Contents

1. Front matter Dedication 288 words
2. Front matter Acknowledgements 224 words
3. Front matter Preface 1,544 words
4. Front matter Introduction 3,456 words
5. Chapter One Over the Seas and Over the Land 6,121 words
6. Chapter Two Life in the New World 15,988 words
7. Chapter Three An Alderman of Maryborough 10,071 words
8. Chapter Four A Time to Move On 11,399 words
9. Chapter Five Setbacks and Achievements 13,253 words
10. Chapter Six The Mount Perry Railway Line 11,735 words
11. Chapter Seven An Alderman of Bundaberg 9,429 words
12. Chapter Eight Colonial Politics Intrude 13,095 words
13. Chapter Nine Consolidation and Development 7,686 words
14. Chapter Ten A Tale of Two Elections 15,239 words
15. Chapter Eleven Irrigation and a Flood 9,840 words
16. Chapter Twelve A Show and a Recession 12,422 words
17. Back matter Epilogue 2,257 words
18. Back matter Bibliography 220 words
19. Appendix 1 A List of Early Colonial Queensland Premiers 207 words
20. Appendix 2 The Sugar Mill Machinery at Yengarie 912 words
21. Appendix 3 Results of the "New Bundaberg" Auction 451 words
22. Appendix 4 Sir Thomas M'Ilwraith's Election Speech 1,650 words
23. Appendix 5 The Indian and Colonial Exhibition of 1886 2,661 words
24. Appendix 6 Pacific Island Trade — Revised Regulations 4,928 words
25. Back matter Note on the Text 0 words

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