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P.M. Cooktown
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Electric Telegraph, Queensland.
Wds. 141 Amt. 11/11
From Townsville h. 9 m. 55
Dated 12. 3. 1874
Message for Hon Col. Secy.
BRISBANE
Have your telegram dated 3rd Have had good weather last two (2) weeks communication now quite established between Cooktown & Palmer & no urgent necessity for party your purpose. Several hundred pack horses with rations started & all must have been relieved ere this am offering a little relief to some who are reduced by starvation & exposure only asked in
[written in top left corner] For the information of Roads Department [initialled] AM
[written under that] Copy to be sent [initialled]*** 13/3/74
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Electric Telegraph, Queensland.
[page 2 of telegram]
few cases what is wanted is a first class road party to make road fit for drays (present party seems inactive wants good foreman) Rations are leaving Cooktown every day on pack horses. Bernard Lorisk murdered by blacks at Normanby range Morisset inspector starts in three 3 days to find shorter track. Town orderly & quiet but need an hospital badly
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Electric Telegraph, Queensland.
[page 3 of telegram]
Dated 12.3.1874.
wire & write every opportunity. Another man Joseph Gordon found dead from dysentry near Normanby. two deaths reported since Sunday.
Thos Hamilton Cookstown [sic]