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Cooma. Goulluirn. Sydney. Orange, Maitland, portion of Tamworth, Glen Innes and 

 Grafton ; and tlu- land districts of Eden, Bombala, Bega, Cooma, -Moruya, Albury, 

 Tmmit. Oueanlieyan. Braidwood. Milton, Nowra, Goulburn, Yass, Gundagai, Cootamundra, 

 Young, Boorowa. Gunning, Berrima, Kiama, Wollongong. Campbelltown, Camclcn, Liver- 

 pool, Lithgo\v. Carcoar. Cowra, Molong, Wellington, Orange, Bathurst, Penrith, Parra- 

 niatta. the Metropolitan, Gosford. Windsor, Rylstone, Muclgee, Wollombi, Newcastle, 

 Raymond Terrace. Maitland, Singleton, Muswellbrook, Cassilis, Scone, Paterson, Dungog, 

 Stroud, Taree. Port Macquarie, Murrurundi, Tamworth, Walcha, Kempsey, Armidale, 

 Inverdl, Glen Innes, Grafton, Lismore, Murwillumbah, Casino and Tenterfield in all 

 sixty-three land districts. The Central Division flanks the Eastern Division on its 

 western edge, runs parallel to the coast, and bisects the colony in a broad belt and in 

 a diagonal direction. It comprises the five land board areas of Wagga Wagga, Forbes, 

 Dubbo, portion of Tamworth, and Moree ; and the twenty-three land districts of Corowa, 

 Deniliquin. Urana. Wagga Wagga, Narrandera, Hay, Balranald South, Hillston, Grenfell, 

 Forbes, Condobolin, Parkes, Dubbo, Cobar East, Brewarrina East, Coonamble, Coona- 

 barabran, Gunnedah, Narrabri, Walgett, Bingera, Warialda and Moree. The Western 

 Division extends from the River Barwon and the River Lachlan, and a surveyed line 

 drawn between them, to the one hundred and forty-first meridian of east longitude and 

 the twenty-ninth degree of south latitude. It occupies the whole of the western corner 

 of the colony, and comprises the three land board areas of Hay, Bourke and Wilcannia ; 

 and the nine land districts of Wentworth, Balranald, Hay North, Hillston North, Wil- 

 cannia, Cobar, Bourke, Brewarrina and Walgett North. 



Tin; SOUTHERN DISTRICT. 



From Sydney to Parramatta Junction now called Granville the railway line is 

 common to both the West and the South. The junction township is becoming a place of 

 importance, and already growing dusky with the smoke-stains of brick-kilns and chimney- 

 stacks, the soil being well suited for the manufacture of drain-pipes and bricks. At this 

 point the Southern Railway branches off, and roughly following the coast-line, though 

 gradually diverging from it, traverses broad pasture-paddocks, with here and there a 

 vineyard and a waving corn-field. For a few miles from Granville huge piles of fire-wood 

 ready for transport Hank the railroad, and indicate the locality whence Sydney receives 

 a portion of its fuel. This district is not yet suburban, but the subdivisions into building 

 allotments of estate after estate forecast its future. 



I wenty-two miles from Sydney stands the early settlement of Liverpool, so called in 

 honour of the well-known English statesman of that name, and with an assumption of a 

 prophetic character touching its future development ; it being a fond illusion of its 

 founders that the colonial Liverpool would one day stand in the same relation to Sydney 

 that the English city of the same name stood to the metropolis of Great Britain like 

 many other dearly cherished hopes this has long been dead. It is characteristic of 

 colonial development that the forecasts even of practical men should prove wrong, places 

 of which great expectations are entertained remaining provokingly unprogressive, while 

 despised townships shoot ahead with unexpected vigour. Prosperity cannot be grafted 

 on barren stock ; commerce takes its own path, and declines to be dictated to. 



