QUEENSLAND.
It is: refreshing to read of the delightfully easy way in which the Queenslanders can afford to take things. Thus we note that their new Assembly,'after having applied themselves to serious business; for one entire week, gave themselves a handsome holiday of another entire week to see the races. And even when the week was up there could not be mustered a quorum fit for: business! The only real bit of business they transacted, moreover, whilst they were at work, was voting an in. crease of, J&lsoo'a year to the Governor’s salary,—with the clear stipulation attached that his Excellency should render back a full equivalent to the joyous public in first-rate “spreads” and picnics. To which his Ex-cellency,—-like a right good jolly fellow as he is,—responds, that he accepts the increase and the stipulation, and pledges himself' to let the Queenslanders see hospitality of a kind that might fairly raise the envy of an old Irish king ! The general prosperity is amply shared in by’all classes. *
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 4, Issue 205, 23 August 1860, Page 4
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167QUEENSLAND. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 4, Issue 205, 23 August 1860, Page 4
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