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F. & CO.'S WRITING INKS, embracing Blue-black Writing Fluid, Scarlet Ink for steel pens, Violet Ink, Unchangeable Dark Blue Ink, Cyclostyle Ink, Marking Ink for linen, Rubber Stamp Ink, Stencil Ink, Supplied under contract during the last five years to the various departments of the Queensland Government, and extensively used by all the leading banks and mercantile houses. Equal to the best imported ink, and at the cost of from 331 to 50 per cent. less. REMINGTON TYPEWRITER. Sole Agents, Watson, Ferguson & Co. Outnumbers as 3 to i the combined forces of opposition. Keeps pace with every discovery in typewriter machines, and the New No. 7 combines every known improvement up to date. HANDBOOK OF INFORMATION FOR The Colonies and India ISSUED BY THE British India & Queensland Agency Company Limited, , P BRISBANE. Lm Dit /17 P AUSTRALASIAN UNITED STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LIMITED. QUEENSLAND ROYAL MAIL LINE OF STEAMERS. BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LIMITED. DUCAL LINE OF STEAMERS. TURNBULL, MARTIN & COMPANY (SHIRE LINE OF STEAMERS). NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING COMPANY LIMITED. UNION STEAMSHIP COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND LIMITED (INTERCOLONIAL AND A. & A. ROUTE TO EUROPE vid SAN FRANCISCO). LONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION (MARINE). THE NORTH QUEENSLAND MORTGAGE AND INVESTMENT COMPANY LIMITED. HUDDART, PARKER & COMPANY PROPRIETARY LIMITED). 1897-98. BRISBANE: WATSON, FERGUSON & CO., PRINTERS. 1897. Oc 2008.87.20 GA ARVARD COLLE SEP 20 1899 VIBRARY, CONTENTS. Rev. E. Albatt PAGES. Concise Directory ... ... ... ... ... ... 3-5 Five Thousand Miles on the Australian Coast ... 9-62 Services of the Australasian United Steam Navigation Company, Ltd. ... ... 65-91 (Including Fleet, Agencies, Lines of Services - Nos. I to 9, Time Tables, Schedules of Passage Rates, Average l'assages, Table of Distances, Ports of Call, Information and General Regulations.) Services of the Queensland Royal Mail Line ... ... 93-97 (Including Agencies, Fleet, Passage Money to all Ports, and Tables of Distances.) Services of the British India Steam Navigation Company, Ltd. 99-112 (Including Fleet, Lines of Services -- Nos. I to 15, and Additional Services, Tables of Distances, Passage Rates in Indian Currency-Calcutta to Bombay via Ports.) Australasian Tariffs ... ... ... ... ... ... 113-139 Postal, Money Order, and Telegraphic Information of the Colonies ... ... ... 140-152 General Section of Advertisements ... .. ... ... i.-xxxii. 64 77 : :: ILLUSTRATIONS AND PAGES OF REFERENCE. PAGE. PAGE. A.U.S.N. Co. OFFICES, GLADSTONE 3982 BRISBANE ... facing ISIS CENTRAL. SIGAR “ARAMAC" SALOON VILI ... ADELAIDE ... 18 77 LEVUKA ALBANY ... MACKAY . BALLARAT ... MARYBOROUGH BENDIGO ... MELBOURNE BOWEN 42 77 NOUMEA ... ... BRISBANE ... NEW GUINEA BUNDABERG 38 78 NEWCASTLE BURKETOWN 55 79 NORMANTON CAIRNS ... 49 79 PERTH, W. AUSTRALIA .. CARDWELI. 48 80 PORT DOUGLAS ... CHARTERS TOWERS ROCKHAMPTON ... COOKTOWN SYDNEY ... ... FREMANTLE .. 14 81 THURSDAY ISLAND) GERALDTON, W.A. ... 16 81 TOWNSVILLE ... GERALDTON, Q. ... 48 82 WODONGA," S.S. ::: ::: :::::: ::::::: CHARTS. Chart I.-Combined Services ... ... ... between pages 8 and 9 Chart II.-Sketch Map of Queensland and New South Wales, showing A.U.S. N. and Q. R.M. Services between pages 62 and 63 (Also Freezing, Boiling Down, and Meat Preserving Works.) Chart III.-General Services of the British India Steam Navigation Co, Ltd., and the British India Associated Steamers, Ltd., dic., between pages $8 and 89 The above Charts also show the principal Goldfields in Australia. = = = ".. - - - - CONCISE DIRECTORY. - - - QUEENSLAND. - - - - - - - - - - - - IO - xxiii. - XX. 98 BRISBANE. Page. Aberdare Co-operative Colliery, John Davis, Agent... .. ... XXI. Baldwin, Howard, Wholesale Poulterer xx. Brisbane Newspaper Company, Courier, Observer, and Queenslander XX. British India and Queensland Agency Co., Ltd. ... Back of Chart, facing page 63 Bulcock, W., F.I.A.V., Consulting Accountant ... ... xviii. Campbell, James, & Sons, Builders' Merchants Back of Office, facing page 65 Castlemaine Brewery and Quinlan Gray & Co., Ltd. ... ... xvii. City and Suburban Parcel Delivery Co. ... ... Opposite inside front cover Denham Bros., Produce and Grain Merchants xxii. Fish Steam Laundry, George Fish, Manager ... 