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	PPE - Working Class Encyclopedia M1
		Accused of stealing 500 sheep from The Levels station in South Canterbury in 1853 and driving them to the Wyndham River in Southland where he hides them.
		Early in 1855 he calls at sheep stations on the Mataura and Clutha Rivers.
		On March 1, a Maori station hand reports the loss to John Sidebottom who manages The Levels for the Rhodes brothers.
	www.embassy.org.nz /encycl/m1encyc.htm

	BC Museum: Bibliography
		The pup is accused of being a sheep killer, and instead of allowing him to be shot, the drover leaves the station to camp out in the bush.
		Lamond Towser Sheep Dog, EP Dutton and Co, Copyright 1955, "The enchantment of the unfamiliar characterizes this story of life on an Australian sheep station a decade after the turn of the century, This is a story of Towser the dog who became a legend in his lifetime.
		"An Airedale mix found as a pup at Yangoorlie Station becomes a canny Australian sheep dog.
	www.rixvideo.com /~shepdog/BC_Museum/Permanent/BC_Bibliography.html

	PPE - Working Class Encyclopedia M1
		Accused of stealing 500 sheep from The Levels station in South Canterbury in 1853 and driving them to the Wyndham River in Southland where he hides them.
		In 1854 he built himself a hut in the bush at Edendale handy where he left the sheep and visits nearby runs before stealing more sheep in South Canterbury and leaving them in the Omarama district on the upper Waitaki River.
		On March 4 McKenzie is captured with the sheep by Sidebottom and two Maoris, but he escapes and travels to Lyttelton where he is caught on March 15.
	www.embassy.org.nz /encycl/m1encyc.htm

	O.S. Nock
		Sheep for the south had to be despatched from the little country station on the single-track southward to Inverness.
		Many railway books present a picture of the past, but Scottish Railways is relatively unusual in that its past is now long departed, and much of the then present, like the sheep and fish traffic, has also disappeared.
		Perhaps, it is sufficient to be amazed that it is still possible to travel to the tiny population of Lairg by rail, although sheep have long abandoned rail for road.
	www.steamindex.com /library/nock.htm

	O.S. Nock
		Sheep for the south had to be despatched from the little country station on the single-track southward to Inverness.
		Many railway books present a picture of the past, but Scottish Railways is relatively unusual in that its past is now long departed, and much of the then present, like the sheep and fish traffic, has also disappeared.
		Perhaps, it is sufficient to be amazed that it is still possible to travel to the tiny population of Lairg by rail, although sheep have long abandoned rail for road.
	www.steamindex.com /library/nock.htm (3399 words)

	Dictionary of Australian Biography We-Wy
		He bought a share in a station property with which he had some success, did some exploring, and in 1848 was offered a seat on a proposed nominee council by the governor, Sir George Grey (q.v.).
		He afterwards was partner in a station at Clunes where the Port Phillip gold mine was discovered, from which he drew large royalties.
		Whyte came to Tasmania with his parents in 1832, and six years later took some sheep to Victoria and settled near Portland.
	www.gutenberg.net.au /dictbiog/0-dict-biogWe-Wy.html (3399 words)

	william2
		In 1886 he arranged for house to be built and the station had 18,770 sheep and William Shirres had to ride 100 miles to take delivery of further 2,000 sheep.
		He was at Otematatta Station at end of 1874 where he spent some time as a cadet as a protégé of James Ritche of Dunedin, a friend of his Uncle John Leslie.
		He returned to New Zealand early in 1882 and, early in 1883 bought Aviemore Station in partnership with his friend, William McIntosh Murray of Adelaide, Australia.
	freespace.virgin.net /david.shirres/william2.htm (3399 words)

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		Sheep have won the day in a legal appeal brought by two women peace protestors the NSA station in Yorkshire.
		Menwith Hill Station is the largest electronic intelligence station in the world.
		A judge ruled that as the base lands were 70 per cent occupied by sheep, military lands bylaws made in 1996 criminalising trespass on the site were unlawful.
	duncan.gn.apc.org (3399 words)

	Johann Ernst Jacob
		After many years on the road Jacob was placed in charge of the sheep at Etadunna, while younger men now made the trip to the Marree railway station.
		To find work for many of the Aborigines who had settled semi-permanently at the Mission the Lutherans opened several out stations with flocks of sheep cared for by the natives under the supervision of Jacob who went to live with his family at Etadunna.
		The Jacobs were well known and liked for their excellent fruit and vegetable garden at Etadunna.
	www.southaustralianhistory.com.au /jacob.htm (3399 words)

	Amador County, California
		Ham's also served as a toll station on the road which was superintended for years by John Horsley.
		It's 1880 and Ham's Station on the Amador-Nevada toll wagon road is one of the last stops before Silver Lake.
		Note the sheep in the sketch from the 1881 Thompson and West History of Amador County.
	www.co.amador.ca.us /depts/archives/history/Hams.htm (89 words)

