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Issue Details: First known date: 1867... vol. 3 no. 105 31 August 1867 of The Australian Journal est. 1865 The Australian Journal
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* Contents derived from the 1867 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Squire Jones Awful Mistake, A. R. Y. , single work short story
Set in the Northern Hemisphere, the tale of an old squire's misadventures trying to recover a clandestine letter from the coat of the letter writer's husband. (PB)
(p. 5)
Circumstantial Evidence, W. W. , single work short story
In NSW, a mounted policeman finds a young woman wandering in a flooded swamp, and is piqued at her refusal to give him information about herself. Reading a notice about a runaway woman and child, and finding a child's body floating in the flooded river when he returns to the swamp, he concludes she is a murdress. The additional evidence he finds and the denoument reveal the dangers of circumstantial evidence. (PB)
(p. 5-8)
The Highlander's Revenge : A Story of the Early Australian Settlers, Ellen Davitt , single work short story
Late night reminiscence of attacks by Aborigines, the deaths of a Highlander's family, and his relentless quest for revenge. Interesting for its awful depiction of the atrocities of the 'dispersal' of the Aborigines, and the divided feelings surrounding it. Set in NSW, particularly around the Murrumbidgee. (PB)
(p. 10-12)
Note: By the author of 'Edith Travers' etc. (PB)
The Dead Man in the Scrub, W. W. , single work short story crime
The flyblown body of a man found dead in his lone tent near the Loddon diggings in Victoria proves to be the husband of a woman who unknowingly married his murderer. The detective narrator eventually uncovers the story at the town of Walhalla a couple of years later. (PB)
(p. 774-776)

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Notes:
Includes first instalment of George Walstab's serial fiction, 'Harcourt Darrell; Or, Pique, Repique and Capot', pp. 1-5.
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