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  • ...ower’s capture he had been wounded by a charge of shot fired at him by a squatter who chanced upon him in the bush, but had escaped capture and hidden himsel
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  • ...or some of them, at places in all corners of the district and out of it. A squatter sent word post haste to Benalla that the outlaws were shooting parrots near
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  • ...£15 a valuable gold watch that the bushranger had relieved a neighbouring squatter of. He ascertained the locality of Power's hiding place in the mountains fr
    6 KB (1,042 words) - 23:52, 20 November 2015
  • ...] I presented myself to the manager, who was a true type of the Australian squatter - hospitable to a degree, brusque and unceremonious in his manner, true as
    4 KB (628 words) - 20:59, 20 November 2015
  • ...ere we were more welcome. Power had sent a message to this gentle man (the squatter) that if he was anxious to get his watch he would return it to him if he se
    6 KB (1,150 words) - 23:52, 20 November 2015
  • ...uccess would have been small. The next thing was, to get the £15 from the squatter to send to Power. I put my initials on the coins, and we started away on Th ...took a handkerchief out of his pocket, untied it, and there displayed the squatter's watch and chain. We saw at once that L- must have had an interview with P
    10 KB (1,856 words) - 23:52, 20 November 2015
  • I might add that afterwards the squatter who had given us £15 to obtain his watch, and through whose instrumentalit
    8 KB (1,463 words) - 21:06, 20 November 2015
  • ...le were that were shooting birds, and found them to be a survey party. The squatter was under the impression that no inquiries were made concerning his report,
    7 KB (1,218 words) - 23:52, 20 November 2015
  • ...n 400 miles of his mother's place; he said he had stolen 400 horses from a squatter's run, named Mr [[Whitty|Whilty]], at various times, and he sold them but b
    6 KB (1,091 words) - 23:52, 20 November 2015
  • ...d, both old and manufactured ones. After the receipt had been drawn up the squatter would be asked to witness it, and the supposed buyers would start off towar
    5 KB (908 words) - 23:52, 20 November 2015
  • ...s had been feeding. We retired from the tent and slept that night near the squatter's homestead, and I dined with him, but slept with my men.
    8 KB (1,525 words) - 21:06, 20 November 2015
  • Power the Bushranger-His Escape-The Squatter's Gold Watch-£500 Blood-money-A Peacock as a Sentinel-Caught by the Heels-
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  • The Squatter's Gold Watch
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  • ...give you?-There was a charge preferred against me by a man named Brown, a squatter at [[Laceby|Laceby]], and an investigation was held by Mr. Barkly over it. Question.-He (Brown, the squatter) charged you with going amongst his horses and disturbing them?-Yes.
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  • ...n dingoes, which were plentiful in the neighbourhood. Tolmie was the local squatter, who had a large run in the district.
    8 KB (1,341 words) - 15:46, 20 November 2015
  • ...to imply that a man stole a sheep.  There was no proof of it.  Because a squatter ran sheep on the run this man lives on, and because this man is seen skinni
    6 KB (1,100 words) - 15:46, 20 November 2015
  • ...sheep is £666 13s 4d; therefore in the case of a run with 20,000 sheep a squatter is charged with interest on his own capital expended in improvements and st
    5 KB (808 words) - 21:05, 20 November 2015
  • ...ks ketched fire some night" - thereby threatening dire revenge on the squatter, by setting fire to his grass and destroying his fences.
    5 KB (815 words) - 21:00, 20 November 2015
  • ...a_A.html|'''Howlong''']]. The comfortable station residence of the veteran squatter, is on the river bank. The three sons of Mr Rudd who have become Benedicts
    5 KB (834 words) - 21:00, 20 November 2015
  • ...nt language than the above, publicly stated that "the 'very name of a squatter stinks in his nostrils?"
    5 KB (922 words) - 21:06, 20 November 2015
  • Robert Mason, jun, deposed- I am a squatter living at the [[Fifteen Mile Creek (2)|Fifteen mile Creek]], Greta. I know
    4 KB (707 words) - 21:06, 20 November 2015
  • ...pplied for the land were dummies. He would not allow selectors to injure a squatter in the business he was carrying on by settling down between the sheepwash a
    3 KB (534 words) - 21:06, 20 November 2015
  • ...od country one carried on by Mr Monash. The Wanganilla Inn was built for a squatter, (Mr Brodribb) whose station it was on. It is a good large building, carrie
    7 KB (1,146 words) - 20:59, 20 November 2015
  • ...me off, for this reason, we have no JP to form a bench. There is one JP, a squatter, residing fifteen miles from here, and the next nearest is something like f
    3 KB (542 words) - 20:59, 20 November 2015
  • ...sk as he imagined. She took up a run and defied the police who came to the squatter's assistance. In undisturbed possession she remained till her death, which
    7 KB (1,153 words) - 20:59, 20 November 2015
  • ...of age, was charged with stealing cattle from his father (Robert Mason), a squatter at Fifteen-mile Creek. Mr O'Leary for defendant. Robert Mason, squatter at Fifteen mile Creek near Benalla, stated that in September last he lost a
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  • ...matter, viz.: John, David, Mary Anne, and William Fraser, children of the squatter, and Grace Howe (the wife of John Fraser), Annie and George Howe, and three ...of the selections nearly cut the run in half, and prevented access to the squatter's reserves.
