The international geography . and by ballot; parliaments are triennial and the members arepaid. For political and territorial purposes the colony is at present dividedinto 141 counties. Three-fifths of the population is under municipalgovernment. The administration of justice, as in the other Australiancolonies, is similar to that of England, local enactments being foundedupon the laws of the mother country. There is no established church ;primary education is compulsory, and free to children of parents unableto pay school fees. There are numerous technical schools and work-shops, libraries an
The international geography . and by ballot; parliaments are triennial and the members arepaid. For political and territorial purposes the colony is at present dividedinto 141 counties. Three-fifths of the population is under municipalgovernment. The administration of justice, as in the other Australiancolonies, is similar to that of England, local enactments being foundedupon the laws of the mother country. There is no established church ;primary education is compulsory, and free to children of parents unableto pay school fees. There are numerous technical schools and work-shops, libraries and schools of art, agriculture and engineering, grammarand high schools, and a university in Sydney founded upon the model ofUniversity College, London. Railways and Communications.—A network of ^^ood coach-roads covers the settled districts ; the telegraph penetrates to occupiedterritory, and four trunk lines of railway with their branches, bring themost important, and some of the more distant towns, into daily communi-. New South Wales 599 cation with the capital, which is also connected by direct lines withBrisbane, Melbourne, and Adelaide (Fig. 293). Several great engineeringefforts have been necessary in the accomplishment of these public works,notably the bridges over the Hawkesbury and Murrumbidgee, and mostimportant of all, the zigzag line over the summit ofthe Blue Mountains. Towns.—There are i88 boroughs and municipaldistricts outside the metropolis, but most of these aresmall towns ; the only one at the census of 1901 whichcould boast of a population exceeding 20,cxk> beingBroken Hill. Sydney^ the capital and the oldest city in Australia, founded in 1788, on one of the coves of Port Jackson, Fig. 2^^.—Average poi>-now spreads over both the northern and southern shores %^ZtoVthwlks^of that capacious, land-locked, and sheltered harbour,which with its bays and coves possesses a deep-water frontage of overone hundred miles. There is ample anchorage for fle
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