QUEENSLAND
Brisbane, 16th August. The Calliope diggings, near Port Curtis, are reported to be yielding well, and one miner has arrived at Rockhampton with some quartz specimens of apparently a payable nature, aud six pounds weight of alluvial gold. Tbe Relief Committee have decided to send home the sum of £530, to defray tbe expenses of the outfit of a number of Lancashire operatives, whose passage to this colony the Government agree to pay.
A new river, to be called the M'Kay, situated thirty miles north of Cape Palmerston, bas been opened by Mr. Dalrymple. Its discovery adds greatly to the value of the stations through which it flows.
In many parts of Queensland rain is much wanted, and large numbers of cattle are dying on account of the drought.
Fever has broken out amongst the passengers landed from the Erin go Bragh, immigrant ship, which arrived here a short time ago, short of provisions, having been nearly six months on the
passage.
An Acclimatisation Society bas been formed here, and it is likely to become a permanent institution.
QUEENSLAND
Wellington Independent, Volume XVII, Issue 1763, 6 September 1862, Page 5
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