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On 22 February 1928, Bert Hinkler touched down in Darwin after successfully completing the first solo flight between England and Australia, and in record breaking time, making the trip in only sixteen days.

From The Telegraph, Thursday 23 February, 1928:

HEROIC HINKLER

The world adores a brave man and a successful one. Lieutenant Bert Hinkler is both, and to-day he is the laurel-crowned hero of an aerial conquest that has literally set the world talking. Seventeen days ago he was in England.
Yesterday evening he landed on Australian soil an he had made the 10,500 miles journey by air under conditions which none but an exceedingly brave man would have faced.

He chose for his venture a diminutive monoplane in which there was no room for a companion, so that he had to be his own mechanic as well as pilot, and threw himself entirely on his own

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The Brisbane Courier
Wed 4 Oct 1871

Doughboy Creek
(From a Correspondent)

Sept 30.

After a series of preliminary flirtations, Pluvius precipitated himself upon this locality in the shape of a refreshing shower, and powdery roads and vacuous waterholes are temporarily invisible. There have been two long intervals of drought separated by a slight rainfall, and water for domestic purposes had, in many instances, to be carted from a considerable distance, so that this aqueous visitation has been very welcome. The clouds had been so long threatening to expend themselves that even the ominous procession of ark, purple masses from the north-west, together with the roll of distant thunder, failed to assure the most sanguine, until the pleasing certainty was drummed into our ears by noisy roofs – the patter of raindrops being sweeter music to us than the divinest of human strains. A place not far off, unlucky enough

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The Moreton Bay Courier
Tues 3 July 1860

Notes Made At Brisbane In Queensland
By An Invalid
(From the Melbourne Age, June 7)

Various circumstances, among which may be numbered a not over robust state of health, having rendered a residence in Queensland desirable, I very recently transferred myself and traps to Brisbane, the infant capital of that still long-coated colony. Being a stranger in the land, I have felt the time hang somewhat heavily on my hands, and, as a divertisement, I have written down a few notes on the place and its inhabitants which may supply some information to people at a distance; but whether they may be found to possess that merit or not – here at all events, they are:-

Various things soon make a visitor from Sydney to Brisbane aware that he has approached a few degrees nearer to the equator. He feels the atmosphere sensibily

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The Brisbane Courier
Sat 26 June 1886

CITY POLICE COURT
Friday 25 June

Before Mr. Pinnock, P.M.

DRUNKENESS – Four drunkards were discharged, and one was fined 5s, or six hours’ imprisonment – Margaret Marshall was fined £2, or forty-eight hours’ imprisonment.

Disorderly Conduct – Harry Fischer, for being disorderly on the Ipswich-road, was fined £2 or forty-eight hours’ imprisonment. – Ann M’Cormack, for using obscene language, was fined £3 or fourteen days’ imprisonment. There were forty-five previous convictions against the accused, making a conviction for each year of her life.

Vagrancy – John Kelly, 19 years of age, was charged with vagrancy. After hearing the evidence of Constable M’Quaker, the accused was given seven days’ notice to clear out of town.

Before Mr. W. H. Day, water police magistrate.

Larceny = Alexander Campbell, charged with the larceny of a clock, was discharged, to appear when called upon, owing to the

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