1788 - The ship, Sirius (Captain Hunter), is sent by Governor Philip to Capetown, for supplies of flour and other provisions to replenish the diminishing stores of the infant settlement at Port Jackson. The vessel left via the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, and returned via the Indian Ocean and the ocean south of Australia, reaching Sydney on 8 May, 1789, with four months's supply of flour, as well as wheat seed and barley. During its long voyage the Sirius circumnavigated the Southern Hemisphere.
1815 - Sir James W. Agnew, Tasmanian politician, is born.
1844 - The foundation stone of old St. John's Cathedral, West Maitland, is laid by Rev. J. T. Lynch, in Charles-street.
1845 - Hanged at Hobart, Eliza Benwell, for aiding and abetting the murder of Jane Saunders at New Norfolk.
1849 - The Sydney University Bill is introduced in the Legislative Council, but lapses after its second reading, on this day.
1853 - The first cargo of wool is shipped down the Murray River.
1855 - The "North Australia," the first newspaper at Ipswich, is published. It did not last long, and its Editor, Sydney Lyon, left in 1857 to found the old "Darling Downs Gazette" at Toowoomba.
1863 - Hanged at Maitland, Henry Wilson, bushranger, for the murder of Peter Clarke near Murrurundi.
1867 - Fremantle Bridge opens
1880 - The big guns at Fort Glanville, South Australia, are fired for the first time.
1882 - Hanged at Perth, John Collins, for the murder of John King at the Kalgan River near Albany on 2 October 1882.
1882 - The first meeting in Brisbane of the Y.M.C.A. is held.
1885 - Railway accident at Darra, which costs the Queensland Government £18.000.
1886 - The Sydney "Referee" is first issued.
1886 - North Fitzroy Tramway opens, with the powerhouse located on the north-east corner of Victoria Parade and Brunswick Street.
1890 - The great Moore-street (Sydney) fire occurs, when properties bounded by Moore, Pitt, Castlereagh, and Hunter Streets were demolished or seriously damaged. The buildings destroyed were Gibbs, Shallard and Co.; Fieldham, Gotthelf and Co.; Newtown Bros. and Co.; Eldon Chambers; Southern Cross Club; German Club; Atheneum Club; Wheatsheaf Hotel; and about a dozen others. The fire started at 2 a.m. and raged for several days. The estimated damage was about £600,000.
1891 - General Booth of the Salvation Army arrives in Brisbane.
1891 - Perth, Western Australia, waterworks opens.
1897 - Arrival at Gladstone (Queensland) of the first mail-train from Brisbane.
1902 - William Gocher defies the Australian law that prohibits daylight bathing in the ocean, and sets a new precedent in surf-swimming.
1904 - Cardinal Moran, consecrates the new Roman Catholic Church as a Cathedral at Ipswich.
1909 - Coolgardie Prospecting Syndicate liquidated; in six years the syndicate had opened and worked mines worth at liquidation about £30,000,000.
1911 - Railway extension to Tallon, Queensland, opens.
1927 - Two storms in Brisbane, several buildings partly un-roofed and low-lying suburbs flooded.
1935 - John Curtin replaces James Scullin as leader of the Australian Labor Party.
1943 - 9th Division captures Finschhafen, in New Guinea, which subsequently becomes the base for the protracted Huon Peninsula campaign, 1943-44.
1964 - Gladesville Bridge opens. It was the world's longest concrete arch at the time.
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Sources:
- Australian War Memorial
- South Australian Historians
- This Day in History
- Anniversaries To-Day (1933, October 2). Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), p. 4.
- Anniversaries To-Day (1934, October 2). Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), p. 4.
- Anniversaries To-Day (1935, October 2). Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), p. 6.
- To-day's Yesterdays (1934, October 2). The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), p. 12.
- To-Day's Anniversaries (1930, October 2). The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947), p. 8.
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