Ageston Plantation Queensland and the Mune family

[Marama]

If anyone has access to the Queensland censuses for 1871 and 1881 I would be grateful if you would look up William Mune who had left his job as Manager of Ageston Plantation in February 1881.  I'd like to know where he went.  I'd also be interested to see just who lived at Ageston in 1871 and 1881.  There were a number of houses and in 1871 there were 30 people recorded as living there.  With kind regards, Marama.
   

[cupoflife]

Is this him?
Australian Town and Country Journal 14 May1887
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/71677319

[cando]

No surviving census in Aus for that period.

I suggest you always search TROVE for information about your people of interest and google for the plantation information.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71677319
Australian Town and Country Journal [Sydney]  14 May 1887
FIJI AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY,
Mr. William Mune, manager of the Rewa Sngar Company's plantation, Koroniria, Fiji, baa been instrumental in inaugurating an Agricultural and Industrial Association for Fiji. The association has been launched under favorable auspices; the Governor, having thrown his influence into it.

Cando

[Aussie1947]

Hi,

Queensland Police Gazette, Saturday 14th October 1882.

13th October 1882
Appointed Magistrates
Mune, William, Fountainsville,. Cannibal Creek.

Gerry

[~MERLIN~]

QLD ERolls 1874-1879

MUNE William - Logan, 1874 Residence, Ageston
MUNE William - Logan, 1875 Residence, Ageston
MUNE William - Logan, 1876, Residence, Albert River
MUNE William - Logan, 1878, Residence, Ageston
MUNE William - Logan, 1879, Residence, Ageston

[Dundee]

Here is his death notice:

MUNE - On the 18th January, at his residence, Na Samabula, Fiji, William Mune (late of Ageston,   Logan River) after a long and painful illness, aged 48.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/3573924

Debra 

[Marama]

Yes, that is William Mune.  Thankyou very much all of you.  He managed Ageston from 1871 to 1881.  He went to Fiji to manage the Rewa Sugar Mill in 1883.  I'm trying to find out why he left Ageston in 1881 and what he did for the next couple of years.  I know he applied for the lease of Darnley Island in Torres Strait to cultivate sugar but was turned down and that by mid 1882 he was mining and prospecting at Fountainville, Cannibal Creek.  His older children were at school in Jimbour in 1881 and 1882.   His wife was Martha Fountain and one of her sisters was married to the manager of Jimbour Station.
That's a blow that the census returns have not survived.  I do keep a very good eye on Trove but they have invented many strange ways to interpret MUNE electronically so I do miss some of them.
Thanks for your replies.  I live in Perth so your help is greatly appreciated.   Marama.

[Aussie1947]

During the quarter ending 30th June 1882 William Mune was issued with a Business Licence No 5601 by the Warden at Palmer in North Queensland.

Gerry

[cando]

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article163902422
Logan Witness 5 March 1881.
Farewell dinner to Mr Mune.