PASS OF WELCOME-
M. aArcde
NOLAN'S
to
Desire Richard
(By
the
in
Dowling,
Weekly
Freeman.)
opening, Because
a
once
maintained.
All
guaranteed
standard
now
stretches to fertile of wide, plain with Clashmore, sprinkled plentifully farm and here and there houses, little dotted with .modest villages. one of the most and It is quiet of the for secluded districts county, off from the inner not only is it cut but the north land by the mountains, are of it fenced in and south by of the place hills. The remoteness or sus and the absence of disorders limits within its picious gatherings from free and it quarters protected and sword in the early fire days of It is not to be supposed the struggle. were in of Clashmore that the men was drain different to the system that of their country, ing the life-blood no of were but there big assemblages and they went to them on the plain, on the Ard and to musters
W.
a
fourth
of
of
scores
its
was
old
men
the
in
burnt and
rebellion
down, women
No
killed, fell men.
by
troop
of
Eight
thirteen into alive
and and been
of were
on
the
their
.
Bank
PREMIER
CASH
of New
High
T. HUGHES
of
(late
rebels
clients
Country
with
entire
with
the
rebels
were
Teas,
Table
Coffee,
Dairy
Delicacies, WILL Order
And. every
BE to
314
HAY
us
will
was
And
who
General
Free
too.
abominable -intolerable Not to blame ?
t
burnt their
over
down infernal
House, Captain short
two
bloated, big, in height. and solitary
He
a
a
—
feet
heavy-eyed man had always and
morose,
al
in the: touching liquor for he had drunk daytime, years his five o'clock after dinner. heavily This was a memorable day in his he life had encountered armed for the men. rebels first time; his had met own. with resistance his for the first sword had drunk blood the time rebels had been captive doom, and he promptly sent to their had done his most service signal yet to King and Constitution.
attention.
Special
he
it
right town
!
never
though
PERTH.
EAST,
of shooting old Phillips for the loss of
was
infernal
been
Groceries
ADDRESS—
ST.
merit knew
he
—
Knockfin
six &
receive
he held, as magis and notwithstand
Brown's miles from the town. The day of the skirmish sat Brown alone after dinner Captain with a tumbler of punch at his a bachelor elbow. He was of forty-
MAINTAINED.
entrusted
for
affair,
make him pay and pay dearly
Millbrook home, stood
OUR
Produce,
later
cow
beast,
five
QUALITY
a
absolving
prisoners,
their heads
DOHENY,
OF
was
captain,
the
It
ot
IMPORTERS,
;
for
Sight-Testing
;
;
Mr.
Clarke,
Alfred 17
opticianand
JOHN 236
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GLASS,
EARTHENWARE, VASES STANDS,
GLASS
FLOWER in
Novelties
Latest
Table
&
and
Ironmongers &
BUILDERS'
GENERAL
for
John So
Merryweather
351 TUBES
Danks Sons',
STEEL
WATER See
Hay
GALVANISED
ROLLED
Agents
AND
BRASS
REQUISITES,
BOHEMIAN
&e.
IRONMONGERY, GIRDERS
our
JUGS Prices.
Perth.
Street,
FITTINGS &
(All
in
was
not
for favour on The only occasion home pikemen charged
time. the of
one
Knockfin
the
him
with
narrowest
streets
;
FANCY
STUBBS,
Importers,
to
at the head of of the town. He was a his troop pikeman thrust at him ; he parried the thrust, the: got inside pikeman's guard and ran him through thrust the body. That and the; of the would be: shooting prisoners to his dying remembered in Knockfin The of the rebels day. killing by his in the fight in might, troopers time be forgiven by the townspeople,, more of whom were than nine-tenths rebels in heart, but they would never that thrust of his own sword, fprgive or the shooting of the men in the:
270.
Decorations,
DRAKE
was
true look on
was
long which
Co.,
STREET. No.
It likelv a
&
DYNON Telephone
CHINA,
Perth.
Arcade,
Royal
M'Ness's
spectacle
&
PLUMBERS'
FITTINGS, Sizes),
Melbourne & Son, Ltd., London, Fire Brigade Appliances.
;
Windmills 358. Telephone
Alston's
;
pound.
none
were killed. The in yeomen and suc fire-arms, surgents 'had no at close ceeded in getting quarters a three for moment, in which only were wounded. After of the yeomen Brown the action compli Captain and told the mented his troopers, men who had received pike-thrusts that they ought to be proud of of their wounds gained in the service for his part he envied etc. that ; king,
National Library of Australia
Agent.
Gibson).
