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On a journey up the Queensland const, where for hundreds of miles of beautiful country, there is no sign of human habitation, one wore dor what would be the fate of our boasted White Australia Polley were our Asiatic neighbours to get a foothold on or demand the right to occupy and develop the country now lying idle, Such a serious position must inevitably material- ise if we blindly persist in neglect ing to fill up the empty spaces that menace, Australia's security and welfare.
THURSDAY ISLAND wreck, and of the herole swim of hausted other adjacent shallow
Miss Lacy, in well-known.
waters had to be explored, and this The Open Northern Gate." wn done by local swimming divers In area and coastline, Thursday and by Pacific islanders. Gradually Island is a mere spec compared the pearlers were forced into deeper. with-many scattered over the waters waters, necessitating, the use of of Torres Straits and the Coral Sea, diving apparatus, and there was navigable channels being necen keen competition between thei Barily clearly charted.
original swimmers and the divera. Some swimmers, equipped with
· Fifty years is but a short span in
water-tight goggles, still work suc- the life of a country. In human
cessfully from small craft. The life it a little more. Like the
swimmers believe that sharke fol- Morning Star we appear on the
low diving vessels and keep at safe distance from them. The divers, horizon, and quickly fade from
on the other hand, fear the groper view as the dawn of day spreads
with its horrible appearance, more from the East across the heavenly
than the shark. It is usually found on rocky bottoms, and when it in vault. In early manhood our (as.
signalled as a “dangerous sea mon- piration Increases with the years;
star" the fleet will sail away. The the romance of youth passes.
use of diving apparatus and the Maturity is reached and the tragedy
system of working from a central achooner were brought back from of old age sets in sooner or later.
The ship passes historial Cook-Western Australia in 1890, and And this is precisely. what happens to mother Earth, but the process town, and the Lizzard falande, of are still in use, the feet thus or of evolution is so slow that we fall tragic memory, where Mrs. Watson ganised being mobile and self- to realise or comprehend It, Great to escape massacre by the natives In March, 1899, the schooners
and her child perished, attempting contained, civilisations appear and disappear. in a ship's tank, which is preserved and luggers at Bathurst Bay were Worlds are born, and in their turn in the Brisbane Museum. Albany overwhelmed by a terrific hurricane, fall into decay. And so everything Island reminds of the sad fate of over 300 lives being lost, including In Nature is constantly changing.
the explorer Kennedy and his faith those of one of the Outridge bro With this brief homily (says ful black boy Jacky Jacky Two thors, and a nephew engaged in the writer in "The Queenslander"), let mo introduce the reader to the others of Kennedy's expedition per Industry, capital of our coral-bound posses-ished at Albany, which later was sions in the Torres Straits, Thurs- the scene of an attempt at the
jubilee of the Thursday day Island. In pre-Federal times artificial culture of pearls and Island settlement was celebrated re- cently, the festivities being In- Australia's northern outpost was oysters by Saville, Kent, and Toak. at Somerset, Cape York, where
A Picturesque Spot.
augurated on Thursday evening, Thursday Island, is small in ex-September 15, by the local branch Frank Jardine was acting Police Magistrate. The locality, however, tent, probably not exceeding 900 of the Royal Geographical Society proved unsuitable, and after a acres, but important in position. In the form of a conversazione and search of the Prince of Wales About two-thirds of the area, the ball in the town hall, and conclud- north-eastern and north-western ed with an imposing procession and Group, Thursday Island, called by the native War Ban," or Dry portions, are reserved for defence a representation of the landing of Island, was selected for the new
purposes. The town faces Ellis H.M. "Chester" on the Saturday statement, on the report of C. Channel on the south side, and has morning. These events have been D'Oyly Aplin, Port Kennedy
good natural drainage. Victoria | reported already in the "Courier." the south side of the island was Parade extends along the water-
A Healthy Climate. The Island chosen by Commander Heath for the front, and most of the streets bear
has an excep- climate. The site of the harbour, and in 1876 historical names, Kennedy, Douglas, tionally healthy the Government buildings at Somer. Chester, Milman, and Jardine. The rapidly circulating tidal waters set were removed under the super- unimproved town property is valuod surrounding it effectively com Intendence of Mr. John M'Clay, the "Tend" jetty for the accommoda- temperature, and only during the at, about £30,000. There la a fine bat continental extremes of contractor being Mr. E. Chapman. The following year H. M. Chester
tion of shipping. The business humid monsoonal season is any de travelled from Somerset to the part of the town atretches along greet of discomfort felt. From new station in the Government the waterfront, and the residential April to December the south-east area are on the hillsides behind. trades are energetic, and weather cutter, "Lizzie Jardine."
The harbour is completely land-conditions are delightful. Immunity locked, and thus well protected, but from house Bies and mosquitoes is strong tides sometimes impede the another advantage enjoyed by re movements of shipping.
aidents of the island, which, while not perhaps an earthly paradise, is certainly one of the most delight- ful spots on the Australian coast.
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A Commanding Position. Thursday Island lies in the heart of the Prince of Wales Group, about 22 miles north-west from Cape York, and may aptly be described
Pearling Industry. as the gateway of the Torres Strait The pearling industry and a880- to the East, New Guinea, Samarai, ciated marine products forms the and Port Darwin. Some 35 years chief commercial activity of the The great need on Thursday ago the calling of the British India island, and is most profitable. Island, as in other parts of Queens- Oversens mail boats made it a Methods of working have changed, land, is the establishment of second- buster port than it is to-day, and however. In the early days ahell ary industries to handle the marine it was then that occurred the tragic was plentiful on Warrior reef, ex- products of Torres Strait and of loss of the Quetta, on an uncharted posed at low water. It was rich the Barrier Reef. It is a blot on rock pinnacle in Mr. Adolphus in pearls, so that beche-de-mor, the the national characteer and a great Channel, east of Albany Island. original objective, was neglected reflection on the enterprise of the Among the passengers were Mr. and for pearling. Schooners returned people of Queensland to have to Mrs. Watson, of Messrs. Watson, to their home ports filled. to the admit that, to be utilised, the na- Ferguson and Co., who were carry-hatches, and others hastened to the tural pearl'shell, trochus shell, and ing the writer's manuscript of reefs and shallow waters of the associated products, must be export- "British New Guinea," for publica- straight to reap the harvest. As ed to the factories of London, tion in London. The story of the the Warrior reef deposit became ex- America, Japan, and China.
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