64 Graziers Meat Export Co. xix. Harper, Robert, & Co., Millers, Packers, and Manufacturers Helidon Spa Water Co., Erated Water Manufacturers Back of Office, facing page 65 Herga, A., Chronometer, Watch, and Clock Maker ... XX. Howard, E. A., Printer, &c. .. ... *** xxiv. Howes, Bros., & Co., Produce Merchants ... xviii. Hutton, J. C., & Co., Bacon Curers, &c. 64 Imperial Hotel, C. H. Daniell, Proprietor ... Knights, Chas., Picture Frame Maker ... xvi. Knowles & Co., Wholesale Fruiterers and Commission Agents London Assurance Corporation ... Magdalen Asylum Laundry ... ... xvii. Maher, Wm., Baker ... Inside back cover Martin, R. & Co., Shipchandlers and Coach Ironmongers... Leaflet facing page 36 Mines, H. E., Wholesale Tinsmith, Ship Plumber, &c. ... ... xxii. New Zealand Shipping Co., Ltd. ... ... ... Back of Chart, facing page 88 North Queensland Insurance Co., Ltd. ... .. Front of Chart, facing page 89 North Queensland Mortgage and Investment Co., Ltd. 99 Perkins & Co., Brewers, Importers, Wine and Spirit Merchants ... xxiv. Pole, Outridge & Co., Printers, &c. (now Outridge & Co.) ... xviii. Potts, Paul & Sargant, Ship Chandlers... ... ... Leaflet facing page 37 Queensland Canning Co.... xxii. Queensland Model Dairy, Fresh Food, Ice, ì and Storage Co, Ltd. ... Leaflet facing page 35 Queensland National Bank, Ltd. Ross, A. J., & Co., Printers ... 139 Smellie & Co., Hardware Merchants. ... Leaflet facing page 34 The Telegraph Newspaper Co., and The Week . .. XVU. Turnbull, Martin & Co. ... ... ... ... 92 Watson Brothers ... ... ... Watson, Ferguson & Co.... ... Facing title page West Australian Steam Navigation Co, and Ocean Steamship Co. ... Opposite inside back cover MARYBOROUGH. Queensland Smelting Co., Ltd.; Gold, Silver, Lead, and other ores treated XIV. Walkers Limited, Engineers . ... ... ... ... XXIV. :: : 63 :::::: 114 BUNDABERG. Longhurst, R., Fruiterer... Nicholson, Alex., Baker... . .. ... vi. xxvi. ROCKHAMPTON. Burns & Twigg ... . ... ... Leaflet facing page 40 Littler & Bruce, Engineers ... XXVI. Morning Bulletin and The Capricornian Newspaper Co. ... ... ... xlviii. Concise Directory. ------- - - ------ ------------ Medcraf, H., Confectioner ... xxix. Reid, Walter, & Co., Ltd., Merchants, Shipping and General Agents ... xxvii. The Daily Record... ... Leaflet facing page 41 Wynne, F., Baker xxvi. 1031 MACKAY. Paxton, W. H., & Co., Merchants, Shipping and General Agents ... ... XXX. 31 xxxi. xxix. BOWEN. Bergl, M., & Co. ... Isbell, J. H., Shipping and Family Butcher TOWNSVILLE. Aplin Brothers & Co., Ltd. ... ... Brand & Drybrough, Engineers, &c. ... Burns & Twigg, Engineers ... Johnson & Castling, Butchers... Lahey Bros. & Nicklin, Timber Merchants Tunbridge & Tunbridge, Civil Engineers ... Opposite page xxxii. xxxii. Leaflet facing page 41 XXXI. ... xxxii. Xxxii. CHARTERS TOWERS. Exchange Hotel, R. Collins, Proprietor .. . 104 CAIRNS. Cairns Argus Newspaper Sun Wo Tiy ... ... ... Opposite page xxxii. PORT DOLGLAS. Walsh & Co., Merchants and Importers . ... ... Opposite page xxxii. COOKTOWX. ... Opposite inside back cover Ah Kum, T., Fruit and Provision Dealer Arbuckle, G. W., Steam Laundry and Ice Works Fooks, W., Family and Shipping Butcher ... Great Northern Ilotel, S. F. Balser, Proprietor Independent , Spearritt, James, Baker ... ... ... ... 66 Opposite inside back cover ... NEW SOUTH WALES. SYDNEY. i Aicherley & Dawson, Tea Merchants ... Bellambi Coal Co., Ltd., Contractors and Shipping Agents... Bird, H. S., & Co., Provision, Wine, and Spirit Merchants... Blackwood, J., & Son, Machinery and Indiarubber Merchants xiv. Burns, Philp & Co., Lid., General Merchants and Shipping Inside front cover Agents Bullel, William, Butcher... xi. Connell, J., i Co. (Usher's Whisky) ... ... Daily Telegraph Newspaper Co. Davis & Fehon ... Dynon, John, Son & Co., China, Glass, and Earthenware Importers xil. Fresh Food and Ice Co., Ltd. ... ... xv. Grainger, T. L., Marine Surveyor and Compass Adjuster xvi. Heyde, Todman & Co., Importers and Wholesale Tobacconists ... ix. Iloffnung, S., & Co. (Australian Brandy) ... ... ... Hordern Bros., Importers and General Drapers, &c., &c. ... ix. llotel Met ... ... ... Back of Chart I., facing page 9 xii. ::::::: 90 xiii. Concise Directory. - - -- -- ----- - Langdon, H. J., & Co., Agent for Mackie & Co.'s Whisky ... Inside back cover Laing, J. G., & Co., Produce and General Commision Agents ... vi. North Queensland Insurance Co., Ltd. ... Facing page 93 Penfold, W. C., & Co., Manufacturing Stationers and Printers ... xii. Playfair, Thomas, Butcher xv. Roff, Isaac, Premier Billposter and Advertising Contractor ... X. Smith & Kopsen, Ship Chandlers xii Stanley & Co., Wholesale and Retail Market Gardeners, Fruiterers, &c. ... ix. Sutton & Co., Agents Victory Tobacco... ... ... ... ... xiii. NEWCASTIE, Dalgety & Co., Wool Merchants, Shipping and Insurance Brokers ... ... xiv. 