Part 22 (1/2)

”The old colonists still repeat the most terrible stories of Black Thursday, when the whole country seemed to be on fire

The flaullies, and swept everything away Teams of bullocks in the yoke, mobs of cattle and horses, and even whole fas, in their bush-huts, were completely destroyed, and the charred bones alone found after the wind and fire had subsided”

<hw>Black-Tracker</hw>, n an aboriginal e criminals

1867 `Australia as it is,' pp 88-9:

”The native police, or `black trackers,' as they are soines trained to act as police under a white co with the difficultyof hunting down and discoveringcattle and breaking into huts ”

1870 `The Argus,' March 26, p 5, col 4:

”The troopers, with the assistance of two black trackers, pursued the bushrangers ”

1870 Ibid April 13, p 6, col 7:

two members of the police force and a black tracker

called at Liht,' c xvii p 165:

”Get the black-trackers on the trail”

1893 `The Argus,' April 8, p 4, col 3

”Only three weeks before he had waddied his gin to death for answering questions put to her by a blacktracker, and now he advanced to Charlieand said, `What for you cous,' March 30, p 6, col 9:

”About one hundred and fifty horsemen have been out to-day in addition to the local police The black-trackers arrived by the train last night, and co”

<hw>Black-Trevally</hw> See Trevally

<hw>Black-War</hw>, or <hw>Black-Line</hw>, a military operation planned in 1830 by Governor Arthur for the capture of the Tasines A levy en masse of the colonists was ordered About 5000 men formed the ”black line,”

which advanced across the island fro the tribes into Tasman's Peninsula The operation proved a co captured at a cost to the Government of L 30,000

1835 H Melville, `History of Van Die the `black line,' coe of masters and servants, took their respective stations at the appointed ti the line caether --the plan was to keep on advancing slowly towards a certain peninsula, and thus frighten the Aborigines before them, and hem them in”

1852 J West, `History of Tasmania,' vol, ii p 54:

”Thus closed the Black War This ca tale, and, notwithstanding the gravity of his Excellency, much fun and follyFive thousand men had taken the field Nearly L 30,000 had been expended, and probably not much less in time and outlay by the settlers, and two persons only were captured”

<hw>Black Wednesday</hw>, n a political phrase for a day in Victoria (Jan 9, 1878), when the Govern heads of departround that the Legislative Council had not voted the money for their salaries

1878 `Melbourne Punch,' May 16, vol xlvi p 195 [title of Cartoon]:

”In Memoriaus,' [Sydney telegra 18, p 6, col 4:

”The times in the public service at present reminded hih That caused about a dozen suicides a public servants Here it had not done so yet, but there was not a head of a department who did not now shake in his shoes”