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The Geelong Club: 74 Brougham Street 1888–89 [22] Geelong Customs House: 57 Brougham Street 1855–56 [23] Geelong railway station: 1 Railway Terrace 1877 [24] Geelong Synagogue: 74–78 McKillop Street 1861 [25] Geelong Telegraph Station: 83A Ryrie Street 1857–58 [26] Geelong City Hall: 30 Gheringhap Street 1855 [27] Geelong Wool Exchange ...
Originally condemned to death in 1822 for horse theft. Thomas Harley – 4 March 1824 – Hanged at Sydney for returning from Port Macquarie in defiance of his commuted sentence. Originally sentenced to death in 1822 for burglary from the house of Robert Campbell in George St.
The Amalgamated Shearers' Union of Australasia was an early Australian trade union. It was formed in January 1887 with the amalgamation of the Wagga Shearers Union and Bourke Shearers Union in New South Wales with the Victorian -based Australian Shearers' Union , with William Spence as president and David Temple as secretary.
The Geelong Gallery, formerly known as Geelong Art Gallery, is a major regional gallery in the city of Geelong in Victoria, Australia.The gallery forms Geelong's Cultural Precinct, along with the adjacent Geelong Library and Heritage Centre (Geelong Regional Library and Geelong Heritage Centre), Geelong Arts Centre, and the Geelong Courthouse (housing Back to Back Theatre and Platform Arts).
In May 1894, the Amalgamated Workers Union rose to the defence of the shearers' wages . By October 1894 the Queensland Amalgamated Workers Union conceded defeat and called off the strike in the colony of Queensland. However, the strike continued in New South Wales, where possibly 16,000 workers gathered in strike camps.
By November 1886, it claimed 5000 members: 1500 in Victoria and 3500 in southern New South Wales. [7] [8] Having sought to amalgamate with the various New South Wales unions from an early stage, it merged with the smaller Wagga Shearers Union and Bourke Shearers Union to form the Amalgamated Shearers' Union of Australasia in January 1887. [9] [10]
Frederick Wolseley, unassisted, went to Melbourne from Ireland, arriving in July 1854, [5] aged 17, to be a jackaroo on his future brother-in-law's sheep station.His sister Fanny's husband, Gavin Ralston Caldwell, they married in Dublin in 1857, held Thule, on the Murray River, and later added nearby Cobran near Deniliquin; both stations were in New South Wales.