The Brisbane Courier publishes the official telegram from Mr. Walter Hill, the government botanist, dated from Cardwell, and received by the Queensland secretary for lands:

"We have examined the Mulgrave, Russell, Mossman, Daintree and Hull rivers, and have been more or less successful in finding suitable lands for sugar and other tropical and semi-tropical productions. The ascent of the summit of Bellenden Kerr was successfully made by Johnstone, Hill, and eight troopers. At two thousand five hundred feet in height, we observed an undescribed tree with crimson flowers, which excels the Poiniana regia, Colvillea racemosa, Lagcrstraemia regia, and Jacaranda mimosifolia; at two thousand four hundred feet, a tree-fern which will excel in grandeur all others of the arboreous class; a palm tree at the same height which will rival any of the British-Indian species in gracefulness. On the banks of the Daintree we saw a palm-cocoa which far exceeds the unique specimens in the garden of the same genera from Brazil, in grandeur and gracefulness. While cutting a given line on the banks of the river Johnstone, for examining the land, an enormous fig tree stood in the way, far exceeding in stoutness and grandeur the famous giants of California and Victoria. Three feet from the ground it measured one hundred and fifty feet in circumference; at fifty-five feet where it sent forth giant branches, the stem was nearly eighty feet in circumference."