27-02-2007
Runaway holes have appeared in some unusual places in the South East and West Wimmera, following the torrential rains that fell on the 19th Jan 2007. A particularly large one close to the Western Highway and almost on the South Australian Victorian Border, emptied a dam overnight. The dam, which had filled quickly during the [...]
LOCKWOOD, ALFRED WRIGHT (1867-1956), journalist and newspaper proprietor, was born on 9 December 1867 at Lancefield, Victoria, second son of Matthew Lockwood (d.1870), farmer, and his Scottish-born wife Ellen, née Kelly. His paternal grandfather, a Chartist, had brought his family to Victoria from Yorkshire, England, in the early 1850s.
Alfred left school at 13 for an [...]
JOHNSON, Benjamin Andrew (born 1 August 1973 in Naracoorte, South Australia) was an Australian first-class cricketer who played for the Southern Redbacks. A left handed middle order batsman and part time medium pace bowler, he played between 1994/95 and 2002/03
Johnson started his career well, scoring a half century on debut and then making 81 and [...]
HERVEY, Grant (Madison) (1880-1933), versifier and swindler, born George Henry Cochrane on 30 November 1880 at Casterton, Victoria.
As a youth Hervey worked as a blacksmith with a local coachbuilder, then in a Melbourne foundry. He contributed thundering verse to the Bulletin and from about 1900 was a journalist in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth and on [...]
HANKINSON, Robert Henry (1877-1953), storekeeper and politician, born on 11 October 1877 at Edenhope, Victoria.
Founder of the Riverina Movement, he was narrowly defeated for the Federal seat of Riverina in 1932, he won the State seat of Murrumbidgee later that year and held it for the Country Party until he retired in 1941. [...]
HALES, Thomas (1847-1901), jockey, was born in Portland, Victoria. Later Penola South Australia. One of the ten children of Matthew Hales, blacksmith, and his wife Margaret, née Ward. The family moved to Penola and then Robe, South Australia. Although forbidden by his father to become involved with racing, Tom at 12 found school drab, [...]
GORDON, Adam Lindsay (1833-1870), poet and horseman, was born on 19 October 1833 at Fayal, Azores. Later Penola, Mt Gambier, Port MacDonnell, South Australia.
http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A040302b
DOUGLASS Sara, 2 June 1957, Penola, South Australia) is the pen name of Australian fantasy writer Dr. Sara Warneke, who now lives in Hobart, Tasmania. Her works include the Axis Trilogy, the Wayfarer Redemption Trilogy, the Crucible Trilogy and the Troy Game series. In the United States, and several European countries, the Axis Trilogy and [...]
COLLINS, Vernon Leslie (1909-1978), medical practitioner, born on 10 November 1909 at Nhill, Victoria.
http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130519b
CAWKER, Thomas (1836-1926), coach driver and proprietor, was born on 14 February 1836 at Exbourne, near Okehampton, Devonshire, England. Later Penola, South Australia and throughout Western Victoria.
http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A030348b.htm
