268 i\'^fr SOUTH WALES. 



17,UUIJ iuliabitauts, wliicli includes Paddiugton, Newtown, Xortli 

 Sydney, the Glebe, and Leichliardt. Marrickville comes next witli 

 upwards of 13,000; tlien Aslifield witli 11,000; Petersham and Wool- 

 lahra with about 10,000 each ; Waterloo and Waverley with about 

 8,000 ; Alexandra with 7,000; Burwood, Camperdown, and Eandwick, 

 with about 6,000 each ; Macdonaldtown with o,000 ; Rockdale and St. 

 Peter's with about 4,000 each; Darlington, Hunter's Hill, Hurstville, 

 Manly, Ryde, and Willoughby with 3,000; Botany, Noi'th Botany, 

 Concord, Canterbury, Enfield, and Kogarah, with 2,000 ; Drummoyne, 

 Five Dock, and Strathfield with upwards of 1,()00 each ; and Homebush 

 which still falls below that figure. Owing largely to municipal 

 activity iu the older suburbs, the sanitary condition both of the city 

 and suburbs ranks high. 



The principal towns of the colony in the order of population are 

 Newcastle with about 13,000 (though Broken Hill figures have reached 

 to nearly 20,000), Parramatta with about 12,000, Goulburn with about 

 1 ] ,000, Bathurst with 9,000, East and West Maitland together with 

 about 10,000, AV^est Maitland alone being returned at over 7,000 ; Tam- 

 worth, Grafton, Wagga Wagga, and Dubbo, with 4,000 ; Armidale, 

 Bourke, Orange, and Wollongong, with 3,000 ; besides the mining 

 townships of Plattsburg, Wickham, Lithgow, &c. Of these Newcastle 

 is the oldest, dating in reality from the first coal workings thereabout 

 in the earliest years of the colony. The town and surrounding 

 boroughs had a population of 24,000 last year, while the district included 

 02,400 people. It is 62 miles from Sydney by sea and 102 miles by 

 rail, and is the centre of the northern coal trade. The port is the the 

 second in importance in New South Wales, and possesses a remarkable 

 breakwater extending from Nobby's Head to the mainland. The city 

 is well laid out, with well paved streets, handsome municipal and rail- 

 way buildings, an excellent theatre, abovit ten churches, and an annual 

 rating value of £191,323. A good deal of manufacturing industry 

 goes on in and around Newcastle, including boot, cordial, biscuit, and 

 carriage factories, shipbuilding and fellmongering yards, a brewery, 

 foundries, and engineering establishments. Goulburn is 134 miles 

 south by rail from Sydney, its two cathedrals, churches, colleges, con- 

 vents, &c., give it the ecclesiastical air of a quiet English town, and 

 the post-office, court-house, and hospital are handsome public build- 

 ings. The ratable property is worth £82,222, and the surrounding 

 district is chiefly given up to farming. The town is pleasantly situated. 

 Bathurst is 145 miles west by rail from Sydney, crossing the Blue 

 Mountains en route. It is an important and progressive town, with 

 strikingly commodious post and telegraph offices, courthouse, and 

 town hall, a school of arts, hospital, two cathedrals, colleges, and 

 several other churches. The annual value of the ratable property is 

 £67,013, the district is agricultural and pastoral, with nearly 40,000 

 acres under cultivation, and the town possesses several manufactories. 

 ^Maitland is 120 miles north of Sydney by rail, on the Hunter River. 

 It has fine streets and handsome buildings, and is pleasantly situated 

 in the heart of rich agricultural country. Tamworth is 282 miles 

 north of Sydney by rail, and 183 from Newcastle. It has ratable 

 property worth £37,500. A fine town hall, several handsome churches, 

 some pulilic halls and a theatre, and an exceptionally fine post and 



