QUEENSLAND.

Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 3, 19 May 1863, Page 2

QUEENSLAND.

( From the Rockhampton jjium EXTRAORDINARY GROWTH OF J Were not ocular demonstration! strong, we should hesitate to publ facts brought under our notice byl of the Laurel Bank Farm, in the I tural reserve of Hockhampton, ml . of his allegations as to the fertilitl { soil in that vicinity. It will be I bered that some time ago we cm attentiou of our readers to se«| cimens of sorghum grown by 1 We have now further to request! spection of additional specimens I third cutting of the same crop, 1 discriminate^ from an average I acres, and comprising plants si*l in height, and the growth of onll days. The imphee sugar-cane I still greater development in the si period, being seventeen feet i n {n| of fourteen pounds weight V§ v . _ stalk. A simple recourse to difj show this growth to give, in tfl| X the sorghum, an increment oil ? three-quarter inches daily, and 1 wi the imphee sugar cane three in<i cient proof at least of the fern»V unmanured soil in which it I W* In the early part of the seasoM had ten acres of land under • a oats, hut the excessive drougWJ XI them a failure, and in NoveiuwJ g acres of the same ground wer<| with maize, the remaining sis M' , — also devoted to that plant '-MV subsequently From the firsfT'B crop of from thirty-five to fotfl T I expected ; and from the six* ± planted, and favored by the ' S W —- average exceeding fifty bushels • - - confidently looked for by MfJ I ) from one cob, picked at rando"* Tim] 800 golden grains of the Amen* In addition to these » ta P'*^i products, Mr. Orr has suppa^ -with, no small quantity of the mtables, and looks forward, *W matured experience as to tWB. q^

I for planting, to removing to a very < liderable extent the complaints engen--Id by the Jiitheftd almost total want of Uen prodiice. ' : he BLACics.-^tliere seems to be guile ruption of thi combative propensities he aborigines in the neighborhood of > ibane^itst at present. We hear of y i hed MBles and combats, even to death t hin a tfiile or two of the city. This ■ f furnish a fcertain kiltf of amusement 'eople W itejjard a fight among the jksmtlcii as they would a dog fight. we arb inclined to" take a more serious ir of the matter, and we are sure that \i scenes can. and ought to be prevented the modrited police, two or three of am, we believe, might ptifc an end to all : j rioting. . . „ , cab in SriEEi*. — A b.ill (intjrdduded ri!2l)to further provide against the oduction of scab and plher diseases in ep, enacts tW, "i. It Bhall be lawfor the Governor, with the advice of Executive Council, front time to time, proclamation, to prohibit or restrict the i* [oduclion or importation of sheep into "^ colony of Queensland or into any dist thereof from such places and during h time and upon stich conditions as y appear necessary, and any such proImation to suspend, alter, or revoke by Isimilar proclamation ; " and that "2 tery such proclamation shall within days after the date thereof be Wished twice in the Government Gazette 1 on the day after such second publiion shall have the full^ force of law. id every such proclamation shall forthth be laid before both Houses of the rliament if then sitting and if not then I thin fourteen days after the commencemt of the next session." /Vrktval oe thk Colonial Secketary. The signal gun of the Telesraph, yesterv\ attracted a crowd of people to the A. N. Co.'s wharf, to witness the landing the Hon. R. G. W. Herbert, who arred by lhat steamer, which also brought ) our English mails from Sydney. A r<re proportion of 'the assemblage conit^d of members of the Civil Service ; id prominent amongst those who were rst to welcome the Colonial Secretary was c Hon. Arthur MacaliMer, the Minister r Lnnn*s and Works. There was no fnrer demonstration ; and Mr. Herbert like successful Iraveller, was not to he derrpd by the novelty of the occasion fmm oldng cnrefully after his lu?erasre. The on. gentleman appear^ to be in robust ealth, doubtless th« effect of breathing for while his native air. The Burnett Arausnf 13th inst. says :— Arpv» mobs of cat.tl* have passed through ie district during the past week, we premie for the north. Last week, Mr. Atori, of Teehar, sold to Mr. John Edsirds, of Ran Ban, 9000 sheep mixed, at Is per head, half weaners gven in, cash. !r. T). M. .Tones, of Rnonera. also disposed I* to Mr. Edwards 2000 mniden ewes, two nd a-haifvearsold. selected by the purcha>r out of the whole of the sheep of the app, nd 1000 ewes three arid a-half yeivs old, ' 163. Mr. Edwirds ha* sold 2000 head f cattle, one and two years old, at 30s, to c delivered on Ban Ban in all April.