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Issue Details: First known date: 1899... 1899 Nambong
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'Aborigines attack various Queensland properties. At Nangoo Creek lives the Beed family. Daughter Lily falls in love with station hand who turns out to be a gentleman of means. Neighbour Andrew Lang is killed in the raids, and his will discloses he is really a Scottish lord. The new hand at Beed is revealed to be Lang's wayward daughter who eloped to New York with her riding master. He was a drunkard and a gambler who abused her and ran through her money very quickly. She left him, and he is killed eventually. She is then free to marry Joe Yune the overseer of the Beed property. Central figure is the "half-caste" Millie.'

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First known date: 1899
Serialised by: The Australian 1824 newspaper (141 issues)
Notes:
Published in serialised format, February to April, 1899. Page details unknown.
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    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 34 no. 405 1 February 1899 Z1783088 1899 periodical issue 1899
    Note: First instalment: February 1899
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