'lii. VICTORIA. MELBOURNE. Bacchus Marsh Concentrated Milk Co., Ltd. ... Leaflet facing pages 24 and 25 Braché & Co., Wine Merchants Braché, Charles ... ... vili. Brooks, Robinson & Co., Glass, Oil, and Colour Merchants Cameron, W., " Two Seas " Tobacco ... ... Coulsen, Hay & Co., Packet llop Merchants ... Hart, Mrs. Sarah, & Co., Produce Merchants... vii. Hart, A., Homing Pigeons vii. Indiarubber, Guttapercha, and Telegraph Works Co., Ltd. ... M'Cracken's City Brewery MacDougall, James, & Co., Agents for Queen's Ale ... ... Peacock & Smith, Coppersmiths, &c. ... ... ... Stooke, V., Shipping Butcher ... Victoria Brewery ... ... ... ... ... Leaflet facing pages 22 and 23 Wood & Co., Provision Merchants ... , ... ... .. ... Yencken, E. L. & Co., Proprietary, Lid. ... ... ... .. . -- -- - - L'ORTARLINGTON, --- Calhoun, William, Produce Merchant ... ... ... ... ... viij. - SOUTH AUSTRALIA. ADELAIDE. Griffith, C. K., Baker ... ... ... - WESTERN AUSTRALIA. Wainwright & Co., Merchants ... GERALDTON. ... ... ... ... ... - -- ... NOTE ON TENTH EDITION. -=-= = = The Handbook of Information, of which 10,000 copies are annually distributed, is now issued for the tenth time by the British India and Queensland Agency Company, Limited, Brisbane. It has become a standard book of reference in Australasia, not only in commercial circles, but also amongst the general and travelling public. Containing as it does a description of the 5,000 miles run taken by the A.U.S.N. steamers from Western Australia to the extreme north of Queensland, as well as notes on New Caledonia, Fiji, and New Guinea, intending passengers will find in it much useful information, together with some thirty-three views of ports called at by the steamers, and places of interest reached therefrom. The demand for the Handbook has in past years exceeded the supply, and the British India and Queensland Agency Company issue it again with every confidence that it will be as kindly received and appreciated as heretofore. We must apologise for the unavoidable delay in publishing the present issue. -------- - ------------ ------------- Press Notices on Ninth Edition, 1896–97. SYDNEY BULLETIN, 18th June, 1896. -“ Altogether the guide is an exceedingly useful and compendious publication, reflecting much credit on all connected with it." The MACKAY MERCURY, 18th June, 1896.--Affords a large amount of reliable and up-to-date information.” THE MACKAY STANDART), 19th June, 1896.--" The description of the voyage from Albany to Burketown, round two-thirds of the Australian coast-line, is very vivid, and the publication is in every way quite up to date." THE GLADSTONE OBSERVER, 23rd June, 1896.-“ The printing is clear and the illustrations numerous and well selected.” QUEENSLAND Figaro, Brisbane, 19th June, 1896.—“The Handbook’ is an evidence of the enterprise of the A.U.S.N. Company." NEWCASTLE HERALD, June, 1896.—“A pleasing feature of the work is the wealth of illustrations contained in it." THE BRISBANE TELEGRAPH, 13th June, 1896.--"A cursory glance through its pages impresses one with admiration at the perfection of its get-up. BUNDABERG STAR, 18th June, 1896.—“ It is a most useful companion for travellers." THE BRISBANE COURIER, uth June, 1896. -_“It has come to be recognised as a really valuable office and travelling companion.” THE LAURA STANDARD), 23rd October, 1896.—“It is a marvellous work both for typography, charts, and illustrations.... The Handbook' will prove a veritable ‘guide, philosopher, and friend.'” THE WESTERN MORNING NEWS, 2nd September, 1896.--" .... this well produced book a mass of classified knowledge not to be obtained elsewhere in a similarly convenient form.” THE WESTERN INDEPENDENT, 29th August, 1896.--The volume contains a mass of interesting details relating to a comparatively unknown land." THE EVENING STAR AND BRUNNERTON ADVOCATE, 121h August, 1896.-. “ The volume is full of general interest to the reader, besides giving accurate information regarding travelling dates and charges." DAILY TELEGRAPH, Napier, New Zealanit, ist August, 1896.-_-“ The book should be in the hands of all who travel through the colonies and the islands." EVENING News, Napier, 1st August, 1896.—“ Is copiously illustrated.” WESTPORT NEWS, Westport, New Zealand, oth August, 1896.—“ The purpose of the ‘Handbook'is to supply travellers with concise information, and this is well accomplished.” LAUNCESTON EXAMINER, 8th August, 1896.-."It is, as usual, replete with useful information." Advertisement. Combined Service of the A West Australian Steam Navigation Co. Ocean Steamship Go. AND BETWEEN Fremantle, North-West Australian Ports, and Singapore (Calling at Java if Inducement Offers). S.S. "AUSTRALIND" S.S. " SALADIN" - S.s.“ SULTAN". - - - - 1,019 Tons Register. 2,000 Tons Register. 2,063 Tons Register. 7.