Crossword-Solution: BLACKALL 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

From Blackall the party struck across the settled pastoral districts until they arrived at Cork station, on the Diamantina.

Leaving Blackall, the then most western settlement in Queensland, the party made Powell's Creek on the Overland Telegraph Line.

Hedley, G.-- Accompanied the QUEENSLANDER Transcontinental Expedition, led by Ernest Favenc, from Blackall to Powell's Creek, overland telegraph line.

But perhaps Jack Chetwynd was hampered with fewer restraining influences than most men, for he was alone in the world, without kith or kin, and might be fairly allowed to please himself, and pleasing himself in this case meant leading to the altar, or rather to the Registry Office, Miss Bella Blackall, music-hall singer and step dancer.

There was also a sister, whom, truth to tell, he objected to more than her maternal relative, for she was distinctly professional, not to say loud, and the little mannerisms which were so taking in his inamorata were very much the reverse in Miss Saidie Blackall.