GLADSTONE  , a seaport of

Clinton county, Queensland, Australia, 328 M. by rail N.E. of Brisbane . Pop . (1901) 1566 . It possesses a fine, well-sheltered harbour reputed one of the best in Queensland, at the mouth of the river Boyne . Gold, manganese, copper and coal are found in the neighbourhood . Gladstone, founded in 1847, became a municipality in 1863 . See J . F., Hogan, The Gladstone Colony (London, 1898) . GLAGOLI'fIC, an early Slavonic alphabet: also the liturgy written therein, and the people (Dalmatians and Roman Catholic Montenegrins) among whom it has survived by special licence of the Pope (see SLAVS for table of letters) .