y separately published work icon Beside the Billy series - author   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1870... 1870 Beside the Billy
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No. I. The story of two goldfield mates who worked together in New Zealand and Australia, one of them perishing with two others in the winter cold years before. Told by the Gold Commissioner who heard the story while snowed in. (PB)

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Beside the Billy [No. II.] Susan Nugent Wood , 1870 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , September vol. 6 no. 64 1870; (p. 34-35) The Gold Commissioner's tale narrated while snowed in. A murder in March 1863 in Miller's Flat, N.Z., is mistakenly attributed to Job Johnson who is reprieved by his signature on a jury list. Also tales of the two other buried outside the hut who perished while seeking gold. (PB)

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    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 5 no. 61 June 1870 Z1067334 1870 periodical issue 1870 pg. 584-585
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