Hand-Book for Emigrants to Queensland, Australia [Handbook]

40 pp. Color fold-out map precedes title page. This work was published just 26 years after Queensland became a self-governing Crown colony. Topics include geography of Queensland, climate, population, geology, natural history, history, pastoral employment, agriculture, pastoral and agricultural land regulations, mining, gold regulations, other minerals than gold, regulations for other minerals than gold, trade, Queensland tariff, manufactures and industries, politics, education and religion, labour, land orders, emigration, and more.