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July News 2006 Donation of 50 cents gratefully accepted to help with the publication of this newsletter. Volume 2 July Issue 6 2006 July 1906 - Floods! July 2006 - Praying for Rain (but not floods!) The years of 1893-4, Sunday, 21st July 1906 and St. Patrick’s Day, 1946, are the years that will long be remembered by the citizens of Casterton and district. They were momentous years of the big floods, when the Wannon and Glenelg Rivers spilled their banks. Swollen from incessant rains and storms, they flooded the the low lying areas of the town. There was a great loss of stock, domestic animals and pets. In the town, fencing and buildings were washed away and in some cases there was near loss of life in which only for the devotion to duty and the courage of its citizens, drowning fatalities could have occurred. On the Saturday, 4 inches of rain put the Glenelg two to three feet higher than the 1894 flood, which at that time had been the highest recorded since the town was founded in 1846. (Taken from, “Tales of Casterton, the Waines Murder and Other Stories” by Jack Gorman.) 1 of estates, including Robertson's, in the border districts; his wife had an independent income. In 1877 Shiels stood unsuccessfully for pastoral Normanby (the Hamilton, Coleraine and Casterton district) in the Legislative Assembly as a 'Constitutionalist' supporter of James Service. He was elected in 1880 and in his maiden speech pleaded for an end to the bitterness of the previous session. He increasingly allied himself with Robert Murray Smith, warmly aided Pearson in the campaign to open the Public Library of Victoria and the museums on Sundays, and supported Rev. Charles Strong in his conflict with the Presbyterian Church. William Shiels (1848 - 1904), by unknown engrav- Shiels made his mark as a proponent of women's er, 1892, courtesy of La Trobe Picture Collection, rights. In 1883, supported by Pearson and Hearn, State Library of Victoria. IAN01/03/92/17. as a private member he carried an amendment to William SHIELS, premier and lawyer, was born the Marriage and Matrimonial Causes Act on 3 December 1848 at Maghera, Derry, Ireland, providing, in cases of divorce, for mothers' son of Robert Shiels, farmer, and his wife custody of the children. His exhaustive analysis, Patricia Sarah, née Kelly. The family migrated to while still a bachelor, of the married condition Melbourne late in 1854 but Robert died five caused some ribaldry; he was clearly acting on weeks after arrival and in 1857 Patricia married behalf of an unidentified group of women. William Dickens. Later in life Shiels warmly Harriet Dugdale commented: 'It is fortunate for acknowledged the 'life-long sacrifices and manhood's honour that such men … are devotion' of his mother. From 1862 he attended endeavouring … to raise woman to the position Scotch College, where he was 'a great reader and of a human being'. With Hearn again, he drafted admirer of Parliamentary oratory', and liberal amendments to the Married Women's matriculated in 1866. At the University of Property Act which the government adopted Melbourne (LL.B., 1873), in his second year he (1884). In 1887 he carried an amendment to the won first-class honours and the exhibition in law law of slander to cover accusations of adultery and history, and in later years prizes for an essay against married, or of unchastity against single, on 'The crown of Demosthenes' and for a women. He supported equal pay for female translation of a poem by Goethe. His final years teachers. were academically undistinguished, but the ill He rose to fame as the sponsor of divorce reform. health which dogged his life had led him to delay In 1887 the New South Wales parliament passed his course overall for three years. He was a bill which greatly widened the grounds for admitted to the Bar in 1873. divorce; the Imperial government refused its as- sent. That year as a private member Shiels took a Shiels was considerably influenced by the similar bill past the second-reading stage but, for teaching of W. E. Hearn and the liberal Charles tactical reasons, did not proceed further. The Pearson and by the example of George governments of Victoria, New South Wales and Higinbotham. He had also spent considerable South Australia then agreed to make the issue time over the South Australian border as a tutor, one of self-government and to make a test case of a period he considered the happiest of his life, a Victorian bill. In 1889 Shiels carried his bill - exulting in riding and playing cricket. He became he would have liked to go much further - through closely attached to John Robertson (1809-1880), both Houses, with large majorities despite bitter a pastoralist of Struan House, Naracoorte, whose opposition from the Churches. Backed vehe- 27-year-old daughter Jane he