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  • ...h]] Operator [[Benalla|Benalla]]. He informed me that Mr Stephens (Station Master) required me on duty as soon as possible. On reporting myself ready for dut ...a start we went along all right till within a mile and a half of Glenrowan station when I noticed a reddish light ahead. My first impression was that the ligh
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  • ...insulators with their revolvers. Mr [[Jefferson|Jefferson]], the telegraph master, was told that if he repaired the line before next day he would be visited ...abitants were able to breathe freely. It is to the credit of the telegraph master, Mr Jefferson, that undeterred by the Kellys’ threats he immediately set
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  • ...t nine o’clock in the evening the outlaws were about to go to the police station to capture Bracken, the constable already referred to. Curnow had heard Ned
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  • ...Kelly broke the insulators with his revolver. Ned Kelly told the telegraph master, Mr [[Jefferson|Jefferson]], that if he attempted to mend the wires before ...ook Constable Richards from amongst the prisoners and walked to the police station.
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  • ...g bargains about the price of each animal, so as to lead the people of the station to believe that it was a genuine sale. At last they would agree to a price, ...f the party used to act as the master, and the others as his servants; the master always going ahead and making arrange. meets where the horses were to be pa
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  • ...ked him if he could tell in any way whether the line was open between that station and Beechworth, as there was no telegraph office at Tarrawingee. The operat ...immediately sent to me in breathless haste to come quickly to the railway station. I pretended to be very much surprised, but, of course, Aaron did not recog
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  • ...d Kelly, then spoke to one another, and Kelly took Alec Reynolds, the post master's son, and Mr E Reynolds, and passed with them into [[Reynolds|Reynolds]]' ...leaving the outlaws and their captives ready to start back to the railway station. As soon as we were out of hearing of the outlaws, I announced to my wife a
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  • ...d come with me from Benalla in our special, to accompany me to the station master's house, leaving all the men on the platform, telling them to keep a sharp ...t the Kellys had been there ten minutes ago and had taken away the station-master, and ordered our horses to be taken out of the train as quickly as possible
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  • ...of about a quarter of an hour Superintendent [[Hare|Hare]] approached the station and stated that he had been wounded in the wrist. The wound was a very bad ...ng a baby only a few months old in her arms, and she eventually ran to the station, where she received every kindness from the persons there assembled. She wa
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  • ...a knock came to my door, at the gatehouse, within one hundred yards of the station, on the Melbourne side. I jumped up, and thinking it was some one wanting t ...do it. This was in the little back shed used as a store room, between the station and the gatehouse. The tools were thrown out, and in the meantime Reardon a
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  • ...morning. Have taken steps to have him quietly removed from North Melbourne station to avoid mob which is sure to collect at Spencer street . Mr Hare also left ...ecautions you would wish me to take please advise – CS Stephens, station master at Benalla.
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  • ...pretty oil paintings, representing Australian life, a bush hotel, a cattle station, &c. A case of eggs of native birds, exhibited by Mr H Morres, follows. ...ution of the bordering of this exhibit is by Mr M'Longhlin, a local school-master, and very well done. Some first-rate carriage harness, by Collier and Lawre
    6 KB (1,024 words) - 21:05, 20 November 2015
  • ...hotels are both peculiar in their way, the one, in addition to being post master, is electoral registrar knows all the district well, and is good-natured an
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  • ...a populous district, it is not improbable that the, present unremunerative station at Jamieson will be discontinued. ...a limited number of pupils, and we have no doubt that the abilities of the master will succeed in training "Young Australia" how to shoot in the ri
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  • ...Jingellac|Jingellic]], in Victoria, and opposite to Mr. Smithwick's is the station referred to. Mr M'Kenzie's house is surrounded with trees with a good garde ...lmo'''. This in a valuable property about sixty miles above Albury. From a station it has merged into an estate of upwards of 4000 acres of freehold, consisti
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  • ...ears. The building is of brick, and has a very pleasing exterior. The head master is Mr '''C Hockins''', and he has three assistants, viz. : Messrs. '''Richa ...at a large expense, are next to the School of Arts. Albury is a repeating station for Victorian messages, and besides messengers and assistants two managers
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  • ...stance 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 method of imparting inst ...ght "fares," is a Melbourne arrangement, and for the trip to the station cabby charged 2s all round, which further exorbitant charge did not improve
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  • ...ing staff includes Mr P '''Durie''', head master, Miss '''Galloway''', and Master James '''Daley.''' The proficiency of the pupils in grammar, arithmetic, ge ...Further still is the extensive store of G '''Forsyth''' and Co., stock and station agents. Passing another hotel we reach the bridge.
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  • ...e up. Mr '''R S Arnott''' performs the double duties of post and telegraph master. ...e kept. Messrs. Blewett and Co., the spirited proprietors, are also Stock, Station, and Commission Agents and auctioneers.
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  • ...travels regularly between Hay [[Echuca|Echuca]]; Captain Rîandall is the master of the Pearl, and also owner of another boat, the Corowa. It may be of impo ...utiful pair of white or very light grey buggy horses. Mr Derepas of Kulkie station obtained the champion prize for the best thoroughbred stallion. He exhibite
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