-- HESE magnificent Steamers, with Passenger Accommodation unequalled on the North-West Coast, fitted with Smoking, Music, and Ice Rooms, Baths, and every comfort and con- venience for a tropical voyage, and installed with the electric light throughout, trade between Fremantle and Singapore, calling at all ports on the North-West Coast of Western Australia, leaving Fremantle alternately about every twenty-one days. These Steamers connect at Singapore with the Ocean Steamship Company's Line of Steamers, which are noted for their comfortable passenger accommodation and excellent table. The Ocean Steamers carry a Doctor. An O.S.S, Co.'s Steamer leaves Singapore for London every week, vid Penang and Suez Canal (sometimes also calling at Colombo and Algiers). Singapore, for China and Japan, departures every fortnight. The W.A. Steamers also connect with the British India Line of Steamers from Singapore to Indian Ports every week. Passengers with through tickets for London are kept in Singapore at the Companies' expense until the departure of the first steamer for London, either on board steamer or at an hotel, at the Companies' option. All steamers load and discharge at the Tanjong Pagar Wharf, Singapore, so that no expense or trouble is incurred in changing steamers. FARES TO LONDON (From any Western Australian Port not south of Fremantle):- Saloon - - - - - £45 0 0 Intermediate . . . . £25 0 0 Saloon to Singapore and Inter- mediate thence to London - £31 10 0 The time on passage from Singapore to London occupies about thirty-two days, and the full time occupied from Fremantle to London should average about fifty to fifty-three days, and from Cossack about forty-five days. This route, which for the greater part of the voyage is usually in smooth water, is most interesting and varied, offering travellers an opportunity of seeing the Nor-West Ports, the beautiful Straits of Lombok or Bali, and the charming Islands in the Java Sea, as also the picturesque port of Singapore. Saloon Return Tickets for London are issued for two years, and are available for return either by the same route or the line of direct steamers to Fremantle via Cape, - ---- - === == - -- - Goods Carried at Through Rates to and from the Principal Ports of the World. - - --_- FOR FURTHER PARTICULARS APPLY--- FREMANTLE AND PERTH : DALGETY & COMPANY, LIMITED, SIR GEORGE SHENTON, AND THE A.U.S.N. CO.'S AGENTS, AT ALL AUSTRALASIAN PORTS. LONDON: BETHELL, GWYN & CO., TRINDER, ANDERSON & CO., 22 BILLITER STREET. 4 ST. MARY AXE. 130 133 140 NDA N OV 70 RRES STR TIMOR LF RPENTAR NORTHERN TE RN TERRITOR_YT TRALIA AUSTRAL RELI RIGT s 0 UT HE R N LIMITED. 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MANUFACTURE THE FOLLOWING BRANDS OF HIGH-CLASS Goods. “STAR” ( COFFEE, COFFEE ESSENCE, AVENA, OATMEAL, PEPPERS, MUSTARD, WHEATMEAL, MAIZEMEAL, DIGESTIVE BRAND MEAL, PATENT GROATS, PATENT BARLEY, &c., &c. - “Oriental” Brand Coffee and Chicory. -- In 1 and 2 lb)., Net Weight, Six-sided Fancy Tins. “PIONEER” ) TABLE JELLIES, ESSENCES, LIME JUICE AND CORDIALS, BRAND FRUIT JUICES, &c. “Silver Star” Starch, WHITE AND COLOURED. “Gold Star” Cocoa. “Empire” Baking Powder. A BLENDERS AND PACKERS OF THE CELEBRATED car"RUPEE” TEA ALSO "EMPIRE," "PIONEER,” AND OTHER BRANDS. - - - - -- - ---- - -- - - -- - -- - - Five Thousand Miles no on the od Australian Coast. SUV offering our Tenth Edition to the public in this A auspicious year, the sixtieth of Her Majesty's reign, o we crave for it as generous a reception as former editions have had. We naturally cannot attempt to describe the whole of the vast Continent of Australia, but we think that enough will be found in the following pages regard- ing the different colonies to induce the tourist to explore them more than he at first intended to do, and the capitalist to pro- vide means for developing them further. Perhaps this edition may not be read by as many visitors from the mother country and other portions of the Empire as in past years, for the stream will probably this year flow towards Great Britain, to join in the imperial celebrations, more than towards the land of which we write ; but to all our readers, whether many or few, we offer a hearty welcome. From some we have re- ceived useful suggestions in the past, and we invite more, for we wish to improve as time goes on -to progress as Australia is progressing. One particular instance of progress we must not fail to record here, and that is the holding in Adelaide of the Federal Convention, with its endeavours to unite all the colonies together. We write too soon to be able to give the result of its deliberations, which will, we are satisfied, leave their mark on the history of the Continent, and, by ultimately breaking down artificial barriers, tend to largely increased settlement and development. When we mention that the area of Australia is 2,942,000 square miles and the population 3,442,873 it will be seen that there is at least some room for improvement in the latter direction. 