The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe . Secretary of State for theColonies did once propose to throw a bridge over Basss Strait, and it is undoubtedlytrue that a late Cabinet Minister declared that he rarely found any of his colleagues whocould tell him how many colonies there were in Australia. Australia is indeed oftentaken as a political expression, when in reality it is only a geographical one—a factsometimes lost sight of, or perhaps unknown. For instance, a leading journal onceannounced the publ
The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe . Secretary of State for theColonies did once propose to throw a bridge over Basss Strait, and it is undoubtedlytrue that a late Cabinet Minister declared that he rarely found any of his colleagues whocould tell him how many colonies there were in Australia. Australia is indeed oftentaken as a political expression, when in reality it is only a geographical one—a factsometimes lost sight of, or perhaps unknown. For instance, a leading journal onceannounced the publication of the Australian Budget; it might also well have an-nounced the issue of the Scandinavian one, for in reality Australia is at present dividedinto four colonies, each of which is a sovereignty in itself, and as distinct the one fromthe other as Sweden is from Denmark or Norway from either : indeed, a little more only union is that they are all dependencies of England, and each of them is ruled ?• 8ee Report on thr Australian Fisheries, by Mr. Oliver, in The Industrial Progress of New South AVales (1870),. 142 IjQ THE COUNTKIES OF Till, WOULD. Ly a oovernov dcspatclied from this country. Aeconlii)j,ly, the brief space that is atour disposal iu which to describe the political and statistical aspects of Australia may hebest utilised by sketching, in the most outline form, each of these colonies, with no relationto their geographical contiguity, but siini)ly in an order, by following which we maylearn something regarding the early history of Australian settlement, in itself a wide andinteresting subject. New South Wales* is the mother colony of Australia. It was the first settled, andthe one off which, directly or indirectly, all the others—South Australia excepted—branched—Van Dicmens Land, iu 1855; Victoria, iu 1S51 ; Western Australia, iu IS^o; andQueensland, in 1S59. South Australia was established in 18:j7 independently of NtwSouth Wales, but, of cou
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