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and G.B.L. Hesse, who had been lost in the bush, and to search for new squatting lands. If they had received a squatters license it may have come from Foster Fyans, who was the Police Magistrate sent to the area by the request of the cousins and other squatters concerned with the troublesome natives.
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Yuille settled south of Black Swamp in the area which was to become part of the gold rush settlement of Ballarat in 1838, and two years later, having sold his station there, went to New Zealand, where he was present at the ceremony of taking possession of those islands for the British Government by
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to Mount Cotterell. There he owned and trained a number of successful performers on the Victorian turf, and after revisiting England several times, where he made fresh purchases, he settled in Williamstown in 1885, and reared numerous winners in his stables. Yuille was for many years one of the
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foremost men on the Victorian turf, being one of the stewards of the Jockey Club, handicapper to the Victoria Racing Club, and one of the leading members of Tattersall's committee, until his retirement in 1881. For six years he contributed to
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that were engaging to the attention of the Pastoralists of Van Diemens Land and William Cross, fired by his pioneer spirit and his youth, decided to cross to the 'land of promise'.
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under the soubriquet "Peeping Tom," and is the compiler of the "Australian Stud Book," which is recognised as the standard work of reference throughout the Australasian Colonies.
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and in January 1838, a small party made up of John Aitken, Henry Anderson, Thomas, Somerville, Learmonth and Yuille struck out north to search for
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on 27 February 1837with the intention of joining his cousin Archibald Buchanan Yuille. He and his cousin Archibald purchased 2200 well-bred
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was for some time known as "Yuille's Swamp". Several streets are named after him including streets in Ballarat,
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and was apprenticed for three years in the West India house of Messrs Ewing and Co. of Glasgow. He sailed from
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in February 1837. Later in June 1837 there was an attack on the Yuille's station by the
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on 9 December 1836. At that time there were glowing accounts of the new settlement of
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as well as for his role in the establishment of the
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Index

Glasgow
East Melbourne
Ballarat
Victorian
horse racing
baptised
Glasgow
Glasgow
Liverpool
Hobart
Van Diemens Land
Port Phillip District
Point Henry
Geelong
Merino
Aboriginal people
Barwon River
Inverleigh
Joseph Gellibrand
treaty of Waitangi
Rockbank
Werribee Plain
Williamstown
The Australasian
Victoria
East Melbourne
Lake Wendouree
Melton
Buninyong
Geelong West

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