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- ↑ "Dr John Dunmore Lang Sponsored Immigrant Ships". Brisbane History. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
- ↑ "A Super Six Hundred". The Brisbane Courier . National Library of Australia. 21 July 1928. p. 21. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
- ↑ "The Sketcher". The Queenslander . National Library of Australia. 13 May 1899. p. 878 Supplement: Unknown. Retrieved 15 February 2015.