Chapter III: Appendix: L--Inauguration of the University of Queensland 239-257

INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS.

Government House (_C. E. S. Fryer_) _Frontispiece_
Facing Page

First Gazette, 10th December, 1859 xiv

Writ of Summons for First Election xx

Governors of Queensland (_C. E. S. Fryer_) xxiv

Premiers of Queensland " " xxviii

Houses of Parliament, Brisbane " " 4

View from River Terrace, Brisbane " " 8

Barron Falls, Cairns Railway, North Queensland " " 12

Treasury Buildings, Brisbane " " 16

Coal Wharves, South Brisbane " " 20

Executive Buildings, Brisbane " " 24

Views of Rockhampton, Central Queensland " " 28

Townsville: Flinders Street, looking West " " 32

Hinchinbrook Channel, North Queensland " " 36

The Narrows and Mount Larcombe, near Gladstone " " 36

Barron Gorge below the Falls, Cairns Railway " " 40

On the Road to Market, Central Queensland (_W. E. Perroux_) 44

Fat Cattle, Central Queensland " " 44

Maroochy River and Ninderry Mountain, N.C. Railway (_C. E. S. Fryer_) 48

Scene on Barcaldine Downs, Central Queensland (_W. E. Perroux_) 52

Barcaldine Downs Homestead, Central Queensland " " 52

Swan Creek Valley, near Yangan, Warwick District (_C. E. S. Fryer_) 56

Surprise Creek Falls, Cairns Railway " " 60

Forest Scene near Woombye, North Coast Railway " " 64

Hauling Timber, North Coast Railway " " 68

Stony Creek Bridge and Falls, Cairns Railway (_C. E. S. Fryer_) 68

Timber Getting, North Coast Railway " " 72

Cairns Range and Robb's Monument, N. Queensland " " 76

View of Gympie from Nashville Railway Station " " 80

Coke Ovens, Ipswich District " " 80

Gulf Cattle Ready for Market (_H. J. Walton_) 84

Brigalow Country, Warra, Darling Downs 84

Hereford Cows, Darling Downs 84

Above Stony Creek Falls, Cairns Railway (_C. E. S. Fryer_) 88

Mount Morgan: Open Cut and Dumps (_Mount Morgan G.M. Co._) 92

Mount Morgan: Mundic and Copper Works " " 92

Cattle Country, West Moreton 100

Fat Cattle, Central Queensland (_C. E. S. Fryer_) 100

Horses at Gowrie, Darling Downs 104

Sheep at Gowrie, Darling Downs 104

Horses, Western Queensland (_H. J. Walton_) 104

Fat Cattle, Burrandilla, Charleville " " 104

Wool Teams, Wyandra, Warrego District (_C. E. S. Fryer_) 108

Hauling Cedar, Atherton, North Queensland " " 108

Dairy Cattle on Darling Downs 112

Sheep, Jimbour, Darling Downs 112

Horses, Ivanhoe Station, Warrego 112

Harvesting Wheat, Emu Vale, near Warwick (_C. E. S. Fryer_) 116

Surprise Creek Cascade, Cairns Railway " " 120

Pineapple Farm, Woombye, North Coast Railway " " 124

Sugar-Mill, Huxley, Isis Railway " " 124

Field of Maize, Eel Creek, Gympie " " 124

Threshing Wheat, Emu Vale, Killarney Railway " " 128

Coffee Plantation, Kuranda, Cairns Railway " " 128

Sugar-Mill, Childers, North Coast Railway " " 132

Sisal Hemp and Cane Fields, South Isis " " 136

Canefields, Isis Railway (_C. E. S. Fryer_) 136

Sugar Cane and Mill, Huxley, Isis Railway " " 136

Cambanora Gap, Head of Condamine, Killarney " " 140

Minto Crag, Dugandan, Fassifern District " " 140

Mount Morgan: Copper Works, looking North (_Mt. Morgan G.M. Co._) 144

Mount Morgan: General View of Works " " 144

Charters Towers: Plant's Day Dawn (_C. E. S. Fryer_) 148

Gympie: Scottish Gympie Gold Mine " " 152

Gympie: No. 1 North Oriental and Glanmire " " 152

Flowing Artesian Wells, Western Queensland:

