Hi, The following may be of interest... The below article is from the Moreton Bay Courier dated 16th April 1861. Advising that the Colonial government of Queensland is sending an immigration agent to educate Germans about Australia and pursue immigration. I also have a copy of an advertisement for immigration to Australia placed in a Hamburg newspaper dated 1861 You can also view the original on line at the following URL http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/3716356 GERMAN IMMIGRATION. DURING the month, Mr. John Christian Heussler, principal in the firm of Heussler and Francksen, of this city, -- has taken his departure for Europe, having been appointed by the Queensland government to act as Agent for the colony, for emigration purposes on that continent. The Germans have always proved useful colonists hitherto, and the idea has gained universal acceptance that, of all others, immigrants of this nationality are most likely to further the development of our agricultural resources. It was with a due appreciation of the value of the Germans as colonists, that the government extended to Europeans as well as to the inhabitants of the United Kingdom, the benefits arising from the new land laws, and the system of immigration which Mr. Heussler has gone home to carry out, is founded in connection with the regulations laid down in those laws. feeling that some effort is necessary to assist Mr. Heussler in his mission, the Germans of Brisbane and its vicinity are about to form a species of association for the purpose of disseminating throughout the Germanic States, but more especially the Prussian dominions, a know- ledge of the colony -- with regard to the geographical position, climate, capabilities, and resources of which the German peasant is far more ignorant than the most uninformed of England's husbandmen. It is the intention of the association to forward to the principal German newspapers translations of extracts from a pamphlet recently published anen! t the colony by Mr. Pugh, and occasional letters with regard to the political and social progress of Queensland. The " Ger- man element" in the community is at pre- sent somewhat feeble in point of numbers, but there is no lack of energy on the part of the most influential among them, and if they but carry out the project they have just mooted, their conduct will present an example worthy the adoption of their British fellow colonists. _____ Martyn

And here is another interesting article from the Courier dated 13 October 1863 - "The German Press on Immigration". - http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/3166233#pstart540488. Martyn, is there any chance of getting a copy of the advertisement for immigration to Australia please? THE GERMAN PRESS ON EMIGRATION. The last number of the German Emigration Journal, published at Bremen, contains the following :- "The Parliament of New Zealand has now among its members a German in the person of Herr F. Kelling, a native of Mecklenburg, who six years ago emigrated at the head of a body of Mecklenburg workmen and mechanics, and founded in the neighbourhood of Auckland a village that is in a flourishing condition, its population being now upwards of four hundred, and their number is rapidly increasing every day. The success of this experiment has induced the colonial government of New Zealand, through their agent in London, to make a similar grant of land to an association of Bohemians, of whom eighteen families are now on their voyage out as the pioneers of the company, and the rest are preparing to follow them immediately, and will sail from Hamburg in about a month. " The emigration to Queensland is also extending in Germany, and very naturally so, as an emigrant is now only required to pay ten dollars (30 shillings sterling) for his passage out, without having to subscribe to any onerous conditions or contract of service, but their certificates of good conduct and morality must be unexceptionable. And even this small payment is refunded on their arrival, it being merely required as a deposit to insure their punctuality in taking possession of the berth prepared for them on board the vessel chartered for their conveyance. " Queensland has an area of nine million acres, of which only 500,000 have been sold, the population being not more than 17,000 souls. The government sells land, all ready surveyed, at the rate of three dollars (nine shillings sterling) per acre. Without immigration there can be no sales of land, and the young colony cannot afford to wait for the increase of it's population from birth alone. The more people that are attracted to Queensland even without capital, if only able and willing to work, the more buyers of land for the future. It may be taken for granted that of three immigrants brought out to Queensland, at an expense of £20 each, two of them will be able to purchase a hundred acres of land each at the expiration of four years, whilst in the meantime all three will be earning their livelihood and improving the resources of the colony by indirectly contributing to the public revenue in paying their share of the import duty on the articles they consume. In this way Queensland can afford to make a temporary and apparent sacrifice by annually importing ten thousand immigrants at a charge of 200,000, which outlay is repaid in two years by the increase in the import duty alone, to say nothing of insuring possession of a fine healthy race of colonists, who, as they become independent and have amassed a small amount of capital by their industry and frugality when in the service of others, become themselves purchasers of land and part owners of the soil. If this system be continued steadily for a hundred years, at the end of that period they will have - including the increase from natural causes - a population of thirty millions, equal to that of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland." Paul -----Original Message----- From: aus-qld-se-germans-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:aus-qld-se-germans-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Martyn Smith Sent: Tuesday, 22 June 2010 9:36 AM To: 'aus-qld-se-germans@rootsweb.com' Subject: [SEQ-Germans] Heussler and Francksen - immigration agents for QLD sent to Germany 1861 to encourage immigration. The below article is from the Moreton Bay Courier dated 16th April 1861. Advising that the Colonial government of Queensland is sending an immigration agent to educate Germans about Australia and pursue immigration. I also have a copy of an advertisement for immigration to Australia placed in a Hamburg newspaper dated 1861