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1 Hidden Treasure C. H. R. , 1898 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , September vol. 33 no. 400 1898; (p. 573-574) Historical account of bushrangers - the Nelson gang, 5 escapees from Macquarie Harbour prison in Van Diemen's Land - and their exploits in Victoria. 'Crossing raid' in 1853 on goldfield near Bendigo - the Oxford Gully diggings. Four of the bushrangers were killed there by ex-Crimean soldiers turned diggers. The fifth escaped with the treasure. Jim Dickens who had lost the hard-won fortune he had hoped would make his imminent marriage easier never ceased to search and on his deathbed made one of his sons vow to carry on. The boy marries but poverty causes his city-bred Melbourne wife to long for departure. Through his bush-loving son's near-death looking for magpie eggs he discovers the skeleton of the fifth bushranger and the treasure. The family - including three orphan children of his dead brother, will move to Melbourne ... theme of city vs. bush, poverty and wealth. (PB)
1 Clarence Geoffrey's Blunder C. H. R. , 1898 single work short story romance
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , February vol. 33 no. 393 1898; (p. 167-168) A nouveau riche butcher's wife gives a party at her new home on Mt Grand View - which sees a lovers' quarrel between pretty Lilian Grace of Prahan and assistant state school teacher Clarence Geoffrey. Letters are misdirected and the quarrel continues until Clarence follows Lilian's family to Lakes Entrance for the Christmas holidays, stumbles across Lilian in a very brief swimming costume which he enjoys until he realises it is her and he has been spying. The return of his letter quickly prompts another and marriage ensues. (PB)
1 The Forged Bank Notes C. H. R. , 1896 single work short story crime
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , September vol. 31 no. 376 1896; (p. 688-689) Melbourne crime tale. The narrator, working odd jobs to support his family in the days of crashes after the land boom, is injured by a fallen load of bricks, and is witness to a card game in which a man is drugged and the contents of his bag exchanged. Two newspaper reports, the latter of a merchant charged with forgery, identify the crime as forgery and the victim. He reveals what he knows, criminals are caught and the man rewarded. (PB)
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