This is an early history of the failed attempt to found the colony of North Australia at Gladstone, in what is now Central Queensland. (Summary by Timothy Ferguson)
Chapters
1 Prefatory note and introduction 8 min 2 The Genesis of the Gladstone Colony 38 min 3 The Constitution of the New Colony 15 min 4 Mr Gladstone Enunciates his Land Policy 17 min 5 The Founding of the Colony 33 min 6 The Veto of Earl Grey 31 min 7 The Vindication of Colonel Barney 11 min 8 The Growth and Development of Gladstone 31 min 9 The Experiences of a Pioneer Squatter 20 min 10 The Great Gold Rush 26 min 11 A Marvellous Wild-Goose Chase 23 min 12 The Host of Disappointed Diggers 41 min 13 The Correspondence of Sir Maurice O'Connell 35 min 14 A Grevious Error of Mr Gladstone's 55 min 15 Major De Winton - Oldest living Gladstonian 26 min 16 The Gladstone of To-Day 35 min 17 Mr Gladstone's True Principles of Colonisation 35 min 18 Mr Gladstone and the Colonies 1 h 2 min 19 A Couple of Colonial Lectures 30 min
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