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1882. 



22 September... Garden Palace destroyed by fire. 



1883. 



2 January Tolls on Government roads and bridges abolislied. 



14 June Railway communication between Sydney and Meibourne comijletcd 



13 Nove::iber .. Foundation-stone of great hall Sydney Town Hall laid. 



1884. 



10 April Duty on colonially-manufactured tobacco imposed. 



17 October New Land Act passed, dividing colony into eastern, central and western 



districts, and establishing local land boards and Land Appeal Court. 

 .31 ,, Civil Service Act passed. 



6 November... British protectorate over soutliern part of New Guinea proclaimed. 



1885. 



3 March The Australian Contingent sailed for the Soudan. Returned 24 June. 



10 November... Lord Loftus relinquishes Government. 



12 December ... Governor Carrington arrived ; Lieutenant-Governor Sir Alfred Stephen 

 acting in interim. 



1886. 



25 January First meeting of the Federal Council at Hobart. 



30 May Ly-ee-Moon wrecked. 



7 July Anglo- Australian parcels post established. 



19 October Railway opened to Tenterfield. 



1887. 



23 March Explosion at Bulli colliery ; eighty-one lives lost. 



May Large exportation of oranges for London market. 



1888. 



16 January Railway Sydney to Brisbane completed. 



.30 ,, Foundation-stone of new I'arliament Houses laid. 



12 February ... Railway Murrumburrah to Blayney opened. 



13 ,, ... Sir J. B. Thurston, Governor of Fiji, appointed British Consul-General 



of the Western Pacific. 



4 September... New Guinea Protectorate of 18S4 changed to British sovereignty. 

 22 October Railway commissioners appointed. 



9 November .. First town lit by electricity (Tamwortli). 



1889. 



1 May Railway bridge over Hawkesbury River opened. 



21 September.., Payment of members inaugurated. 



— October Federation — Sir Henry Parkes advocates the assembling of an Au.stralian 



Convention and the formation of a Federal Dominion. 



1890. 



19 September... Strike disturbances at Sydney. The Riot Act read, 



1 November... Lord Carrington left Sydney. Sir Alfred Stephen, Lieutenant-Governor. 



1891. 



5 January Governor Jersey landed. 



2 March National Australasian Convention assembled ; closed 9 April. 



8 May Sir John Robertson died. 



26 November... Lieutenant-Governor Sir Alfred Stephen succeeded by Sir Frederick 



Darley. 



1892. 



20 January Sir John Hay die«l. 



11 February ... Run on Savings Bank at Sydney. 



3 October Railway, Corowa to Culcairn opened. 



1893. 



19 February ... Grafton flooded. 



,, ... Disastrous floods in Queensland. 



1 March Departure of Lord .Jersey. 



April Several banks in Sydney suspend payment. • • *. 



29 May .., Governor Duff arrived; Lieutenant-Governor Darley acting in the 



interim. 



1 September... Railway opened to Forbes. 



