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A USTRALASIA ILL USTRA TED. 



colony of New South Wales was indeed in every respect an unqualified and genuine success. 

 At this point in its development the country had time to pause and survey the progress 

 it had made, and to gather from the experience of the past new hopes and fresh 

 aspirations for the future. For the hundred years which had just elapsed its history 

 had indeed been a varied one. It had compressed within a century the progress which 

 the nations of the old-world had taken ages to realize. It had grown from the stage 

 of an experimental outpost of purely military occupation and convict settlement to a 

 nation representing all the complex conditions of a highly-organized society the nomad, 

 the shepherd, the digger giving place in turn to each other, and each contributing to 

 bring about that culminating point on which the country stands to-day. 



Lord Carrington will, moreover, in addition to the Centenary, be remembered by the 

 lively interest he displayed in the progress and public institutions of the colony, as 

 well as by his hospitality and personal cordiality of manner ; for this Governor made 

 himself highly popular amongst all classes, and in his hands the office of Viceroy pre- 

 served all its usefulness and importance. After a term of office lasting for a period of 

 nearly five years His Excellency left the colony in the month of November, 1890, his 

 departure being made the occasion of a series of festivities by which the people sought 

 to convey their appreciation of both his social and political fitness for a position which 

 had never been filled by one who had made himself more popular. Lord Carrington was 

 succeeded in the Administration by Sir Alfred Stephen, the Lieutenant-Governor, until 

 the arrival of Lord Jersey on the i4th of January, 1891. His Lordship and Lady 

 Jersey have, since their landing in New South Wales, achieved a popularity which well 

 maintains the social prestige of the Representatives of Royalty in Australia. His 

 Excellency's term of office has been prominently marked by the holding of the Federa- 

 tion Convention at Sydney, in March, 1891. 



