellys .
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• Royal Commission report day 50 page 20
  ...He got what was arranged between Captain Standish and the Government of Queensland. I do not know what he got.
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• Royal Commission report day 50 page 24
  17075 You subsequently gave an introduction to Sherritt to Queensland ?— Yes, I asked if they could take him into their force.
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• Royal Commission Appendix 20 for 22 September 1881
  ...her with the lines with which he should proceed down to the arrival of the Queensland [[Police Trackers|black trackers]] in the colony.
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• Royal Commission Appendix 20 for 10 October 1881
  ...ation of the courtesy and promptitude displayed by the [[Queensland police|Queensland]] Government in forwarding a contingent of native trackers to Victoria to a The Queensland contingent did good service, and your Commissioners trust the Victorian Gov
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• 2nd Report of the Royal Commission
  | '''The Queensland Trackers''' | The arrival of the Queensland trackers in Victoria. The terms of Insp O'Connor's employment in Victoria.
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• Royal Commission second Report (page 3)
  ...he North-Eastern district should have led to unpleasant complications. The Queensland contingent did good service, and your Commissioners trust that the Victoria
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• Royal Commission second Report Part X ( page 13)
  ...aws were actually in the colony or had gone northward, in the direction of Queensland. An analysis of the list of appearances during the time Captain Standish an
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• Royal Commission second Report Part XI ( page 14)
  '''XI.-THE''' '''QUEENSLAND''' '''TRACKERS''' ...ime refrained from expressing his disparaging estimate of the value of the Queensland trackers. They had been engaged contrary to his wishes and his judgment. He
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• Royal Commission Second Report Part XV ( page 21)
  ...as no ordinary traffic on the line, a special train to Beechworth with the Queensland trackers and a large body of police. Next, it was determined to wreck this
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• Royal Commission Second Report Part XV ( page 22)
  ...the reverse of an inspiriting influence upon the officer in charge of the Queensland contingent. He held his position until the arrival of Superintendent Sadlei
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• Royal Commission report Appendix 2 page 2
  To the Hon. Graham Berry, Sub-Inspector of Queensland Police. In [[events79-2_4Jerilderie Robbery|March 1879]] I arrived in Victoria from Queensland , and placed myself and men under Captain Standish, Chief Commissioner of P
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• Royal Commission report Appendix 3 page 2
  ...ormed them that I intended stationing black trackers, whom I expected from Queensland, at Benalla, Wangaratta, and Beechworth. I also told them that at each of t ...two trackers in case anything happened before Mr. Chomley, who had gone to Queensland for a fresh supply of trackers for our own force, returned, as I did not ex
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• Royal Commission report Appendix 3 page
  ...from Melbourne were as follows:—Mr. O'Connor, his wife and sister, five Queensland trackers, and six gentlemen connected with the press.
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• Royal Commission report Appendix 3 page 5
  ...high appreciation of the conduct and services of the police force, both of Queensland and Victoria, who by their steadiness and courage seconded my efforts and c ...ers were removed on the 25th June; the outlaws believing they had left for Queensland, showed out on the 26th. On the 28th the gang was destroyed, and its leader
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• Royal Commission report Appendix 4
  ...d therefore suggest that Mr. [[O'Connor|O'Connor]], who came here with the Queensland trackers, and who served here with our force for some sixteen months, be as
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• Royal Commission App 13-2
  ...d show them the back country. By keeping to east of Kiandra they may reach Queensland . They may have been going to Duncan Macgennis's, the drover, who lives at
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• Royal Commission report Appendix 20
  ''Ordered'' –That the secretary prepare a telegram for transmission to the Queensland Government Queensland trackers
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• Recollections of a Victorian Police Officer Chapter XIII page 3
  ...d generously undertook to house and provide for the unfortunates until the Queensland Government could take charge of them. The trouble was to find a building la
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• Recollections of a Victorian Police Officer Chapter XIX page 3
  ...eavour to find their way singly to some remote parts of New South Wales or Queensland; and possibly leave the country altogether. Undesirables as they were, this
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• Recollections of a Victorian Police Officer Chapter XVII page 2
  ...he reached Benalla, where I then lived, he showed special interest in the Queensland black trackers. Their throwing of the boomerang gave him great delight. The
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• Recollections of a Victorian Police Officer Chapter XX page 1
  '''THE''' '''QUEENSLAND''' '''BLACK TRACKERS''' ...he had heard that the new Governor, Lord Normanby, who had come fresh from Queensland , had been known to speak favourably of the native troopers there. Hare’s
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