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Again, as in the case of Port Phillip, delays occurred; and, in 1856, a change of Ministry caused the matter to be almost forgotten. It was not until the year 1859 that the territory to the north of the twenty-ninth parallel of latitude was proclaimed a separate colony, under the title of QUEENSLAND.
That man Grief is a devil, but he's straight. I know. I told you he'd throw a thousand quid away for the fun of it, and for sixpence fight like a shark for a rusty tin, I tell you I know. Didn't he give his Balakula to the Queensland Mission when they lost their Evening Star on San Cristobal? and the Balakula worth three thousand pounds if she was worth a penny?
"Seeing that you've done little but work on this place since you came back from Queensland, I shouldn't think you'd need to ask for a job," retorted Bob. "However, I'll take you on as milker if you like it's about the only thing you haven't sampled." "No," said Wally, "you won't. Whatever beast I finally take to by way of earning my living, it won't be the cow if I can help it.
These scrubs, of slightly varying character, form a characteristic of the whole length of the eastern seaboard, and amongst them we find much valuable timber. The cedar tree is one important feature, and the kauri pine is found in one small tract in the north of Queensland. Further south, however, the trees grow to an enormous height in the elevated forest lands.
Sir William Macgreggor, ex-Governor of Queensland, has described the Papuan art of fishing by means of kites, the lure being a tassel of the web of a spider of the Nephila species. No doubt the blacks here made an independent and original discovery, and in their simplicity applied it in a different, but none the less effective, style from that of the advanced Papuan.
She offered her guest a most dainty little meal; a luncheon such as Alma could not possibly have devised, in spite of all her reminiscences. 'Civilisation is a great thing, Sibyl remarked. 'It's good to have been in savagery, just to appreciate one's privileges. 'But you liked Honolulu? 'Honolulu yes. I was thinking of Queensland.
The missionaries there are French priests. From the multitudinous islands in these regions the "recruits" for the Queensland plantations were formerly drawn; are still drawn from them, I believe. Vessels fitted up like old-time slavers came here and carried off the natives to serve as laborers in the great Australian province.
The enemy left several dead and wounded on the field, as well as two doctors and an ambulance belonging to the Queensland Imperial Bushmen, which we sent back together with the prisoners we had taken. On this occasion the English were spared a great defeat by having women and children in their laager, and no doubt for the sake of safety they kept these with them as long as possible.
When I broke away from Caldigate in June, and went to Queensland, they hadn't seen each other for two months. And as for having been married; you might as well tell me that I had married her! If Mr. Caldigate had ever allowed a shade of doubt to cross his mind as to his son's story, Dick Shand's further story removed it.
"I don't like to correct you, Alf," I interposed; "but I understood you to say that your father was a station-manager, on the Queensland border. "Up to the time I was twenty-one or twenty-two.
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