12 Varigation Company, Limited. Australasian United Steam - ------ We will now let the various colonies speak for themselves, commencing with MIESTERN AUSTRALIA. == - A continuance of progress, marvellous alike in its rapidity and wide distribution, marks the rear 1896 in West Australian affairs as one which forms a striking chapter in the history of Australia. That a hitherto almost unknown section of this vast continent should in four years have trebled its population is not alone among the wonders and surprises that have attended the phenomenal elevation of the “Cinderella ” of the West to the dignity of statehood. During the last session of Parliament the financial enact- ments agreed to involved the introduction, in round numbers, of £7,000,000 into the colony in the near future for Government works alone. The Legislature considered the conditions of internal trade so assured that the improvements to the harbour at Albany were at once followed by the purchase by the Government of the Great Southern Railway, which at Beverler connects the port of Albany with the interior railway systems, for the sum of £1,100,000. This is no small transaction for a colony whose first steps on the threshold of a great prosperity would in ordinary course be tempered with timidity, as the natural outcome of infancy. But it is quite overshadowed by the magnitude of a scheme passed during the same session, the object of which is to supply water to the great central gold- fields comprised in the Coolgardie East and North Coolgardie divisions. The amount authorised to be raised for this work, which specifies the transport of water from the Helena River, about 20 miles from Perth, to Mount Burgess, overlooking Coolgardie, is £2,500,000; but it is not anticipated that this expenditure will more than meet the requirements of the present day, or rather of the time at which the work will be completed. The stupendous strides made by the mining industry will be realised when it is stated, and officially too, that up to the end of 1895 the subscribed capital of Western Aus- tralian mining companies had approached the large total of £50,000,000. Although the sum set aside for development may not have reached a quarter of that amount, it is still indicative of the vast importance of the auriferous fields of West Australia in financial centres of the Old World. The number of leases surveved during 1896 was 6,220, and the total number of mining companies registered was 562. ------ - DINING SALOON S.S. "ARAMAC." CE ANTONG 33 SER Ote A.U.S.N. CO.'S STEAMER "WODONGA." ALBANY Australasian United Steam Navigation Company, Limited. 13 The yield of gold for the twelve months was 281,265 ounces. The area worked for this gold comprised 89,861 acres, which up to June, 1896, produced a rental revenue of £ 102,074, against € 33,700 for the previous twelve months. It must be borne in mind that the mines everywhere within the colony are in what is known as the “developing" stage. The erection of machinery has not really begun, because there was no water to be relied upon for crushing purposes where, in many cases, the reefs showed the richest gold. The enormous increase of population still goes on, and, in spite of the usual lull of summer, the arrivals exceed the departures by from soo to 1,000 each week. Following the great inrush of population, the dimensions of the import trade may be expected to have assumed colossal form, inasmuch as the colony is not productive of food pro- ducts nor manufactures. Thus we find that while in 1890, before the golden treasures of the silent interior were unearthed, the value of imports was £874,747, those numbers had risen in 1896 to £6,493,557, and the figures representing the value of exports for those periods were respectively £671,813 and £1,650,226. The duties received from Customs entries in 1890 amounted to £182,546 ; in 1896 £996,884. The total number of vessels which visited the colony in 1891 was 281, and in 1896 it was 768. The tonnage of trading vessels recorded in 1890 was 484,534, and in 1896 it rose to 1,105,907 tons. Statistical records such as these indicate the great and sudden advance in the trade and population of the colony, and no signs are visible that that advancement is liable to any diminution. ALBANY is our first port of call; Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie, with their fabulous wealth, may be reached from it by rail. Albany deserves more than a passing notice, as, although unable to boast of any local industries which remark applies, unfor- tunately, to most West Australian towns