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Title: Distressing case
Description: The Geelong Advertiser wrote of ‘a very distressing case.’ A young pregnant woman and her infant were left desolate. Her husband had left for the goldfields some six months earlier to seek his fortune.
Date: 18 December 1852
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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