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Show ah uiu uuu almost forgotten story of British expansion was recalled recently re-cently by the death of. P. E. Stewart In Melbourne, Australia. Stewart was the last survivor of William E. Qlnd-stone's Qlnd-stone's colony in north Australia This attempt at settlement was Inspired by tho doctrines of Gibbon Wakefield, and had all tho resources of officialdom official-dom behind It, for Gladstone was then In tho ministry of Sir Robert Peel. It was he who drew up Its constitution con-stitution to the minutest detail and otherwise provided for Its political framework. But British colonies aro not developed In this way and so the Gladstono settlement languished. Tho only evidence that It ever existed is tho little town of Gladstone on tho Gulf of Carpentaria. |