A Good Yarn
This is most likely a lie, but still it is not a bad yarn : In Lloyd's ot January JOth there was an enquiry for John and Thomas Collins, last heard of by relatives in London at Durham Downs, Queensland. The Brisbane Obseryer reprinted this, and thereby attracted the notice of a resident who knew both intimately This correspondent writes that about 1870 John Collins "camped at, an { hotel one night with his teams (bul ] lock waggons), and though a very , quiet, sober man, within a week hud made over bullocks, waggons, horses, banking account, in fact ; everything to the landlord, who had him then put in Woogaroo lunatic asylum." " This" continues the writer, " was at a bush hotel, 250 miles from Brisbane, so it did not make any stir."
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Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 23, 11 August 1892, Page 4
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132A Good Yarn Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 23, 11 August 1892, Page 4
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