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A few thousand pounds annually of additional ex- 

 penditure in the two directions I have indicated would 

 probably, in the course of a few years, return millions 

 to the colony ; while the complete development of the 

 fact, now in the infancy of its demonstration, would be 

 proportionately hastened — that Queensland is destined 

 to take rank among the greatest and the wealthiest of 

 England's colonies. 



