ting's, Adelaide, Commercial, Club House, Royal, and Criteria eef with fair indications has been discovered at Buckinbah, 30 | miles from Molong. Coal has also been found, but the capa. bilities of this part of the country have yet to be developed. Farming is now extensively carried on. The wheat returns for 1886 amount to 528,041 bushels; maize, 53,139 bushels; oats, 18,327 bushels; barley, 4,089 bushels; potatoes, 586 tons; there are also 568,287 sheep in the district, 9,909 head of cattle, 6,615 horses, 3,316 pigs; and in every respect the district will compare favourably with any other in the colony. Places of petty sessions are Molong, Obley, and Toogong. Molong is a municipal centre, proclaimed November 13, 1878, having property of the rateable value of £151,376, The population is increasing, and now numbers about 1,500 persons; the district numbers 6,824. Newspaper: Molong Express (Saturdays). MOLONGLO (35° 25° S. lat., 149° 25′ E. long.), a post, tele-opened out and from a quarry on the river were obtaine graph and money-order station, on the river of the same name, 184 miles 8. of Sydney. It is a farming and grazing settlement. The nearest railway station is at Queanbeyan. MONTEFIORES (32° 20° S. lat., 149° 2′ E. long.), a town-flats. ship on the western bank of the Macquarie, about one mile from Wellington, with which it is connected by a good bridge. The communication with the metropolis is by rail from Wellington; distance from Sydney 198 miles W. (249 by rail). It contains two stores and three hotels. It is named after its founder and original proprietor. MOORWATHA (35° 52′ S. lat., 146° 44′ E. long.), in the county and electoral district of the Hume, on the banks of a small stream called Major's creek, 413 miles SW. of Sydney. Hotel: Sheetz. The only building of more than average size is the church (Anglican), St. Mary's. Public school here, average attendance 21. The communication with the metropolis is via Albury (20 miles SE.) or Gerogery; to this last place there is a good road. District is principally of an agricultural character, and has mostly been taken up by selectors; much wheat is grown, exports being about 100,000 bushels annually. A large vineyard is in the neighbourhood. Population, with the vicinity, is stated at between 500 and 600. MOREE (29° 30′ S. lat., 149° 55' E. long.), a post town, with money-order, savings bank, and telegraph office, 391 miles N. of Sydney, situated on Gwydir river. It is in the police district of Warialda, and electoral district of the Gwydir. Hotels: Bank, Criterion, Royal, and Sportsman's Arms, Court House, Tattersalls, and four stores. Public school, average attendance 83. Banks: N. S. Wales and Commercial, and Wesleyan, Roman Catholic, and Presbyterian churches. Public buildings, court house and gaol. The route to Sydney is by coach to the Narrabri railway station 70 miles. It is a farming and grazing district, and supports two Racing Clubs, Pastoral and Agricultural Society, and a School of Arts. Stock returns, 5,364 horses, 35,926 cattle, 676,341 sheep. Population, 500. Local newspaper, Gwydir Examiner. MORPETH (32° 49' S. lat., 151° 35' E. long.), prettily and healthily situated at the head of the navigation of the river Hunter, about half a mile from its junction with the Paterson, 30 miles from Newcastle (fares, 3s. 5d. and 2s. 3d.), 4 miles from East Maitland, with which it is connected by a branch line of railway fares, 7d. and 5d.), and 95 miles N. of Sydney, with which it has daily communication by steamer and railway. The hotels are the Royal, Hunter River, Steam Packet, Settler's Arms, Crown and Anchor, Commercial, Farmers' United Home, and Caledonian. It is in the county of Northumberland, parish of Alnwick and Morpeth, and police district of Maitland, and has a telegraph station, money-order office, and savings bank. The trade of the town depends, in a large measure upon the coal mining and agricultural interests. There are several pits in active operation, yielding large quantities of the fuel, within 4 miles of the town. The fertility of the river flats has before been referred to; every kind of produce is grown, but the staple articles are maize and lucerne, 9,400 acres of land being under cultivation, producing 49,039 bushels of maize, 760 of barley, 1,328 tons of potatoes, 5,800 gallons of wine. Stock_returns: horses, 3,050; cattle, 4,480; sheep, 819; pigs 1,804. The town consists principally of two main streets, running parallel with the river, with short rectangular cross streets. The Episcopal church is said to be one of the most romantic and English-looking in the colony; the Wesleyan chapel is a fine building; the Primitive Methodist chapel is small; both Catholic and Presbyterian places of worship are neat and good structures. A schoolhouse serves the Roman Catholics for both educational and devotional purposes, also a convent. The public school (average attendance 148) is a superior building. Banks: Commercial and Joint Stock. The buildings are principally of stone, there being extensive quarries in the neighbourhood. The School of Arts has a fine hall, library and reading rooms, with 1,500 vols.; the court-house is a substantially-built structure. The Newcastle Steamship Company and the Hunter River N.S.N. Company have each wharves for the loading and discharging of their steamers free of wharfage duties. These wharves communicate with the railway. Vessels up to 800 tons can navigate the river to Morpeth. There is also a coal staith belonging to the Government. The town is governed by a mayor and councillors, having been erected into a municipality on December 1, 1865. It has 9 miles of streets, and rateable property of the value of £116,282. The district returns one member to Parliament. The population is estimated at 1,370 persons, the entire district being 5,340. MORVEN (35° 39′ S. lat., 1477 E. long.), distant 36 mil from Albury, on the Wagga Wagga road, and 345 miles ( postal) from Sydney, S., is situated on the Billabong Cre which at this point is spanned by a wooden bridge. The trict is a squatting one, the creek frontages being all secure by the owners of the adjacent runs. The principal building are a Church of England, a hotel and store. There is a pa office, and mails are made up daily for Wagga Wagga and Albur Culcairn is the nearest railway station. MOSSGIEL (33° 10′ S. lat., 144° 40′ E. long.), a post-tow with telegraph, savings bank and money-order office, county of Waljeers, and electoral district of Balranald, 562 miles of sydney, and about 70 miles W. of Hillston. Hay is the nearest railway station, to which a bi-weekly coach runs. Ha three stores. Court of petty sessions is held monthly. Innsthe Mossgiel and Royal. MOSSMANS BAY (33° 51′ S. lat., 151° 13′ E. long.), healthy and beautifully situated suburb, about 2 miles fre Sydney, on the north shore of the harbour in the county Auckland, parish of Willoughby, and police district of St. Le nard's. It is approached by ferry steamers every half-hour fre Circular Quay, it has postal facilities, two hotels (Harding's o the Military Road, and Thompson's in Chowder Bay); there is a public, Roman Catholic, and