1. Beel's Bore, Cunnamulla (_Kerry_) 156

2. Bore on Thurulgoona Station " " 156

3. Charleville Bore (_C. E. S. Fryer_) 156

Aberdare Colliery, Ipswich District " " 160

Cocoa-Nut Palms, Johnstone River, North Queensland " " 164

Custom House and Petrie Bight, Brisbane " " 164

In the Scrub Country, Kin Kin, North Coast Railway " " 168

On the Blackall Range, North Coast Railway " " 168

Barron Gorge, Cairns Railway, North Queensland " " 176

Farm Scene, Blackall Range " " 184

Sisal Hemp, Childers, North Coast Railway " " 184

Wool Teams, Longreach, Central Queensland " " 184

View on Barron River, Cairns Railway " " 192

Hauling Timber, Barron River, North Queensland " " 200

Falls near Killarney " " 208

Aboriginal Tree Climbers " " 208

Scene on Logan River, South Queensland " " 216

Cooktown and Endeavour River, North Queensland " " 224

Pearling Fleets off Badu Island, Torres Strait 224

Government House, now Dedicated to University purposes
(_C. E. S. Fryer_) 238

View of Dedication Ceremony (_H.W. Mobsby_) 242

The Premier (Hon. W. Kidston) Opening the Proceedings " " 244

His Excellency Sir W. MacGregor Addressing the Audience " " 248

His Excellency Unveiling the Dedication Tablet " " 250

Lady MacGregor Planting the University Tree " " 256

MAPS.

(_Prepared by Survey Office, Department of Public Lands._)

Subdivision of Australia xxii, xxiii

Australia before Captain Cook 96

Australia, Showing First Settlement 96

Queensland in 1859 96

Queensland in 1909 96

Australia in 1859, Showing Self-Governing Colonies 96

The World, Showing Relative Position of Australia 96

Queensland, with British Islands Superimposed 232

QUEENSLAND

=Government Gazette.=

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.

No. 1.] SATURDAY, 10 DECEMBER, 1859.

PROCLAMATION

By His Excellency SIR GEORGE FERGUSON BOWEN, Knight Commander
of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George,
Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief of the Colony of
Queensland and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same,
&c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the eighteenth and nineteenth years of the Reign of Her Majesty, entitled, "_An Act to enable Her Majesty to assent to a Bill as amended of the Legislature of New South Wales 'to confer a Constitution on New South Wales, and to grant 'a Civil List to Her Majesty,'_" it was amongst other things enacted that it should be lawful for Her Majesty, by Letters Patent, to be from time to time issued under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to erect into a separate Colony or Colonies, any territories which might be separated from New South Wales by such alteration as therein was mentioned, of the northern boundary thereof; and in and by such Letters Patent, or by Order in Council, to make provision for the Government of any such Colony, and for the Establishment of a Legislature therein, in manner as nearly resembling the form of Government and Legislature which should be at such time established in New South Wales as the circumstances of such Colony will allow; and that full power should be given in and by such Letters Patent, or Order in Council, to the Legislature of the said Colony, to make further provision in that behalf. And whereas Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers so vested in Her Majesty, has by Her Commission under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, bearing date the sixth day of June, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, appointed that from and after the publication of the said Letters Patent in the Colonies of New South Wales and Queensland, the Territory described in the said Letters Patent should be separated from the said Colony of New South Wales and be erected into the separate Colony of Queensland: Now, therefore, I, SIR GEORGE FERGUSON BOWEN, the Governor of Queensland, in pursuance of the authority invested in me by Her Majesty, do hereby proclaim and publish the said Letters Patent in the words and figures following, respectively.

QUEENSLAND.

_LETTERS PATENT erecting Moreton Bay into a Colony, under
the name of_ QUEENSLAND, _and appointing_ SIR GEORGE FERGUSON
BOWEN, K.C.M.G., _to be Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief
of the same_.

