Buninyong and district community news

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[Buninyong, Vic.] : Buningyong and District Community News, 1986-
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Contents

Buninyong and District Community News Inc. 1
'Lindersfarne.' 1
Diversity of Cactus Spines 2
Advertising 2
NEWS ABOUT TOWN THIRD TIME PRIZEWINNERS BUNINYONG FOODWORKS SUPERMARKET 3
THE SCOTT/BURNHAM FAMILY MOUNT BONINYONG RECOGNISED FOR KEEPING THE RAINFALL RECORDS FOR 150 YEARS 3
A SADDER EVENT – LEN HUNT’S DEATH 3
BUNINYONG REMEMBERS 3 , 4
NOVEMBER 11TH REMEMBRANCE DAY 4
WHAT MAKES SOME OF US TICK 4
ROAD CONSTRUCTION BUNINYONG WARD 4
Advertising 4
BUNINYONG CEMETERY AGM 5
YOUNGER GENERATION LEARNS WHY BUNINYONG WAS ONCE KNOWN AS “YE ANCIENT VILLAGE” 5
ANOTHER SAD LOSS TO THE COMMUNITY. AGNES JESSE BUCKINGHAM (KAY) 5
Advertising 5
MOB NEWS (News from the mobile library) 6
Obituary 6
Advertising 6
Royal Park Update 7
Buninyong Community Playgroup 7
Advertising 7
The Buninyong Telegraph 8
BUNINYONG PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH SOCIAL PRESENTATIONS TO REVS W MABIN AND A H MOORE 8
The Buninyong Telegraph 8
NOTES AND COMMENTS 8
The Buninyong Telegraph 8
NOTES AND COMMENTS 8 , 9
The Buninyong Telegraph 9
NOTES AND COMMENTS 9
COMMENTS ON THE BUNINYONG TELEGRAPH 9
Advertising 9
BUNINYONG DISTRICT GUIDES 10
Advertising 10
BUNINYONG RED CROSS UNIT 10
Advertising 10
DONATIONS RECEIVED WITH THANKS 10
BUNINYONG SENIOR CITIZENS 11
Advertising 11 , 12
BUNINYONG MT HELEN LIONS CLUB 13
Advertising 13
PRESENTATION TO STEPHANIE KUSKONOVIC 14
Advertising 14
Buninyong Bowling Club Bowls News 15
Advertising 15
Support needed for the Outline Development Plan for Mount Clear, Mount Helen and Buninyong!! 16
HOLY TRINITY "HOTLINE" 17
Advertising 17
COUNTRY WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION BUNINYONG BRANCH 17
Advertising 17
Buninyong Baptist Church... 18
Advertising 18
Buninyong Ward Progress Association (November 2007) 19
Advertising 19 , 20

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Buninyong and District Community News Inc.  

November 2007.  

Distribution 1300 copies.  

Reg. No. 0034918  

ABN 97 574 052 024  

Issue No. 335  

First ssue 26/7/1977  

'Lindersfarne.'  

By  

Robert W. Bell.  

This is the story of pioneers' journey to live in Buninyong. 1840 to 1914.  

Although placed in historic context, the central character, his background, his property name and his family are all fictitious  

Tart 27 of series.  

Continued from the October 2007  

edition of the Buninyong and  

District Community News.  

News reached Melbourne that in  

England the Parliament had finally  

passed the necessary legislation  

proclaiming the Port District of  

New South Wales would now be  

known as the Colony of Victoria:  

taking effect on the Ist1 st July 1851. at  

which time the Legislative Council  

would be formed.  

In February 1851 John Stuart was  

appalled at the ferocity of bush  

fire that spread across Victoria.  

Beginning near Mount Macedon,  

the fire spread rapidly, joining other  

fires to eventually reach South  

Australia.  

Known as Black Thursday, the fire  

left swathe of blackened  

landscape, and even resulted in the  

warming of the pools that were left  

in the nearly dry Moorabool River.  

Most of the settlers John knew had  

lost either grass or stock. [When  

one takes into consideration the  

population and loss of property and  

stock Black Thursday ranks as one  

of the greatest disasters in Victorian  

history. Black Hill in Ballarat was  

so named because when the miners  

arrived they found the trees on the  

hill badly blackened as result of  

the Black Thursday conflagration,  

and named the hill as such. Auth.]  

The tiny settlement at Buninyong  

had altered significantly with the  

Reverent Hastie in residence. Local  

subscriptions had built him small  

church and manse. As part of Mr.  

Hastie’s duties, the co-educational  

boarding school was in full  

operation with the Bedwell's as  

Master and Matron.  

Hastie was conducting services at  

both Shelford and Buninyong and  

visiting stations in the surrounding  

district.  

In February 1851. Edward  

Hargraves found gold at Bathurst.  

New South Wales, and this fact set  

the emerging settlements in the Port  

Phillip District into spin. Notable  

was the fact that many of the  

workers just downed tools and set  

off to what was described as being  

an ’Eldorado'. Believing that they  

would make fortune overnight,  

many were ill prepared for the  

journey and ignorant as to the  

techniques in finding gold.  

Because of the fear of mass  

exodus of the population, an  

emergency public meeting was held  

in Melbourne. This called for  

subscriptions to offer reward for  

the finding of payable goldfields in  

Victoria, thus stemming the flow of  

people, particularly workmen and  

station hands essential to the  

viability of the district.  

Since gold had already been found,  

the finding and the places where  

gold had been found was kept secret  

in case the Crown determined it was  

on Crown Land, and therefore the  

property of the Government. With  

the Government openly offering  

rewards, people were quick to  

indicate that there were viable gold  

fields in the area.  

This excitement dampened the  

proposed celebrations, which  

should have been held to mark the  

proclamation of the Colony of  

Victoria, and the fact that Charles  

La Trobe was sworn in as the  

Lieutenant Governor suffered the  

indignity of passing almost  

unobserved.  

James Esmond, who had previously  

sought gold in California in the  

American Gold Rush, recognised  

the gold bearing potential of the  

topography and geological features  

near Clunes, and left guard on his  

land to enable him to set off to  

Melbourne to claim the rewards  

being offered.  

At about the time Esmond was  

returning to Clunes. Thomas  

Hiscock. the village blacksmith at  

Buninyong sent word to Geelong  

that he had found gold short way  

to the west of Buninyong. Hiscock  

had been looking for gold for some  

time prior to his making the news  

public through the media [Geelong  

Advertiser. Auth].  

Puddling for gold.  

To be continued ...  

© Copyright. Robert W. Bell. Buninyong.  

2004.  

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