Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
“Away Down South”
(From A Correspondent).
Pimpama, August 10 – Very little concerning the doings in this thriving neighborhood appears in your columns, but perhaps a few remarks will not be out of place. It is little use commenting upon the state of the weather or the crops, for we all know how sharp the frosts have been, so I will, with your permission, cut that subject short until it gets warmer.
I am very glad to find that selectors are at last mustering courage to explore the upper regions of this and the Hotham river, where an abundance of good land is to be had. There have been a good many homesteads and some larger blocks taken up lately, and I trust that in the course of two or three years, this will be as flourishing a district as any in the colony ; but of course,