MINING
Mystery Flit: 7oz 4dwt, 131- hoar*. Mad-wion : looz 3dwt, 125 home.
In l!i.-'. cc,i"i'£t' of aii address on 'Old Svdji.-y' r.t Xc-.»i<:-.ra a few sighta ago, Mr Norman Selfo paid a Lijrh tribiri* of praise to t!~ te& &r Joseph Bank*, of whom, he observed, tiew: wm not a single statue in ti» via J* state, Jffuoh, «» it said, to the dewnft of oydncy. How great a man Captain Cook was they all knepr, but- ©vcn'hfl uid not '1o«.-t*> it* crmfii, that w.'s dnc to Sir Joseph Baafcf. ft nt Cook's bWTUK'W *£ a 'MU'-t2t»i =UiT! to tW-Vcl, aixl he wss paid to do *-*; * m t Sir Joseph B&iks ask«d peraiiiason to accompany han in the R:i<3e»*«r, and paid all his expenses for the whoJc voyage, and everything tls*, cut of his own poefcet,. He gamed aaxh » kiuwvicdffs of tho phw* that in k±w yours ho was knowrias tl:e "Wither of Ajstia&a," and cveryoiio who «Icsirod to fcuow something aborrfc Aiw'Tili;;, ahra-yj -referred to him. If ever there was a person deserving ■ of a sUlue iu New Sonth. \ftik*, tfeU ■per- .i uki was.&r Joseph, finfct,
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Evening Star, Issue 14527, 1 December 1910, Page 4
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