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Title: 'Scraps from the Ovens'
Description: The Argus noted that tensions rose between diggers and squatters at the Ovens diggings over the issue of horse grazing. The squatters had recently taken to collecting the diggers’ horses and charging them a fee to return them.
Date: 25 January 1853
Published Source: Australian National Dictionary Centre, The Gold Rushes and Australian English: a resource for researchers, teachers and students, Australian National University, 2005, http://www.anu.edu.au/andc/res/aus_words/gold/index.php. [ Details... ]
Rights: This material is provided by the Australian National Dictionary Centre, a joint project of the Australian National University and Oxford University Press Australia.

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