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tive facility by passing from station to station. He adds that much of 

 the country traversed by the expedition between the Darling and Cooper's 

 Creek is already taken up, so that both sheep and cattle are now depas- 

 tured within 25 miles of Bullo, stretching thence easterly along the 

 Queensland boundary in an almost unbroken chain. These anticipations 

 are fully confirmed by the report of Mr. Landsborough, the Queensland 

 explorer. This gentleman, who has crossed the continent from Carpentaria 

 to Melbourne, gives the most favourable account of the pastoral capabilities 

 of the country which he traversed, and does not hesitate to express an 

 opinion that within twelve months the whole of it will be taken up by 

 settlers. We need not therefore hesitate to conclude, vni\i Sir Henry 

 Barkly, that ' the results attained by the expedition are of the very 

 highest importance, both to geographical science and to the progress 

 of civilization in Australia.' " 



APPENDIX II. (p. 131.) 



The following pathetic address, recently transmitted hyH. E. Sir George Grey to the Duke 

 of Newcastle, H. M. Secretary of State for the Colonies, for presentation to Her Majesty vn- 

 der her recent bereavement, also attests the deeply poetic vein that marks the Maori character. 



Oh Victoria, our Mother ! — We greet you ! You, who are all that 

 now remains to recall to our recollection Albert, the Prince_Consort, who 

 can never again be gazed upon by the people. 



We, your Maori children, are now sighing in sorrow together with 

 you, even with a sorrow like to yours. All we can now do is to weep 

 together with you. Oh, our good mother, who hast nourished us, your 

 ignorant children of this island, even to this day ! 



We have just heard the crash of the huge-headed forest tree which 

 has untimely fallen, ere it had attained its full growth of greatness. 



Oh, good lady, pray look with favour on our love. Although we may 

 have been perverse children, we have ever loved you. 



This is our lament. 



