Thomas O’Shaughnessy’s Diary Part 6 1867

1867

1 Jan 1867      Making a shower bath.

2 Jan 1867      Cowra.

3 Jan 1867      Cowra

4 Jan 1867      Finished the shower bath.

5 Jan 1867      Cowra,

6 Jan 1867      Cowra. Sunday. Weather cooler.

7 Jan 1867.     Cowra. Drawing water all day.

8 Jan 1867      Cowra – no work.

9 Jan 1867.     Cowra. The Cowra bridge contractors come. I was repairing Tom Walsh’s verandah and making a milking bail.

10 Jan 1867.   Finished the bail. Hot day.

11 Jan 1867.   Cowra. The flour Mill commenced to work.

12 Jan 1867.   Cowra. Driving the engine. John Connell’s horse bolted with the cart and hit against a stump and broke it.

13 Jan 1867.   Cowra. Sunday.

14 Jan 1867.   Cowra. Working at the Mill. Mrs Cummins haystack burnt.

15 Jan 1867.   Working at the Mill.

16 Jan 1867    Cowra. Working at the Mill. P Walsh came.

17Jan 1867     Cowra. Very busy. Great quantity of wheat coming in. Hot day.

18 Jan 1867    Cowra. My thing arrived by coach from Forbes. Dry weather.

19 Jan 1867    Cowra. P. Walsh went home to Kikiamah.

20 Jan 1867    Sunday. No sign of rain.

21 Jan 1867    Cowra. 400 bushels of wheat came in today.

22 Jan 1867    Working at the Mill. J. Connell’s horse bolted but broke nothing.

23 Jan 1867    P.Walsh came in. Tom Joyce driving his bullock team with a new smelting machine on it. Busy day at Mill.

24 Jan 1867    Working hard putting the wire in the smelting machine.

25 Jan 1867    Tom Joyce started for Kikiamah. Corn crops drying up.

26 Jan 1867    P. Walsh started home. Mrs Neville, Maggie Middlemiss and Dan Neville started for Blayney. Mrs Neville is to be married to Nicholas Challacombe Tom lcely’s overseer.^[1]

27 Jan 1867    Sunday. Hot day. No sign of rain.

28 Jan 1867    James and Ellen Markham came with wheat to the Mill. A bricklayer repairing the furnace today.

29 Jan 1867    Working at the Mill until 12 o’ clock. Had to stop on account of the bricklayer taking down old chimney. Thunder storm with heavy rain for 2 hours. Any amount of wheat coming in. Hartigan came in late this evening.

30 Jan 1867    Making a partition between the wheat room and the meal room. The Mill not at work.

31 Jan 1867    Started to work but the old smelter would not work. Took the old one down. James Markham went home. Mr & Mrs Challacombe returned after being married^[2].

1 Feb 1867      We had to grind without smelting. Worked up to 12 o’clock.

2 Feb 1867      Crighton came up to put up the new smelter. We had to stop grinding  – wheat too dirty. Mr Parker passed through town in a buggy going to Emu Creek rush. In coming from Bathurst, he was stuck up on Fitzgerald’s Mount by some bushrangers. Three horses, a saddle, and a gun taken.

3 Feb 1867      Sunday. Father McGuinn said Mass. Working all day at the Mill putting up smelting machine.

4 Feb 1867      Working at the smelting machine.

5 Feb 1867      Started to work 12 o’clock.

6 Feb 1867                   Worked until 10 o’clock tonight.

7 Feb 1867      Tom Joyce came with load of wheat from Kikiamah. Crighton went to  Carcoar. Worked up to 10 o’clock tonight.

8 Feb 1867      Worked until 10 o’clock. Word from Bathurst that W. Walsh was on the spree. Young Platt brought word from Goolagong that James McInerney’s daughter was drowned at Goolagong in a small water hole near house. A. Middlemiss went down.^[3]

9 Feb 1867      Tom Walsh went to meet the funeral. They came to Cowra at 6 o’clock this evening. Worked up to 10 o’clock tonight.

