The Aldine Centennial History of New South Wales, Illustrated, Embracing Sketches and Portraits of Her Noted People (Volume 2); The Rise and Progress of Her Varied Enterprises and Illustrations of Her Boundless Wealth, Together with Maps of Latest Survey (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos or missing text. Not indexed. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1888. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXXVIII. CHIEF TOWNS AND CITIES. fHERE are centres of progress and development that demand a more extended notice than that given in the chapters grouped under the electoral divisions. Cities and towns of considerable magnitude and importance have sprung up in different parts of the colony, and are evidences of special enterprise in their respective localities. The rush to the goldfields and the business excitement incident thereto, have founded many of these towns on some rivulet or stream, remote from centres of civilisation, sometimes in the mountain fastnesses, and sometimes on the extended plain, which have acquired such proportions that subsequent disaster has failed to check their growth. The grouping of these in alphabetical order would rather confuse the reader than otherwise. We have therefore chosen the more commercial arrangement which business interests have fixed in the eyes of the commercial world. The trade and development of the colony have resulted in a railway system that has sought to connect all these business centres, and taking the railway lines with their branches as the most natural division of colonial growth, we will best meet the expectations of the commercial world. There are three main railway lines, having their origin and starting point in Sydney. The first running southward, and called the Great Southern; the second westward, and called the Great Western; and the third running northward, and called the Great Northern. The Great Southern Railway line, starting from Sydney, runs in a southwesterly direction, and has its southern terminus at Albury, on the Murray River, which is the dividing line between the colonies of New South Wales and Victoria. At Albury there is made a connection with a line that runs directly to...