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Chinkie's Flat and Other Stories

Chinkie's Flat and Other Stories

Becke, Louis

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ISBN10: 1511549106
ISBN13: 9781511549103
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Apr 1 1908
Pages: 60
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.12 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Chinkie's Flat, In its decadence, was generally spoken of, by the passing traveller, as a God-forsaken hole, and it certainly did present a repellent appearance when seen for the first time, gasping under the torrid rays of a North Queensland sun, which had dried up every green thing except the silver-leaved ironbarks, and the long, sinuous line of she-oaks which denoted the course of Connolly's Creek on which it stood. The township was one of the usual Queensland mining type, a dozen or so of bark-roofed humpies, a public-house with the title of The Digger's Best, a blacksmith's forge, and a quartz-crushing battery. The battery at Chinkie's Flat stood apart from the township on a little rise overlooking the yellow sands of Connolly's Creek, from whence it derived its water supply-when there happened to be any water in that part of the creek. The building which covered the antiquated five-stamper battery, boiler, engine, and tanks, was merely a huge roof of bark supported on untrimmed posts of brigalow and swamp gum, but rude as was the structure, the miners at Chinkie's Flat, and other camps in the vicinity, had once been distinctly proud of their battery, which possessed the high-sounding title of The Ever Victorious, and had achieved fame by having in the good times of the Flat yielded a certain Peter Finnerty two thousand ounces of gold from a hundred tons of alluvial. The then owner of the battery was an intelligent, but bibulous ex-marine engineer, who had served with Gordon in China, and when he erected the structure he formally christened it The Ever Victorious, in memory of Gordon's army, which stamped out the Taeping rebellion.

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