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25-740: Palmerston may refer to: People [ edit ] Christie Palmerston (c. 1851–1897), Australian explorer Several prominent people have borne the title of Viscount Palmerston Henry Temple, 1st Viscount Palmerston (c. 1673–1757), Irish nobleman and British politician Henry Temple, 2nd Viscount Palmerston (1739–1802), British politician Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865), British foreign minister and Prime Minister Charles P. Anderson (1865–1930), Canadian bishop Places [ edit ] Australia [ edit ] Australian Capital Territory [ edit ] Palmerston, Australian Capital Territory ,

50-881: A lake located in North Frontenac Township, Ontario Ireland [ edit ] Palmerston, County Mayo , in Ireland Palmerston Park, Dublin , a park in the capital of Ireland New Zealand [ edit ] Palmerston, New Zealand , a town in the Otago Region of the South Island Palmerston North , a city in the Manawatū-Wanganui Region of the North Island Elsewhere [ edit ] Palmerston, Mutare ,

75-574: A large number of Aboriginals in Mamu territory. According to his diary of the Russell River expedition, in the early hours of the morning of 8 September 1886, Palmerston and his Aboriginal bearers from the neighbouring tribe tracked a group of Aboriginal people to a cockatoo bora ground on the western bank of the upper Mulgrave River. They observed as Aboriginal men performed what appeared to be an increase ceremony. Palmerston described it thus: "It

100-617: A locality in the Cassowary Coast Region Cape Palmerston National Park Palmerston Highway , connects Cassowary Coast Region with Tablelands Region Canada [ edit ] Palmerston, Ontario , a town in Ontario Mount Palmerston on Vancouver Island, British Columbia Palmerston Boulevard , a notable residential street in the city of Toronto, Ontario Palmerston Lake ,

125-465: A path cutter, he embarked on more explorations, including his notable discovery of a route along the Mowbray River, which contributed to the founding of Port Douglas. In 1878 a warrant for his arrest was issued on an felony charge. Towards the end of the 1880s on the Russell River field, as the field played out and was abandoned by European miners, Palmerston induced Chinese miners to come to

150-816: A private expedition led by James Venture Mulligan to search for gold at the heads of the King and Lukin rivers in northern Queensland. On the King River, Mulligan wrote about how Palmerston shot two Aboriginal men and returned to camp with a stolen "little blackboy". At night, they handcuffed the child to Pompey, Palmerston's other "boy", to prevent him from escaping. The expedition failed to find any significant signs of gold deposits. Palmerston settled down in Townsville and married Teresa Rooney at St Joseph's Church on 6 December 1886; they had one daughter. Palmerston moved to Borneo and then Malaya where he contracted fever in

175-688: A series of 19th-century British defensive fortifications See also [ edit ] Palmerstown (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Palmerston . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Palmerston&oldid=1191838163 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists English-language surnames Hidden categories: Short description

200-555: A stable owner. He was arrested for horse stealing and later convicted. Palmerston appealed the decision but it was dismissed and he was sentenced to two years in a Brisbane prison. Palmerston then worked in the Palmer River Gold Rush of 1872–1874. Old timers on the field noted that while Palmerston never seemed to do any mining he was always flush with gold and rumours abounded that Palmerston, with his Aboriginal men, were murdering miners for their gold. However, it

225-789: A suburb of Mutare , Zimbabwe Palmerston Island , an island in the Cook Islands Palmerston Park , home ground of Queen of the South F.C. in Dumfries, Scotland Other uses [ edit ] Palmerston (car) , a British car manufactured during the 1920s Palmerston (cat) , a mouser in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office at Whitehall, London Palmerston FC , an Australian association football team Palmerston Football Club , an Australian Aussie Rules team Palmerston Forts , also known as Palmerston's Follies,

250-577: A suburb of Canberra, Australia Northern Territory [ edit ] County of Palmerston , a cadastral division Palmerston, the name used for Darwin prior to 1911 Palmerston, Northern Territory , a city near Darwin The City of Palmerston , a local government area Queensland [ edit ] Palmerston, Queensland , a locality in the Cassowary Coast Region East Palmerston, Queensland ,

275-476: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Christie Palmerston Cristofero Palmerston Carandini or Christopher "Christie" Palmerston (c. 1850 – 15 January 1897) was an Australian explorer and prospector in North Queensland . He led several expeditions during the last quarter of the 19th century including the discovery of a route along

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300-558: Is not known with estimates between 30 and 100. The Palmerston had a 6-9 hp Coventry-Victor water cooled, flat twin engine driving the rear wheels through a cone clutch, separately mounted three-speed gearbox and bevel geared rear axle. The brakes acted on the rear wheels using a hand lever with the foot brake operating a transmission brake on the drive shaft behind the gearbox. The steel section chassis had quarter-elliptic leaf springs front and rear. The early cars had wire spoked wheels later replaced by steel disc type. The two-seat body

