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Title: The black police of Queensland : reminiscences of official work and personal adventures in the early days of the colony
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Kennedy, Edward B
Subjects: Queensland -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Murray
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Black Police, for by this name the forcewas often known. In these reminiscences Iby no means rely entirely upon memory, forI still retain my old Queensland diaries,together with some official papers connectedwith the force in which I served. I will describe this force, together with thelife I led in it, more fully in subsequentchapters, and though I have some of my oldSlaters diaries to fall back upon, yet I canremember without external aid many scenes,incidents, and names of men connected withthose days better than I can sometimes callto mind events of last week and peoples namesof later periods. I take it that the simplereason is that a new chum, having landedin a new country and not long out of histeens has every incident vividly and lastinglyimpressed on his memory. It is obvious that great changes have oc-curred in this go-ahead Colony since thesixties. Civilisation has made enormous strides,and a vast extent of country, especially thecoast line extending right up to the Gulf, is
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I) AREA 3 now under tillage. Most of this was formerly-waste land. During the many years that I have beenat home I have so often been questioned asto the area of Queensland, and what the lifethere is like, that I will endeavour to put intowriting answers to these and other questions,which, in all important details, will apply to thepresent year of Grace. It is not an idle boast to state that Queens-land is one of the largest of the BritishColonies, possessing as it does an area of668,000 square milesâfive times the size of theUnited Kingdom. The Colony comprises thewhole north-eastern portion of the AustralianContinent. It may also be remarked thatsome of the settlements in the interior areover 600 miles from the capital, Brisbane.This will, perhaps, give some idea of theextent of country within her limits. The population on December 31st, 1867,was 100,000, and on December 31st, 1899,512,604. When the emigrants first came out underthe agency of Mr. Jordan, labour was in greatdemandâ

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