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Others speedily followed. In 1841 a succession of 

 pioneer squatters settled on the Darling Downs. " Joe " 

 King and Sibley sat down on another affluent of the 

 Condamine, and formed King's Creek station. Hodgson 

 and Elliot were the next, and they settled Etonvale. 

 Hughs and Isaac took up Gowiie, Henry Stuart Russell 

 Cecil Plains, Dennis the small, but rich, Jondaryan, 

 while he also took up Dathy, on Myall Creek, for Charles 

 Coxen and Warra for Irving. Henry Dennis found for 

 R. Scougall " the huge Jimbour run and three others." 

 The Gores occupied Yandalla and Tummavillc — two 

 large principalities that were as big as English counties. 

 So that by 1844 as many as thirty stations had been 

 formed on the Darling Downs.* 



All through the forties, in the fifties, and early sixties, 

 successive waves of occupation flowed over Queensland, 

 floMdng past existing stations and pressing on into 

 unoccupied country, settling great tracts of it and 

 necessitating the opening of fresh ports further north 

 on the east coast and in the Gulf of Carpentaria. 



Leaving his partner Taylor on Cecil Plains, H. S. 

 Russell pushed further on and was in 1843 the first to 

 settle — he and Glover — on the Brisbane River ; they 

 were soon followed by others. Then John Eales, from 

 the Hunter River, was the first to settle in Wide Bay. 

 The Joneses, afterwards well-loiown in the soft-goods 

 line in Sydney, were among the first to cross over the 

 Brisbane Range. f 



When pack bullocks wended their way through 

 Cunningham's Gap with supplies for the squatters, 

 settlement began below the range. Two former super- 

 intendents of convicts took up Grantham and Tenthill 

 \ni\\ Helidon. A dozen pioneers settled on the Upper 

 Brisbane. Settlement on the Lower Brisbane, or on the 

 Logan, was precluded by the Government prohibition to 

 settle within fifty miles of the penal station, at Moreton 



* Babtley, Pioneering, pp. 203-4 and ch. viii. Edwaud 

 Palmer, Early Days. 

 I Palmer, ibid. 



