What happened for the first time in 1838?
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Ramjet said:
Women got the vote for the first time - on Pitcairn Island?
Did they?
Not what I'm asking tho.
Not what I'm asking tho.
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It was the first time British murderers where brought to trial for massacaring 28 Aboriginal people at Myall Creek
Correct mbasko
First time whites where punished for killing Aboriginals.
Didn't stop the slaughter, just drove it underground
Your turn
First time whites where punished for killing Aboriginals.
Didn't stop the slaughter, just drove it underground
Your turn
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What is the name of the town north of Mudgee (now a "Ghost town") that during its peak after 1872 had some 20,000 inhabitants scrambling to get the gold from the ground?
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Correct.
Home Rule was once a thriving, bustling township on the Mudhut Creek Road in NSW.
Just north of Mudgee and slightly south-east of Gulgong, it was the rich pickin's at Canadian Lead that drew the bodies and souls like flies to honey, with eventual gold discoveries a little further east at Home Rule.
Thriving and bustling indeed; with 20,000 inhabitants from May 1872 busting a gut to gouge the gold from the ground and the many and varied businesses that seem to spring up, like fungus on a damp log, around human habitation sites.
There were at least 10 pubs, several boarding houses, a couple of general stores, butchers, bakers and tent makers, a butter and corn store, saddlers, chemists and at least 3 doctors, a saleyards, a bootmaker and a restaurant.
There was a school for the, inevitable, arrival of rug-rats, a greengrocers store and a *gasp* billard parlor!
http://ourgreatsouthernlandlostfound.blogspot.com.au/2008/11/home-rule-in-nsw-is-not-political.html
Home Rule was once a thriving, bustling township on the Mudhut Creek Road in NSW.
Just north of Mudgee and slightly south-east of Gulgong, it was the rich pickin's at Canadian Lead that drew the bodies and souls like flies to honey, with eventual gold discoveries a little further east at Home Rule.
Thriving and bustling indeed; with 20,000 inhabitants from May 1872 busting a gut to gouge the gold from the ground and the many and varied businesses that seem to spring up, like fungus on a damp log, around human habitation sites.
There were at least 10 pubs, several boarding houses, a couple of general stores, butchers, bakers and tent makers, a butter and corn store, saddlers, chemists and at least 3 doctors, a saleyards, a bootmaker and a restaurant.
There was a school for the, inevitable, arrival of rug-rats, a greengrocers store and a *gasp* billard parlor!
http://ourgreatsouthernlandlostfound.blogspot.com.au/2008/11/home-rule-in-nsw-is-not-political.html
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Sorry guys, even though my wife thinks I do, I don't live on the computer haha!
Australia has numerous 'misspelled' town names, Bellingen town is on the Bellinger River, but the original documents were misread when the town was made official, and today people off misname the river as the Bellingen River.
Coffs Harbour is also a misspelled name. What was the original name?
Australia has numerous 'misspelled' town names, Bellingen town is on the Bellinger River, but the original documents were misread when the town was made official, and today people off misname the river as the Bellingen River.
Coffs Harbour is also a misspelled name. What was the original name?
headbut
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Korff's Harbour
Coffs Harbour owes its name to John Korff, who named the area Korff's Harbour when he was forced to take shelter from storm in the area in 1847. Its name was accidentally changed by the surveyor for the crown when he reserved land in the area during 1861.[
Coffs Harbour owes its name to John Korff, who named the area Korff's Harbour when he was forced to take shelter from storm in the area in 1847. Its name was accidentally changed by the surveyor for the crown when he reserved land in the area during 1861.[
Ben78 said:
The trick is to find a question Mr Google doesn't have on the tip of his keyboard
RR
headbut
Paul
Whilst on wrong names - What was Poormans creek , Hill End , really called ?
Sorry guys , its Poormans Gully
Sorry guys , its Poormans Gully
headbut17 said:
No wonder I couldn't find poormans Creek anywhere
Pr2cv said:
Taped it Pete. Will have a look when I get time.
RR
Not much info on this one HB
REFERENCE: 47038
PLACENAME: POORMANS GULLY
DESIGNATION: GULLY
STATUS: ASSIGNED 14th October 1977
LOCAL COUNCIL: EVANS
LATITUDE: 33 01 00
LONGITUDE: 149 25 00
TOPO MAP: HILL END
1:100000 MAP: ORANGE 8731
PARISH: CARROLL
COUNTY: WELLINGTON
DESCRIPTION: A gully about 1500 metres long. Rising about 11 km east of
Fischers Hill and flowing 14 km into Golden Gully about 500 metres south of
the cemetary in Steel Street, Tambaroora.
Sunnyside ?
REFERENCE: 47038
PLACENAME: POORMANS GULLY
DESIGNATION: GULLY
STATUS: ASSIGNED 14th October 1977
LOCAL COUNCIL: EVANS
LATITUDE: 33 01 00
LONGITUDE: 149 25 00
TOPO MAP: HILL END
1:100000 MAP: ORANGE 8731
PARISH: CARROLL
COUNTY: WELLINGTON
DESCRIPTION: A gully about 1500 metres long. Rising about 11 km east of
Fischers Hill and flowing 14 km into Golden Gully about 500 metres south of
the cemetary in Steel Street, Tambaroora.
Sunnyside ?
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