Dear Linda, Last weeks Weekly Times gave some interesting Time Lines which I have sent off to you today. Regards, Ann At 11:00 PM 19/11/99 +1100, you wrote: >The Final Post for the Time Line. Thank you to all who have helped. > >The Gippsland Time Line was 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. > >Earlier, consolidated posts can be found through the AVG Home Page >at: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~surreal/AVG/ > >Linda Barraclough >Briagolong >List Owner: AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND >email: kapana@netspace.net.au > >------------------------------------------ > >1895 > >(SERIOUS DROUGHT, CONTINUING TO 1902) > >First income tax imposed in Victoria. > >Reef gold discovered at Club Terrace and Brookville. > >1896 > >Feb: Maffra Sugarbeet Company Bill passes final stages in Parliament. > >Sep 23: The Bogong goes down near the mouth of the Snowy River with the loss >of five crew members. > >unk: Arrival of rabbits in Gippsland. > >unk: Teredo worm damage to lake entrance becomes obvious. > >unk: Second briquetting plant built, but later wound up. > >unk: A new bridge is built over the Latrobe River south of Willowgrove. > > >1897 > >Jan 12: The barque County Antrim sinks off Lakes Entrance without loss of life. > >unk: Destruction of entrance during storms begins. > >unk: First sighting of a rabbit at Morwell. > > >1898 > >January 1898 Bushfire swept through Gippsland and the Otway Ranges >destroying townships and killing settlers and their stock. > >Feb 'Black Friday' bushfire, one of a series this year that devastates >Gippsland. > >Jan/Feb - Disastrous bush fires occur in the Thorpdale district - Narracan, >Thorpdale South, Childers, Allambee. > >unk: Royal Commission into Forests. Formation of Forests Conservancy Board. > >unk: Closer Settlement approved. > >unk: New Lands Act is proclaimed. > > >1899 > >March: Great Morwell Coal Mining Company goes into liquidation. > >Mar 28: Malcolm Campbell dies at Sale. > >unk: First Victorian troops leave for the South African (Boer) War. > >Oct: 103 Blocks on the reclaimed Moe Swamp are sold > > > >==== AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND Mailing List ==== >Please do not post virus warnings to the List. Most are hoxes anyway. > >