a private school, Episcopalian an Congregational churches, one general store, and a number substantially built private residences; the land rises to a co siderable height and commands a splendid view of the harbour. MOSS VALE (34° 19′ S. lat., 150° 23′ E. long.), a post telegraph, savings bank, and money-order town, situated 2.5 feet above the sea-level, 86 miles S. of Sydney. Communicati is direct by the Great Southern line, fares, 15s, and 9s. 9d., a on Saturdays excursion trains run at 1d. per mile. Publis houses: Commercial, Tattersall's, Family, and Royal, and commodious and high-class boarding establishment (Elm Cour A public school is here, with average attendance of 1 scholars, and branches of the English and Scottish and Cor mercial Banks. A court of petty sessions is established Moss Vale, and there is a commodious court-house; a ban some weatherboard church was opened by the Presbyterian in December, 1879, and a Church of England has been erecte at a cost of £800. A summer residence for the Governor b. been built two miles from here, near Sutton Forest, enclose in spacious grounds; and numerous summer residences Sydney gentry have been built in the vicinity of the tow ship. There are eleven stores. The land in the distri consists mainly of rich black and chocolate-coloured soil, adna ably suited for farming. Moss Vale railway station is th outlet to Sydney and Goulburn, of the rich dairying and ag cultural district of Burrawang, Robertson, Sutton For Berrima, and Kangaroo Valley. Population about 1,000. Los paper, the Serutiner. MOULAMEIN (144° 5′ S. lat.. 35° 5' E. long.), a post town-hip with money-order office and telegraph station in t county of Wakool, electoral district of the Murray, on t Edward river, at the junction of the Billabong creek, 5 miles SW. of Sydney. Hotels: Sportsman's Arins and Moulamein. A Presbyterian church with resident minist a court-house, police barracks, and a public school with as age attendance of 17 scholars, and one large store. principally a pastoral one, is surrounded on all sides bytions. Conveyance to Deniliquin, about 75 miles distant S thence coach to Hay, is the route to Sydney, or per tr vid Echuca to Melbourne. Population, 120. Distr MOUNT BROWNE (or Milparinka), (29° 45′ S. lat., 1 46' E. long.), called after Dr. John Browne, who accompa Sturt in his exploration of 1845, is a new mining local situated in the Grey range in the north-west corner of N South Wales, in the County of Evelyn, equi distant f the boundaries of Queensland and South Australia, some si miles from each, and about 926 miles NE. of Sydney. Mu rinka is the post-town. The ridges of which Mount Brow MORUYA (35° 52′ S. lat., 150° 2′ E. long.), a money-order, is part, trend apparently from SSE. to NNW., and Government savings bank, and telegraph town, five miles from eastern side of its most southerly point, near a small the Heads, on the river of the same name, in the county of Dam-sharp summit is the prospector's claim where the find pier, electoral district of Eden, 198 miles (235 postal) S. of made that caused the New South Wales Government to Sydney, with which there is regular communication by steamer claim the Albert Goldfield, 42,000 square miles in area. mail coach to Tarago station. The leading hotels are Kea- | district itself is said to be of historic interest, as on NW of Mount Browne is "Depot Glen," where Sturt's party rested so long; where remains of the boat with which he was to have sailed over Central Australia are still preserved; where Poole, the surveyor of his party, died; whence, whilst the others waited, he and a few others pushed on to Fort Grey; and within three miles of which, on a conical peak, a cairn was labrously, day by day, and with scurvy affecting its makers, but up in memory of Poole, the peak being named after The whole country is said to be sandstone impregnated with quartz. Gold was discovered during 1885 in deep ground bys miner named McKenzie. Over 20,000 ounces of gold have been taken from this field, a quantity being conveyed away privately. Shafts bottoming for gold have struck water, so that the supply is now increased. The Warden believed the diggings would be extensive and permanent. By the mail route the distince from Wilcannia is 189 miles. The mining population is about 500. The principal town, Milparinka, containa a population of 120. MOUNT HOPE, a postal town, having facilities of telegraph, money-order, and savings bank. It lies 440 miles W. of Sydney, county Blaxland and police district of Hillston; it has 3 hotels Royal, Commercial, and Albion, a Roman Catholic Church, public school (average attendance 18), police station and court-house, several small stores, and a branch of the ComTarcial Bank; coaches run to Nymagee, Willanthorp, and Hillston, Conveyance to Sydney is coach to Nyngan or Hay, thence per rail. The local industry is almost solely confined to maing pursuits, copper being the only mineral at present worked. Population of town about 500. MOUNT KEMBLA, one of the highest peaks of the Illa wars range of mountains, is 1,560 feet above the sea-level, distant about 5 miles SW. from the port of Wollongong, and 71 mis S. of Sydney. Is a noted landmark and guide to marihers sailing along the coast. The steepness of the mountain side on the north of Mount Kembla, discloses a section of the geological formation of "the coal measures,' "five seams of sal being seen in situ at this locality. The lower seam is above the level of the plain, and the others lying superimposed at convenient working distances above each other, and all cropping out to view in several places, can be easily and cheaply worked by adits driven into the mountain side. These five seams are respectively 7 ft., 4 ft., 17 ft., 7 ft.. and 14 ft. in thickness. From the report of an experienced mining engineer it has been estimated that these seams will yield in the aggregate coal at the enormous rate of 52,000 tons per state acre, output for 1886 being 51,794 tons, valued at £31,000. There is also found in this locality abundance of fire-clay and a rich seat of iron ore, as well as a seam of kerosene shale 4 ft. 9 in thick. The Mount Kembla Coal and Oil Company, with a capital of £100,000, has opened a colliery on the property, and Constructed a railway to Kembla Bay, Five Island Point, 7 miles distant, where coal is being shipped from a jetty constructed for that purpose. Public school here, average attendance 85. MOUNT MCDONALD. See MILBURN CREEK. MOUNT VICTORIA, a post-town, with money-order, telegraph office and railway station and Government savings bik (fares, 13s. 34. and 8s. 9d.), 77 miles NW. of Sydney, in the electoral and police district of Hartley. It lies 3,422 feet above the sea level. Buildings: two hotels, Royal and Imperial, and several private boarding establishments, a public school, with age attendance of 51, a Church of England, a large public hall, a boys' private boarding school, and two stores. District is very mountainous, with magnificent scenery, and possessing a cinate that fits it for a sanatorium; and during the summer on is a favourite resort of tourists from all parts. Near here