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 to pay £1 for a ship kit. This becomes the property of the passenger. Persons obtaining one of these free passages will be sent to the Colony by splendid mail steamships as ordinary 3rd class passengers. Nothing to pay back at any time. The great demand for farm and female labour being the cause of this absolute gift by the colonists of Queensland to a few hard-working British people.

"The demand is kept up by the Farm Labourers of to-day becoming the Farmers of to-morrow, and in their turn wanting to hire men. And in the case of Single Women through a large proportion leaving their situations to get married.

"Wages are high, land cheap, provisions abundant. Life is better and brighter and more hopeful for the wage-earner than in England.

"The chance has come to some of these by this offer of a free passage!

"Cheap land under Queensland Government Land Act:—

"Agricultural Homesteads:—The area to be selected varies with the quality of the land, from 160, 320, to 640 acres, at 2s. 6d. per acre, payment extending over 10 years.

"Agricultural Farms:—Areas up to 1280 acres at 10s. per acre upward, payment extending over 20 years.

"Grazing Selections:—Farms and homesteads, in areas up 20,000 acres, on 14, 21, and 28 years' lease, at annual rent of ½d. per acre upward.

"Plough your own acres! Own your own farm!

"There are upwards of 400,000,000 (four hundred million) acres of unsold land in Queensland. Hundreds of thousands of acres are open to selection and purchase at 2s. 6d. per acre, in all parts of the colony.

"Capital necessary? Yes, if you have it; come and