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Identifier: QueenslandRailwayAndTouristsGuide (find matches)
Title: Queensland Railway And Tourists Guide
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Archibald Meston
Subjects: State Library of Queensland Queensland Queensland Railways train travel tourist guide travel
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n September, 1824. Findingthe place unsuitable, the authorities selected a site on the BrisbaneRiver, and removed the whole establishment, except a few housesleft for the use of the blacks, who appreciated the gift about asmuch as a case of hats or a consignment of boots. Woody wasknown to the old blacks as Tambal. Sandgate bore the name of Moora. The North Pine River was called Mundine in onedialect, and Gooloogan in another. The South Pine was Tambir. Sandgate was a dangerous place in the old days, andseveral people were killed by the blacks. In the year 1853, thelate Thomas Dowse and his son had to fly from there, after bothwere wounded by spears. Two Customs House men were killed onthe way there in a boat, by Sandgate blacks. Several murderswere committed on the North and South Pine Rivers, once thehaunt of the notorious Dundahli, who was credited with sevenmurders, and finally hanged on the spot where the General PostOffice stands in Queen Street. On December 12th, 1872, a whale,
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Scrub Scene near Y^ndina, N.C.Line SANDGATE RAILWAY. 161 33 feet long, was washed ashore and captured at Sandgate. On theridge, when entering the town, the traveller will see a broken•column which marks the grave of Robert Travers Atkin, and hissister, both of whom died at an early age. He was a promisingyoung politician, a member of the Assembly, and editor of theGuardian, a paper long since defunct. Sandgate municipality hasan area of about 3700 acres, and is governed by a mayor and eightother aldermen. Trades and professions are liberally represented,and there are hundreds of private houses, erected by people whoreside there permanently, or periodically for the sake of sea air.The ridge which runs in a semicircle round the Bay, and forms thesite of Sandgate, consists of red soil, and appears to be a wave ofbasalt, upheaved from the surrounding Desert Sandstone and Cre-taceous formation. On the western end of the town, between theridge and the Bay, is a long expanse of flat land,

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