This is a story of cattle duffing, harassment, arson, corruption and bent police.
Apart from keeping the peace between the Aborigines and the few white settlers, the main problem the constables had to deal with was cattle duffing by both Aborigines and white men.
His life of crime began with horse stealing and cattle duffing and he soon turned to bushranging in 1861.
PJ meets his match when an old flame comes to town to solve a cattle duffing problem.
There is an amusing story, probably apocryphal, about a trial for cattle duffing in Queensland in the 1800's.
I know we had a lot of cattle duffing years ago and the Government was a tad shady in those days but I think we have cleaned up our act now.
Ensure your stock are healthy and protected against cattle duffing.
Their gang, the Jerrabat Gully Rakers were regarded as scientists in the art of cattle duffing and horse stealing.
I am entering Captain Starlight territory (alias the maverick drover Harry Redford), where his infamous trial for cattle duffing was held in the Roma courthouse.
Then in 1862 a mob of cattle from Yarram ‘found its way’ to remote Sandy Point, no doubt a good place to carry out cattle duffing operations.
It is claimed that the Strzelecki Track was pioneered by Harry Redford's famous exercise in cattle duffing which started near Muttaburra in western Queensland.
The songs about cattle duffing may help to fill out the picture of the war for land between poverty stricken free selectors and wealthy graziers.
At the turn of the 19th century during their infamous horse stealing and cattle duffing careers, the brothers lived and camped near Kenniff Cave which now perpetuates their name.
It did not pay the police to lag a guilty man, for if it had not been for cattle duffing and bushranging these police would have to go about begging.
It was not long before they were involved in horse stealing and cattle duffing.
And cattle duffing is a thing of the past.
In the 1850's he turned to cattle duffing and later to horse stealing which he found more profitable than droving.
Gardiner was trained as a butcher, but supplemented this income with horse-thievery and cattle duffing.
Derivatives
cattle duffer
noun
Australian
They were the gift of a part-Aboriginal, part Afghan, part-Irish cattle duffer (a cattle rustler), George Latham.
Example sentencesExamples
Dungey's track takes its name from Detective Dungey who cut this route in his constant quest for cattle duffers in the 1860's.
One of the state's key events in the Year of the Outback, the drive commemorates cattle duffer, Harry Redford, who stole a mob and drove them 2000 miles to South Australia.
Some years ago I was chasing cattle duffers (yes, it still happens), and had cause to visit a farm near Barham in New South Wales.
Dalton was once described in early records as: ‘the haunt of cattle duffers, bushrangers and robbery under arms’.