are the Weatherboard Water-falls and the celebrated Govett's Leap. A new road has also been opened to the celebrated Fish River Cares, distant 32 miles. Population about 242 persons. MUDGEE (32 35' S. lat., 149° 32′ E. long.) is a town of importance, on the Cudgegong river, about 153 miles (190 by al NW. of Sydney, and about 80 miles N. from Bathurst. It is 1,645 feet above sea-level. It has several substantial stores and shops, and numerous hotels. Among the latter are the Post office, Tattersall's, Barry and Doyle's Imperial (Cobb and Co booking-office), the Club House, The Sydney, and the Royal. It is heated in the centre of a very rich auriferousdistrict, and has besides the advantage of being environed by country valuable alike to squatter and armer. The diggings are both alluvial and quartz, and the latter may be considered as practically inexhaustible. The wool from the Mudgee district has long had both a London and colonial reputation. The town, which is well built, with streets laid out at right angles, is presided over by a mayor and eight aldermen, and has been a municipality since February 21, 1860. There are 14 miles of roads, with rateable property of the value of 2349,800. The public buildings are the hospital, the Mechanics' Institute, with a library of 3,300 s the court-house, the churches, and the Town Hall, which Cust £5.000. At the corner of Market and Church streets are the R.C. church, a towered stone structure, and St. John's Church of England; the Wesleyan chapel is a fine roomy building and a splendid Presbyterian church has been erected at a cost if £4,000. There is also a Primitive Methodist chapel. There are three schools, one Roman Catholic, the other two being public schools, having an average attendance of 441 scholars. At the end of Church Street a wooden bridge spans the river. Three banks: New South Wales, Joint Stock, and Commercial, all of which are located in fine buildings. The mining capabilities of the Mudgee district are not limited to gold, as iron ore, coal, sate, and other minerals abound, only needing better commuication (which it now has) with a market, and capital, for their profitable development. The yield of gold for 1886 was 3,500 oz., valued at £13,478. On the Mudgee roll are 4,982 electors, three members being returned to the Assembly. There is a large breadth of land (25,557 acres) under cultivation; produce--242,450 bushels of wheat, 80,745 of maize, 6,415 of barley, 13,127 of oats, 918 tons of potatoes, and 6,210 gallons of wine. The manufacturing interests in the town are represented by three coach factories, three tanneries, a soap works and candle factory, two boot factories, and two steam flour-mills. To the Post-office is attached telegraph, savings bank and money-order office. Mudgee is now connected with Sydney by rail, fares, 35s. 64. and 23s. 6d. Stock returns (March 31, 1887), 8,180 horses, 20,082 cattle, 466,359 sheep, 3,428 pigs. The population comprises about 3,000 persons; in the census district are 11,859. Newspapers: Western Post and the Mudgee Independent. MULGOA is in 33° 50′ S. lat. and 150° 40′ E. long., 40 miles W. of Sydney. It is on the Cowpasture river, in the county of Cumberland and police district of Penrith. The country is noted for its pasture land (a large area being under cultivation of the vine), and the magnificence of the surrounding scenery; the township itself is on the estate of the Hon. G. H. Cox, and is rising in importance. It has a public school, with average attendance of 40, an Episcopal church. Communication with Sydney is by way of Penrith." Formation: generally sandstone. Population, 160. MULLENGANDRA (35° 57′ S. lat., 147° 4' E. long.), a small township on the Main South road, 20 miles NE. from Albury and 353 miles (404 postal) from Sydney SW. Episcopal place of worship (Morrice Memorial), (Presbyterian place of worship projected), à public school, one hotel, and a store. Communication is via Albury railway station. Population about 200. MULWALLA (35° 59′ S. lat., 146° 0′ E. long.), a border town in the county of Denison and police district of Albury, situated on the Murray River, 427 miles S. of Sydney, to which conveyance is per coach to Albury. Hotels Post Office "nd Royal Mail. It has postal, money-order, and telegraph facilities, with a branch of the Bank of Australasia, a public school, average attendance 20, Church of England and Roman Catholic places of worship, and a court-house. Coaches run to Tocumwal and Corowa, fares, 15s. and 10s.; population of town, 90; of district, 300. MUNDOORAN (31° 52′ S. lat., 149° 10' E. long.), a posttown, money-order office and telegraph station, and Government savings bank, on the creck of the same name, in the county of Gowan, electorate of Bogan, and police district of Dubbo, 212 miles (238 postal) W. of Sydney and 54 miles S. from Coonabarabran. Travellers' route is per coach to Wellington or Mudgee. It contains one hotel, the Royal, a police station, several dwellings, and about 50 inhabitants. It has an MUNGINDI (29° 2′ S. lat., 149° 10′ E. long.) is a township, with telegraph station, 400 miles (481 postal) NW. of Sydney. It is centrally situated on the borders of N. S. Wales and Queensland, electorate of the Gwydir. Tri-weekly coach plies from Gunnedah, fare 908. Narrabri is the nearest railway station. It is built on the south-eastern or N. S. Wales side of the River Barwon, which forms the boundary of the colonies, and is one of the most important crossing-places on the frontier, being on the main roads from Sydney and Maitland to the Moonie, Balonne, and Narran rivers; it has been for years the officially proclaimed crossing-place for stock. A bridge, opened in September, 1880, connects the two colonies. There is a post and telegraph office on each side of the river, a police station on N.S. W. side, and a custom house on the Queensland side; this locality is rising in importance, and the traffi: through it is considerable; there is within a radius of 60 miles from Mungindi over a milliou sheep, the wool of which nearly all passes this way to Sydney. MURRUMBURRAH (34° 32′ S. lat., 148° 27′ E. long.), county of Harden, electoral district of Young, a post, telegraph, savings bank, and money-order township, 1,268 feet above sealevel, on the Currawong Creek, a tributary of the Jugiong, about twenty miles each way from the towns of Young, Binalong, Jugiong and Cootamundra, and 230 miles SW. of Sydney. There is a station on the G. S. line of railway here, fares, 43s. and 288, 9d. The Commercial, Criterion, Exchange, Railway, Doncaster, and Crown are among the principal hotels, and there Wales. A steam flour-mill is here (Allsopp's). The town is making satisfactory progress. A new post-office was erected during 1879, and a court-house and public school (average attendance 131): also a Mechanics' Institute with 400 vols. A local Progress Committee is in existence, and works most beneficially for the district. There is a Roman Catholic church, convent school, an Episcopal church and handsome parsonage, also a Presbyterian Church. Courts of Petty Sessions are held on alternate Thursdays; Police magistrate of Young