was to marry there mently by colonial leaders, especially Sir Alfred on 6 May 1885; they settled at Summerland Stephen and Pearson, early in 1890 he visited House, St Kilda. Shiels's practice of law had been London to press the cause. The Imperial cabinet sporadic but he came to specialize as an executor 2 reluctantly gave way and 'the Shiels Divorce Act' Sheils won 58 seats, the conservatives 28 and was proclaimed, clearing the way for the other Labour (which had been supporting the colonies. government) only 11 at its first sustained attempt. Sir Graham Berry, the senior statesman, was An old-fashioned orator, Shiels wrote out and called in as treasurer to restore the colony's memorized eloquent speeches of great length, tottering finances, but his budget was weak and with frequent literary allusions and occasional use futile. The energy and long hours Shiels put in (he of Greek as well as Latin. He was a good and was a 5.30 riser, usually at his desk by 7.30) could amusing enough speaker to maintain general not arrest decline into deep economic depression. interest and popularity in the assembly, especially It was only a matter of time before a combination as he enjoyed provoking good-humoured conflict. was found to remove him. By November he had (Sir) Frederic Eggleston described him as 'a really decided to resign, but hung on into 1893. great Parliamentary orator, but just a little too florid … full of fine phrases and happy epigrams Continued next month..... but his voice was harsh, his delivery awkward … But he could make a budget exciting and he had a strain of patriotism … his speeches thrill anyone The Early History of Sandford who loves Australia'. as told by Mrs. Grogan circa unknown. Copy donated to The Casterton & District In 1886 Shiels had immediately placed himself in Historical Society opposition to the reconstituted coalition Gillies- by Carol McKinnon-Ward 2006 Deakin ministry. Over the next four years he was (?? = unreadable in transcript) a constant critic of boom extravagance, especially (*=Note made by Carol McKinnon-Ward) railway building; his attack on Gillies' 1889 budget was scathing. His visit to England and his Major Mitchell and his party first traversed the tact as a negotiator increased his stature as did his undulating country surrounding the present criticism in August 1890 of the government's township of Sandford on 11th August 1836. After crazy proposals for further railway extensions, to having crossed the Wannon River to the west of which Deakin replied - an oratorical duel on the present homestead on Sandford House Estate, which they congratulated each other. Major Mitchell passed along hills to the west of Thus when the government finally collapsed on Sandford and named this part of Victoria, 30 October and James Munro, at the command of ‘Australia Felix’. The country was then occupied David Syme of the Age, became premier, Shiels by tribes of aborigines till 1837. The Messrs. was a natural choice as attorney-general and Edward, Frank and John Henty came from minister of railways. In March 1891 he briefly Portland on the advice of Major Mitchell and attended the National Australasian Convention in settled on the three chief stations of the district Sydney as a substitute for (Sir) Henry Wrixon. viz, Muntham, Merino Downs and Sandford His time as minister was largely occupied in House. conflict with the defiant Richard Speight and the other railway commissioners, especially over the Muntham Estate comprising some 77000 acres of railways deficit. By September Shiels was rich pasture land, according to Mr. Featherstone- exhausted and took a break for several weeks. His Haugh in ‘After many days’ average about £2.00 amendments to the Railways Act, passed in per acre, when Mr. Edward Henty purchased it December, marked some shift back to political and settled there. Merino Downs contained control. approximately 16000 acres and was the home of Mr. Frank Henty, whilst Mr. John Henty with By then it was clear that Munro had to go - both 6000 acres settled at Sandford House. The name his colleagues and Syme had had enough of him - Sandford was given to the little village when it and Shiels became premier on 16 February 1892. was surveyed in 1856 by the late well known The railway commissioners were suspended on surveyor – Mr. Lindsay Clarke. Early residents 17th March for refusal to accept ministerial say it was so named because there was a sandy direction. At Casterton he made a famous policy fort at the Northern boundary of Sandford estate, speech in which the oratory did not outweigh the but late enquiries seem to indicate that the village reasoning. The election on 20th April was a triumph. was named after the station which John Henty had 3 in all probability named after, an old spot in Mr.
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