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Title: Reminiscences of Queensland
1862-1869

Author: William Henry Corfield

Release Date: October 30, 2008 [EBook #27099]

Language: English

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Reminiscences
of Queensland
1862-1899.

BY

W. H. CORFIELD.

BRISBANE:
A. H. FRATER,
INNS OF COURT, ADELAIDE STREET.

1921

Printed by
H. Pole & Co. Limited,
Elizabeth Street, Brisbane.

To the Men and Women of the North
and West.

To those who Blazed the Trail, and to
those who Followed.

FOREWORD

The reasons for this book are as follow:--Whilst
talking over early days with Mr. Courtenay-Luck,
the popular Secretary of the Commercial Travellers'
Club, that gentleman suggested that I should write
a paper, to be read at a meeting of the Historical
Society of Queensland.

In writing that paper, so many long-forgotten
men, places and incidents came back to memory
that I thought my reminiscences might prove
interesting to others. I may be occasionally incorrect
in dates, or in the sequence of events, but I relate
facts and personal experiences. As they are, I leave
them to the kind consideration of readers.

W. H. CORFIELD.

_Sandgate,
October, 1920._

Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1899.

CHAPTER I.

As it is in the blood of most Englishmen from the "West Country" to seek
adventure abroad, it is little wonder that the visit of an uncle from
Australia strengthened a desire I felt to seek my fortune in that
country. This uncle--H. C. Corfield--was the owner of some pastoral
country in the Burnett district, and described in glowing terms life in
the Australian bush. I might say