325-648: The Chinese diggers by beating up any miner who attempted to leave the field. A Police Magistrate in Innisfail later found against a Chinese businessman in a civil suit brought against Palmerston, but a Senior Magistrate, W S Walsh, in a report to the Colonial Secretary found the evidence more than sufficient for a conviction. During the 1880s, large parts of coastal far North Queensland were still covered in dense rainforest. Palmerston boasted of shooting

350-521: The Mowbray River, which eventually led to the founding of Port Douglas . It has been claimed that Palmerston was the natural son of Lord Palmerston . However, Palmerston was born in Melbourne , at the time in the Colony of New South Wales , unless he was younger than normally thought, to Casino Jerome Carandini, the 10th Marquis of Sarzano and Marie Burgess , an English-born opera singer. Palmerston

375-621: The ambition of building their own range of light cars. The Palmerston car was advertised for sale in late 1920 and exhibited at the London Motor Show by agents Olympic Aeros and Autos also based in Boscombe. The company was under capitalised and in 1921 was declared bankrupt and sold to new owners Francis Henry Morris and Bertie Francis Plant trading as the Palmerston Lytcar Company. A new larger engined model

400-484: The diggings by promising them certified amounts of gold per day and guaranteeing protection from Aboriginal attack. He charged them £1 per head and the offer was taken up by 30 miners with a further 200 following soon after. The promises were hollow but then, as a standover man, with the backing of armed Aboriginal gang, he extorted money from the Chinese, prevented supplies from reaching the diggings so that he could charge exorbitant prices for meat and effectively imprisoned

425-436: The face and other parts of the body were formed in stripes of fine white down. Amid these were two tall poles, up which many more niggers were perched and befeathered in a similar style. Their legs and arms were akimbo, and their nodding heads accompanied a bantering vein of cockatoo screeches, which ended occasionally with roars of mirth." Then he shot them. Just after dawn Palmerston and his men opened fire from three sides,

450-681: The jungle and died at Kuala Pilah on 15 January 1897. His life was the subject of a 1957 radio feature on the Australian Broadcasting Commission , The Legend of Christie Palmerston . For another view of Christie Palmerston: Palmerston (car) The company was founded by the three Bullock brothers who were trading as motor engineers in 1919 . In 1920 they founded the Palmerston Motor Company in Palmerston Road, Boscombe with

475-474: The river being on the fourth side. Palmerston wrote that afterwards he reduced "heaps of war implements to ashes" and took two young boys as captives. The boys escaped during the night, "shackles and all". In that same year,1886, possibly around the 22nd of July, Palmerston is recorded to have raped and murdered an Aboriginal woman, on the South Johnstone River. In 1880, Palmerston was part of

500-523: The theatrical heritage of his family, was employed as a stockman on the Willangi cattle station near St Lawrence in the Broadsound area of central coastal Queensland . The station was run by brothers William and Mark Christian who were powerful squatters in the region. While droving cattle to Rockhampton in early 1869, Palmerston rode off on one of his employer's horses and sold the saddle to

525-537: Was a borah ground, large and original, situated on the left bank of the Mulgrave. In the centre of the ground were dug two long parallel rows of oval-shaped holes, filled with crouching figures, that portion just below the armpits and upwards being the only exposed parts. Quivering tufts of white and yellow cockatoo feathers decorated their nodding heads; bunches of larger white fluttering feathers were fixed along their arms and hands, which they worked in wing-wave fashion;

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550-410: Was baptised Cristofero Palmerston Carandini. This is the name he gives on his marriage registration in 1886, when he listed his father as Casino Carandini. His elder brother Frank succeeded to the marquessate upon their father's death in 1870, and his sister Isabella Sara married in 1886, Sir Norman Montgomery Abercrombie Campbell, 10th Baronet . In 1868 Christopher Palmerston, in a departure from

575-411: Was built in-house from aluminium over a wood frame and supplied with a folding hood (top) and one piece windscreen. Although the first cars featured acetylene lights, a dynamo lighting set was provided by 1921. The car was advertised at £275. The Palm had a larger 1018 cc engine, still by Coventry-Victor, with a taxation horsepower class of 9 hp. The gearbox was mounted in-unit with the engine and

600-518: Was designed and called the Palm and sold alongside the Palmerston. In November 1921 the company was sold again and became Palmcars Ltd with Morris and Plant remaining as directors. The company still failed to make money and receivers were appointed in 1922. It was sold to one of the major shareholders, Frederick Goddard but it seems unlikely that any more cars were made. The total number of cars made

625-503: Was not until around 1876 during the Hodgkinson River Gold Rush that Palmerston began to be known as a pathfinder . As trade increased from Hodgkinson, Cooktown merchants began to worry that a new port at Cairns would take over the majority of the trade. As a result, in 1877 the merchants backed Palmerston to cut a track from the goldfields to a new port at Island Point. As Palmerston became more well known as

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