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Link:6371805Web ResourceDigital copy of print publication via Australian Newspapers (AN) Service
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'Printed and published by the proprietor, Francis Stratford Neale, at the office, Anderson-street, Euroa, county of Moira, colony of Victoria.' (Colophon, 25 July 1884: 4)
Digitised issues available for the period 25 July 1884 to 24 December 1920. (Correct as of 27 August 2013.)
Known as the Euroa Advertiser and Violet Town, Longwood, Avenel, Strathbogie, Balmattum and Miepoll Gazette from no.1 (1 March 1884) to no. 21 (18 July 1884).
A melodramatic adventure story, set in New Zealand. It focuses on Sydney Black, a down-on-his-luck card-sharper and sometime gold miner, who has fallen in with old company, including Paul Barjew, an outlaw who wishes to marry Black's daughter Nita.
'A complicated melodramatic tale turning upon the terms of a will and the substitution of one child for another, a fact that only comes to light after the boy has fallen in love with his own sister.' (The Bibliography of Australasian Judaica 1788-2008, p. 9)