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Issue Details: First known date: 1931... 4 June 1931 of The Queenslander est. 1866 The Queenslander
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* Contents derived from the , 1931 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Fox's Friendship, Mary Guthrie , single work short story crime
A cane farmer going to meet the local steamer tricks a smuggler coming off the wharf with opium out of his loot by saying the local sergeant is on the road behind the farmer.
 (p. 5)
Note: In Column: Tales of Illicit Trading, 3
O'Leary's Band, Arthur Groom , single work short story humour
Travelling musicians are offered a job at a local dance in a town where a bullying drover is coming in, who wrecks bands in revenge for the dance organiser's stealing his girl. He breaks up the dance, but the band get lost going home, panic at finding themselves in the middle of the mob, and make his twelve hundred bullocks rush.
 (p. 6)
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