Pughs Alman-Dir Queensland 1862
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0 0 PUGH'S QUEENSI. AND ALMANAC,I DIRECTORY, AND FOR 1862, Being the Second after Bissextile , or Leap Year. FOURTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION. BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND: Printed and Published by Tn0OPHILUS P. PUGH, at the "Courier" General Printing Office, George Street , and Sold Wholesale by 7. MILLAR,Bookseller , Queen Street. Price , 3s. 6d. 0 0 This is a blank page CONTENTS. Articles of the Calendar, &c. ... The Calendar ... ... ... Law Calendar... ... ... ... Gardening Calendar ... ... Government Departments Municipal Councils Commissionof the Peace Ministers of Religion ... ... ... Banking Establishments ... Newspapers ... ... ... Registration of Births , &c. ... ... MeteorologicalObservations Trade Returns ... ... ... Tariff ... ... ... ... Electric Telegraph Signal Sta on ... Portsts an arbours-Sailing Directions s ... Postal Information ... Pastoral and Agricultural ... Table for Measuring Log Timber ... County Directory ... ... Table of Distances ... ... ... iv List of Acts of Queensland Parliament ... ... 141 Synopsis of the Real Property Act ... ... 145 r QUE ENSLAND Lean Am:- Occupation of Unoccupied Lands ... ... ... 153 Tenders Regulation Act... ... ... ... 168 Alienation of Crown Lands Act .. .. ... 172 Crown Lands Leasing Act ... ... .. 181 SKETCH OF QUEENSLAND :- Introduction 5 I.-Geographical Position and Extent ... .. 16 II.-Population: how distributed ... .. 18 III.-Situation , &c., of Chief Towns ... ... 23 IV.-Form of Government ... ... .. 28 V.-Laws and Municipal Institutions ... ... 32 VI.-Education and Religion ... ... ... 37 VII.-Capabilities of the Soil, &c. ... 45 VIII.- Climate ... ... ... .. .. 58 IX -Management of Public Lands ... .. 62 X -Immigration Regulations ... .. ... 69 VI -Trade and Revenue ... ... .. 74 XII.-Employment of Labor ... .. .. 77 XIII.-Miscellaneous ... ... ... ... 79 Appendix .-{ Analysis of the Census ) ... .. 84 ADyEBT[sEMENTs. THE MAP OF QUEENSLAND. SEEisuthe advantage to the public likely to re sult from the addition of a carefully compiled Map of Queensland to this Almanac, the Proprietor has gladly availed himself of local talent and ingenuity forthe gratificationof hiswishes. Although a small and perhaps seemingly insignificant affair to those who have been accustomed to the more matured and elaborate productions of the mother country , the Proprietor believes himself entitled to assert that a more complete production of the kind was never yet produced in the colonies . The Map has been compiled by Mr. HAM, the well-known publisher of "HAM'S Squatting Map of Victoria ," issued in 1845, but who is now settled in Brisbane ; and it should be a matter of self congratulation with Queenslanders that a work has been produced here surpassing all publications of the kind ever yet issued in Australia . It has been engraved, printed, and colored, by the process of chromo-lithography (now for the first time used in this colony), by Messrs. T. HAMand Co., of this city. In its compilation the most recent surveys and commissioners' maps have been examined ; all the published maps extant have been compare d with it ; and several important additions and revisions have been made by the Surveyor-Generalof thiscolony, A. C. Gamosv , Esq., the well known explorer. Referring to the Map itself , the reader will see that many grave errors, existing in the best and latest productions of Aaaowsarrn, Wvr,o, Courox, and others , are corrected, and that many additions have been made which will be both interesting and valuable to the geographical student . It will, for instance , be of interest to observe that the course and outlet of the great river Burdekin - about which so much discussion has been wasted-is at last ascertained and laid down correctly , it having been found that the river does not dis- charge itself into the sea by a number of embouchures, forming a "delta," but that its main outlet is the stream formerly known and laid down on the maps as the Wickham. The position and course of its most recently discovered tributaries-the Bonner and Rolles- ton-are also laid down ; and the new settlement at Port Denison- the most recent effort of Australian colonization - for the first time finds place in a published map of the Colony. The whole of the counties are defined ; the boundaries of the various watersheds, and vi the course of the different rivers and creeks, are laid down ; as are also the Electric Telegraph lines, the route, as surveyed , of the pro- posed Tramroad, and all the different inland mail routes. The boundaries of the great squatting districts are for the first time published in a form to be relied upon, and the vast extent of the pastoral and agricultural country still unoccupied, will at once strike the most casual observer- millions of acres, fitted for pastoral pursuits, being as yet untrodden by the foot of civilized men. The "debate- able territory ," as it may still be called, of the Clarence and Richmond, is introduced, and also the westward country lying between the 138th and 141st meridians of longitude . This latter addition will be found to be all the more interesting , because of the introduction of the outward and homeward routes of the ill-fated Bum and Wuas Expedition . The outward track is laid down from the diary kept by those lamented men, and from a map recently issuedfrom the SurveyOffice, in Melbourne, but the returnroute- which will be seen to embrace a large extent of valuable Queens- land territory , and to cross the heads of the river Thomson-is now published for the first time from information locally acquired. The "p resent" and the "proposed" western boundaries of the colonyare inserted in order to givean ideaof thevaluable extent of country which would accrue to Queensland by such an extension of her frontier, more especially on the northern seaboard. It has even been admittedby the pressof New South Wales thatno other colony has a better claim than Queensland to the territory in question , and certainly no other Australian province would be in a betterposition to render availablethe valuablelands bordering the head of the Gulf of Carpentaria. As the engraved plate of the Map is now the property of the Proprietor of the Queensland Almanacs , it is his intention to issue it with this publication year by year, with all possible additions and corrections, so that,after a seriesof years,the successivecopies issued will in themselves form an interesting index of the progress of Queensland exploration and settlement . In order to ensure cor- rectness, the Proprietor will be glad to receive communications or information from our pioneer squatters or explorers , which communi- cations may be addressed to him personally, or to Messrs. Hai & Co., his engravers. THE SKETCH OF QUEENSLAND. IN compliance with a suggestion made to him, the Proprietor has caused the above to be printedin such a manner as to form a separate work, complete in itself, if any one should be desirous of preserving it. It will also be as well to remark here that the Sketch has been thoroughly revised , and for the most part re-written, so that the information contained therein will be fuund to be the latest possiblyobtainable. This is a blank page PUGH'S ALMANACAND DIRECTORY FOR 1862. ARTICLESOF THE CALENDAR. ECLIPSES. Is the year 1862 there will be three Eclipses of the Sun, and two of the Moon, neither of which will be visible here. I,-A Total Eclipse of the Noon, June 11th, 1862. II -A Partial Eclipse of the Sun, June 26th, 1862. III,-A Partial Eclipse of the Sun, November 21st, 1862. IV,-A Total Eclipse of the Moon, December 5th, 1862. V,-A Partial Eclipse of the Sun, December 20th, 1862, NOTESFOR THE CALENDAR. The Moon's Age is given at noon, and is the mean time elapsed since the Moon's ecliptic conjunction with the Sun, or since the Sun and Moon had the same longitude . The numbers in the " Moon's Age" column are calculated for Brisbane , and are expressed in days and decimal parts of a day. Ti lla difference in time between high water at the Bar and Brisbane is one hour ; between Brisbane and Ipswich , three hours . This applies as a general rn:e, but the actual time of high water is frequently influenced by strong northerly and easterly gales, and violent freshes in the river. When the Sun is south of the Equator , the day tides in the southern hem i- sphere are the highest ; when north of the equator, the night tides are highest . These changes w il l take place about the second or third spring tide after the sun has crossed the Equinox . The day tides will be the highest until the first spring tide in April, when the night tides will take precedence until the new moon in October , after which the day tides w il l again take precedence. *A 2 JANUARY, 31 DAYS. TEMPERATIIRE ( 1861.) t Mean Maximum shade .............. 86.9 Mean Temperature ..................76• Greatest diurnal range 31.4 (from 55• to 86.4) Mean diurnal range .. 21.9 Summer is now fairly set in ; weather hot and oppressive, often with rain squalls, thunder , and lightning. .. OCCURRENCES, &C. a r - [1853. 1 W Government Resident first appointed at Moreton Bay, 2 Th Queensland Electorates proclaimed , 1860 .-K ing of 3 F [Prussiadied, 1861. 4 5 $ Proclamation of first New South Wales Constitution 6 M Epiphany . [ Act, 1843. 7 8 W First general Public Meeting held in B ri sbane in favor 9 Tb [of Separation, 1851. 10 F Heavy floods at Ipswich, 1844. 11 12 13 M Criminal Sittings, Toowoomba. 14 T First transpo rt s reached Botany Bay, 1788. 15 16 Th Civil sittings , Toowoomba. 17 F Highest flood known in Brisbane and Ipswich, 1841. 18 19 20 21 T Ship Fortitude arrived at Moreton Bay, 1849. 22 W Sir W. Denison left New South Wales for Madras, 23 Th [1861. 24 25 26 $ Anniversaryof New South Wales, founded 1788.- 27 M [Steam communication first opened up between 28 T [Sydney and Brisbane, 1842.