The Darling Downs.
Manawatu Herald , 3 Huitanguru 1898, Page 2
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The Darling Downs.
The Darling Downs in Queensland are an undulating table-land, about 2000 feet above the sea-level, with the main line from Sydney to Brisbane running through them. They have anarea of something like 4,000,000 acres of the richest agricultural soil in the world— soil ranging from 10 to 60 feet in depth, and as fertile as the delta of Egypt or the river bottoms of Siberia. The climate is perfect, water is abun- . dant everywhere, a network of running j creeks on the surface and artesian I waters under the surface. The farmer i can grow two crops in one year, maize sown in January being ripe in April,; and wheat sown in May being fit for^ the sickle in December. The Queensland XJovernment has already taken* power to repurchase these rich lands, and subdivide them.