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  • == At the next Supreme Court another case, Squatter v. Selector, trespass, will be tried ==
    4 KB (689 words) - 20:59, 20 November 2015
  • ...obstruct, as they were bound to the principle of increased taxation of the squatter; so they went in ta impose an additional assessment to ls per head on every
    4 KB (641 words) - 21:00, 20 November 2015
  • ...for either my horse or myself. So much is the contrast between the wealthy squatter and the poor selector.
    4 KB (705 words) - 21:00, 20 November 2015
  • ...nt design, and an establishment for the clergy. I was informed that a rich squatter, a member of this church, gave as a free gilt to the building fund a piece
    5 KB (849 words) - 21:02, 20 November 2015
  • ...een by any person travelling on the South Gipps Land main road, and at the squatter's twelve miles ahead, if you ? "old Jack's,” you will be snarled and
    4 KB (636 words) - 21:00, 20 November 2015
  • ...Age, -"Yesterday the funeral of the late Dr Rowe, an old colonist, a squatter and a much e respected resident of Euroa, took place at the Euroa Cemetery.
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  • Mr C H Barber, a squatter of [[Gundowring|Gundowring]], held over 2,000 acres of purchased land, and ...em''', butcher and pastoral tenant, Beechworth , and '''James Woodside''', squatter, of Happy Valley advocated similar views.
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  • ...nce was to the effect that Mr Wright was a pliant tool in the hands of the squatter council of Towong, and that he lent himself to do their bidding and harass ...ning purposes, he admitted the area as a whole was too large, and that the squatter, Mr Finlay had the use of the grass, and that the selectors were kept out,
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  • [[Noorongong|Andrew Paton]] a squatter on the Mitta Mitta, said he thought it would be desirable to cut the lands ...ired to select on the Mitta Mitta had been reserved for the benefit of the squatter who had the adjacent lands purchased. The complaints about the difficulties
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  • ...d had gone to New South Wales . He desired to get it now. Mr Finlay's (the squatter) sheep were always on the land. A grazing right system would be of great va Mr Day, a squatter of New South Wales on being called, stated that he agreed with the proposal
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  • ...ing a sheep ; but the constable didn't know whose sheep it was, although a squatter of the locality had stated he suspected the Sherritts of sheep-stealing. Di
    7 KB (1,170 words) - 21:06, 20 November 2015
  • ...t to a squatter's station, borrowed horses from him, left their own at the squatter's place, and they went about the country that was known to Canny seeking fo
    7 KB (1,260 words) - 21:04, 20 November 2015
  • ...o.” I said, “Whose sheep was it?” He said, “I do not know, but the squatter who lives on the run said he suspected the Sherritts of stealing his sheep,
    7 KB (1,298 words) - 21:04, 20 November 2015
  • ...ely had anything to do in that time. What was his offence. It involved the squatter's horses.
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  • ...ve you?— There was a charge preferred against me by a man named Brown, a squatter at [[Laceby|Laceby]], and an investigation was held by Mr. Barkly over it;
    6 KB (967 words) - 21:02, 20 November 2015
  • ...iously to your starting?— No; I know he was shown out to that place by a squatter.
    6 KB (1,062 words) - 21:02, 20 November 2015
  • ...ot you mean to infer that that was a tent belonging to the outlaws?— The squatter thought it was, and took me up to it.
    5 KB (866 words) - 21:03, 20 November 2015
  • ...ice to imply that a man stole a sheep. There was no proof of it; because a squatter ran sheep on the run this man lives on, and because this man is seen skinni
    5 KB (902 words) - 21:03, 20 November 2015
  • ...took place?— Yes. I have been speaking to an intimate friend of mine, a squatter born and reared there, and when I told him confidentially of my intention t
    5 KB (783 words) - 21:01, 20 November 2015
  • ...ays as one pleased. I will try to recall the names of some of these kindly squatter friends of more than half a century ago.
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  • Since those days Cuthbert has been many things - parson, squatter, explorer and mining prospector, and still lives, held in high regard by nu
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  • ...892 in Chiltern. He has been called by many occupations, farmer, selector, squatter, but in 1914 at the time of his death, he was known as a Vigneron. I have f
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  • ...:Graves]] [[Category:Politician]] [[Category:Royal commission]] [[Category:Squatter]] [[Category:Kelly Gang]] [[Category:history]]
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