	Names of Railway Stations in New South Wales. With their Meaning and Origin. by C. A. IRISH.
		After the name of a large sheep station in the vicinity, so called after a small village in Scotland.
		After name of sheep station through which the line was constructed.
		The name Beresford was desired for the station, but was objected to on account of there being other places in the Commonwealth by the same name.
	www.nswrail.net /research/irish.html (7824 words)

	NSW Railway Station Names and Origins
		After name of sheep station through which the line was constructed.
		After the name of a large sheep station in the vicinity, so called after a small village in Scotland.
		The name Beresford was desired for the station, but was objected to on account of there being other places in the Commonwealth by the same name.
	www.nswrail.net /library/station_names.php (7319 words)

	Mizen Vision, At Mizen Head, county Cork, Ireland
		izen Head Signal Station is open to the public for the first time since it was completed in 1910.
		Mizen Vision the Mizen Head Signal Station Visitor centre has been open since June 1st, 1994.
		Visitor Centre in the Keeper's House and the Engine Room, the famous Suspension Bridge, the 99 Steps and the views up the South and West Coasts combined with the exhilaration and excitement of the wild Atlantic waves and ancient tortured rocks guarantee a unique and authentic experience.
	www.cork-guide.ie /mizen.htm (204 words)

	BC Museum: Bibliography
		Lamond Towser Sheep Dog, EP Dutton and Co, Copyright 1955, "The enchantment of the unfamiliar characterizes this story of life on an Australian sheep station a decade after the turn of the century, This is a story of Towser the dog who became a legend in his lifetime.
		The pup is accused of being a sheep killer, and instead of allowing him to be shot, the drover leaves the station to camp out in the bush.
		Sheep are rescued from snowstorm by Janet and her Border Collie, Fly.
	www.scatpakprod.com /~shepdog/BC_Museum/Permanent/BC_Bibliography.html (9759 words)

	panthermap
		This was NR to a disused railway and is only 10 miles from the Twyford sheep kills, and again in an area of previous sightings last year.
		This report is in an area of high activity a few years ago with odd reports in between, and is about 7 miles northwest of the sheep kills of November.
		The old railway cycleway and canal forms a green corridor right through to the center of Leicester and is a known route for the animals to follow from the South Leics countryside into Leicester City center.
	www.bigcats.org.uk /panthermap.html (9759 words)

	The New Zealand Edge : Heroes : Sir Peter Buck : www.nzedge.com
		Never losing sight of positive affirmation, Buck, while working on a sheep station with his father, recalled a teacher’s colloquial comment that, "he had a few brains".
		Remarkably he used that simple phrase as the exhortation which fuelled his application to Te Aute College, posted in 1895 from a sheep station in the Wairarapa.
		In 1904 Buck spent a year as a junior house surgeon in the Dunedin Hospital and in 1905 he found part-time employment with Sunnyside Mental Hospital and as a locum tenens in Greymouth.
	www.newzealandedge.com /heroes/buck.html (9759 words)

	DenverPost.com - TRAVEL
		Goathland Station - it should be renamed "Sheepland" - is famous not only as Hogsmeade Station in the first "Harry Potter" movie, but as Aidensfield on British television's "Heartbeat," about life in a 1950s-'60s English village.
		Goathland Station in the North Yorkshire Moors, which was transformed into Hogsmeade Station, where Harry arrived to start his first term at Hogwarts.
		Once in York, the tour will spend a day in the picturesque Yorkshire countryside, with its rolling hills, purple heather, forests, cows and sheep - everywhere sheep.
	denverpost.com /travel/ci_0002597443 (9759 words)

	Railway Tavern, Crewkerne, Somerset - pub details # beerintheevening.com
		The Inn Way...to Black Sheep Pubs: 25 Circular Walks in the Yorkshire Dales - details of walks featuring pubs belonging to the Black Sheep brewery
		NB: Information may be incomplete or out of date as this pub is not currently registered.
		Old Stage Coach Inn, Crewkerne (0.4 miles), Nags Head, Crewkerne (0.6 miles), Swan Inn, Crewkerne (0.6 miles), Antelope Inn, Crewkerne (0.6 miles)
	www.beerintheevening.com /pubs/show.shtml/4901/Railway_Tavern_Crewkerne (9759 words)

	Database of Carnamah's Past Residents
		Macpherson was extensively engaged in cattle and sheep breeding, and after the railway was put through, he was able to considerably extend his farming operations, at his Carnamah Station, from which the town of Carnamah was named.
		Macpherson was extensively engaged in cattle and sheep breeding, and after the railway was put through he was able to considerably extend his farming operations at his Carnamah Station, from which the town of Carnamah was named.
		Born in Perth fifty years age, the late Dr. Mayrhofer was educated at the Christian Brothers' College in Perth and graduated at the Melbourne University.
	www.rootsweb.com /~auschs/ca19.html (9759 words)

	Names of Railway Stations in New South Wales. With their Meaning and Origin. by C. A. IRISH.
		After name of sheep station through which the line was constructed.
		After the name of a large sheep station in the vicinity, so called after a small village in Scotland.
		The name Beresford was desired for the station, but was objected to on account of there being other places in the Commonwealth by the same name.
	www.nswrail.net /research/irish.html (9759 words)

