My Highly-Creditable Arrest single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1867... 1867 My Highly-Creditable Arrest
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Set in a Victorian country town in 1853, a young police cadet arrests a local squatter, mistaking him for a desperate bushranger. Interesting for its description of sly-grogging on the diggings and police attempts to control it. (PB)

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    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 3 no. 112 19 October 1867 Z1059932 1867 periodical issue 1867 pg. 121-123
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