With Betty Laver
Maurice Charles O’Connell, grandson of Captain William Bligh, was appointed Government Resident of the new colony of Port Curtis and he arrived in the Tom Tough in March 1854. At this time Gladstone was to be the capital of the new colony and there were already nine settlers squatting at Auckland Inlet in Gladstone.
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