10 Feb 1867.   Buried McInerney’s daughter at Campbell’s burial ground.

11 Feb 1867    Working at the Mill

12 Feb 1867    Working at the Mill.

13 Feb 1867    The Priest came on the coach on a sick call at Forbes.

14 Feb 1867    Looks like rain. Very sultry.  

15 Feb 1867    Windy. Heavy clouds.

16 Feb 1867    Working at Mill all day.

17 Feb 1867    Sunday. Dry. No rain.

18 Feb 1867    Danny the  Donnegala – commenced to work at the Royal Hotel. We worked up to ten o’clock tonight.

19 Feb 1867    Worked up to 10 o’clock. Raining all day.

20 Feb 1867    Worked up to 10 o’clock tonight. Weather clearing up.

21 Feb 1867    Worked to ten o’clock tonight.

22 Feb 1867    Worked to ten o’clock tonight.

23 Feb 1867    P Walsh discharged the fireman.  Worked up to 10 o’clock.  Father Ryan came.

24 Feb 1867    Sunday. Great many people at Mass.

25 Feb 1867    Hired one of the bridge men to work the engine.Warm day.

26 Feb 1867    P Walsh started home. Raining.

27 Feb 1867    Working until 10 o’clock.

28 Feb 1867    Working until 10 o’clock.

1 Mar 1867      Worked up to 10 o’clock.

2 Mar 1867      Fireman discharged. Worked up to ten o’clock.

3 Mar 1867      Sunday.

5 Mar 1867      Working until 10 o’clock.

6 Mar 1867      Ash Wednesday. Worked until six o’clock. A French priest said Mass.

7 Mar 1867      Worked to six o’clock.

8 Mar 1867      Worked to six o’clock.

9 Mar 1867      Worked to six o’clock.

10 Mar 1867    Sunday. Working at the engine all day. Priest said Mass.

11 Mar 1867    Worked to six o’clock.

12 Mar 1867    Worked up to eight o’clock.

13 Mar 1867    Worked to six o’clock. The first pile of the Cowra bridge driven today.

14 Mar 1867    Worked to six o’clock.

15 Mar 1867    Worked to six o’clock. P Walsh came in.

16 Mar 1867    I tried to get up steam but the safety valve let most of the steam escape. Not enough steam to blow the boiler off. Repairing engine.

17 Mar 1867    Sunday. St Patrick’s Day. I had a look at the pile driving.

18 Mar 1867    Making joists and painting the boiler.

19 Mar 1867    Got up steam and worked until eight o’clock. P Walsh went home.

20 Mar 1867    Worked to six. The moon eclipsed at 7 o’clock.

21 Mar 1867    Worked up to six o’clock.

22 Mar 1867    Worked to six. A letter from Mr Youl for me to go down to Mulgutherie.

23 Mar 1867    Worked to six.

24 Mar 1867    Sunday. Rained all night and a little this evening.

25 Mar 1867    Working all day.

26 Mar 1867    Working up to six.

27 Mar 1867    Worked to six o’clock.

28. Mar 1867   Worked to six o’clock.

29 Mar 1867    Worked to six o’clock.

30 Mar 1867    Worked to six o’clock.

31 Mar 1867    Sunday. Wrote a letter to Bill Walsh.

1 Apr 1867      Worked to six o’clock.

2.Apr 1867      Worked to six o’clock.

3.Apr 1867      Worked to six o’clock.

