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Pugh's Almanac and Directory, 1895: CD Pugh's 1895 Almanac and Directory for Queensland, on CD-ROM 974 pages/searchable Just $55.00 (incl. GST and certified Australia Post postage and handling to anywhere in Australia). A VERY rare publication that really is fascinating, and a must for the library of any researcher with ancestral roots in colonial Queensland. This Pugh's Almanac and Queensland Directory for 1895 has nearly 1,000 pages divided into three sections. Part One consists of advertisements, an index to ports and harbours, an  index to postal and other routes and the almanac and directory. The almanac lists each day of the year with an event that happened on that day in the past (eg. 9 Jan 1889 - Pugh's office destroyed by fire;  30 Jan 1649 - Charles I beheaded, 11 Feb 1856 - Melbourne Public Library opened. Here's an extract... REVIEW OF THE YEAR. "THE retrospect of 1894, while embracing quite sufficient of troubles and disasters, happily does not present anything like the lamentable picture which had to be drawn of the previous twelve months in the shape of severe drought in the far west and north, with all its attendant loss, misery and wretchedness to man and beast; unprecedented floods on the southern coast, carrying devastation through our most thickly populated centres; and almost complete paralysis pf commerce consequent upon the banking crisis. True, the drought — the most severe since 1887, its victims numbering hundreds of thousands of sheep and many thousands of other stock — extended somewhat into the year, for although heavy rains' fell in patches in January and February, it was not until the end of the latter month that the welcome news was flashed along the wires "Drought broken up"—yet the remainder of the year has wen a fruitful one. As usual when rain came it fell in torrents, and in the early days of March the headings of the reports from the north and west ran:—"Flooded rivers; the Warrego a swim ; Thompson five miles wide", and so on, and in a few weeks feed was plentiful everywhere. Nor have we been free from floods, the north »emg the sufferer this time. Early in February heavy rains and gales set in in the neighbourhood of Townsville and continued for two or three weeks with slight intermissions, the belt affected extending from Mackay to above Cairns, about 300 miles of coast line, and westward to the slopes on the ranges. The principal rivers were soon in high flood. About the 7th the water was forty feet over the Macrossan. The bridge (low level) in the Burdekin, railway connection with Charters Towers being blocked for several days. Considerable damage was done at Townsville by the flooding of Boss Creek; same at Cairns by the overflow of the Barren, people on the banks having to be rescued in boats. A somewhat similar condition of things existed at Geraldton, on the Johnstone, but Ingham, on the Lower Herbert, suffered most severely, the greater part of the town being submerged; bridges were carried away, heavy damage done to property, and worst of all, several deaths from drown were reoorded. Strange to say the flood waters in these places had scarcely subsided when a second visitation equal to, if not more severe than the first followed, doing further damage, Ingham district being again most heavily hit. This was the experience in Brisbane during the last big flood. There has been some exceptionally heavy weather on our coast also, and the shipping casualties have been more numerous and important than for many previous years..." Part Two lists ports and harbours, and the "men of the time". This section gives biographies of hundreds of men in Queensland in 1895. Also included in this section are imports and exports listings, colonial governments and then the indexes relating to Part Three, "Queensland Directory for 1895". The directory part of the publication is in Part Three which consists of the City of Brisbane Directory, Trades and Professions (listed alphabetically by occupation), the Directory of Country Towns (listed alphabetically by town or suburb), and the Alphabetical Trades and Professional Directory of Queensland (listed alphabetically by name), and more advertisements. High quality scanned images of the whole of the original book. Information about the towns and settlements up in the county areas. Its inhabitants by name and address, together with their occupations. 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.