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351:. A visitor to the Lawn Hill homestead in 1883 noted that "Mr Watson has 40 pairs of blacks' ears nailed round the walls collected during raiding parties." Watson had been in charge of Macartney's Florida Station during its final years and transferred the cattle from that abandoned station to Auvergne in 1893. By this stage, a
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In addition to having to sell all his properties in the
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Station looked like being a successful venture, however, monsoonal floods in the wet-season and a previously unknown fatal disease in his cattle brought misfortune to Macartney. Increasingly aggressive resistance from the Aboriginal people in the region brought matters to a point
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Bloomsbury. He quickly sold these on for profit and focused on establishing his Waverley property as both a place of residence and a
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Macartney's head stockmen, brothers Jim and Alf Randell. Jim Randell established the homestead at Florida and managed the property for Macartney. He bolted a small swivel cannon to the verandah of the new house to "keep the blacks...at arm's length." Poisoned horse-meat was also
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whose ownership rights were largely ignored by both the colonists and the colonial government. Macartney's own father, who held the respected social position of the Dean of
Melbourne, is even quoted as saying that the Aboriginal people "were not the rightful owners of the soil" and had "not been
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Auvergne in 1890, he described Flynn as having hallucinations of being "surrounded by wild blacks" and waking up in the middle of the night "yelling like a maniac", running into the yard and firing his revolver into the empty night. Flynn soon left and Macartney employed Sam "Greenhide"
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unjustly dispossessed by the white man." When Macartney wrote his memoir, he concluded it with one of his favourite poems which was entitled "Take It Now" giving a further indication of his philosophy toward life.
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people in 1889. Hardy's replacement, James "Barney" Flynn, who had worked for Macartney at Florida, appears to have developed severe psychological trauma from the frontier conflict there. When colonist
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from Norway, was shown the remaining skulls by Macartney's station manager in the early 1880s. The site of the massacre was and still is called Skull Hole and is now part of a national park.
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church, a role he held until 1894. J.A. Macartney finished his education in Melbourne and after a brief period working with a law firm and prospecting for gold during the
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