4 Apr 1867      Worked to six o’clock.

5 Apr 1867      Worked to six o’clock. Hartigan came. Heavy rain.

6 Apr 1867      Working to six. Alick the top man discharged. The priest came. Heavy rain.

7 Apr 1867      Sunday. Repairing taps for gauge glass. Wrote to Webber.

8 Apr 1867      Working to six. Cloudy day.

9 Apr 1867      Worked up to six o’clock. Raining.

10 Apr 1867    Worked to six o’clock. Raining heavy all day.

11 Apr 1867    Worked until six o’clock. Bridge contractor bolted.

12 Apr 1867    Worked to six o’clock. Fine day.

13 Apr 1867    Worked up to six o’clock. Weather fine.

14 Apr 1867    Sunday. River rising very fast.

15 Apr 1867    Worked to six. P Walsh came with a spring cart.

16 Apr 1867    Worked until six o’clock.

17 Apr 1867    Worked to six. P. Walsh started home.

18 Apr 1867    Worked until 12 o’clock.

19 Apr 1867    Worked until six o’clock. Good Friday.

20 Apr 1867    Worked to six o’clock. Frosty nights.

21 Apr 1867    Easter Sunday.

22 Apr 1867    Making two joints in the steam pipe. Cold day.

23 Apr 1867    Got up steam. Joints alright.

24 Apr 1867    Working to six o’clock. Raining.

25 Apr 1867    Worked to six o’clock.

26 Apr 1867    Worked to six o’clock.

27 Apr 1867    Worked to six o’clock. We heard of Catherine Nowlan’s death.

28 Apr 1867    Sunday. Cloudy day.

29 Apr 1867    Worked to six o’clock. Raining slowly all day.

30 Apr 1867    Working to six o’clock.

1 May 1867     Worked to six o’clock. Raining. River rising.

2 May 1867     Worked to six o’clock. Light showers all day.

3 May 1867     Worked to six o’clock. River rising fast.

4 May 1867     Repairing engine all day.

5 May 1867     Sunday. Fine day.

6 May 1867     Not working the Mill today.

7 May 1867     Not at work.

8 May 1867     No work.

9 May 1867     Not working.

10 May 1867   Got up steam to dress meal. Only worked to six o’clock.

11 May 1867   Dressing meal until six o’clock.

12 May 1867   Sunday. Fine weather.

13 May 1867   The Mill closed. No wheat.

14 May 1867   Edwards the Miller started to Bathurst. Fine day.

15 May 1867   I went to Middlemiss for a horse.

16 May 1867   Started down to Goolagong. Called at James McInerney’s and Jim Stack’s, and from there to Bangaroo, and up to Cowra.

17 May 1867   Doing nothing. Raining all day.

18 May 1867   No work. Fine weather.

19 May 1867   Sunday. Fine day.

20 May 1867   I took Black Harry with me in the bush to cut poles for a slaughter yard on Dick Mack’s five acre block.

21 May 1867   Cutting poles all day. J A Parker stayed at the Royal Hotel all night.

22 May 1867   Heavy rain all day. J A Parker started.

23 May 1867   Heavy rain. River rising fast.

24 May 1867   harry and I out in the bush for poles.

25 May 1867   Working at the yard. Foggy morning.

26 May 1867   P Walsh came. Fine weather.

27 May 1867   At the yard all day. Old Mrs Duggan died.

28 May 1867   Drawing poles all day. P Walsh went home. Mrs Duggan buried.

29 May 1867   Out for poles in the bush.

30 May 1867   Drawing poles. Bush boggy. River rose half a banker last night. Father Ryan came by coach.

31 May 1867   Putting up yard until twelve o’clock and then went in the bush and brought in two loads. Mrs Markham (came).

1 Jun 1867      Putting up the yard. River falling. Warm day.

2 Jun 1867      Sunday.  Father Ryan started down the river.

3 Jun 1867      Drawing poles for the yard all day.

4 Jun 1867      Brought in one load of poles. Working in the yard in the evening.

5 Jun 1867      Working at the yard all day.

6 Jun 1867      At the yard all day. Raining in the evening.

7 Jun 1867      Working at the yard. Fine day.

8 Jun 1867      Working at the yard.

9 Jun 1867      Sunday. Hartigan called. Annie 0′ Shaughessy got the Typhus Fever.

10 Jun 1867    Working at the yard. River rising.

11 Jun 1867    Working at the yard. Very foggy.

12 Jun 1867    Finished the yard.

13 Jun 1867    Out in bush stripping bark. Old Mr MacNamara went by coach to Grenfell. Frosty night.

14 Jun 1867    Drove Mrs O’Shaughnessy and Annie to Carcoar to see doctor. Got to Carcoar at 8 o’clock. Stayed at P. Moroney’s Hotel.

15 Jun 1867    Carcoar. Dr Spark and Dr Rowlands came to see Annie.

16 Jun 1867    Carcoar. The Dr would not let us start. He had some hope yet.

17 Jun 1867    Started from Carcoar and came to Cowra. Rained a little in the evening. Annie no better.

18 Jun 1867    Rained all day and night. Annie no better.

19 Jun 1867    Rained all day and night. Annie no better.

20 Jun 1867    Fine morning. Raining in the evening.

21 Jun 1867    Water nearly over the banks. Everyone on the (river) flats removed onto the hill. Annie no better. River began to fall.

