Old Hemmant Sugar Mill, Doughboy Creek, c1885. The Brisbane Courier Wed 4 Oct 1871 Doughboy Creek (From a Correspondent) Sept 30. After a series of preliminary flirtations, Pluvius precipitated himself upon this locality in the shape of a refreshing shower, and powdery roads and vacuous waterholes are temporarily invisible. There have been two long intervals of drought separated by a slight rainfall, and water for domestic purposes had, in many instances, to be carted from a considerable distance, so that this aqueous visitation has been very welcome. The clouds had been so long threatening
Old Hemmant Sugar Mill, Doughboy Creek, c1885. The Brisbane Courier Wed 4 Oct 1871 Doughboy Creek (From a Correspondent) Sept 30. After a series of preliminary flirtations, Pluvius precipitated himself upon this locality in the shape of a refreshing shower, and powdery roads and vacuous waterholes are temporarily invisible. There have been two long intervals of drought separated by a slight rainfall, and water for domestic purposes had, in many instances, to be carted from a considerable distance, so that this aqueous visitation has been very welcome. The clouds had been so long threatening to expend themselves that even the ominous procession of ark, purple masses from the north-west, together with the roll of distant thunder, failed to assure the most sanguine, until the pleasing certainty was drummed into our ears by noisy roofs - the patter of raindrops being sweeter music to us than the divinest of human strains. A place not far off, unlucky enough to bear a name which at present is a gross libel, has been perhaps rather hardly dealt with, and I hasten to add a few luminous touches to my incomplete and somewhat sombre sketch. Not long ago Goose Swamp was a happy hunting ground - a solitude highly esteemed by wild ducks and cranes, where intrusive sunbeams were broken into a thousand glimmers against the shaggy heads of stalwart eucalypti, and where festering vegetation rested peacefully upon a couch of mud; now it is transfixed by drains, mud has been turned into ploughable soil, and acres of cane, fenced paddocks, a dwelling house, and a mill, remain as mementoes of the enterprise of its spirited proprietors. They have encountered and overcome a veritable swamp, and may therefore be termed regenerators of a small portion of terra firma. No doubt you are in possession of the particulars of the deplorableoccurence which transpired in this vicinity on the 23rd ultimo, the upshot of which was death by drowning. A young fellow, attached to one of the ships lyi
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