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  • ...received instructions to proceed to Beechworth preceding a special police train (acting as pilot). ...the same moment it flashed through my mind that it was a ruse to stop the train. I then got out and stood on the side board of the van until I got opposite
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  • | THE STOPPING OF THE TRAIN WHAT THE KELLY GIRLS DID NED KELLY'S TRIP TO MELBOURNE
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  • ...a stock of provisions and other necessaries, and, proceeding to Echuca by train, started off to our destination lower down the Murray. We camped the first ...the game we were likely to see. My companion and I used to have a shooting trip every year to this station, and the manager was accustomed to reserve all t
    8 KB (1,347 words) - 21:06, 20 November 2015
  • ...s family, and registered a vow that he would never again go for a shooting trip as long as he lived, as he found he was not a sportsman, although highly th
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  • ...ay.  The Glenrowan friend took the ammunition already secured and left by train that afternoon for Benalla.  He disembarked at Benalla, and that night the Mrs Skillion and her cousin boarded the evening train at Essendon for Benalla.
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  • '''A Trip to Goulburn''' ...uffering a recovery from the devastating consequences of floods. The night trip to [[Goulburn NSW|Goulburn]], leaving [[Sydney|Sydney]] at five p.m., is pl
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  • ...me to bring these things under his notice; but it wont do to have only one train a day. ...the ls one pays in the crack Sydney establishments. Coming down by the day train, we passed through a large extent of country thickly covered with crooked a
    7 KB (1,258 words) - 20:59, 20 November 2015
  • ...ng six or eight "fares," is a Melbourne arrangement, and for the trip to the station cabby charged 2s all round, which further exorbitant charge
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  • ...ion, and a few minutes afterwards whirling along in a [[Railways|railway]] train to Echuca. We soon came on to plains, and the '''Digger's Rest''' station w ...t of rushing to their doors with the hopeless idea of seeing who is in the train. Plains, relieved by a few honeysuckles next appeared, and "'''Riddell
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  • ...the west. Others commenced to look for the Big Hill at Kilmore, which the train never went near, soon after they were out of Broadmeadows. ...so gradual that few were aware that the trouble had even commenced ere the train was careering gaily down the slope on the other side. The valley of the Dry
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  • '''A TRIP ACROSS THE BORDER''' I have often promised myself a trip to Wodonga and Albury, the two great border towns of Victoria and New South
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  • '''A TRIP ACROSS THE BORDER''' ...favourite ponies through Townsend street, and I had to leave by the early train next morning.
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  • ...n troopers and the black tracker who were sent up to Beechworth by special train on Thursday morning. These men returned here on Friday morning, and with th ...arcely be imagined. That such is the case was plainly proved by the recent trip to the Woolshed Ranges, as clear traces of the Kelly party having been rece
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  • ...It left Benalla by the early morning train, travelled some eighty miles by train, got out at a small station, and pushed through the forest and over the ran ...urious - ie, on the departure of that gentleman for England on the embassy trip, Captain [[Standish|Standish]] returned to the [[Melbourne Club|Melbourne C
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  • " Dear —,–A special train starts for Beechworth at 9 to-night.–Yours, —." ...but we waited in vain, and it was three minutes to 10 when the [[Railways|train]]—consisting of engine, one carriage, and brake-van— passed out of the
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  • ...ranges, could never hope to come within gunshot of the Kellys. After this trip Mr Hare wished to divide the trackers and place one or two in places where ...Queenscliff train on and after today. The present guard of the Queenscliff train, Mr Halley, will be removed to Melbourne . It may be stated that the [[Kell
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  • ...went to Benalla. On March 11, Captain Standish ordered us out on our first trip. I was first sworn in as a member of the Victorian police force. We left Be ...d that such was his idea. Captain Standish, in his evidence, spoke about a train of baggage waggons with the trackers, and that we worked so slowly. He woul
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  • ...owed 30 minutes for the journey to Glenrowan and 10 minutes for the return trip. This then left two hours and a quarter for his stay at Glenrowan. His repo ...n, while he was on the verandah of the hotel; that as soon as he heard the train stop he knew that there had been foul play, meaning (as he explained) that
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  • ...dge to speak of the goodness of the land. Mr Craves was accompanied on the trip by an Argus reporter. Arriving by the morning train at [[Glenrowan|Glenrowan]] we found waiting for us there three members of t
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  • ...at about this time,"I waited there for a few minutes, and just as the train was starting in tumbled Mr Nicolson. I only had time to hand him the telegr ...h had the unpleasant task of asking them to stay and to off on the special train. "... I told him, if and asked him if he was willing to go up; said it
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