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1865
3/1/65 Henry Raines requests use of police
paddock for horses
8/3/65 Mr Hamilton, Narrung, gave grog
to Aborigines
15/3/65 Henry Raines refuses to carry police mail
4/4/65 William Hosie, Narrung, sells
gin to Aborigines
24/3/65 Henry Raines won’t carry mail
18/4/65 Dr Gummow’s acc. not paid
11/5/65 Reports on outstations ...
15/5/65 Mr Raines’ complaint against Supt. Chambers
21/9/65 Disturbances at Kerang
10/10/65 Wm Wright drowns after falling from PS “Firefly”
15/12/65 Supt. Chambers doesn’t want to return to SH
28/11/65 Insp. Disney takes charge of SH
28/11/65 List of men at SH
1866
Conduct records of Consts. Harper & McSweeney
-/4/66 Skeleton found near Lake Merran
5/4/66 Squatting dispute between Bennett
&
Leslie
5/4/66 Burke & Wills’ stores at Coopers
Creek now useless
7/4/66 Const. McGrath requests transfer
9/4/66 George Cave granted publican’s
licence “Shamrock”
1/5/66 Mary Ann Harper to cook for police
1/5/66 David Morris gets 3 months for
absconding from hired service
28/5/66 Request to fence police paddock & road, Map
4/6/66 Mr Alec Tait of Millers Run, Lake
Boga reports sheep stealing. Suspects are Bateman, Hazelhurst
also J.C.Joyce & Burton of Kangaroo Inn, Murder ing Lake
& Swan Hill
27/6/66 Const. de Montmorency resigns
5/7/66 Mrs Catherine Woolstencroft seeks aid
5/7/66 Supt. Chambers reprimanded by
Chief Commissioner
12/7/66 Const. Fudger 4/- acc. for horse feed
19/7/66 More from Chief Comm. to Supt Chambers
20/7/66 Const. Harper tore Mr Krone’s coat,
other names mentioned James Fowler, Henry Smith, H.M. Sutherland
14/8/66 E.T. Wildman arrested in Swan Hill
4/9/66 Papers, etc of Benjamin Shaw missing
21/9/66 Prisoner Geo. Downie escaped
15/10/66 Horse thief Ferdinand Beurmann committed suicide, John
Falconer makes coffin
1867
4/7/67 Sick Chinese man refused admission to
hospital
1868
15/9/67 Patrick Hogan found dead. William Rie....
Publican at Narrung
10/12/68 Proposed station at Yelta
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1869
List of rations, Tender by Elizabeth Jones
19/7/69 Misconduct of Const Harper
12/8/69 Report on all district stations
19/10/69 Accounts, SH names ....
4/11/69 Wm Simmonds, lunatic, threatens Mr Findlay
23/12/69 Const Doherty gets £3 reward
1870
10/1/70 Mrs Gummow finds ring & 9/6 and claims
them
17/1/70 Body found and buried by Richard Belsar
30/3/70 Stephen McLachlan drowns
25/4/70 Missing witness re murder of Susan Eagan
by Henry I. Edwards
24/5/70 Const Brown has to buy letter “P” for …
24/6/70 Accusation of sly grog
28/11/70 Suicide of John Thompson of Kerang
8/12/70 Query on transport acc.
12/12/70 John McIntosh drowned
Cobham = Inspector of Police, Francis
COBHAM
Marg. Banks
The late Mr. M.J.S. Mackenzie
”The Guardian” 18 Oct 1901
N.Z. papers to hand record the death of Mr. M.J.S. Mackenzie of the
Wakool.
The sad event took place on the 15th ult. The late Mr. Scobie Mackenzie
was one of New Zealand’s most brilliant statesmen, and his political career
was a distinguished and honourable one, unmarred by a trace of self-seeking,
and illuminated by a rare generosity that ensured him the deepest respect,
and in many instances the constant affection of his strongest political
opponents. At the age of 16 Mr. Mackenzie emigrated to Australia, and for
ten years was engaged in pastoral pursuits in the back country of Victoria
and New South Wales, and had many stirring experiences among the pioneers,
as well as with the numerous aborigines. He encountered the ill-fated Burke
and Wills expedition across the Australian continent at an early stage
of its long journey, and the sole survivor (King) of which he helped
to welcome back to civilisation. Another stirring remembrance was that
of Mr. Mackenzie’s own start on a similar enterprise. He was placed in
charge of a mob of sheep, and told to take them clear across Australia
to the Gulf of Carpentaria, where Landsborough had located some good pastoral
country. Although only 17 years of age, he accepted the mission, which
was estimated to last two years, and started off cheerfully with his party
on the faith of supplies following him up. Instead, after weeks of travel
and hardship, he was overtaken by a bailiff, who seized the sheep for a
debt of the owners. The men’s wages were paid, but the young leader’s claim
was rejected on the plea that he was to be paid in sheep on delivery at
the Gulf, and was therefore practically a partner.
He kept his two horses however and achieved his return by a dangerous
route, after losing both his horses by the “poison plant” or Darling pea.
One of Mr. Mackenzie’s station chums was the late Marcus Clarke, the brilliant
Australian author and journalist.
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