The 1880s started with a boom in Palmerston and the Top End. South Australian investors flocked to put their money into gold mines, sugar and coffee plantations, and the pastoral industry. Cattle stations bigger than a British county were carved out of the bush. The Overland Telegraph Line stretched across the continent, and the Top End was alive with Aborigines, explorers, agriculturalists, pastoralists, and reef miners. Then came the railway builders, pearl divers, Chinese 'Coolies', and 'misfits, missionaries and mercenaries'.
The story of Palmerston (Darwin) and the Top End in the 1880s is a story of murder and mayhem, fortunes won and lost, challenges taken up, tragedies unfolded, and golden opportunities grasped by extraordinary men and women. It was they who began to turn this remote area of Australia into what it is today, and they who forged a new Australian identity - that of the 'Territorian'.
With a foreword by His Honour the Honourable Austin Asche AC QC, the 13th Administrator of the Northern Territory.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Acknowledgements
- Books by Derek Pugh
- Contents
- Table of maps
- Timeline: Palmerston’s second decade: the 1880s
- Maps
- Foreword
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Settlement
- Gallery: Changes in the camp
- Chapter 2. A Chinese territory
- Chapter 3. On the Overland Telegraph Line
- Chapter 4. The South Australian parliamentary visit of 1882
- Chapter 5. Gilbert Rotherdale McMinn
- Chapter 6. Drovers
- Chapter 7. Murders and massacres
- Chapter 8. Port Darwin
- Chapter 9. The Palmerston-Pine Creek Railway
- Chapter 10. Judge Thomas Kennedy Pater
- Chapter 11. The Government Gardens
- Chapter 12. Sugar
- Chapter 13. The South Australian Parliamentary visit of 1888
- Chapter 14. The hanging of Wandy Wandy
- Chapter 15. Larrakia
- Chapter 16. Jesuit missions
- Chapter 17. Top end explorers of the 1880s
- Chapter 18. And now?
- Gallery
- Chapter 19. Towards the ’nineties
- Table of images
- Abbreviations
- Selected L.A.N.T. records / N.T.R.S 790
- Bibliography
- Index
- Further reading
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