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MORETON DISTRICT.

THE IMMORTAL "COOK"PROPOSED MONUMENT TO CAPTAIN COOK AT BRISBANE

Early in the reign of George third, expeditions of Science and discovery were sent forth under the command of Captain Cook the celebrated navigator. He discovered the magnificent Bay & Port of Moreton on the 16th May 1770. It has lately been suggested that a monument be erected to his memory at Brisbane in the County of Stanley.
Captain James Cook, R.N., the celebrated navigator and discoverer was born at Morton, Yorkshire 27th October, A.D. 1728 and Killed at the Sandwich Islands, 14th February, 1779.
It may seem strange that the name of the great navigator should have been allowed to remain almost without a memorial or a trace throughout the vast and wealthy land of gold which he gave to the British Empire. This stigma is now likely to be removed by the inhabitants of the land he named after his native place.

SALE OF TWO BALES OF MORETON BAY COTTON

SYDNEY 30TH SEPTEMBER 1854.

This week has been productive of an event which (trifling as it was in its immediate monetary results) is one which must be regarded as most important, and one which may be chronicled with more than ordinary interest. We allude to the public sale by Messrs Mort & Co, of two bales of New South Wales cotton wool, grown in the district of Morton Bay. This product was declared by experienced persons to present a highly favourable sample; free from seed, and of a fair Staple. The price obtained was two shillings per lb. We may remark, that the latest quotations from England for the best Sea Island cotton of the United States was two shillings & three pence per lb..

COLONIAL COTTON -  SHIPMENT OF COTTON DECR 1853

Mr John Harris of Brisbane, Shipped by the "Great Britain"  eighteen Bales of Colonial Cotton grown in the Moreton District, and by the Vimerd he shipped to England eight additional bales. Each bae contained, in an average, Six hundred pounds

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