Describing m the " Sootsman " the Western district of Victoria between Camperdown and Warranambool, Dr Cameron Lees mentions that he was hospitably entertained at the large conntry mansion of a widow lady whose two bods graduates of Cambridge, carry on the business of the estate. " Their university career," be says, "has not unfitted them for Australian life. AU day they are out riding among their cattle and overlooking their stockmen and shepherds, B °d are thoroughly conversant with the breeding of sheep and fattening of bul'ockß. Young men reared at Home universities Beem to take well to this open-air life, and are to be met with all over Australia. 'Here are we, three university men,' was the conversation heard m the neighborhood of a stockyard, 'after one bollock.' 'Ay,' said a Highland stookmao, 1 and if ye oinna tak' oare yell sopp see one b«ljoc| lj«r WW Omvfcßity men y »
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1734, 7 January 1888, Page 3
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149Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1734, 7 January 1888, Page 3
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