QUEENSLAND'S GERMAN CONNECTIONS - PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

The Aboriginals are friendly people as long as we are peaceful towards them. Once I got lost in the bush for five days and I did not see one Aboriginal – and how much I wished I had found one, for they are good hunters and know how to survive in the bush. My only food was ‘Blakmussels’, as you know them at home. If you see Aboriginals you only see them in groups. Sometimes they arrive or come to our city to do little jobs for a glass of brandy or tobacco. I am known amongst them like a brother because my practice takes in patients from a distance as far as 100 miles. They never stay in one place for a long time, they don’t want to try. I think I have written enough about Australia only one more remark: if one is healthy, has an iron will and determination and is not afraid of the devil (it is not necessary to be a devil oneself) one can make as much money in one day as you can make it in Germany in one week. One can do what one likes, as long as one has the above-mentioned qualities, then it will be enough to get lucky in Australia. Free travel is gladly arranged through the Gentlemen Heussler and Francksen and as you can see in the encl. every newcomer to our new Colony (Queensland) as from the 1st of January receives £2. And how are you? Because of the war there have been many changes in Germany but I hope, since Italy has become independent, you will have some future in peace. England is at this moment in a difficult situation and I have my doubts if it comes to a war between England and France that it will look bad for England, even so it might seem ever so important but so very scattered. The biggest part of all its fleet is necessary to keep all the Colonies under strictest control. I became an “English Subject” 8 months ago, but starts a war on our coastline, and the Frenchman our nearest neighbour (perhaps comes from New Zealand?) I have to fight for England. How is the other world traveller, August? Often I had wished if I only had him here, he would find a completely furnished pharmacy in one of the beautiful homes of Dalby. Next to me. Property of Dr E.M.Wuth completely established with German, English, French and American medicines. At the moment I have over £400 in pharmacies invested. If August still intends to coming to Australia, I will promise him to earn £300 to £400 a year and I promise him to sell him everything in about 4 to 5 years cheaply. Dr Wuth’s amazing journey

He shall live like a Count and need not work anymore, he would only have to make up the few medicines that I prescribe and to replace me, if I feel like riding into the bush for 4 to 6 weeks. If August does not feel like coming please engage another young man for me, but of course, I would not pay a stranger as much as I would pay a relative. Generally speaking, getting married is not good in this country, because they do not import the right kind of women; besides, women drink here like the plague. To marry an English woman is only wise if she has three times as much money as oneself, because she is spending three times more than a German woman. If I encounter such an opportunity, I will think about marriage, but these chances are rare – very very rare – and because of this it is perhaps better to wait until somebody right arrives from Germany. In case August arrives here, he can have a nice ride every day. I own the best and youngest ponies in the Darling Downs. My Grey Pongo Jow won the Dalby Races twice. This horse covers 15 miles in one hour and back and makes 80 miles in one day. A horse in this part of the world can do three times as much as a horse in Germany or in England. Carl must have been married for a long time. Did he marry Liese Beening? How are the Sabiels and Blüdens? As soon as Sabiel’s boys are grown up, he may send them to me, I promise to make something good out of them. I hope that Johann’s sense of hearing is getting better. How are the relatives in Hannover? I hope they are all well I will enclose a few lines for Richter. Apropos, should there be an inheritance from the mother’s side for me, I would like to be informed and wish to receive the money through the Gentlemen Bischoff and Comp. in Bremen or an English bank, because I can make here £1000 out of £100 in no time. Dear Father, I wish nothing more than that you will be healthy, so that I can see you once more, at this moment I cannot say if I will be in Germany in two or three years time, because this depends on my luck and other circumstances. Greetings to everyone who remembers my love and may God bless you. Please do me the favour and write to me by next mail. Goodbye, your true son Ernst Magnus Wuth, M.D. My address: Dalby, Darling Downs District Queensland, Australia

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