22 Jun 1867    River began to rise again. Annie died about 5 o’clock this evening.^[4]

23 Jun 1867    Buried poor little Annie late evening. Raining a little all day. River falling very fast.

24 Jun 1867    Cleaning up the old house all day. Fine day.

25 Jun 1867    Working at the house. Frosty night.

26 Jun 1867    Working at the house all day.

27 Jun 1867    Working at the house all day.

28 Jun 1867    Doing nothing

29 Jun 1867    No work.

30 Jun 1867    Sunday. John Corry came.1 Jul 1867           Working at the old house. J Corry gone to Carcoar.

2 Jul 1867       Working at the house

3 Jul 1867       Working at Mill until 12 o’clock. Dan Neville and Willy Ryan came with a cow.

4 Jul 1867       Working at the Mill all day. Cold weather.

5 Jul 1867       Working all day at the old house.

6 Jul 1867.      Working all day at the old house. Mr and Mrs Hartigan came. Father Ryan came from Carcoar.

7 Jul 1867       Mass at the Chapel. Frosty night.

8 Jul 1867       Up at Middlemiss’s paddock cutting a butcher’s block. Father Ryan started to Canowindra.

9 Jul 1867       Still cutting away at block. Mrs Hartigan started to Kikiamah.

10 Jul 1867     Finished cutting the block. Put it on a slide but one horse could not pull it. Great frost this morning.

11 Jul 1867     John Jordan drew in the block with six bullocks.We had some trouble to get it in the house.

12 Jul 1867     Painted the block. Rained most all day.

13 Jul 1867     Working in the house. A little rain.

14 Jul 1867     Sunday. River rising. Cold, cloudy day.

15 Jul 1867     Working at the Mill. Raining.

16 Jul 1867     Working at the Mill. Cold day.

17 Jul 1867     Working at the Mill most all day.

18 Jul 1867     Mrs Russell died at waugoola at 12 o’clock last night.Thomas Walsh started to Waugoola at 4 o’clock. I had to drive the engine.

19 Jul 1867     Mrs Russell buried at the Sheet Of bark. Dressing flour all day.

20 Jul 1867     Working at the old house. Mr and Mrs Hartigan came from Kikiamah.

21 Jul 1867     Sunday. Cold day.

22 Jul 1867     Working at the Mill at 12 o’clock.

23 Jul 1867     Doing nothing. Hartigan went home. Dan Neville came home. Cold day.

24 Jul 1867     I went up to the Court House in the morning. Working at the old house.

25 Jul 1867     Working at the old house all day.

26 Jul 1867     Working at the old house. Frost.

27 Jul 1867     Killed a cow.

28 Jul 1867     Sunday. Rained all day.

29 Jul 1867     Killed a cow.

30 Jul 1867.    River rose very high. Canfield drowned in crossing the Coota Creek near Campbell’s Gate.

31 Jul 1867     I went down to Murraganowrie to buy some cattle from John Grant. The cattle were not up to the mark. I came back to Cowra. The Back Creek very high.

1 Aug 1867      Took Canfield to Hovell’s creek to bury him. Warm day.

2 Aug 1867      Old Middlemiss on the spree. I went up to Taragala to buy a fat bullock but Alick Middlemiss was away. W Ryan started. Fr. Ryan came. I went back to Middlemiss’s to buy a bullock. Couldn’t agree on a price.

3 Aug 1867      I went to Middlemiss to buy a fat bullock. I could not agree a price.

4 Aug 1867      Sunday. I went to bangaroo and stayed there all night.The belubula was too high to cross. I got Challacombe’s horse.

5 Aug 1867      I got Boyd to show me the best place to cross the belubula. I got wet going across. I went down to Binda, Michael Walsh’s Station. I went out with him on the run to see his fat cattle. I bought six head. Stayed there all night.

6 Aug 1867      We went out on the run and cut out the cattle. Michael Walsh and Davey assisted me across the Belubula with the cattle. I called at Bangaroo and came to Poddams – stayed all night.

7 Aug 1867      Came on to Cowra and killed a cow. Hot day.

8 Aug 1867      Man called May tailed the cattle all day. Rained all day.

9 Aug 1867      Raining. I went up to Middlemiss and arranged with him to let the cattle in his paddock a 1/- per head per week. Challacombe started to Bathurst.

10 Aug 1867    Took cattle up to Middlemiss and repaired the paddock fence.

11 Aug 1867    Sunday. A little rain.

12 Aug 1867    Killed a bullock. Raining most all day.

13 Aug 1867.   Up in the paddock with Middlemiss. Challacombe came.

14 Aug 1867.   Up at the Court House. Fine day.

15 Aug 1867.   Killed a bullock. Hartigan started home.

16 Aug 1867    Not doing much. Warm day.

17 Aug 1867.   John Neville came with a telegram that Pat Neville was not expected to live at Lyndhurst College, Sydney^[5]. Mr & Mrs Challacombe started to Bathurst in a buggy.

