The travels of Hooky Jack - 5 (History) John Darwin Baptist was a gentleman known as Hookey Jack.
He was born in Madeira in Portugal in 1862. Don't know a lot about his early life, but the story, the story that's told is that in 1885 he inherited 30,000 pounds. So he's 23 years old and he suddenly found himself in fairly comfortable circumstances. And of course, there was a kind of immigration operating from 1849 that the world hadn't seen before and that was the gold rushes, it started with California. So the gold rushes offered ordinary people the opportunity to suddenly get rich, which was not something that many people would have the opportunity to do before.
And he becomes naturalised Australian in 1911 at the age of 49. So Hookey Jack was there in 1914, but this guy is very astute, very astute digger. He certainly saw a thylacine at Adams field. But mining certainly brought in a wide variety of people. And he got lost, got off the track, and ended up having to spend a night at the Lagoon River. Australian agricultural and rural life. Decade Timeline. Working life - from colonial times to today - History (2,5)
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Federation of Australia. 1770 - Captain James Cook mapped the east coast and claimed the continent for Britain. 1788 - the First Fleet arrived and a prison colony was established in Sydney.
A colony is an area or country controlled by a more powerful country that is often far away. Britain's prisons were overflowing so the decision was made to send convicts to Australia, along with soldiers and free settlers. 1860 - there were now six British colonies in Australia. The main laws of the colonies were made by the British Parliament. 1872 - telegraph linked the colonies, increasing communication between them. 1890 - The Premier of New South Wales, Henry Parkes, convinced the other premiers to discuss federation and the Australasian Federation Convention, including representatives from New Zealand, was held in Melbourne.