"Mr. Oxley entered the public service at an early period of his life and has filled the important situation of Surveyor-General for the last sixteen years.
"His exertions in the public service have been unwearied, as has been proved by his several expeditions to explore the interior. The public have reaped the benefit, while it is to be apprehended that the event, which they cannot fail to lament, has been accelerated by the privations and fatigue he endured during the performance of these arduous services. Mr. Oxley eminently assisted in unfolding the advantages of this highly-favoured colony from an early stage of its existence, and his name will ever be associated with the dawn of its advancement. It is always gratifying to the Government to record its approbation of the services of meritorious public officers, and in assigning to Mr. Oxley's name a distinguished place in that class to which his devotion to the interests of the colony has so justly entitled him, the Government would do honour to his memory in the same degree as it feels the loss it has sustained in his death."
(See page 74.—Chapter II.)
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LIST OF THE MEN COMPRISING SIR THOMAS MITCHELL'S PARTY ON HIS EXPEDITION TO THE VICTORIA (BARCOO), 1846. * * * * *
Sir T. L. Mitchell, Kt., Surveyor-General—Chief of the Expedition.
Edmund B. Kennedy, Esq., Assistant Surveyor—Second in Command.
W. Stephenson, M.R.C.S.L—Surgeon and collector of objects of
natural history.
Peter M'Avoy, Charles Niblett, William Graham—Mounted videttes.
Anthony Brown—Tent-keeper.
William Baldock—In charge of the horses.
John Waugh Drysdale—Store-keeeper.
Allan Bond, Edward Taylor, William Bond, William Mortimer,
George Allcot, John Slater, Richard Horton,
Felix Maguire—Bullock-drivers.
James Stephens, Job Stanley—Carpenters.
Edward Wilson—Blacksmith.
George Fowkes—Shoemaker.
John Douglas—Barometer-carrier.
Isaac Reid—Sailor and chainman.
Andrew Higgs—Chainman.
William Hunter, Thomas Smith—With the horses.
Patrick Travers—Carter and pioneer,
Douglas Arnott—Shepherd and butcher.
Arthur Bristol—Sailmaker and Sailor.
Eight drays, drawn by eighty bullocks, two boats, thirteen horses, four private horses, and three light carts, comprised the means of conveyance, and the party was provided with provisions for a year; two hundred and fifty sheep (to travel with the party) constituting the chief part of the animal food. The rest consisted of gelatine, and a small quantity of pork.
(See page 105.—[Chapter IV.])
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RICHARD CUNNINGHAM's FATE.