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The Record Newspaper 30 April 1898

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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

MURRAY

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 !

j

THE

STORY.

OUR

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