Colonel Barney Back Again! single work   poetry   "Oh, for him back again!"
Issue Details: First known date: 1845... 1845 Colonel Barney Back Again!
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A four-line 'vice-regal ditty' on the prospective return to New South Wales of Lieutenant-Colonel George Barney as Colonial Engineer. An article on this news follows the ditty. (In fact, Barney did not return as Colonial Engineer. He returned to the colonies to take up the position of superintendent of a new convict colony in North Australia, chooing to site it at Port Curtis.)

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    y separately published work icon The Atlas vol. 1 no. 9 25 January 1845 Z1569019 1845 newspaper issue 1845 pg. 99
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