South Australia : its history, productions, and natural resources . on a career of progress, andofiers a fine field for pastoral, agricultural, and mining enterprise. Some thousands of pounds have been expended in buildings,bridges, and roads, but the great demand of the settlers has beenfor a railway leading from their chief port into the mining wish is likely to be gratified. With only three dissentients,the Assembly has just passed a Bill for a line from Port Darwinto Pine Creek, a distance of nearly 150 miles, and this measure isbefore the Legislative Council. In order to mee
South Australia : its history, productions, and natural resources . on a career of progress, andofiers a fine field for pastoral, agricultural, and mining enterprise. Some thousands of pounds have been expended in buildings,bridges, and roads, but the great demand of the settlers has beenfor a railway leading from their chief port into the mining wish is likely to be gratified. With only three dissentients,the Assembly has just passed a Bill for a line from Port Darwinto Pine Creek, a distance of nearly 150 miles, and this measure isbefore the Legislative Council. In order to meet this line fromthe south, both Houses bave passed a Bill for the extension of thePort Augusta railway from Ilergott Springs to Primrose Springs,a distance of 180 miles. When these two sections are finished,half the trans-continental railway will be completed, leaving thecentral portion to be proceeded with ; andthere can be little doubtthat in a very few years the Southern and Indian Oceans will beconnected by the iron road, as they now are by the electric <: 6o CO c SOUTH AUSTRALIA. 179 CHAPTER XXIII. Exhibitions—Calcutta Exhibition—Commercial intercourse betM^een India and Aus-tralia—The Jubilee Exhibition—Past and Future. This is the age of International Exhibitions. Since that oneprojected by Prince Albert, and held in London thirty-two yearsago, there have been many ; in Paris, in the German and Austriancapitals, in Italy, in Amsterdam, and in Philadelphia, the nationshave gathered in friendly rivalry-, striving which could showsuperior excellence or greater novelty or rarity in arts, manufac-tures, and inventions, in the work of the forge and the loom, theproducts of the field, the mine, and the ocean. All the sanguinehopes that were associated with the first of these great shows havenot been realised. They have not banished war and nationalstrife and jealousy. But they have impressed deeply upon mensminds the value of peace, and of free intercourse bet
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