A Plucky Colonist.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 6, 23 June 1883, Page 3

A Plucky Colonist.

An adventurous walk across the entire continent of Australia has just been completed by Mr George Irnest Morrison a son of the principal of the Oeelong College. He started from the Gulf of Carpentaria, leaving Normanton the week before Christmas. After parsing Oloncurry, he followed the courses of the Diamantina and the Thompson, striking the Rulloo at Thar.-omindah, and the Paroo at Hungerford. Following the Paroo through n country inundated by the enormous rainfall that characterised i his season, he encountered the most dangerous part of his rout ■>, having for nearly 350 milps to wade almost daily considerable distances, and to swim swollen creeks. He crossed the Darling at Wilcannia, ihe Lachlan at BooMgal, the Murruinbidgee at Hay, and the river Murray at Kchuca. 'ihe whole distance traversed from the Gulf of Carpentaria to Melbourne exceeded 2,000 miles?, nnd this was covered in 120 days. Passing through uninhabited was'ee, where sometimes intervals of over 100 miles intervened between human habitations he had to carry a swag witb provisions and apparatus for cooking, and -"his of course, materially impeded his rate of travel ling. He Lad to carry a supph' <d" water in some parts of his route, where water could only be foimd at very ong interval**. Part of his way led through a district inhabited by hostile blacks.