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He said that Clovelly the novelist had given a little dinner at his chambers in Piccadilly, and that the guests were all our fellow-passengers by the 'Fulvia'; among them Colonel Ryder, the bookmaker, Blackburn the Queenslander, and himself. This is extracted from the letter: . . . Clovelly was in rare form.
Of the imitators of the Australasian, the Queenslander, published by the proprietors of the Brisbane Courier; the Leader, published by the Age proprietors; and the Town and Country, by the proprietors of the Sydney Evening News, are the best, in the order named. The Sydney Mail, published by the Sydney Morning Herald, is also a good compendium of information on current topics.
He and the old nurse-housekeeper of Billabong were sworn allies; though no one could ever quite come up to Jim and Norah in Brownie's heart, Wally had been a close third from the day, long years back, that he had first come to the station, a lonely, dark-eyed little Queenslander.
You've met her father, I suppose?" he added, and tossed his cigar overboard. "Yes, I have talked with him. He is a courteous and able man, I should think." We rose. Presently he continued: "See, Miss Treherne is sitting there with the Tasmanian widow what is HER name?" "Mrs. Callendar," I replied. "Blackburn, the Queenslander, is joining them." "So much the better," he said. "Come on."
Who is to say that the Canadian in his thick woollens and furs is a healthier subject, a worthier type, than the North Queenslander, stripped to the waist in the full blaze of the sun, glorying in his own vigour, proud of his magnificent heritage, and scornful of the opinions of those who have never experienced that supreme zest of life unpurchasable outside the tropic zone?
Occasionally, no doubt, the most patriotic son of our Lady of Snows would joy in the heat of North Queensland noon; while the sweatful North Queenslander may often pant for the superfluous ice of his far-away cousin.
"I am so glad you are here to-night," she replied, greeting him warmly, almost effusively. "I recollect you so well. And Ned will know you, too Mr. Geisner, Mr. Hawkins." Ned felt his reluctantly extended hand enclosed in a strong friendly clasp. "Hawkins is the Queenslander we were expecting," said Stratton cheerfully.
Bellin-Jama glared up belligerently. "You want 'm fight," he said, putting up his fists in approved, returned- Queenslander style. Now, in the Solomons, where whites are few and blacks are many, and where the whites do the ruling, such an offer to fight is the deadliest insult. Blacks are not supposed to dare so highly as to offer to fight a white man.
Neither our Government, our people, nor the world understood at the beginning of this campaign how grave was the task which we had undertaken, but, having once realised it, it must be acknowledged that it was carried through in no half-hearted way. So vast was the scene of operations that the Canadian might almost find his native climate at one end of it and the Queenslander at the other.
You've met her father, I suppose?" he added, and tossed his cigar overboard. "Yes, I have talked with him. He is a courteous and able man, I should think." We rose. Presently he continued: "See, Miss Treherne is sitting there with the Tasmanian widow what is HER name?" "Mrs. Callendar," I replied. "Blackburn, the Queenslander, is joining them." "So much the better," he said. "Come on."
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