attends. The line connecting the Great Southern and Western systems of railway junctions near the town. Formation: granite. Blind Creek diggings, mintaining an average population of 100 miners, are situated within two miles of the town. The Cunningar Quartz Reef, which employs from 50 to 100 men, is situated within 12 miles of Murrumburrah. Population, 1,600. Newspaper: The Signal (pub-lished weekly). are twelve stores. Banks: Commercial and Bank of New South The MURRURUNDI (31° 46' S. lat., 150° 50′ E. long) is situated on the Page river, which runs through the town and divides it into two parts, 192 miles NW. of Sydney, at the foot of the Liverpool range of mountains, at an elevation of about 1,546 feet above the sea-level; at a distance of three miles is Mount Murrula. It is in the electoral district of Upper Hunter, and on the Great Northern Railway, and has a telegraph, Government savings bank, and money-order office. Railway fares to Newcastle (120 miles), 22s. 6d. and 15s. The Royal, Railway, Commercial, Shelbourne, and White Hart Inn, are NARELLAN (34° 0′ S. lat., 150° 46′ E. long.), a village of among the leading hotels. The places of worship are a substantial some 120 inhabitants, 38 miles S. of Sydney, between Campbellbuilding in use by the Roman Catholics, an Episcopal church, town and Camden. It is in the county of Cumberland. The Wesleyan chapel, Presbyterian meeting house, and a convent route to Sydney is by tram to Campbelltown railway station, and school. There is also a flourishing Pastoral and Agricultural twice daily. There are here one inn (the Queen's Arms), two Association. The Commercial Bank has a branch here. The stores, a post-office, a good school-house, average attendance 36, public offices comprise a post and telegraph office, a hospital, a and an Episcopal church. Numerous small farms are in the court-house, a public school, with average attendance of 117, neighbourhood. Population about 150. a convent school and private school in connection with the NARRABRI (30° 19′ S. lat., 149° 45′ E. long.), in the elec Church of England, and a school of arts, with a library of toral district of the Namoi, is a post, telegraph, money-order, 1,000 vols. The town is connected by a strong wooden bridge railway station, and Government Savings Bank town, on the (the Arnold) with Haydonton, a township of nearly equal Narrabri Creek, a branch of the Namoi River (half a mile distant), importance, but generally considered as forming a part of Mur-321 miles E. of Sydney, and 252 miles from Newcastle, fares, rurundi. About 15 miles distant is Warrah station, the property 49s. 6d. and 328. 9d. There are twelve hotels, West's Family of the A. A. Company. A few miles from here is the tunnel Hotel, Commercial, Club House, Greyhound, and others. Narwhich pierces the Liverpool range. It is 528 yards long, and is rabri contains a gaol, hospital, two public schools (average lined throughout with brickwork set with Portland cement. attendance 268), and branches of the Commercial, Australasia, Stock returns, 5,303 horses, 22,107 cattle, 397,018 sheep, 1,093 and New South Wales Banks; a mechanics' institute with 400 pigs. The population is enumerated at about 900 souls, the vols., a flour-mill, and three saw-mills. There are 16 miles of census district returns give 3,782. Newspaper, the Murrurundi streets, and rateable property valued at £184,440. Churches: and Quirindi Times. Catholic and Wesleyan. The district is pastoral and agricultural; MURWILLUMBAH, or KYNUMBOON (20° 15' S. lat., 153° the soil fertile. Stock returns; horses, 2,652; cattle, 4,778; 31' E. long.), a post-town, with money-order and telegraph office, sheep, 365,438; pigs, 752. The low-lying lands are somewhat on the Tweed River, 407 miles N. of Sydney, in the county of subject to inundation, but thousands of acres of first-class wheat Rous, and electoral district of the Richmond. Hotels: Aus- land at the foot of the ranges are entirely beyond the reach of tralian and Metropolitan. There is a public school, with average the floods, and are being free-selected. Water is obtainable attendance of 34, Episcopal church, a branch of the Commercial almost everywhere for the sinking, and numerous creeks traverse Bank, and a court-house. It is a place of Petty Sessions. Com the country. The locality has been pronounced carboniferous, munication is by sailing vessels from Sydney. The Colonial but nothing definite has been discovered. Population about 830, Sugar Company operate extensively here, and have erected of census district 3,132. Local journals, the Narrabri Herald and machinery for crushing the cane. There are about six sugar- Northern News, published Wednesday and Saturday. mills in the district, and about 1,000 acres of land under cultivation, the average being two tons of sugar per acre. Population of district, 1,000. MUSWELLBROOK or MUSCLEBROOK (32° 16′ S. lat., 150° 59' E. long.), electorate of Upper Hunter, and police district of Muswellbrook, is situated on Muscle creek and the Hunter river, about 475 feet above sea-level, on the main northern road, 60 miles N. from Maitland, and 150 miles NW. of Sydney, and is a station on the Northern Railway; fares to Newcastle (80 miles), 15s. and 10s. The principal hotels are Barclay s, Green's, and the Family Hotel. The district is agricultural and pastoral, principally the former. Wheat and maize are largely grown; tobacco and the grape also receive some attention. The places of worship belong to the Episcopal, Presbyterian, and Roman Catholic communities. A public school, with average attendance of 170, Catholic school, average attendance 70. The Anglican church is said to be one of the finest ecclesiastical edifices north of Sydney. Other public buildings are the hospital, the school of arts, with library of 1,600 vols., and branches of the Commercial and Australasian Banks. There is also a steam flourmill, a money-order office, telegraph station, 3 stores, and a branch of the Government savings bank. The municipal district was proclaimed April 13, 1870. It has 7 miles of streets, and rateable property valued at £87,330. Stock returns for the district, horses, 12,061; cattle, 55,024; sheep, 808,296; pigs, 3.281. Population, 1,250; of the whole district, 3,615. Local newspaper, the Upper Hunter Standard. MYALL RIVER. See BULLADELAH. NAMBUCCA (30° 45′ S. lat., 153° 1' E. long.), a mining and agricultural district, with post, money-order office, savings bank, and telegraph station, situated on the Nambucca River, 341 miles N. of Sydney, in the electorate of the Macleay; communication being by steamer. Principal hotels are the Nambucca, Shamrock, and Burraville; there are three public schools, with average attendance of 91, two places of worship, a court-house, police and pilot station. The district is noted for its valuable timber productions, especially cedar. Agricultural is carried on to a limited extent, while both silver and antimony are obtained in the district. Population of about 1,200. NARANDERA (34° 45′ S. lat., 146° 35' E. long.), an important municipal town, with a telegraph, savings bank, and money-order office, on the Murrumbidgee