Books on CD-ROM > QUEENSLAND > Almanacs, Gazetteers and Directories > Gazetteer and Road Guide, 1876

		Price:	QTY:
Qld Gazetteer and Road Guide, 1876: CD Bailliere's Queensland Gazetteer and Road Guide, 1876, on CD-ROM 320 pages/searchable Just $40.00 (incl. GST and certified Australia Post postage and handling to anywhere in Australia). THIS important and rare 19th Century Queensland gazetteer is now offered as an inexpensive and searchable CD. It contains 'the most recent and accurate information on every place in the colony' in 1876 - a wealth of information for historians and genealogists. It will also interest the general reader with its many insights into the 19th Century Queensland and several thousand localities. There are entries for towns and villages, lakes, rivers and creeks, islands, bays, hills and mountains, runs and other localities and features. It often gives latitude and longitude, populations, proximity to other towns, local industries, services such as coach and mail runs, hotels, churches, schools and much more. After the main gazetteer there is a 66-page listing some 3,000 runs, with the pastoral districts in which they are situated, the names of their lessees, and the next post towns. A fuller description is given of those runs in the settled districts. Here's what the editor, Captain Robert P. Whitworth, writes in his introduction to this publication: IN conformity with the promise made some years ago of producing Gazetteers of the various Colonies in succession, the proprietors have much pleasure in presenting this, the fourth of the series, to the public, trusting that the care and attention with which it has been compiled will secure to it the same flattering reception as has been accorded to their previous works of like character. They are aware that there must, in dealing with such an extensive and ever-varying Colony as is that of Queensland, necessarily be some shortcomings; but these, by dint of sheer exertion, have been overcome so far as has been possible. Taught by previous experience, the Editor has, in preference to embodying the squatting information in the work itself, given it a special place at the end of the work, and here he must beg the consideration of readers, inasmuch as, with all his care and assiduity, he has been unable to fix, exactly, the locale of some of the runs in the unsettled districts. In all such cases, he has, however, given the nearest central post town, so that, for all practical purposes, the information will be found correct. With regard to the runs in the settled districts, it will be seen that the description is full and comprehensive. The Editor may be permitted to tender his sincere thanks to the following gentlemen who have personally, or by their influence, materially aided him in the compilation of the work:—The Hon. Wm, Hemmant, Treasurer and Acting Colonial Secretary; George Edmondstone, Esq., M.L.A.; His Honor Mr. Justice Lilley; H. H. Massie, Esq., Under Colonial Secretary; J. M'Donnell, Secretary Postal Department; W. L. G. Drew, Esq., Under Treasurer; W. A. Tully, Esq., Acting Surveyor-General; A. 0. Herbert, Esq., Under Secretary Public Works; George L. Lukin, Esq., Inspector of Mines; James Beal, Esq., Government Printer; L. A. Bernays, Esq., F.L.S.; W. Knight, Esq., Lithographic Department; Gresley Lukin, Esq.; G. Hall, Esq.; the various Postmasters throughout the Colony, and several other gentlemen. In conclusion, the Editor begs to point out that the spelling of many of the native names is, to a great extent, arbitrary, and that he has, therefore, as far as practicable, adhered to that form of orthography used in the public service. ROBERT P. WHITWORTH, Editor, Queensland Gazetteer. EXAMPLES OF ENTRIES - for a telegraphic station and small township... TENNINGERING (Co. Bowen) is a telegraphic station near Mount Perry, which see. Tenningering police district had, in 1875, 1253 horses, 44,401 horned cattle, 596 sheep and 361 pigs. CAAMBOON, or CAMBOON, 25° 1' S. lat., 150° 25' E. long. (Co. Ferguson),is a postal and telegraph township in the electoral district of Leichhardt lying on the main road from Brisbane to Rockhampton, and at the upper end of the Oxtrack creek, the River Dawson running 20 miles W.; the Delusion creek (permanent), 4 miles S.; the Six-mile creek (permanent), N.; and the Ten-mile creek (not permanent), S. All these creeks' have sandy bottoms. There is a surveyed but uninhabited township on the S. side of Oxtrack creek. The nearest townships are Woolton 14 miles N., Banana 50 miles N., Rawbelle 30 miles B., Redbank 40 miles S., and Taroom 90 miles W.; the communication being by horse or dray. Brisbane lies 432 miles S.E., the communication being by horse or dray vidRedbank and Hawkwood to Gayndah 135 miles, thence by coach to Dalby, and thence by train. Caamboon has one hotel, the Telegraph, and a post-office and telegraph station. The district is entirely pastoral, Caamboon being, in fact, the head-station of the Caamboon run. The surrounding country consists of fine open ironbark ridges, with undulating downs between, but about 5 miles W. of the township it becomes broken and rugged. The population numbers 20 persons; occasionally visited for the purposes of religious worship by clergymen of different denominations. The geological formation of the neighbourhood is granitic. Larger places have much more information. In addition this volume includes many advertisements, themselves giving an insight into Victorian-era Queensland. Note: the map published with the original is not available in this CD edition. The whole 320-page volume is searchable - names, places and any other words. This CD can be viewed by any computer using Adobe® Acrobat Reader™ (version 6 or later recommended). The data on this CD is completely self-contained, and requires no installation. System Requirements: Windows 95™ operating system or later with a CD-ROM drive. Also suitable for Macintosh™ or Unix™ operating systems.