Lists (None yet)

Login to create lists

Tagged (None yet)

Add Tags

Comments (None yet)

Add New Comment

2 corrections, most recently by LaurieRampling - Show corrections

ANOTHER OLD COLONIST GONE.

One by one the old pioneers who have   helped to make Queensland history, and have seen the colony grow from its small beginning into the important position it now holds among the Australian colonies, are passing away. Another of them has just

been claimed by death in the person of Mr. William Melton, who had attained the ripe old age of 80 years. He made his first ac-  

quaintance with Brisbane forty-seven years ago, having arrived in the barque Agrícola   in 1853. He at once settled down in South Brisbane, and has resided there ever since. In the earlier years he was employed with the late Captain T. Winship in assisting to build some of the first steamers which plied on the Brisbane River. Mr. Melton was a native of Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk. He has left behind him the aged helpmate of his life and a family of three sons and eight daughters and many grandchildren to mourn

their loss.    

Zoom

plus
thumb
minus
left
thumb
right
up
thumb
down