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truck full of liquor and expecting to make a 300% profit, Paddy and Jim purchased the entire outfit, lock-stock-barrel and bottle. The Banka-Banka encampment then became host for the rest of the meeting and were deemed by the rest of the race meeting as "terribly good fellows". Cole rode in three races and managed a 2nd and a 3rd and whilst not winning a race, Jim
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Cole would also later race horses named Curio and Black Watch at the race at Barrow Creek. Cole and the
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which his partner stocked with cattle. Gold deposits were later mined at
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on the Arnhem Coast and the entire crew had been speared. He heard more about the massacre from other lugger crews that called in to load his hides.
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hunting with Harry Hardy and sold horses to other shooters. He continued buffalo hunting, acquiring a lease at
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delivering cattle to other states in
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Riding the Wildman Plains : the letters and diaries of Tom Cole 1923-1943
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in the Northern Territory and then onto droving cattle down the
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properties. By 1928 he was appointed Head Stockman at
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