river (county of Cooper), electorate of Murrumbidgee, police district of Narandera, 348 miles SW. from Sydney, on the Great South-Western Railway line, fares, 62s. 3d. and 42s. A branch line from here is constructed to Jerilderie, distant 65 miles, the line cros-ing the river upon a massive lattice-girder bridge. There are seventeen hotels, the principal being the Royal and Royal Mail. The Government buildings comprise a court-house and land-office, police barracks, a public school with average attendance of 172, a Roman Catholic, and two private schools, Mechanics' Institute, and a well conducted local hospital. Banks: Australian Joint Stock and Commercial, both being handsome buildings. Court of Petty Sessions is held every day, a Small Debts Court once a month, and Court of Requests sits every second Tuesday in the month. Places of worship, Church of England, St. Thomas, Roman Catholic, St. Bridget, and Presbyterian, all commodious brick structures. The river is navigable to here during six months of the year. There are several large sawmills about Narandera; the pine and red gum are exported to a great extent. The district is principally a pastoral one, but good agricultural lands have been taken up, and satisfactory crops grown in the vicinity of the town. Stock returns: horses, 2,741; cattle, 6,553; sheep, 1,017,000; pigs, 493. The municipality has 18 miles of roads and streets, and rateable property valued at £99,800. About 38 miles from here is the Aboriginal station of Warangesda, a reserve of 600 acres, which is now under the direct supervision of the Government. Population of borough, 1,350; district, 2,000. Newspaper: Narandera Argus and Narrandera Ensign. A NATIONAL PARK. PORT HACKING. In 1880 the Government of New South Wales dedicated by proclamation in the Government Gazette an area of 36,300 acres of land for a public park and pleasure grounds for the use of the inhabitants of the colony, under the designation of "National Park.” This is one of the largest public parks in the world. The management is vested in trustees, the Legislature voting money for beautifying and improving the grounds. The boundaries of this immense domain for the people's use has a frontage of 7 miles to the Pacific Ocean (with a good boat harbour at Wattamolla, and good fishing grounds), 34 miles to Port Hacking Bay, and 13 miles to Woronor River, 13 miles to the former main road between Sydney and Illawarra, vd Wornora River, and 8 miles to the main road now in use between those places. There are within the boundaries of the park from north to south about 7 miles of the Illawarra Railway. The Port Hacking River flows through it for 9 miles of its course into the bay, 5 miles being navigable for boats and small steam-launches. The northern bon dary of the park is distant, by road and by the Illawarra railway, 15 miles from Sydney Railway Station, and about 17 miles from Liverpool. The southerly boundary is 8 miles from Clifton, 17 miles from Bulli, and about 25 miles from Wollongong, the nearest railway stations being Sutherland and Loftus. Saltwater fish are at times plentiful; fresh-water fish--trout and perch-from Ballarat, Victoria, have been introduced. Fine clean sandy beaches for bathing. The park generally has a splendid aspect and abounds with very beautiful, picturesque, fairylike scenes. From the high table-lands at numerous places, most extensive views are obtained of the Pacific Ocean eastward of Port Hacking; Botany Bay, Randwick, and Sydney on the north; the coast line to a Wollongong and Illawarra Mountains oLE the south, and of the Blue Mountains on the west. The high table-lands, consist of stony heaths, and fair to indifferent land, situated at elev tions of from 350 feet to about 900 feet above high-water mark The valleys of the principal watercourses, notably of Port Hacking River and Bola Creek, are to a large extent covered with rich foliage, including stately cabbage-trees and bungalow palms, tree ferns, Christmas myrtle, waratahs, gigantic lilies, and other handsome shrubs, growing in tropical luxuriance and brilliancy of colour, numerous well-grown blackbutt, woollybutt, turpentine, ironbark, and other noble forest trees, growing up to nearly 200 feet in the southerly part of the park, most of them bordering adjacent beautiful streams, having occasional long reaches of deep, shaded, pure, cool, fresh water. About 37 miles of carriage roads have been formed through the park, and other roads are in course of formation, securing variet and most beautiful drives and pleasant walks. A principal drive is Lady Carrington Road, from Loftus to the southernmet boundary of the park. along which at frequent intervals pretty and extensive views and glimpses of Port Hacking river, and the handsome palm and fern foliage bordering thereon, come inte view, not surpassed for picturesque scenery in any part of the world. NELLIGEN (35° 36′ S. lat., 150° S′ E. long.), a seaport town. with telegraph station, money-order office and Government savings bank, in the county of St. Vincent, electoral district of Eden, on the Clyde river, 183 miles S. of Sydney; a steame plios weekly between the two places. Tarago is the nearest railway station Hotel: the Steam Packet. It is the outlet of most of the trade between Braidwood and the Metropolis. Bate man's Bay is 10 miles distant E., and Moruya 30 miles S. There is a R. Č. church, a Church of England, a public school with average attendance of 40, a court-house, a wheelwright, 4 samills, 4 stores, and blacksmith's shop. The district is primipally an agricultural and pastoral one, though there were some alluvial workings in the vicinity of the town. The population numbers about 500. NERRIGUNDAH (36° 3′ S. lat., 149° 55′ E. long.), a postal and money-order village on the Gulf creek, 30 miles S. of Mo ruya, and 226 mile- S. of Sydney, in the county of Dampier, elce torate of Eden, and situated in a valley enclosed by ranges. In the village are: 1 hotel, Free Selection, 4 stores. 3 places of worship, berthing, vessels has been largely increased; there are now about Catholic, Presbyterian, and Church of England, a court-house, 5 miles of wharf frontage. The principal coal companies are the and public school (average attendance 21). The travellers' route Australian Agricultural, Co-operative, Wallsend, Lambton, is by conveyance to Moruya, thence by coach, vid Braidwood Brown's, Waratah, Duckenfield, New Lambton, Greta, Newand Upper Tarago. Gold mining is extensively carried on in castle, South Waratab, Hartley, Ferndale, Stockton, Wickham the district, the workings being both alluvial and quartz. and Bullock Island, Maryville and Burwood, producing from They are sometimes known as the Gulph diggings. Population 60,000 to 70,000 tons per week. All the pits belonging to these about 20. Companies, except Stockton, are connected by private lines with NEWBRIDGE (33° 25′ S. lat., 149° 25′ E. long.), a post- the Great Northern Railway. Another important branch of town, telegraph, money-order, and railway station on the commerce has taken permanent root in this city. The shipment Western line, 164 miles W. of Sydney, lying 2,877 feet