A History of Australia [vol. 4]Melbourne University, 1963 - Australia |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 61
Page 328
... police ; all his Irish gifts for vituperation and undying hostility were used in his descriptions of his feelings towards the police . For him they were those men who ' came into the bush with the intention of scattering pieces of me ...
... police ; all his Irish gifts for vituperation and undying hostility were used in his descriptions of his feelings towards the police . For him they were those men who ' came into the bush with the intention of scattering pieces of me ...
Page 331
... police of suffering from the same weakness that had bedevilled the force in New South Wales in the man - hunts for Ben Hall and the Clarke brothers , the same folly that had sapped the strength of the British army in the Crimea , namely ...
... police of suffering from the same weakness that had bedevilled the force in New South Wales in the man - hunts for Ben Hall and the Clarke brothers , the same folly that had sapped the strength of the British army in the Crimea , namely ...
Page 332
... police into the district in search of Ned , a search that Ned would turn into a bloody massacre . The police would arrive by train ; the gang would tear up the rails at a place where the carriages in which they were travelling would be ...
... police into the district in search of Ned , a search that Ned would turn into a bloody massacre . The police would arrive by train ; the gang would tear up the rails at a place where the carriages in which they were travelling would be ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 11 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE | 25 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 49 |
Copyright | |
12 other sections not shown
Common terms and phrases
aborigines Adam Lindsay Gordon Adelaide April Argus August Australian bush Australian colonies Ballarat barbarism Beechworth believed Bendigo Berry bourgeois bourgeoisie Brisbane British Bulletin Burke bushrangers camp Catholic Charles Chinese Christ Christian Church civilization convict Courier December democracy diggers discovery of gold district drunken earth electoral Empire England English eyes February fields Geelong gentlemen gentry gold-fields heart Henry Lawson Henry Parkes Herald Herald Melbourne Hobart Hotham human Irish James Macarthur January John July June Kelly labour land larrikin Legislative Assembly Legislative Council licence living London Macarthur mankind March Marcus Clarke Melbourne moral Ned Kelly night November October parliament police political Protestant Queensland railway Robert O'Hara Burke savages schools September society South Australia South Wales squatters streets Sydney told town Trobe Victoria W. C. Wentworth wanted Wentworth Western Australia wild William woman women young