PRINCESS CHARLOTTE BAY RIVERS 639 



KENNEDY RIVER AND TRIBUTARIES 



KENNEDY RIVER (MAPS G AND E) from lat. 15 37' S. and long. 

 143 55' E., via the infall of the St. George River (lat. 15 32' S. 

 and long. 144 i' E.) to its junction with the Normanby River. 1 



ST. GEORGE'S CREEK [Sheets i8C and 2oA, Queensland 4-mile 

 Map] from lat. 15 42' S. and long. 144 5' E. to its junction with 

 the Kennedy River. 



NORTH KENNEDY RIVER AND TRIBUTARIES 

 From lat. 15 12' N. and long. 144 5' E. via the infall of 

 Station (Warner's) Creek (lat. 14 51' S. and long. 144 6'E.) and 

 the infall (lat. 14 49' S. and long. 144 5' E.) of the branch whose 

 " outfall " from the Normanby has already been referred to ; to 

 its mouth in Princess Charlotte Bay (lat. 14 30' S. and long. 

 144 2'E.). (SEE MAP E.) This mouth, Mr. Embley informs 

 me, is quite a respectable inlet, capable of accommodating small 

 craft. 



The NORTH KENNEDY is the seaward prolongation of THERRIM- 

 BURI CREEK (also surveyed by Mr. Embley), on which a station 

 named Koolburra was taken up by Henry Jones in 1884. I 

 would suggest the application of the name Therrimburi to the 

 whole of the water-course from its source to the Bay. The name 

 North Kennedy is in any case an unhappily chosen one, as the 

 river lies west, not north of the Kennedy. The elimination of 

 even one of the numerous and confusing " Kennedy " rivers 

 would in itself be a gain. 



Mr. Embley also surveyed THERRIMBURI CREEK (although he 

 did not know it by that name) from its head in " Osmer No. 3 " 

 block (lat. 15 32' S. and long. 143 56' E.) to near the north-east 

 corner of " Koolburra No. 4 " block. 



STATION CREEK. This well-watered creek, or river, was traversed 

 by Mr. Embley, he informs me, from the southern boundary of 

 ' Walwa Plains No. 5 " block (lat. 15 5' S. and long. 143 57' E.) 

 to its junction with the so-called North Kennedy River at Walwa 

 Station. This station was taken up by Grandison Watson in 1881, 

 but it was afterwards abandoned and the cattle taken to Merluna 

 Downs. There are several hundreds of creeks in Queensland 

 bearing the^silly name of " Station Creek." In this case, should 

 a really distinctive name be called for, I suggest the restoration of 



1 The first pastoral holding in this region was taken up by Donald Mackenzie at 

 Lakefield on the Kennedy River (lat. 14 55' S.) in 1881. Mackenzie was very friendly 

 to the blacks when he first took up the station, and consistently protected them from 

 injury by white men. In 1882, when he was dressing the sore back of a horse, a native 

 sauntered up, chanting a corroborree air, and speared him through the body. He got 

 over this ; but many years afterwards, when his men were out mustering cattle and 

 he was left alone in his garden, a party of natives came up suddenly and clubbed him to 

 death. (Note by Mr. Embley.) 



J Jones was afterwards shot dead bv a young black boy who had been with him from 

 childhood (Vide. J. T. Embley). 