above of wool direct from Newcastle to foreign or English ports was sea-level, on Back Creek, in the county of Galbraith, and electo- commenced in 1883 by Messrs. Dalgety & Co. This has been the rate of West Macquarie. It is 19 miles W. of Bathurst, and 28 means of affording the northern squatters the opportunity of miles E. of Orange. It has 2 hotels (Newbridge and Royal), shipping their wool dried from the natural port of the northern public school, average attendance 59, 2 stores, and 2 places of district, thus avoiding constal expenses in sending it to Sydney worship, Church of England and Wesleyan. An iron mine is for shipment. The first years' export was 42,961 bales, that of here, and at a radius of a few miles are gold diggings, both allu- last year 47,039 bales, showing a decided increase. The total vial and quartz, and a valuable slate quarry. Fares, 30s. 3d. and number of bales shipped during the past four years by the two s. Population about 100. companies, Dalgety & Co. and Gills, Bright & Co., is 178,079. NEWCASTLE (32° 55′ 15" S. lat., and 151° 49′ 15" E. long.) The business is now on a firm footing, and has been the means of is the principal shipping port on the northern coast, the amount inducing many large and high-class steamers to visit the port. of its tonnage being frequently above that of Sydney, from During the season the industry, with the wool sales (lately very which it is distant about 75 miles N. The Great Northern Rail- successfully established), employs 200 men. Wool scouring way has its starting point at Newcastle, and connects that city works have also been in existence at Hamilton for nearly twelve with the northern towns as far as Warrangarrah (393 miles). months, having been started by the Northern Wool Scouring Co. At Werris Creek station the North-Western line branches off, Already 5,000 bales of wool have been scoured. Filling and and was opened to Narrabri in October, 1882, a distance of 256 tanning operations are also being carried on. During the past miles from Newcastle. The railway between Sydney and New-year a tramway has been opened through the mining townships, castle is now open. It starts from Hamilton on the Northern from Newcastle to Plattsbury, a distance of 7 miles. This has line, proceeding as far as Gosford, about 50 miles, where the been found a great convenience. Tram cars stop at all places of Hawkesbury river is crossed by steamer to Peat's Ferry on the importance en route, and as the fares are moderate they are exShern side, whence the railway is again resumed to Home- tensively patronised. A fort has been erected on what was long bush, thence to Sydney. Its total length when the bridge is known as Allan's Hill, now designated Fortification Hill, as a sea erected across the Hawkesbury will be 99 miles 79 chains from defence; it is armed with 3 9-inch guns and 4 ritled 80-pounders, Sydney to Hamilton. Its estimated cost was £350,000, but this which will command the entrance to the harbour. A detachment has been increased from unforeseen circumstances. The line of the New South Wales permanent artillery force is also staWas opened for traffic on Monday, August 15, 1887. Numerous tioned here. Newcastle is well laid out, and has considerably inbotch, of which the Great Northern, Criterion, Terminus, Ship proved of late years, all the streets being well paved and lighted Ina, Exchange, and Rouse's Hotel may be considered as the with gas. Hunter Street contains many fine shops, including most prominent. It is now a city under the Episcopal super- several magnificent piles of buildings recently erected by the vision of the Right Rev. J. B. Pearson, at present in England on Corporation and private individuals. The ground upon which sick leave, the affairs of the diocese being administered by the the town is situated rises rather steeply from the sea, and some Via General, Rev. Canon Selwyn, of Newcastle. It is situated portions of the town are therefore considerably elevated-a fact at the Louth of the River Hunter on the south bank, and has to which it owes its comparatively low rate of sickness and many advantages for the shipment of coal, of which it is the mortality. Newcastle possesses a substantial court-house, a hosporium. The entrance to the harbour, however, is dangerous pital, a handsome post-office, a benevolent asylum, a hospital for in ESE. stormy weather, owing to the heavy sea which breaks the insane (originally used as barracks for the military, afteracross and several disastrous wrecks have from time to time wards as an industrial school for girls); a grammar school, curred The construction of the Southern Breakwater, which four public schools, with an enrolment of 2,499 pupils, and an is a seaward prolongation of the Nobby's Head peninsula (the average attendance of 1,737, independent of a Roman Catholic first portion of the work was the connection made between school, a handsome school of arts, in Hunter Street with library Nobby's Head and the mainland), and the formation of of 7,009 vols., reading room, lecture hall, class rooms for techthe Sothern breakwater, has already proved of service, the nical and other kinds of education. An annual exhibition is bar being now sheltered, where formerly there were heavy held in the large hall; a magnificent railway station, equal to sea and E. gales to contend with. At the end of the breakwater any in the colony, several large churches, belonging to the a small tower, showing a red light, has been erected, to enable Episcopalians (3), Presbyterians (2), Wesleyans, Congregationmasters of vessels to define the end of the breakwater when alists, Primitiv Methodists, Baptists, and Roman Catholics, eering or leaving the port at night. The lighthouse on Nobby's besides an extensive and well-conducted convent and school conHead carries a fixed white light, visible at 17 miles distant. nected therewith; a theatre (the Victoria), spacious CorporaThe depth of water at the shores is about 22 feet and 27 to 30 tion salt-water baths in Hunter Street, erected at a cost of fest in mid-harbour. Powerful dredges are continually employed £4,000. The swimming area will accommodate 150 bathers, deepening and clearing the channels and the wharf frontages, and there are 25 private baths, a market building, which In the Horseshoe there is now room for 24 loaded vessels to lie at cost £5,000, telegraph and post-office, a custom-house, cmrings. A lifeboat is stationed here, with an efficient crew, and pleted in 1879, a spacious yet compact edifice, with clock pad coxswain, and assistant. Nearly all the produce of the tower, surmounted by a time ball, which is dropped daily at one Hunter River district finds its way to Newcastle for shipment; P.M.; this building is of brick with stone facings, and is 137 feet but coal and wool are the principal articles, of which enormous long by 53 feet deep, and an extremely handsome municipal antities are exported. The total output of od in the northern council chambers. The shops and places of business are above driet during 1886 was 2.178,116 tons, valued at £1,084,555, of the average of Australian towns. The banks in Newcastle