Gippsland

Signs nailed to trees were the principal method of distributing news and information in Gippsland during the 1840s.

Ugly Horsewhipping Episode in East Gippsland 2009

I hope it was Judge Redmond Barry, veteran horse-whipper and sometime defense counsel for my great-great grandfather William Pearson (who, notwithstanding his conviction for assaulting Mr. Desailly, himself went on to become a magistrate in Gippsland, and a member of both houses of the Victorian Parliament).

postera crescam laude II 2009

Signs nailed to trees were the principal method of distributing news and information in Gippsland during the 1840s.

Archive 2009-05-01 2009

It was later identified as one of several reptiles reported stolen from a children's education centre in Gippsland yesterday morning.

Archive 2007-03-18 Bill Crider 2007

By Mr. Pearson’s death the Diocese of Gippsland is deprived of one of its pillars.

Archive 2009-03-01 2009

The so-called defense of Angus McMillan’s Bushy Park, and innumerable one-sided skirmishes elsewhere in Gippsland during the 1840s, for which the squatters’ justification was usually some form of legitimate reprisal for thefts of cattle, or fictitious attacks on white settlers (even a few real ones), effectively combined to wipe out most of the Aborigines of East Gippsland within a span of ten years, roughly extending from 1840 to 1850.

Archive 2009-03-01 2009

Anyhow, the news from South Gippsland is encouraging: Mungo’s broken arm is mending well and apparently does not interfere with “his saxomaphone practice.”

MALO MALO MALO MALO 2009

Anyhow, the news from South Gippsland is encouraging: Mungo’s broken arm is mending well and apparently does not interfere with “his saxomaphone practice.”

Archive 2009-08-01 2009

Redbourne, a son of St. Albans and Royal Maid, for whom as a yearling he gave 1,325 guineas, never won a race, and Bedouin, by Darriwell — Black Gypsy, for whom a good price was also paid, was very unsuccessful on metropolitan courses, though he won a few races in Gippsland.

Archive 2009-03-01 2009

This fine addition to the already known territory was called Gippsland, after Sir

The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 Ernest Favenc 1876