at present it is an important entrepôt for the coast ports between it and Eucla, near the South Australian border, with which it has a fort- nightly steam service. By this route the Dundas and Kurnalpy fields are more directly reached, via Esperance and Israelite Bays. Albany, viewed from the sea, presents a strikingly ----------- ---- - - - - - - = = ==== = = == == = 14 Australasian United Steam Navigation Company, Limited. picturesque appearance. It is all but 72 years old, having been settled in 1825, is situated on the north side of Princess Royal Harbour, King George's Sound, and is some 350 miles by rail from Perth, the capital. It boasts one of the finest harbours in the world, and, doubtless, in consequence was selected as the first Australian port of call for the P. & C., Orient, and Messageries Companies' steamers. The Great Southern Rail- way- which has been purchased by the Government-has its terminus here, and runs daily trains to the capital. Since the establishment of this railway the town has assumed greater dimensions and increased importance. It possesses a very fine Town Hall, and most of its buildings are constructed of stone, and present a more solid and permanent appearance than usually obtains in the smaller Australian towns. In the spring of the year the surroundings of this pretty town are much enhanced in beauty by the wealth of many-coloured wild flowers that clothe the hillsides like a gorgeous mantle, and it may here be remarked that no more beautiful wild blossoms than those of Western Australia can be conceived. The A.U.S.N. Co.'s steamers run alongside a commodious jetty, and several good hotels provide excellent accommodation. Luggage is placed on trucks and conveyed to the foot of the pier, where it is quickly examined by a courteous Customs official, and this generally irksome function is soon disposed of. A short stay is the rule here, and we leave for FREMANTLE. An average run of thirty hours from Albany brings the voyager to Fremantle, the chief port of the colony. Here evidences are at once apparent of the prosperous heart which throbs within the country. The great undertaking of constructing a harbour at the mouth of the Swan River is in full progress. Four years of work have already been expended in this project, and at the moment of writing the once formidable bar at the river mouth can be recorded as a memory only. Wharves are established in the river on sites which were a year ago dry sandpits, and vessels drawing fifteen feet of water may now enter the river harbour. With the progress of the port of Fremantle is allied the export trade of the colony, the records of which are consist- ently progressive with other features referred to. For purposes of comparison we give a return of principal exports for the year 1895, and for 1896. FREMANTLE. Oli A.U.S.N. CO.'S S.S. "ROCKTON" LEAVING FREMANTLE JETTY WITH 340 PASSENGERS, IN DECEMBER, 1896. PERTH. ----- Australasian United Steam Navigation Company, Limited. 15 The figures in parenthesis represent the value of exports for 1895. Gold... .. . ... £1,068,808 (£879,748) Sandalwood £65,800 (£30,863) Pearls and pearl-shell 650,213 (£26,156) Wool (greasy) £230,640 (£160,740) ,, (scoured) £36,800 (€22,770) Skins and hides ... £18,569 (£11,188) Timber ... ... €116,420 (£88,146) It should be noted that the export of wool for 1896 has barely commenced (November, 1896). It may be noted en passant that the enormous local demand for the magnificent Jarrah timber, which forms so great an asset for the colony, has reduced the item of exports under this heading to a very large extent. Fremantle at the present day is one of the busiest ports on the Australian coast, and the fine steamers of the A.U.S.V. Co.'s line, which have been running with unfailing regularity for the past four years, form a leading feature in its ocean trade record. The town itself has made wonderful progress since our last article was written. Buildings have gone up with such rapidity that the visitor who may have been absent for a few months even is surprised and bewildered at the altered state of affairs. The enormous importation of goods is a prominent feature which must impress the visitor on landing at the Fremantle pier, nearly a mile in length, at which a dozen vessels may be seen daily discharging. The commodious goods-sheds, wharves, and Harbour Works'. offices and workshops established at Fremantle give a brisk air to the river side of the town, and the rapid construction of the river harbour affords a scene of great activity. Fremantle may with justice be termed the “Bourse " of West Australia. All the great business firms of the Eastern Colonies have their branches there, and the whole of the import trade may be said to