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administration. One of these was the late W. R. 

 Giblin, Premier for a time ; he was lost in such 

 a small community. Then there were some great 

 players in cricket. George Bailey, who came over 

 with the first Australian team; C. W. Butler, the 

 solicitor, played well enough to be in many inter- 

 nationals. " Rowley " Pope, who played occasionally 

 in visiting Australian teams and is now an eminent 

 oculist in Sydney, was a boy at school in Hobart and 

 I saw him frequently. They seemed to be able to get 

 any money for new cricket grounds or pavilions or 

 what not there, but money and incomes were not big, 

 and my few hundreds a year put me right in it until 

 betting on horses I hadn't seen — in other colonies — 

 made it no good. It is a glorious country, Tasmania, 

 and was too much endowed by Nature ever to be a 

 convict settlement. Those days, however, at Port 

 Arthur are in the dim distance, and should remain so, 

 and must never be a blot on the prestige of Australians 

 of several generations of high respectability. The 

 early history of our colonisation was all sad : two 

 hundred and fifty thousand natives in Tasmania when 

 we set foot there. The last, old Truganina, died just 

 before my time. Fighting, rum and blankets did it. 

 Another idea started in Hobart was a small pocket 

 diary and time-table issued at threepence a month. 

 It was the first unofficial guide published in Tasmania 

 and afterwards issued in Queensland. It was stuffed 

 full of errors with regard to the various times of stop- 

 ping at different stations, but at all events it had the 

 charm of novelty and paid a profit from the very first 

 number. The wall - advertising business was also 

 exploited in other colonies, now designated by the 

 more high-sounding title of '' States." 



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