VICTORIA, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, to Our
trusty and well-beloved SIR GEORGE FERGUSON BOWEN, Knight
Commander of Our most distinguished Order of St. Michael and
St. George,--

GREETING:

WHEREAS by a reserved Bill of the Legislature of New South
Wales, passed in the seventeenth year of our reign, as amended
by an Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the
eighteenth and nineteenth years of our reign, entitled, "An
Act to enable Her Majesty to assent to a Bill, as amended, of
the Legislature of New South Wales, to confer a Constitution
on New South Wales, and to grant a Civil List to Her Majesty,"
it was enacted that nothing therein contained should be deemed
to prevent us from altering the boundary of the Colony of New
South Wales on the north, in such a manner as to us might seem
fit; and it was further enacted by the said last recited Act,
that if We should at any time exercise the power given to Us
by the said reserved Bill of altering the northern boundary of
our said colony, it should be lawful for Us by any Letters
Patent, to be from time to time issued under the Great Seal of
our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to erect into
a separate Colony or Colonies any territories which might be
separated from our said colony of New South Wales by such
alterations as aforesaid of the northern boundary thereof, and
in and by such Letters Patent, or by Order in Council, to make
provision for the Government of any such separate colony, and
for the establishment of a Legislature therein, in manner as
nearly resembling the form of Government and Legislature which
should be at such time established in New South Wales as the
circumstances of such separate Colony would allow, and that
full power should be given by such Letters Patent or Order in
Council to the Legislature of such separate Colony to make
further provision in that behalf. Now know you, that We have,
in pursuance of the powers vested in us by the said Bill and
Act, and of all other powers and authorities in Us in that
behalf vested separated from our colony of New South Wales,
and erected into a separate Colony, so much of the said colony
of New South Wales as lies northward of a line commencing on
the sea coast at Point Danger, in latitude about 28 degrees 8
minutes south, and following the range thence which divides
the waters of the Tweed, Richmond, and Clarence Rivers from
those of the Logan and Brisbane Rivers, westerly, to the great
dividing range between the waters falling to the east coast
and those of the River Murray; following the great dividing
range southerly to the range dividing the waters of
Tenterfield Creek from those of the main head of the Dumaresq
River; following that range westerly to the Dumaresq River;
and following that river (which is locally known as the
Severn) downward to its confluence with the Macintyre River;
thence following the Macintyre River, which lower down becomes
the Barwan, downward to the 29th parallel of south latitude,
and following that parallel westerly to the 141st meridian of
east longitude, which is the eastern boundary of South
Australia, together with all and every the adjacent Islands,
their members and appurtenances, in the Pacific Ocean: And do
by these presents separate from our said Colony of New South
Wales and erect the said territory so described into a
separate Colony to be called the Colony of Queensland.

And whereas We have by an Order made by Us in our Privy
Council, bearing even date herewith, made provision for the
government of our said Colony of Queensland, and we deem it
expedient to make more particular provision for the government
of our said Colony: Now know you, that We, reposing especial
trust and confidence in the prudence, courage, and loyalty
of you, the said Sir George Ferguson Bowen, of our especial
grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, have thought fit
to constitute and appoint, and do by these presents constitute
and appoint you, the said Sir George Ferguson Bowen, to
be, during our will and pleasure, our Captain-General and
Governor-in-Chief in and over our said Colony of Queensland,
and of all forts and garrisons erected and established, or
which shall be erected and established within our said
Colony, or in its members and appurtenances; And we do hereby
authorise, empower, require, and command you, the said Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, in due manner, to do and execute all
things that shall belong to your said command and the trust
We have reposed in you, according to the several powers,
provisions, and directions granted or appointed you by virtue
of our present Commission, and of the said recited Bill, as
amended by the said recited Act; and according to our Order
in our Privy Council, bearing even date herewith, and to such
instructions as are herewith given to you, or which may from
time to time hereafter be given to you, under our Sign Manual
and Signet, or by our Order in our Privy Council, or by Us,
through one of our Principal Secretaries of State; and
according to such laws and ordinances as are now in force in
our said Colony of New South Wales and its dependencies,
and as shall hereafter be in force in our said Colony of
Queensland.

