Hi List, This is the latest section of the Gippsland Time Line, and I just wanted to let everyone know that the dates before this are on the AVG Home page, under Resources, at: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~surreal/AVG/. This not only consolidates earlier posts, but now also includes extensive additions, mainly for West Gippsland, by Dr Walter Savige that were not previously posted. The Gippsland Time Line is posted to the list in irregular posts - if anyone has any additions, corrections or suggestions, please feel free to engage in historical discussion! :) Some of you may even come up with important dates we have missed. Some state, national and world events are included for comparison. - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This time-line is copyright, and was originally extracted from "Steps in Time: A Gippsland Chronology to 1899". Additions by Dr Walter Savige are also acknowledged. It is posted for private study only. Linda Barraclough Briagolong List Owner: AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND email: kapana@netspace.net.au - ------------------------------------------ 1880 Jan 1: First issue of The Bulletin. Jan 26: First meeting of Traralgon Shire. unk: Snagging of Snowy River. unk: Orbost shipping company formed. unk: Carl Grove, first selector at Newmerella, plants hops. John Hofen selects there a short time after, grows grapes commercially and introduces bees. unk: Township of Orbost surveyed. unk: SS Ridgepark wrecked at Cape Conran. unk: H. McKenzie, Customs Officer at Willis, collects duty on 809 horses and 3947 head of cattle for the year. unk: Ned Kelly captured, tried and hanged. unk: Allan McLean of Maffra elected to the Legislative Assembly for North Gippsland. Becomes Minister for Lands, Chief Secretary and then Premier before resigning to become Gippsland's first Commonwealth Parliamentarian. unk: The Waterloo Timber and Tramway Company is formed. Sawmills were established and timber tramways built in the hill country south of the Latrobe Valley. unk: Land Amendment Act is proclaimed; leases are extended from 7 to 14 years. unk: The economic "Land Boom" begins in Victoria. 1881 Mar: First township blocks sold Orbost. unk: Gasworks established at Sale. 1882 Jan: First batch of sawn timber cut at first Orbost sawmill. Jan 6: Shire of Tambo formed. Feb: First Tambo Shire elections. unk: Reef gold discovered at Haunted Stream by John Polich and alluvial on Cobbanah Creek. unk: Hamilton Reed and family settle permanently at Goongerah. unk: Coal mining begins at Coal Creek near Korumburra. 1883 Apr 24: Stanley Porteus, author of Providence Ponds, born. Oct: Swing Bridge at Sale opened for traffic. Oct: Meeting held to draft formation of Snowy River Shipping Company. Nov: 13 Railway opened from Traralgon to Heyfield. unk: St Paul's Cathedral built at Sale. unk: New brick school built at Sale. unk: Water Conservation Act passed.