Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
The Deserted Homestead.
This story was sent by Grace Merchant, of 98 Bar Beach Avenue, Newcastle, N.S.W.:-
It was a queer looking place, situated in one of the lonely parts of Northern Queensland, and was said to have been a homestead, in which an old man and his wife lived. They had closed it up quite suddenly one day and went away, unseen by the inquisitive people of the neighbouring farms, and that’s why they all said it was haunted.
Around the homestead frail looking sheds and stables stood. Once, these had been used for horses, but now the mice happily nibbled at the corn cobs that lay strewn about the floor, and birds built their nests under the roof.
When the wind blew it added to the people’s fears for it made moaning sounds, and rattled the chains in the stables, and startled the curlews, who cried out