The woman on the riverbank. On Friday 6 July 1883, a group of boys rowing up the Brisbane River noticed a person lying on the riverbank at North Quay. They pulled over to check, and discovered that it was a young woman, who had clearly been dead for several days. The lads went to fetchContinue reading “A Disorderly House, a Fire and a Murder.”
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A Murder. A Deathbed Confession Years Later. Sound Familiar?
It’s a different, but equally terrible, story. The Stranger In the early evening of 19 June 1865, several women were followed about the streets of Toowoomba by a strange man. Some were violently assaulted. At 6:00 pm, Ann Ward was going out of the front door of her cottage in Perth Street when she noticedContinue reading “A Murder. A Deathbed Confession Years Later. Sound Familiar?”
How NOT to Win Friends and Influence People in Colonial Queensland – Part 2.
Dr. Cumming and Politics Toowoomba and Mr. Groom If there were factions in Ipswich society, they were completely outdone by the shenanigans taking place on the Darling Downs. Toowoomba and Drayton seethed at one another. Skirmishes took place in the correspondence pages of the Darling Downs Gazette, a new A.S. Lyons newspaper, which first issuedContinue reading “How NOT to Win Friends and Influence People in Colonial Queensland – Part 2.”
“Like the discharge of distant artillery.”
Earthquake at Toowoomba, 17 September, 1875 On 17 September 1875, residents of the Darling Downs city of Toowoomba, were shaken by an earthquake. No better explanation of the incident and its aftermath can be found than that of the Toowoomba Chronicle: No event that has occurred in Toowoomba for many years past created so muchContinue reading ““Like the discharge of distant artillery.””
Moreton Bay and More 