	O.S. Nock
		Sheep for the south had to be despatched from the little country station on the single-track southward to Inverness.
		Perhaps, it is sufficient to be amazed that it is still possible to travel to the tiny population of Lairg by rail, although sheep have long abandoned rail for road.
		Furthermore, even this billiard-table route enjoys panoramas of hills and distant mountains and its entrance into Glasgow is via a spectacular incline which has caused too many generations of inappropriately diesel-powered trains to cough and splutter their way to the surface at Cowlairs.
	www.steamindex.com /library/nock.htm (9759 words)

	Mirabilis.ca: November 2003 Archives
		Spain's shepherds have been seeking to maintain the 8,000-year-old practice known as transhumance, in which sheep are herded between the scorching plains of Extremadura in the south-west and summer pastures in the lush mountains of the north.
		The shepherds cited in vain a law passed eight years ago guaranteeing the sheep's safe passage and ended up in an impasse with both police officers and men welding sticks.
		Deep wells, ornate pavilions and bases for mighty pillars were found along with the more mundane rubbish dumps and tiled drains.
	www.mirabilis.ca /archives/2003_11.html (9759 words)

	The New Zealand Edge : Heroes : Sir Peter Buck : www.nzedge.com
		Never losing sight of positive affirmation, Buck, while working on a sheep station with his father, recalled a teacher’s colloquial comment that, "he had a few brains".
		Remarkably he used that simple phrase as the exhortation which fuelled his application to Te Aute College, posted in 1895 from a sheep station in the Wairarapa.
		He took every opportunity to favourably compare New Zealand’s geography against the tourist sites he witnessed as the following extract reveals: "We left for the East on the Canadian Pacific Railway, leaving in the morning so as to see the celebrated Rocky Mountains.
	www.newzealandedge.com /heroes/buck.html (9759 words)

	Victorian London - Entertainment and Recreation - Parks, Commons and Heaths - St James's Park
		And the sheep, too, are altogether different from all other sheep in the world; they are so tame and fat, and never think of running away when a good child pats their backs, and gives them some bread to eat.
		In the forenoon it is interesting to observe the trains of children led by charming maidens of rigid deportment to the banks of the ornamental waters of St. James's Park.
		A temporary Bridge surmounted by a Chinese Pagoda, erected across the Canal for a display of fireworks on the occasion of the arrival of the allied sovereigns in 1814, was taken down in 1825.
	www.victorianlondon.org /entertainment/stjamespark.htm (3059 words)

	Names of Railway Stations in New South Wales. With their Meaning and Origin. by C. A. IRISH.
		After the name of a large sheep station in the vicinity, so called after a small village in Scotland.
		After name of sheep station through which the line was constructed.
		The name Beresford was desired for the station, but was objected to on account of there being other places in the Commonwealth by the same name.
	www.nswrail.net /research/irish.html (7824 words)

	While the Billy Boils Story
		Tom got a hundred or two, but the squatter had a man stationed at one side of the selection with dogs to set on the sheep directly they put their noses through the fence (Tom's was not a sheep fence).
		The railway towns consist of a public house and a general store, with a square tank and a school-house on piles in the nearer distance.
		The Railway Stores seem to exist only in the shadow of the pub, and it is impossible to conceive either as being independent of the other.
	www.richread.com /04wtblb10.html (7824 words)

	Names of Railway Stations in New South Wales. With their Meaning and Origin. by C. A. IRISH.
		After the name of a large sheep station in the vicinity, so called after a small village in Scotland.
		After name of sheep station through which the line was constructed.
		The name Beresford was desired for the station, but was objected to on account of there being other places in the Commonwealth by the same name.
	www.nswrail.net /research/irish.html (7824 words)

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		The author's life on a remote sheep station in Otago.
		English girl's memoirs of working on various farms in New Zealand, from dairy farms to sheep stations.
		Account of the author's million acre property, Bullo River, and life on a remote Northern Australian cattle station.
	members.ozemail.com.au /~tbsi/nath1~1.html (7824 words)

	Names of Railway Stations in New South Wales. With their Meaning and Origin. by C. A. IRISH.
		After name of sheep station through which the line was constructed.
		After the name of a large sheep station in the vicinity, so called after a small village in Scotland.
		Similarly railway lines and stations constructed after 1926/1927 have not been added.
	www.nswrail.net /research/irish.html (7824 words)

	Broughton in Furness residents 1882, Lancashire genealogy
		Furness and South Cumberland Supply Association, Limited, sheep and cattle feeding stuffs, flour, artificial manures, sheep dippings, agricultural seeds, and American importers, Railway station
		Barker George, wood and hoop merchant, dealer in birch brooms and oak baskets; works, Kepplewray; h.
		Dawson James Fleming, stationer, fancy repository, boot and shoe dealer, and post master, Princes street
	www.genuki.org.uk /big/eng/LAN/BroughtonInFurness/residents1882.html (7824 words)

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