be conducted in Fremantle. An hourly train service brings the traveller to PERTH, -- -- the metropolis, a city twice the size of Fremantle. A choice of routes inclines the visitor to journey to Perth by the river, this way being the more picturesque. The Swan River is one of the finest waterways in Australia as far as possibilities are concerned. -- ---- === == =====-- - - = = = ---- ----------- - - - - - 16 Australasian United Steam Navigation Company, Limited. = = === ==== == =--= = -= - = Perth is fast becoming a typical Australian city. Lofty buildings and the use of modern appliances have transformed the Perth of five years ago. The Post and Telegraph Oflices, the Railway Station, and the immense block in which the public service is conducted form architectural adornments which are a pleasant surprise to the new comer. Among later additions to the great buildings of Perth are the handsome pile of the West Australian News- paper Company, Limited, and the Freemasons' Hotel in St. George's Terrace, the Hotel Metropole in Hay Street, and the Great Western Hotel- only opened lately in the northern half of the city. Perth is well supplied with parks, and is being better equipped each year with these “lungs" for the people. The racecourse is a half-hour's run from the city, and a second course, pleasantly situated in an amphitheatre of hills, is the scene of fortnightly race meetings at the Canning, some nine miles from the capital. It may be said that Perth is the vortex of the great pros- perity of the country. It has all the concomitants of a large centre, and, at its pre- sent rate of progress, must ere long become a fitting compeer to the queen city of the Southern Hemisphere. Twenty hours of an invariably calm sea from Fremantle lands us in GERALDTOA, which is 210 miles north of Fremantle, and is at present the terminal port of the d.U.S.N. Co.'s steamers on the West Australian coast. Geraldton is the seaport of a very large area of country, including the Yalgoo, Murchison, and Peak Hill goldfields, recent developments of which are calculated to bring these parts into great prominence during the coming year. Hitherto these fields have not been “fashionable," so to speak, but those who did settle there have had no reason to complain, and the official returns published from time to time indicate a slow but steady influx of population by every steamer. We might here mention that the gold exported from Geraldton in 1894 was 51,605 ounces ; in 1895, 62,890 ounces ; and in 1890, 70,313 ounces. The Customs revenue of the port has increased from £27,386 in 1893 to £ 53,814 in 1895, and £65,019 in 1896. These figures will give some idea of the progress which Geraldton has been and is making. As a natural harbour Champion Bay (as Geraldton was formerly known) is second only to Albany, and by recent additions to the main jetty large steamers like the “Waroonga," “ Bulimba,” WITH RELUCEY Phelo GERALDTON, 18 Australasian United Steam Navigation Company, Limited. great extent in times past South Australia has been dependent upon the condition of outside markets for her prosperity or depression. Latterly, however, because of the big interest she possesses in the Broken Hill trade, and as a result of the profitable commercial relations which have sprung up with the gold miners of the West, there has been less anxiety manifested as to foreign prices. The population, which on July ist, 1896, numbered 356,363, cultivates nearly 3,000,000 acres of land, and last year exported goods to the value of £7,576,746, or £21 145. gd. per head, while the imports the same vear were £6,073,663, or £17 6s. uid. per head. The chief exports are wool, wheat, and minerals, the totals being : Wheat, 116,543 tons ; wool, 53,563,6 1 2 lbs.; and minerals £235,265 in value, all for 1896. The wool export was then at the highest point reached in ten years ; but the biggest figures for wheat were in 1891, when the export reached 304,818 tons. Minerals were highest in 1889, when the total value was £ 390,932. Taxation is not heavy, for the rate per head in 1896 was only £2 5s. 8d.; and school fees need not be paid by the people, for all the primary State schools are free, and are very excellent schools. There are in the colony 13,473 miles of telegraph wires, and 1,722 miles of railway lines. The Government own the waterworks also in various parts of the colony, and the revenue from them last year was £95,762. The public revenue for last year was £2,521,409, and the expenditure £2,509,468. There is a public debt of £24,000,000, most of which has been expended in building railways, waterworks, telegraphis, wharves, jetties, lighthouses, and other works of development, which return a satisfactory revenue to the State, and