The colony of Natal; an official illustrated handbook and railway guide . -. Still it is well to keep inmind something of the cliaractcristics of the past. Close to the rocks alluded to, the estuary of Umzimkulu isort located. The Port was named after that staunch and distin-stone, guished veteran colonist, Sir Thcophilus Shepstone, ,whose name will ever be held in the highest honour by all trueNatalians. On the south side of the entrance there is along, low, aloe-studded point, which rises to an altitudeof 300 feet at a distance of two miles from the sea. On thisridge the signal stati
The colony of Natal; an official illustrated handbook and railway guide . -. Still it is well to keep inmind something of the cliaractcristics of the past. Close to the rocks alluded to, the estuary of Umzimkulu isort located. The Port was named after that staunch and distin-stone, guished veteran colonist, Sir Thcophilus Shepstone, ,whose name will ever be held in the highest honour by all trueNatalians. On the south side of the entrance there is along, low, aloe-studded point, which rises to an altitudeof 300 feet at a distance of two miles from the sea. On thisridge the signal station and Port Captains Look-out areplaced. Behind it lies the scattered village of Lower estuar\- extends about eight miles inland. At its mouth. PORT SH£PSTONE. ESTUAB it is about 200 }ards across, carries an average depth of fifteenfeet, and sweeps with an open channel into the sea. About£ti6,ooo have been spent b\- the Government in removing thebar and building a training wall. The works have been, on 74 the whole, successful, and coasting steamers make fortnightlytrips to Durban, sixty miles to the northward. The trade of Port Shepstone is slowl\- developing. Itconsists of lime, cement, marble, cattle, hides, horns, grain,fruit, farm produce, and wagon wood. Within recent times,sugar and tea factories have been added to the industries ofthe place. The liarrow-Green Estate, said to be one of thebest managed tea plantations in Natal, has achieved a wide-spread popularity, which is most thoroughly deserved. Furtheron in these pages the tea industry will be full) dealt with,but til passant it may be mentioned that this pioneerestablishment has done more than merely start an industryin the south, for it has demonstrated the gr
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