are which 1544,694 tons were exported to foreign ports. It is con- Australasia, New South Wales Joint-Stock, Commercial, London sidered that the seams now being worked contain enough coal Chartered, Union, New Zealand, and Savings Bank. At STOCKto keep up the present rate of production for 512 years. Pre- TON, on the northern side of the harbour, is a patent slip, upon vious to 1845 only one mine and one shoot were in work; now which vessels of the largest tonnage frequenting the port can, there are 41 seams of coal, varying in thickness from 5 to 12 feet be taken up for repairs, also the large shipbuilding yard of Call n (the Greta coal seam is 213 feet thick, being worked in New Bros., who have turned out some very fine steamers. Newcastle castle or the immediate neighbourhood. These give employ- was formed into a municipality on June 7, 1850. It has 38 miles ment to 5.044 miners underground, and 1,089 at the pit's mouth, of roads and streets. The rateable value of property is £317,072. who are able t: conduct their operations with considerable free- The total income from rates and all sources last year was dom from the dangers which beset English pitmen; explosions 24.964 28. 5d, and the expenditure £25,685 6s. 8d. The city is from fire damp being unknown till a few years since, and lately divided into four Wards. The City, Honeysuckle, Macquarie, at the Balli colliery. The deepest pits are the Greta, 450 feet; and Belmore. The electoral area of the district has been inStockton, 80; and the Newcastle Companies, 303 feet; some of creased under the new Aer, and now in ludes the municpalities theta are worked by adits or tunnels. The machinery for loading of Wickham, Hamilton, Carrington, Merewether, and Stockton. Fessels is very complete, consisting of seven steam cranes and Two jepr sentatives are returned to the Legislative As em ly. for shoots belonging to Government, five shoots belonging to the There are two lines of steamers regularly plying between New4.4. Company, and two shoots belonging to the Waratah Com- castle and Sydney--viz., the Hunter River and the Newcastle y, the estimated capabilities of all being 15,000 tons per day; Steamship Company's boats. Some of these are fine specimens and these have been considerably increased by the appliances on of naval architecture, and are well patronised by the travelling Back Island Dyke (twelve hydraulic cranes) to an estimated public. A large cargo traffic is also carried on by these two comlosing capacity of 22,400 tons per day. The hydraulic cranes panies. Various industrial establishments are in full operation erected on the wharf formed by the Dyke, comprise ten of 15 in Newcastle and its vicinity-viz., boot manufactories, copper power, and two others of 25 tons. A branch line, with works, an extensive brewery, cordial factories, shipbuilding yard, riadzet over Thorsby's creek, connects the wharves on Bullock fellmongery, steam biscuit factory, carriage factories, foundries, alaud, now formied into a municipality under the name of Car- and engineering establishments. The city is now well supplied ton, with the Northern Railway. The appliances for ship with water, the scheme extending as far as Maitland, but Newping coal are believed to be unequalled, and on one occasion it castle is the only place yet reticulated. The water supply to 18 reported that 250 tons of coal were shipped in 1 hour. Fifteen Newcastle cost £16,000 On Monument Hill is a r servoir, holdtuga, eight of which are owned by Messrs. J. and A. ing 500,000 gallons, and one holding 250,000 gallons on Obelisk Brown, and seven by Mr. John Dalton, are employed in towing Hill, which are supplied with water from the falls beyond Vesela to and from their moorings During 1886, 1,333 vessels, Buttai. Around Newcastle there is some land under cultivation, of 1.097,263 tons, entered the port; departures being 1,335 ves- which is, however, gradually being encroached upon for building sels, of 1,097,382 aggregate tonnage. The accommodation for purposes. In some parts of the city the land is valued at £1,000 per acre. The mouth of the Hunter River, formerly called Port Hunter, but now known as Newcastle harbour, was discovered on Sept. 16, 1797, by Lieut. Shortland, while on an expedition to Port Stephens in search of runaway convicts. He called the stream the Coal River, from the fact of having found some pieces of coal on the banks. It was afterwards named after Governor Hunter. For many years after its discovery it was a convict depôt. In 1821 the district was thrown open to free settlement, from which date its progressive career commences, but it is only within the last few years that the trade of the town has made such gigantic strides. The population of Newcastle proper is about 20,000; the number on the electoral roll for this year is 6,164. The newspapers are the Newcastle Morning Herald (the largest and most influential paper issued daily outside of Sydney) and the Evening Call. NEW ENGLAND (30° 30′ S. lat., 151° 30′ E. long.) is the name given to a pastoral district, comprising a vast tract of grazing country, discovered by Oxley in 1818, in what is now the county of Sandon. It lies in the NE. part of the colony, and is traversed by the great Dividing Range. The main northeru road goes through the centre of the district, and the railway to the Queensland border bisects it. It forms an immense tableland at an elevation of about 3,000 feet above the sea-level, and has an area of 13,100 square miles. The climate is genial, but in winter rather severe, frost, snow, and sleet occur, particularly on the mountains, Ben Lomond, etc. Much of the soil is well adapted for agriculture. It contains the following gold diggings: Rocky River, Timbarra, Tooloom, Pretty Gully, Oban, Puddledock, Congi. Rock Vale, Cameron's Creek, Gostwyck, Macleay, Lunatic, Perseverance, and Boorook, near Tenterfield. The "Isabella," "Eleanora," and other extensive gold and antimony mines at Gara Falls are now in full operation. Silver has also been found in many parts of New England. The Glen Morrison reefs, near Walcha, are showing themselves to be rich, as also are those on Cameron's Creek. The tin mines of Skeleton and Vegetable Creeks, Tent Hill, and others, are also in New England. Area under cultivation 20,339 acres, producing 120,989 bushels wheat, 30,202 of maize, 606 of barley, 32,788 of oats, 3,241 tons of potatoes, and 32 cwt. of tobacco. Stock returns for the district horses, 8,679; cattle, 51,992; sheep, 1,638,253; pigs, 3,436. Dr. Robertson reports as follows, regarding the discovery of bismuth in this district: "The backbone of the country is of granite, which is replaced on the northern or Queensland border by felsites and transmuted rocks. At the irregular line of junction, some claims were recently taken up for the purpose of prospecting for tin. Of this metal none was found, but the quartz veins disclosed a variable quantity of coarse gold and an unknown mineral, which the Government chemist pronounced to be 'native bismuth.' Some native metal has been obtained in Bolivia, and in smaller quantities from Cornwall and South Australia, but, until the