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  2. NEW SOUTH WALES IN 1886.

    The Colonial and Indian Exhibition affords an appropriate opportunity for giving some particulars concerning the characteristics, arts, manufactures, industries, political and social ...

    Article : 1,897 words
  3. CLIMATE.

    Within the colony of New South Wales may be found all climates, from the cold of Kiandra, where the thermometer sometimes falls eight degrees bolow zero, and frost and snow hold everything in wintry bonds ...

    Article : 614 words
  4. THE ABORIGINES.

    When the early discoverers of Australia landed upon these shores the aborigines were much more numerous than they aro at present. The immense tracts of country, however, even in this colony alone, can ...

    Article : 1,793 words
  5. POPULATION.

    The population of the colony is now nearly a million. Thirty-five years ago the number was 265,000. At that time the colony included within its boundaries the provinces of Victoria and Queensland. The first-named was ...

    Article : 929 words
  6. GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS.

    New South Wales is a self-governing colony. It enjoys the privilege of self-governmont under the sanctions of an Imperial statute, which prescribes conditions and limits for its exercise. A Governor, ...

    Article : 1,478 words
  7. PHYSICAL FEATURES OF THE COLONY.

    The extreme length of the colony is 900 miles, its extreme breadth 850 miles, and its mean breadth 600 miles. Its superficial area is 310,938 square miles, and it contains 1,968,260,080 acres. New South Wales is ...

    Article : 1,451 words
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