18 Aug 1867    Fine day. No news from Sydney.

19 Aug 1867    Heard from the coachman that Pat Neville was dead. I killed a bullock this evening. Cloudy day.

20 Aug 1867    Rained a little today.

21 Aug 1867    Got a letter by post from Lyndhurst College in Sydney to say that Patrick Neville died on Saturday morning at 8 o’clock.^[6] Mr & Mrs Challacombe came home. When they got to Bathurst they got a telegram on the 18^th to say that Patrick Neville would be buried on the 19th. I paid Middlemiss. W. Brotherton was taken by police today at W. Costello’s near Goolagong.

22 Aug 1867    Went up to Middlemiss to castrate a bull. Warm day.

23 Aug 1867    Not doing much. Weather unsettled.

24 Aug 1867    Thomas Walsh’s youngest daughter died at 5pm. Convulsions.^[7]

25 Aug 1867    Buried Tom Walsh’s daughter.

26 Aug 1867    Worked at the Mill from 12 o’clock. Mr & Mrs Walsh went up to Taragala. John Neville started to Bathurst.

27 Aug 1867    Nothing doing.

28 Aug 1867    No work. Warm day.

29 Aug 1867    Killed a bullock and salted a pig.

30 Aug 1867    Alick Middlemiss started to Bathurst with a mob of horses.

31 Aug 1867    Boiling down all day. Father McGrath came. Warm day.

1 Sep 1867      Warm day.

2 Sep 1867      Killed a bullock. He was not fat.

3 Sep 1867      Doing nothing.

4 Sep 1867      Cowra as usual.

5 Sep 1867      Went to Merriganowry to see Grant’s cattle. None of them fat.

6 Sep 1867      Almost done uo for beef.

7 Sep 1867      Went to the paddock for a bullock. Raining all day.

8 Sep 1867      Sunday. Cloudy all day.

9 Sep 1867      River rose nearly over the banks. Nothing doing.

10 Sep 1867    Dull day. Nothing doing.

11 Sep 1867    Started to Bathurst. Got dark with me at Carcoar, and commenced. Got to McNamara’s, Kings Plains at ten o’clock.

12 Sep 1867    I reached Bathurst at ten o’clock and went to the saleyards but couldn’t buy any cattle. I went to Rose Hill with James Lynch and stayed there with him.

13 Sep 1867    Bathurst. I heard a part of Brotherton’s trial. Warm day.

14 Sep 1867    Bathurst. Waiting for Monday’s sale.

15 Sep 1867    Sunday. Bathurst.

16 Sep 1867    Went to the saleyards and bought five head of cattle and came to the halfway house. Commenced to rain at dark.

17 Sep 1867    Flood’s, “The Rising Sun”. Cold this morning. Almost snowing.

18 Sep 1867    Cowra. Killed a bullock.

19 Sep 1867    Nothing of any note.

20 Sep 1867    Cowra. Warm day.

21 Sep 1867    Cowra. Real hot day.

22 Sep 1867    Sunday. Cloudy day.

23 Sep 1867    Went up to the paddock for a bullock. Commenced to rain.

24 Sep 1867    Raining most all day.

25 Sep 1867    Raining all day. Real cold day. River rising.

26 Sep 1867    River very high in the morning. Falling in the evening. Fine day.

27 Sep 1867    Killed a bullock. Light rain all day.

28 Sep 1867    Tom Booth died. Weather clearing.

29 Sep 1867    Sunday. Warm day.

30 Sep 1867    I went to Booth’s funeral. Buried in Campbell’s Burial ground.

1 Oct 1867      Not doing much. Cold day.

2 Oct 1867      Went down to Goolagong Pound sale and came home again.

3 Oct 1867      Cowra. Cloudy day.

4 Oct 1867      Cowra.  A little rain.

5 Oct 1867      Killed a bullock. Great storm after dark. Raining most of the night. Father Ryan came in a buggy.

6 Oct 1867      Mass at the Chapel. John Whitty got married to a daughter of old Smith of Cookamingla.^[8]

7 Oct 1867      River rose. Very high.

8 Oct 1867      Father Ryan started down the river but could not cross Back Creek.

9 Oct 1867      Father Ryan started down the river again. I went up to Middlemiss.

10 Oct 1867    I went up to Middlemiss and bought a bullock. Mr Middlemiss assisted me down. He got a fall from his horse and got very much hurt. I had to take him home. Too late to kill.