discovery of the mines it was a mineral curiosity." Population, 15,141. £4,000, toria, from Blue's Point to St. Leonards; and North Wil- NORTH RICHMOND (33 20′ S. lat., 150° 58′ E. long.), a post-town and telegraph station, 3 miles from Richmond, on the opposite side of the river, and 41 miles W. of Sydney. It is the leading thoroughfare to the famed Kurrajong heights, and is of importance, owing to the splendid orangeries surrounding it. Coaches between Richmond and North Richmond, fare, 1s. It has one hotel, a public school, with average attend ance of 55, an Episcopal and Wesleyan place of worship, and a diffused population of about 100. It lies on the Hawkesbury river and Red Bank creek, and is a fruit country. For further particulars of the district, see RICHMOND. NORTH WILLOUGHBY (32 47 S. lat., 157° 13′ E. long.), a postal suburb about five miles N. of Sydney, in the county of Cumberland and police district of St. Leonard's, mode of conveyance being ferry boat to North Shore, thence per coach, There are 3 public schools, 3 churches, 6 stores, 4 tanneries, and a number of market gardens worked by Chinese. Large quantities of fruit of all descriptions are produced and sent to the Sydney market. The borough has 60 miles of road, and rateable property valued at £1,070,140. NEW LAMBTON, a colliery township, situate about one mile south by east of Lambton, in the county and electoral district NOWRA (34° 51′ S. lat., 150' 43' E. long.), the Government of Northumberland. It is on the Brown and Dibbs estate, township of Shoalhaven, and the chief centre of a large district which covers about 1,500 acres. There are in the village two laid out by the Crown lands surveyors, on the southern bank of churches, Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist, 3 hotels, several the Shoalhaven river, 10 miles W. of Greenwell Point, the seashops and stores, Benefit Society, and Oddfellows' lodge. This port of Shoalhaven at the mouth of the river, and 117 miles S. of colliery is worked by one pit, employs upwards of 200 men, Sydney by the mail route, county St. Vincent, electoral and and can raise and get 340 tons of coal per day. Close to the police district of Shoalhaven. It has post, telegraph, moneyNew Lambton mine is the East Waratah Tunnel, with over order, and savings bank offices; also branches of the English 200 men employed. The coals, which are of good quality, are and Scottish and Commercial Banks, two public schools, taken for shipment to Newcastle by a private railway joining average attendance 170, a public free (municipal) library, and the Great Northern Railway. The copper works, the property nine stores. For the district of Shoalhaven, Nowra is the of the English and Australian Copper Company Limited), are chief place of petty sessions, district court, &c.; and contains situate close to the New Lambton Railway line. A public school the court-house, principal police-station and lock-up, the offices (average attendance 272), and teacher's residence, cost about of the Shoalhaven clerk of petty sessions, district court registrar, district registrar, Crown lands agent, mining warden, NEWTOWN (33° 52′ S. lat., 131° 12′ E. long.), a suburban officer of customs, &c. The principal ecclesiastical edifices of municipality of Sydney, proclaimed December 19, 1862, adjoining Shoalhaven are among the best architectural structures of the city on the SW., having 19 miles of roads, and property of Nowra, being those of the four most popular denominations, the total value of £1,437,450. It is connected by railway--ranking inthe following order :-The Presbyterian church; a fares, 3d. and 2d.-and tramway; there is also omnibus com- cut freestone structure, which cost £1,400; the Roman Catholic, munication from Wynyard Square--fare, 3d. Principal hotels: a rubble freestone erection, with dressed corners, &c., built a Webster's and Goodin's Its proximity to the city renders it a a cost of £1,100; the Wesleyan church, also of freestone, and popular place of residence for merchants and others. It pos- built at a cost of £900; the Anglican chapel of ease, which sesses a very good free library, and has post, money-order, cost £300, and the parsonage of Shoalhaven, which cost £1,000 telegraph, and savings bank offices, and branches of the Com- In Nowra there are lodges of Freemasons, Oddfellows, and mercial, Australasia, New South Wales, and English and Scottish Good Templars. The main South coast road passes through it Banks. Two public schools here, having 1,390 average attend- there is daily mail communication between it and Sydney, r ance, and there are Episcopal and Roman Catholic schools, and Mossvale, by which route runs, also, bidiurnally, a passenger seven churches. Population (census 1881), 15,828. Newspaper, coach; adjacent is the Shoalhaven iron bridge, which covers the Suburban Independent. 1,050 linear feet of water, and cost £42,000. The town has NIMITYBELLE (36° 28′ 8. lat., 149° 17′ E. long.), a post, direct steam communication with Sydney, and Parliament has telegraph, and money order town, with Government savings voted £804,000 to connect the district with Kiama and the rest bank, in the county of Wellesley and electoral district of of the colony by railway. Nowra town spice is intersected Monaro, police district of Cooma, 23 miles from Cooma SE., and by 28 miles of streets: only five of which, however, are built 282 miles SSW. of Sydney. Conveyance to Cooma, coach to upon to any considerable extent. The town, from its situation Queanbeyan, thence the railway; or steamer via Eden, Tathra, on a gently sloping eminence, bounded on the North by the or Merimbula, are the means of reaching the metropolis. Shoalhaven river, which swarms with fish, and on the West by Hotels: Royal, Commercial, and Nimitybelle. A court-house and Nowra Creek, with the superb beauties of tropical plant-life, lock-up, Episcopal, Roman Catholic, and Wesleyan places of including an extensive variety of the most delicate ferns worship, four stores, a public school, average attendance 28, which adorn its banks, commands a splendid view of the rich and a saw and flour-mill are in the town. The district is a pastoral and agricultural alluvial flats of Shoalhaven, of the farming and grazing one, sheep breeding being the chief pur-unsurpassed mountain and water scenery along the coast range, suit. The population is about 90. from Saddle Back north to Kiama, and south-west to the mistcovered peaks through which the upper Shoalhaven leaps along in its serpentine course, all forming a panorama matchless in this country for the varied beauties of settled and unsettled country it contains. Nowra land district, or the parish of Nowra, contains much unsold Crown land. Municipal distri of Nowra, proclaimed Dec. 29, 1871, includes town and countr NORTH SHORE (33° 51' S. lat., 151° 13′ E. long.). This fast-extending suburb, lying on the northern shore of Port Jackson, is divided into four municipalities The largest of these, St. Leonards, embraces all the area from Mount Street (where the Borough of Victoria joins to Middle Harbour; East St. Leonards extends from Milson's Point to Berry Street; Vic |