409:, Jack admitted he had no knowledge of the country further to the west and Smythe resolved to shoot Jack if he showed signs of abandoning him. Symthe returned unsuccessful in obtaining any information about Gellibrand. In July, Alexander McGeary led another search party after information was given that two white men were living with an Aboriginal clan towards the western regions. McGeary also failed to find any sign of Gellibrand but managed to come into conflict with an Aboriginal stranger during his journey, who clubbed McGeary on the head and jaw. His life was saved after two Aboriginal men he employed as guards shot the stranger dead.
191:"as one of the greatest boons conferred by the legislature upon this colony". The full benefit of trial by jury had, however, been withheld from the colony, and Gellibrand's speech is held by some to have been the opening of a campaign for an unconditional system. Gellibrand was a believer in the liberty of the subject, and he was consequently bound to fall foul of a man with the autocratic tendencies of
369:, and afterwards make their way back to Melbourne across country mostly unknown to the British. They set out with a guide but missed the junction with the Leigh River and continued up the Barwon. Their guide became fearful of continuing and returned, while Gellibrand and Hesse decided to travel further west alone.
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Gellibrand and Hesse failed to arrive at Melbourne, a search party consisting of five prominent Geelong pastoralists, including Frederick Armytage and Thomas Roadknight, was immediately organised. This group followed their tracks but lost all sign of them in a forest that existed between what is
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The search party's report that they had solved the mystery and exacted justice was strongly discredited, as no bodies nor any personal artefacts of
Gellibrand or Hesse were recovered. It was argued that the Barrabool men had only led the search party to Lake Colac so as to take violence upon a tribe
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Barrabool clan around Geelong led the group to Lake Colac, where they found horse-tracks leading to a community beside the lake. The Barrabool men then captured and forced a Gulidjan man by the name of Tanapia into a confession before killing him along with a woman they had also caught.
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had seven years previously encountered two white men fitting the description of
Gellibrand and Hesse. They claimed that Gellibrand walked into their camp seeking assistance and although they were able to help Gellibrand, Hesse had already died of
211:, began criticising the colonial government in his paper. Arthur believed that Gellibrand was acting in "close union" with Murray. Eventually Gellibrand was charged with unprofessional conduct in having, as a barrister, drawn the pleas for the
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people for over thirty years. He assessed the land there, finding that the
Aboriginal people were being driven away by a property manager who threatened to shoot them for stealing potatoes. He then proceeded back to the
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Over a year later, with the disappearance unresolved, another two expeditions were organised. In June 1838, surveyor H.W.H. Smythe was guided by an
Aboriginal man named Jack through the Colac region. After reaching
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Gellibrand, in company with George B. L. Hesse, again crossed to Port
Phillip and landed near Geelong on 21 February 1837. The two men decided to explore the un-colonised land to the west and planned to follow the
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people would hand over all of the land within ten miles of the northern shore in exchange for a yearly hand-out of basic provisions. Gellibrand was assigned a block of land that is now the region that extends from
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and not by the members of the
Association nor by the Aborigines. The Association members, however, were recompensed £7,000 from the colonial government. Gellibrand subsequently returned to Van Diemen's Land.
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before returning to
Geelong. Another search party, led by Gellibrand's son, set out on 31 March but again lost sight of Gellibrand and Hesse's tracks within the same forest as the previous group.
272:, a company of seventeen colonists who devised a plan to obtain and divide amongst themselves thousands of acres of land on the northern shore of Port Phillip through a treaty with the local
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Allan, with his brother and several
Aboriginal guides, set out to find the buried remains. They encountered the Gadubanud clan, who directed them to the burial site near a river they called
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after O'Connor had publicly attacked his business practices. Gellibrand gave "a detailed account of Fereday as the prince of usurers, lending money at 35 per cent interest". Fereday won
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In April, a larger group of fourteen men, funded by Gellibrand's wife, was organised after information was obtained from local Aborigines that the two missing men had been killed by
481:, K.C.B., D.S.O., who was born in 1872. His youngest daughter, Mary Selina (1837–1903), played an important part in the Tasmanian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
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accompanied by his father on 15 March 1824. At the opening of the Supreme Court gave an address as leader of the bar, in which he spoke of
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from Van Diemen's Land in January 1836 in a vessel loaded with sheep to be pastured on their newly obtained land. They came ashore at
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to Port Phillip. Supplying themselves with water from wells dug by Aboriginal people, they walked along the shore to the vicinity of
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The many complications of this case are fully discussed in chapter XVIII, vol. II of R. W. Giblin's 'Early History of Tasmania'.
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Deeming that the situation had become dangerous for their safety, the search party decided to return to Geelong.
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to death by members of a nearby clan, his body buried and mourned over by the people who had tried to help him.
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of an Aboriginal woman by a shepherd, which resulted in some protection being given to the victim.
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in a case, and afterwards as Attorney-General, acted against him. As a consequence of the charge
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in 1836. The lands purchased by the Association were judged to be owned by
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