11 Oct 1867    Killed a bullock.Warm day.

12 Oct 1867    Cowra. Warm day.

13 Oct 1867    Started to Bathurst. Got in at six o’clock.

14 Oct 1867    Bought nine head of cattle and came to Evans’ Plains.

15 Oct 1867    McNamara’s, King’s Plains.^[9]

16 Oct 1867    Flood’s, “The Rising Sun”. Cold day.

17 Oct 1867    Cowra. Killed a bullock.

18 Oct 1867    Cowra. Warm day.

19 Oct 1867    Cowra. Doing nothing.

20 Oct 1867    Sunday.

21 Oct 1867    Killed a bullock.

22 Oct 1867    Went to watt’s paddock with S Keighren for his horses.

23 Oct 1867    Went out to A. Lynch’s at the Islands and back.

24 Oct 1867    Mr and Mrs Nowlan came from their place at the Weddin Mountain on their way to Springvale. Raining in the evening.

25 Oct 1867    Rained all night and all day.

26 Oct 1867    Killed a bullock. Black Harry assisted me. Richards the blacksmith got a fall from his horse.

27 Oct 1867    Richards never spoke since he got the fall.

28 Oct 1867    Richards died at ten o’clock this morning. He never rallied.

29 Oct 1867    Richards’  friends took him to Carcoar to bury him. T Walsh started to Forbes. James Markham came with a load of wheat.

30 Oct 1867    Challacombe and I went out to Lynch’s at the Islands in the dogcart and bought in a fat sheep to kill.

31 Oct 1867    Cowra. Warm day.

1 Nov 1867     Cowra. Father Ryan came.

2 Nov 1867     Cowra. Warm day.

3 Nov 1867     Sunday. After Mass A Middlemiss, the Miller and I went over the river to look for a reef but could not find it.

4 Nov 1867     Father Ryan started. I went to Lynch’s for sheep.

5/6 Nov 1867  Cowra. Doing nothing.

7 Nov 1867     Killed a bullock.

8 Nov 1867     Working at the Mill.

9 Nov 1867     Cowra. Warm day.

10 Nov 1867   Tom Joyce came from Kikiamah with a spring cart.

11 Nov 1867   Tom Joyce started home.

12 Nov 1867   Cowra. Warm day.

13 Nov 1867   Killed a bullock. Great heat.

14 Nov 1867   Cowra. No sign of rain.

15 Nov 1867   Commenced hay making at Middlemiss. Grass drying.

16 Nov 1867   I went to carra park for two sheep. Rained a little.

17 Nov 1867   Sunday. A Middlemiss came from Grenfell.

18 Nov 1867   Brought down a bullock to kill but he broke the yard.

19 Nov 1867   Killed a bullock. Frost this morning.

20 Nov 1867   Cowra. Warm day.

21 Nov 1867   Not much doing.

22 Nov 1867   Up at Middlemiss.

23 Nov 1867   Cowra. Great heat today.

24 Nov 1867   Cloudy. Little rain.

25 Nov 1867   Killed a bullock.

26 Nov 1867   Cowra as usual.

27 Nov 1867   Started for Bathurst and travelled all night.

28 Nov 1867   Arrived in Bathurst at 10 o’clock. Went to the saleyards but could not buy any cattle. I went out to Rose Hill.

29 Nov 1867   Rose Hill.

30 Nov 1867   Rose Hill.

1 Dec 1867     Rose Hill.

2 Dec 1867     Rose Hill. Could not buy any cattle at the saleyards.

3 Dec 1867     Rose Hill.

4 Dec 1867     Rose Hill.

5 Dec 1867     Bought six cows and came to McNamara’s, King’s Plains.

6 Dec 1867     “Rising Sun”, Flood’s.

7 Dec 1867     Cowra.

8 Dec 1867     Cowra.

9 Dec 1867     Killed a cow.

10 Dec 1867   Cowra.

11 Dec 1867   Cowra.

12 Dec 1867   Killed a cow. Cool day.

13 Dec 1867   Cowra. Very dull.

14 Dec 1867   Killed a cow. Cold night.

15 Dec 1867   Sunday.

16 Dec 1867   Cowra. Warm days and cold nights.

17 Dec 1867   Dan Neville came home. Hot day.

18 Dec 1867   Lost three cows out of Middlemiss’ paddock. Warm day.

19 Dec 1867   Tracked the cows on to the Belubula River below Canowindra. Found them camped on the river. Brought them home.

20/25 Dec 1867          Cowra. Christmas Day.

26 Dec 1867   Went to Booth’s races, Cross Keys.

27 Dec 1867   Went out to Mr Lynch’s.

28 Dec 1867   Bill Walsh came. I killed a cow.

29 Dec 1867   Not much business done today.

30 Dec 1867   Cowra. Cold day.

31 Dec 1867   Went to Middlemiss and bought a bullock. Bill Walsh started home.

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