HIGH
of the serious
shooting
!.
satisfaction. THE
men's
balsam
as
;
J. P. DOHENY and of Crawford Co, Adelaide.) (late the Mr. J. P. Doheny Mr. above having succeeded Gallagher, Popular Grocery will be conducted Business by Messrs. Hughes and Doheny, whose large experience, in Australia, will enable to cater for and gained in the best bouses them their City
wounded, twelve
of the
and Retail).
&
Foy and
Wales.
Fremantle,
Street,
GROCERS and (Wholesale
HUGHES J.
South
speech, the
bear their honour. and took the cuts almost of the forest. their
he> but the Stephen Brown, certainly, of Knockfin scoundrels disloyal lazy, the ac who allowed wall of their cursed pound to get into such a statea man of dilapidation that could not a rebels shoot of. rascally parcel it without against losing money was infamous and it would It be more the no than serving miscreants-
1
Reference,
WILLIAMS,
gladly wear
presumed
or
and
that
:
run
C.
day
would
LIST
pretty
this
rebel
run
way
the into town marched were pound, Brown. and shot by order of Captain the wall of the Owing to the defect in which killed pound, the discharge cow also a poor rebels killed twelve field in the beyond.
the brush
PRIZE
a
the
ing
Perth.
Barrack-st.,
might
But
held, trate
CHARLES).
J.
run
the hands of the yeo were carried off The wounded The prisoners the insurgents.
In
TATTERSALL'S
A.
Cup, 25,000 at 5. Run at Adelaide nth May. at 5Run at Perth, Handicap, 5>O0 24th May. Birthday at Run 1st June. Foundation 5. Handicap, 3,000 at Port Port Augusta Cup, Augusta July 5. 12,500 at 5. Caulfield October at Caulfield. 5th, 25,000 at 5. Cup, Melbourne November 1st, at Flemington. Cup, 25,000 at 5.
of
rebels
to.
Adelaide
consequence a Knockfin. There in was fought between skirmish took little place of yeomanry troop Captain Brown's and a south.
makers
ADDRESS.
MONSTER
silence.
engagement
attended
satisfactorily
would
he
she belonged to crusty, old grasping William the Phillips, attorney, was whose above suspic loyalty and who, because of large sums ion, of advanced to Brown money on the Milbrook held the property, in the hollow of his gallant captain martial hand. Notwithstanding law and the absolute Brown power which
;
had killed. It were children little heard of before the insurrection; heard of during not much '98, it was back into its has since fallen and it pristine
and
promptly
was
in
carat.
etc.,
NOTE
injury it
18,
(C/o
a Five miles winding by many end of the vale from the western of Knockpass stands the small town and more than It bore its share, fin.
of
15,
and if
out of sting as effectively
and
and of WATCHES CLOCKS by the most celebrated in great variety. Rings, Bracelets, Brooches, etc.,
109
the
share,
Perth,
Street,
Watchmakers
NOTE
meetings ghea mountains.
its
stamp
winding Ardghea Pass.
mountains
of the
sea
of
narrow-
long, called
;
East
articles
Repairs
Ardghea
the
to same
Stock Magnificent on hand. Beautiful
of something which occurred the people Pass last '98, the it Pass of Nolan's re-named Welcome. it is known By that name it will con and by that name to-day, tinue to be known until the spirit of farmers and be Wicklow peasants to comes alien the soil until the the his farmers and peasants forget tory of their country. in
attention that the
of
hurts
in W.A.), Jewellers old their and to assure friends Change of Address, them be still careful to all orders entrusted will attention the will bear the on Jewellery manufactured premises
B.C.
A
run The Ardghea Mountains north and south in Wicklow. They are moun broken and precipitous. For there no ted men is way through
them, except
draw
customers
Firm
them,
CO.
It
Barrack
Buildings, (The Oldest
and
AND
FOUCHARD
ASSURANCE
LIFE
CITIZEN'S
CO.,
LIMITED. Capital, NN
UAL
£200,000.
Assurance
ALL
PROFIT-SHARING
BONUSES
ON
PROMPT West
HAY
and
Branch
Australian
BARRACK E.
Fund, £339,000. POLICIES. SETTLEMENT Offices
STS., P.
KIRBY,
Acting
OF
CLAIMS.
:
PERTH. Resident
Secretary.
I
Millbrook would be no place for him when the rebellion was over,, if the did not and even townfolk would make it dangerous, old Phillips make it impossible. He had already wrath provoked the usurer's by re with fire and sword fusing to visit old the Caseys of Two Mile Bridge, enemies of "William and Phillips, the now here was accursed shooting of that accursed cow in Nothing !
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STORY.
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