2. And whereas it is ordered by our said Order, made by Us
in our Privy Council, bearing even date herewith, that there
shall be within our said Colony of Queensland a Legislative
Council and a Legislative Assembly, to be severally
constituted and composed in the manner in the said Order
prescribed; and that We shall have power, by and with the
advice and consent of the said Council and Assembly, to make
laws for the peace, welfare, and good government of our said
Colony in all cases whatever: And it is provided by the above
recited Act, that the provisions of the Act of the fourteenth
year of Her Majesty, chapter fifty-nine, and of the Act of the
sixth year of Her Majesty, chapter seventy-six, intituled,
"An Act for the Government of New South Wales and Van Diemen's
Land," which relate to the giving and withholding of Her
Majesty's assent to bills, and the reservation of bills for
the signification of Her Majesty's pleasure thereon, and the
instructions to be conveyed to Governors for their guidance
in relation to the matters aforesaid and the disallowance of
Bills by Her Majesty, shall apply to Bills to be passed by the
Legislative Council and Assembly constituted under the said
Reserved Bill and Act, and by any other Legislative body or
bodies which may at any time hereafter be substituted for
the present Council and Assembly: Now We do, by virtue of the
powers in Us vested, hereby require and command, that you do
take especial care that in making and passing such laws, with
the advice and consent of the said Legislative Council,
and Legislative Assembly, the provisions, regulations,
restrictions, and directions contained in the said Acts of
Parliament, and in Our said Order made in Our Privy Council,
bearing even date herewith, and in Our instructions under
Our Sign Manual, accompanying this Our Commission, or in such
future Orders as may be made by Us in Our Privy Council, or in
such further instructions under Our Sign Manual and Signet as
shall at any time hereafter be issued to you in that behalf,
be strictly complied with.

3. And whereas it is expedient that an Executive Council
should be appointed to advise and assist you, the said Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, in the administration of the Government
of our said Colony: Now We do declare Our pleasure to be, that
there shall be an Executive Council for Our said Colony, and
that the said Council shall consist of such persons as you
shall, by instruments to be passed under the Great Seal of our
said Colony in Our name and on our behalf, from time to time,
nominate and appoint, to be members of the said Executive
Council, all which persons shall hold their places in the said
Council during Our pleasure: But We do expressly enjoin
and require that you do transmit to Us, through one of Our
principal Secretaries of State, exemplifications of all such
instruments as shall be by you so issued for appointing the
members of the said Council.

4. And we do hereby authorise and empower you, the said Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, to keep and use the Great Seal of our
said colony for sealing all things whatsoever that shall pass
the Great Seal of our said colony.

5. And we do hereby give and grant to you, the said Sir George
Ferguson Bowen, full power and authority, by and with the
advice of the said Executive Council, to grant in Our name
and on Our behalf, any waste or unsettled lands in Us vested
within Our said Colony, which said grants are to be passed
and sealed with the Great Seal of Our said colony, and being
entered upon record by such public officer or officers as
shall be appointed thereunto, shall be effectual in law
against Us, Our heirs or successors: provided nevertheless,
that in granting and disposing of such lands you do conform to
and observe the provisions in that behalf contained in any
law which is or shall be in force within our said colony, or
within any part of our said colony, for regulating the sale
and disposal of such lands.

6. And we do hereby give and grant unto you, the said Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, full power and authority, as you shall
see occasion, in our name and on our behalf, to grant to any
offender convicted of any crime in any court, or before any
judge, justice, or magistrate within our said colony, a
pardon, either free or subject to lawful conditions or any
respite of the execution of the sentence of any such offender,
for such period as to you may seem fit, and to remit any
fines, penalties, or forfeitures which may become due and
payable to us, but subject to the regulations and directions
contained in the instructions under Our Royal Sign Manual
and Signet accompanying this our Commission, or in any future
instructions as aforesaid.

7. And We do hereby give and grant unto you, the said
Sir George Ferguson Bowen, full power and authority, upon
sufficient cause to you appearing, to suspend from the
exercise of his office, within our said colony, any person
exercising any office or place under, or by virtue of, any
Commission or Warrant granted, or which may be granted by Us,
or in Our name, or under Our authority, which suspension shall
continue and have effect only until Our pleasure therein shall
be made known and signified to you: And We do hereby strictly
require and enjoin you in proceeding to any such suspension,
to observe the directions in that behalf given to you by Our
present or any future Instructions as aforesaid.

8. And in the event of the death or absence of you, the
said Sir George Ferguson Bowen, out of Our said colony of
Queensland and its dependencies, We do hereby provide and
declare Our pleasure to be, that all and every the powers and
authorities herein granted to you shall be, and the same are
hereby vested in such person as may be appointed by Us,
by Warrant under Our Sign Manuel and Signet, to be Our
Lieutenant-Governor of our said colony, or in such person
or persons as may be appointed by Us, in like manner, to
administer the government in such contingency; or, in the
event of there being no person or persons within our said
colony so commissioned and appointed by Us as aforesaid, then
Our pleasure is, and We do hereby provide and declare, that in
any such contingency the powers and authorities herein granted
to you shall be, and the same are hereby granted to the
Colonial Secretary of our said colony for the time being,
and such Lieutenant-Governor, or such person or persons as
aforesaid, or such Colonial Secretary, as the case may be,
shall exercise all and every the powers and authorities
herein granted, until Our further pleasure shall be signified
therein.

