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THE NORTHERN GOLDFIELDS
The Chinese have finished exhuming the bodies of their countrymen, or rather those they intend to take up at the present time, and have left our graveyard in a most disgraceful state. I visited it today, and found six graves left open, with the piles of earth upheaved alongside. The graves, or rather large holes (for they have been re-opened to twice the size) are half full of water, and in some a number of gin bottles are floating alongside the rags taken from the coffins.
Maitland Mercury, 1928
Rowland and Edna had been on horseback for an hour or so, their hands bound in front of them as Moran and Andy Cassidy led their mounts. They were following the faintest of trails which picked through trees into the O’Shea lease. A ravine appeared unexpectedly in a h
