. Australia's greatest need : with an introductory note by the Archbishop of Brisbane. ted, and my old horse 82 Australians greatest need will be stuffed, put into a glass case andsent to the British Museum ! Another young bushman, James Tom,was now added to the party, and theMacquarie Valley was traversed as far asBurrandong; then Tom and Lister ex-plored the Turon, while Hargraves wentnorth-west to Mitchells Creek, everywherefinding the colour over a district aboutseventy miles long by forty wide. Therewas no room for mistake. The discovererreturned in haste to Sydney, and afterparleying for
. Australia's greatest need : with an introductory note by the Archbishop of Brisbane. ted, and my old horse 82 Australians greatest need will be stuffed, put into a glass case andsent to the British Museum ! Another young bushman, James Tom,was now added to the party, and theMacquarie Valley was traversed as far asBurrandong; then Tom and Lister ex-plored the Turon, while Hargraves wentnorth-west to Mitchells Creek, everywherefinding the colour over a district aboutseventy miles long by forty wide. Therewas no room for mistake. The discovererreturned in haste to Sydney, and afterparleying for some weeks with the Govern-ment, disclosed his secret. Then came the opening of the Victoriangoldfields from Ballarat to Bendigo whichquite eclipsed the find in New SouthWales. The finding of gold in Queensland wasas well timed as in the Southern 1867 Queensland was at a very lowebb. During the American Civil Warshe had grown prosperous on cotton, butthe ending of the war ruined her cottonprospects. Everyone was feeling very glum, whena man named Nash strode one day into. The coming of the People 83 the street at Maryboro and declared thathe had found gold on the Mary long afterwards Gympie broke out and soon became a flourishing town. Wequote the following as a typical instanceof what gold means to the growth of acountry. A beautiful city, with a popu-lation of 12,149 now covers the siteof these early explorations, and the soilbeing for the most part excellent and theclimate temperate, the country has beencleared and cultivated to an extent thathas completely changed the a stockman, after a long absence,has endeavoured from the verandah of hishotel to identify some of the landmarks oftwenty years ago that used to guide himto his solitary cattle camps, when the crackof his whip was the only sound that causedthe kangaroo to pause in his feed. Thehills are still there, but their slopes haveyielded to the plough. Gardens cover theridges that in
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