View of Brisbane, 1860. The Moreton Bay Courier 24 January 1860 QUEENSLAND LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY. (FROM OUR PROPHETIC REPORTER.) 3725629 ) The Legislative Assembly met yesterday at 4 o'clock, and made a night of it. Mr. MACALISTER moved that the House do adjourn to Ipswich, and that they should proceed by the Breadalbane up the river at once. [At this time the Breadalbane's whistle was heard announcing the fact that she was ready. The Bremer and Hawk wore waiting to convey the baggage and equipage of the members, and, if possible, to take their wives and families.] The second honorable me
View of Brisbane, 1860. The Moreton Bay Courier 24 January 1860 QUEENSLAND LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY. (FROM OUR PROPHETIC REPORTER.) 3725629 ) The Legislative Assembly met yesterday at 4 o'clock, and made a night of it. Mr. MACALISTER moved that the House do adjourn to Ipswich, and that they should proceed by the Breadalbane up the river at once. [At this time the Breadalbane's whistle was heard announcing the fact that she was ready. The Bremer and Hawk wore waiting to convey the baggage and equipage of the members, and, if possible, to take their wives and families.] The second honorable member for Ipswich (Mr. Panton) would second the proposition of Mr. Macalister; and he did so, impressed with the importance of Ipswich over Brisbane, being at the head of navigation, and at the tail of the range ; the first town in importance, and the last to push itself unjustly forward. Though he said it, when perhaps it would come better from the mouth of some more disinterested member, was not Ipswich fitted by nature and art to be the capital of this young and rising empire? (Hear, hear, cheers, and counter cheers.) The hon. member for Gladstone could not conceive what the hon, members for Ipswich were dreaming about - it was at Gladstone that the seat of Government must be fixed, if the nation was to go a-head. The hon. member for Maryborough then rose and insisted that the river Mary was beautiful, the site commanding, and that Maryborough was in fact the spot. The member for Gayndah could not help feeling surprised at what had fallen from the honorable member for Maryborough. What was the use of the Mary river if there was nothing on it? No, No ! ho would beg to tell the House that Gayndah was the spot, and they only needed a railway from the port to the city of Gayndah to make the Empire great and flourishing. The first hon, member for Ipswich considered there was an analogy, a striking analogy, between the arguments of the member for Gayndah and those used by himse
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