This Day in Australian History - 10th September

1821 - Sir William Jervois, the tenth Governor of South Australia, is born. While in South Australia he advised the Australian Governments regarding the defence of the seaports.

1823 - Susan Courtney was tried in England for returning from transportation. She had escaped from Van Diemen's Land and returned to England, only to be recognised and arrested. She was re-transported to NSW in 1825 with a life sentence.

1824 - John Oxley, at Bribie Island, meets Parsons, the third shipwrecked sailor living with the natives.

1825 - The settlement at Moreton Bay, Queensland, is named Brisbane.

1828 - Captain Sturt, accompanied by Hamilton Hume and others, left Sydney on this day, on the expedition to the West, which resulted in the first European discovery of the Darling River.

1836 - The Australian Pyrenees are named by Thomas Mitchell.

1860 - A message from Western Australia stated that the scarletina infection brought to King George's Sound by the ship Salsette had spread throughout that part of the colony.

1861 - The ship, Sovereign of the Seas, catches fire at Campbell's wharf, Sydney. The vessel was scuttled, and the hull was converted into a steamer named "T. S. Mort," which was later lost at sea.

1863 - A railway collision occurs in Redfern tunnel but there are no fatalities.

1867 - The West Maitland Dominican Convent is founded by eight Dominican nuns, who had arrived from Dublin.

1872 - The Queensland Government announces that it will assume the management of the Brisbane Hospital.

1875 - Hanged at Darlinghurst Gaol, indigenous man, John McGrath, for violation of Sarah Murfin at Warragubra, near Bega.

1877 - Railway extension to Warra, Queensland, opened.

1879 - The river at Maitland, New South Wales, rose to 27ft., topped the Wallis Creek floodgates, and flooded the low-lying areas south of Maitland.

1881 - The Doon is the first vessel to enter the graving dock at South Brisbane.

1906 - Brisbane Institute of Social Service founded.

1906 - The first Australian licence plates and drivers licence are issued to Dr William Arthur Hargreaves of Ipswich (Queensland), in South Australia.

1908 - New Torres Straits steamship service arranged with British India Steam Navigation Company.

1919 - Jules François Archibald, one of the two founders of the Sydney "Bulletin," dies.

1927 - Queensland's strike is settled.

1927 - Roman Catholic Club for girls and young women opens in Brisbane.

1928 - The monoplane named the Southern Cross, flies across the Tasman Sea.

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Sources:

1. Anniversaries To-Day (1934, September 10). Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), p. 6.
2. To-Day's Anniversaries (1930, September 10). The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947), p. 8. 
3. To-Day's Yesterdays (1934, September 10). The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1931 - 1954), p. 6.
4. To-day's Yesterdays (1934, September 10). The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), p. 10. 
5. Looking Back (1940, September 10). News (Adelaide, SA : 1923 - 1954), p. 10. 
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