THE QUEENSLAND FLAG.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2534, 19 February 1877, Page 3

THE QUEENSLAND FLAG.

All we wanted was a flag. We are a great country. We extend from sea to fiea. We likewise extend from shore to shore. We rise gradually to the top of Mount Lindsay, and we do not see how it can be disputed that we extend downward to the centre of the earth. We are a great country. We own a considerable segment of the tropic of Capricorn. We Have four cardinal points and two bishops. We are trebly privileged in the matter of 2on.es—^temperate zone, torrid zone, and ozone. We have a lot of climates, and water-sheds, and rain-gauges, and things like that. Moreover it is to be remarked that we are a great country. We have the Barcoorot, the marsupial plague, and Walsh. We have an advantageous position, and a rampageous Opposition. We have snakes, and crocodiles, and the "Evangelical Standard," and bushy-tailed rats. We have politics, lunatics, and sheep-ticks. It is further to be observed that we are a great country. We have population, legislation,: immigration, and separation. We have a Governor and a King. We have bananas, Pecheys, Thorns, and Lilleys. We have the requisite amount of Smiths and Browns. We have a destiny ; before us; that is to say, coming after us. We have all the elements of development and mineralogy. We have a great deal more, but we have just been, reading that brain work after a. full meal draws all the blood from the stomach. But what we particularly wished to in■inuate was that we are a great country. All we wanted was a flag, and we have got it at last. We are not going to criticise the selected emblazonment. We had no ancestors ourselves, and our heraldry was neglected., We know that azure is the hue of our usual Christmas look-out, : and that is about all. As for argent, we hardly even know the colour of it; and .when it comes to wrestling with a " Queen'sl crown proper," we simply beg to state that brainwork after a full meal draws the stomach up to the cerebrum, or something to that effect. We cannot: (or;;dare not) verify the passage/as our spouses are reading the book, and are 'constitutionally.cantankerous after a full meal. We have just awakement enqugh left to ast why does not Mr J. (pourqoi J. always ?—we all know it's plain James) Brunton Stephens give us an ode, or a hymnVor a psalm, or something, on the subject? It is a great event—much greater than the exhibition. The latter is of the things which perish with the using; but our azure Maltese on a cross Queen's proper argent crown is meant to last for ever, sir. The meteor-flag of Queensland shall yet terrific burn! et cetera. We feel as if we could do it ourselves. But beware, sir. In agonising after a rhyme for "flag" avoid "lag," as you would . avoid mashed potatoes. It might be insidious, you know. We mean to say, invidious; but brainwork after —a —full -r- meal. — " Specialities "in the Queenslander.