The colony of Natal; an official illustrated handbook and railway guide . FOUNTAIN SCENERY NATAL. ON THE WA TO THE ZULULANO GOLD FIELDS. in the vicinity swarmed with wildebeest, quagga, and John Parks, , who is the only remaining originalsettler, indirectly started a traffic in game, hides and skins,which was in time destined to assume considerable propor-tions, but resulted in the game being speedil) driven the removal of this source of revenue, more settled andlucrative branches of industry were opened up, and to-dayNewcastle stands well in the forefront of the comm
The colony of Natal; an official illustrated handbook and railway guide . FOUNTAIN SCENERY NATAL. ON THE WA TO THE ZULULANO GOLD FIELDS. in the vicinity swarmed with wildebeest, quagga, and John Parks, , who is the only remaining originalsettler, indirectly started a traffic in game, hides and skins,which was in time destined to assume considerable propor-tions, but resulted in the game being speedil) driven the removal of this source of revenue, more settled andlucrative branches of industry were opened up, and to-dayNewcastle stands well in the forefront of the commercial lifeof the Colony. 247 It is the scat of magistracy for the division of Newcastle,Khp River County, and Sir Mehnoth Osborn, ,was the first Resident Magistrate. The town was incorporated in August, 1S91, and the J. Crawford, , elected Mayor, an office which he hassince held. The population at the recent census was 1,200Europeans and about 600 coloured people. The assessed value of property in the borough in 1894was ^^104,195. Upon this assess
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