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Borah Station
A place about twenty six miles, was owned
by an old Pioneer by the name of
Mr James Orr & Robert Campbell his
brother in law who was a large merchant
in Sydney at the time. Mr James Orr was
unable to manage the property therefore he
sent for his brother Ebeneza Orr to
Morten Bay which is now called
Queensland. This would be about the time
the Ballarat diggings were opened in the
year 1851 or 52 to my recollections. All the
white people that were engaged on this
property at different work left to go mining.
The Aborigines then came to Mr Orr's rescue,
the sheep were left to starve & the crows
were eating them alive. Mr Orr also sent
home for a colored race of men called
Coolie men. They seemed not to be able to
understand how to manage sheep or any
other things they used to be continuely
loosing the stock infact they were often lost
them selves. My mother & Father then went to
help Mr Orr to collect sheep, dogs & men &
all. he Mr Orr, then decided to send those
men to their home. He then got some
Chinamen out & a good many other settlers
done like wise. The Chinamen seemed to
manage better as they turned out very
good shepherds, shearers as well, infact
good all round men on the station. But
the Aboriginals those days were the greatest
favourites & they never forgot they had a
good kind and generous master in Mr Orr or
I should say Orr Bros. Mr Orr also had a
manager on his out station called Gool[kin?]