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Flinders

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Flinders 

a river in northern Australia. The Flinders originates on the western slopes of the Great Dividing Range and empties in two branches into the Gulf of Carpentaria. It is 830 km long and drains an area of 108,000 sq km. The mean flow rate is 16 cu m per sec. High water occurs from January to March; low water occurs from June to October, when all but the lower course of the river dries up.



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Bertie did not see the bottle go off; but the mate opportunely discharging a stick of real dynamite aft where it would harm nobody, Bertie would have sworn in any admiralty court to a nigger blown to flinders.
Even in June there were leaders, letters, large headlines, leaded type; the Daily Chronicle devoting half its literary page to a charming drawing of the island capital which the new Pall Mall, in a leading article headed by a pun, advised the Government to blow to flinders.
 
 
 
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