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An account of two assaults committed on Samuel Hawkins, editor of the The Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser, one by Frederick Ainslow Tompson and the other by his son. (The assaults occurred after Hawkins wrote allegedly libellous columns about Tompson in the Express.)

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    y separately published work icon The Empire no. 5215 7 August 1868 7252882 1868 newspaper issue 1868 pg. 3
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  • Wagga Wagga, Wagga Wagga area, Riverina - Murray area, New South Wales,
  • 1868
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