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After holding a local audience of 2000 spellbound with his oratory for 90 minutes he sought financial backing for a fraudulent scheme to secede from Victoria and form the new state of ' Greater Mildura ' under his leadership . The scheme came to fruition on 15 December 1829 when 169 settlers arrived at Cockburn Sound , north of Mandurah . The scheme held every drop of water which landed on the Peak and directed it all into the dam which provided water for both the town and the railway . Mortlake is surrounded by fertile volcanic plains and hence is located in a pastoral and agricultural district 218 km west of Melbourne via the Hamilton Highway and 50 km north-east of Warrnambool . The old lock-up ( brought from Beechworth by bullock team at the end of the 19th century ) is still on the property , as is a 19th-century barn made of handmade bricks from clay dug out in the cellar . Merredin 's importance as a town was directly related to the establishment of a superb water catchment scheme on Merredin Peak . He named it after Governor Hotham . Other gardens are opened up periodically to raise money for charities and as part of the Australian Garden Scheme . This network of lookouts was established in the late 1930s by the Forests Department so that forest fires could be rapidly detected . While Bristol leveled a shotgun blast of different legal theories as to why it was entitled to a court ordered redrafting of its contracts with Microsoft , most revolved around the notion that Microsoft has monopoly for network server software , and had illegally exploited this monopoly under federal and Connecticut antitrust law .