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Issue Details: First known date: 1848... 1848 Telegraphic Despatch
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Humorous fictional news 'report' on an anticipated flood of the Brisbane River, supposedly written by the Courier's 'Windmill Reporter' (ie. by a reporter stationed as a look-out on the Wickham Terrace windmill in Brisbane). Appeared with an accompanying unitiled poem by the 'Windmill Reporter'.

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Untitled i "Subscribers were sleeping - the 'governor' weeping:", The Windmill Reporter , 1848 single work poetry humour
— Appears in: The Moreton Bay Courier , 25 November 1848; (p. 3)

This untitled poem appeared as part of a humorous news 'report' on an anticipated flood of the Brisbane River, which was supposedly written by the Courier's 'Windmill Reporter' (ie. by a reporter stationed as a look-out on the Wickham Terrace windmill in Brisbane). In the poem the cash-strapped Courier reporter reflects on his editor's plight, and the precarious financial position of the newspaper at the time.
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  • Brisbane, Queensland,
  • Brisbane River, Brisbane, Queensland,
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