QUEENSLAND.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 18, 9 January 1863, Page 2

QUEENSLAND.

We have papers to the 13th ult., from Bris^f via Sydney. Lc<3] Landsbobough, the Explobee. — Acroi^V public meeting was held on the afternoon t|S- v Sthult., at the School of Arts, for the pufj> a of presenting Mr. Landsborough with an afeof from the people of this colony, expressive dgsi/. admiration of his distinguished services, (jpri chair was occupied by his Excellency Sir Bowen, who undertook the presentation o|pn address, and accompanied the act with reis^ highly laudatory of the tact and energy dispiW by Mr Landsborough. That gentle man reA ■» . in appropriate term?, expressing a very opinion of the capabilities of the counntry thriW which he had passed. In the evening, he;*"* entertained at dinner by the members o:-Vr Queensland Club, and on the following na^fiSfe he started for Gladstone. — Ghtardian. I?^M Cannibalism. — An iustauce of cannibalistic, the .Maryborough blacks is thus narrated is'jji Tooivoomba Chronicle of the 11th ult.:— fij-lc' are informed that a short time ago about^-v-i blackfellows assembled at the new boiliug-fei establishment of Mr J. C. Whyte, on the' }£?* b u-ough River, and appeared to exhibit a venPp friendly aspect. A body of the mounted pjjM; endeavoured to disperse them, but could OBpsf so by firing, in which encounter one of thetnpul killed. The following day a number of hisj'i^i panions were seen to return, cut up his bodj,<Ga then eat him." .. the The Separation Anniveesaey. — The i^-il anniversary of the separation of the colorgre Queensland from New South Wales was Celebris on the ]Oth ult. by a total cessation of bu- r'.^r] by all classes, and by a regatta ou the BrL^jj. River. h g Jeeked Beef. — Mr J. E. Blaxland hascffSt arrived in Brisbane, from New South Walesjgjj a view of starting an establishment for the .j^ paration of " charqui," or jerked beef, by a>S3 process. -y\