9. And We do hereby require and command all our officers and
ministers, civil, and military, and all other the inhabitants
of our said colony of Queensland, to be obedient, aiding and
assisting unto you, the said Sir George Ferguson Bowen, or, in
the event of your death or absence, to such person or persons,
as may, under the provisions of this our Commission assume
and exercise the functions of Captain-General and
Governor-in-Chief of our said colony.

10. And We do declare that these presents shall take effect so
soon as the same shall be received and published in the said
colonies.

In Witness whereof we have caused these our Letters to be made
Patent. Witness Ourself at Westminster, the sixth day of June,
in the twenty-second year of Our Reign. By warrant under the
Queen's Sign Manual.

C. ROMILLY.

Given under my hand and Seal at Government House, Brisbane,
this tenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-third
year of Her Majesty's Reign.

(L.s.) G. F. BOWEN.

_By His Excellency's Command_,

R. G. W. HERBERT.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

PROCLAMATION

By His Excellency SIR GEORGE FERGUSON BOWEN, Knight Commander
of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St.
George, Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief of the Colony of
Queensland and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same,
&c., &c., &c.

WHEREAS Her Majesty has been graciously pleased, by Letters
Patent, under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the sixth
day of June, in the twenty-second year of Her Majesty's Reign,
to separate from the Colony of New South Wales the territory
described in the said Letters Patent, and to erect the same
into a separate Colony, to be called the Colony of Queensland,
and has further been pleased to constitute and appoint me,

SIR GEORGE FERGUSON BOWEN, _Knight Commander of the Most
Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George_,

to be Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief, in and over
the said Colony of Queensland and in Dependencies: Now,
therefore, I, the Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief,
aforesaid, do hereby proclaim and declare that I have
this day taken the prescribed oaths before His Honor,
Alfred James Peter Lutwyche, Esquire, Judge of the
Supreme Court, and that I have accordingly assumed the
said office of Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief.

Given under my hand and seal at the Government House,
Brisbane, this 10th day of December, in the Year of Our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, and in
the twenty-third year of Her Majesty's Reign.

(L.s.) G. F. BOWEN.

_By His Excellency's Command_,

R. G. W. HERBERT.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

_Government House,
Brisbane, 10th December, 1859._

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR will hold
a Levee at Government House, on
WEDNESDAY, December 14th, at 11 o'clock,
a.m.

_By Command_,
C. E. HARCOURT VERNON,
Commander, R.N., A.D.C.,

REGULATIONS FOR THE LEVEE.

All gentlemen attending the Levee, to be
dressed in uniform or evening costume.

Each gentleman to be provided with two
cards with his name legibly written thereon;
one card to be left in the Entrance Hall, and
the other to be given to the Aide-de-Camp.

_Colonial Secretary's Office,
Brisbane, 10th December, 1859._

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR has been
pleased to appoint

ROBERT GEORGE WYNDHAM HERBERT, ESQ.,

to be Colonial Secretary of Queensland.

_By His Excellency's Command_,
R. G. W. HERBERT.

_Colonial Secretary's Office,
Brisbane, 10th December, 1859._

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR has been
pleased to appoint

ABRAM ORPEN MORIARTY, ESQUIRE,

to be His Excellency's Acting Private Secretary.

_By His Excellency's Command_,
R. G. W. HERBERT.

_Colonial Secretary's Office,
Brisbane, 10th December, 1859._

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR has been
pleased to appoint

COMMANDER CHARLES EGERTON HARCOURT
VERNON, R. N.,

to be His Excellency's Acting Aide-de-Camp.

_By His Excellency's Command_,
ROBERT G. W. HERBERT.

_Colonial Secretary's Office,
Brisbane, December 10, 1859._

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR has been
pleased to appoint

RATCLIFFE PRING, ESQUIRE,

of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law, to be
Attorney-General of Queensland.

_By His Excellency's Command_,
ROBERT G. W. HERBERT.

BRISBANE: By Command: T. P. PUGH, Printer,
George Street.