also indirectly are a very large factor in the progress of the people. The leading industries are wool and wheat growing, mining, wine making, · dairving, and manufactures. The land laws are framed with a view to placing people on the land in the easiest possible way. Of the total area of the colony, exclusive of the Northern Territory, only 8,000,000 acres have been sold ; 79,000,000 acres are leased for pastoral purposes, yielding an annual rent of £63,831, while 16,500,000 acres are leased for other purposes at an annual rent of £108,000. The remaining portion of the vast area of the colony is at present unoccupied. The number of sheep, cattle, and horses in the colony at the date of latest returns was: Sheep, 7,267,642; cattle, +23,602 ; and horses, 187,666. ADELAIDE, the capital of South Australia, was so named after the consort of King William IV., and its site was selected by Colonel ======-----------------===-==--==-- - ----- - --- - LE DEVO ADELAIDE. "! ----- Australasian United Steam Navigation Company, Limited. 19 --- - -- --- - --- - -- -- ------ - --_- - --- - - - - - Light on December 29th, 1836. It is situated on a plain midway between the sea and the Mount Lofty Ranges on the east and north, while the elevation is sufficiently great to allow of the completion of that excellent system of deep drainage which renders it the cleanest and most healthy city in the Southern Hemisphere. Through its centre flow's the River Torrens, and by the construction of a weir near the western boundary a splendid sheet of water has been thrown back to beautify the prospect, and to give facilities for boating and other aquatic sports. Adelaide and North Adelaide, which lie on either side of the Torrens Lake, are surrounded as well as divided from each other by belts of park lands half a mile wide. These parks are for the most part carefully tended and planted with handsome trees, thus giving a greater charm to a city which in its natural state was most beautiful of situation. Whichever way one looks glimpses of green refresh the eve, for the principal thoroughfares of the metropolis are ornamented by well-chosen trees, while in the spring the appearance and the encircling hills is lovely. Beyond the belt of park lands lie the suburbs of Adelaide. There are five handsome bridges across the Torrens, and every suburb is connected with the city either by trams or trains. Adelaide has many breathing places in which its citizens may enjoy a veritable rus in urbe. King William Street, which is laid out from north to south, is 132 feet wide, the footpaths on either side being 20 feet in width. In the very centre of the city this runs into Victoria Square, a picturesque enclosure embellished by statues and abounding in grassy lawns and with umbrageous avenues. Wakefield and Grote Streets bisect the city in the opposite direction, their width being exactly the same as that of King William Street, on each side of which the same thoroughfares have different names. In the centre of each of the quarters into which the city is divided by these broad streets is another square, one being named after Sir John Hindmarsh, the first Governor; a second after Sir James Hurtle Fisher (Hurtle Square), the first Commissioner of the South Australian Company ; a third after Mr. W. W. Whitmore, M.P., one of the founders of the colony; and the fourth after Colonel Light, whose body is buried under a handsome monument within its limits. Hutt Street, which runs parallel with King William Street, about half a mile to the east, is the same width as the central avenues of traffic; while North, West, South, and East Terraces are also spacious thoroughfares. In the heart of North Adelaide is situate Wellington Square, which was so named in honour of the conqueror of Waterloo, who took a deep interest in the passage of the Imperial Act under which South Australia was founded. The principal ---- -- - ------ - -- - ---- - ----- - -- - -- -- - - - ----- -===- - --- -- - -- -- - - --- -- --- Australasian United Steam Varigation Company, Limited. 21 - - - -- -- -- - -- -- -------- Albert Hall in Pirie Street, and the Central and Victoria Halls in Grenfell Street. Churches of all denominations abound in the city and suburbs. Adelaide is the centre of many religious, philanthropic, musical, literary', political, scientific, and patriotic societies, and, as everywhere else in Australia, its residents go in largely for sport. But though athletics are liberally patronised, education is not neglected. The magnificent system of primary public instruction has already been mentioned, and there are also splendidly equipped and most successful colleges, such as St. Peter's, Prince Alfred, Whinham's and Way Colleges, leading up to the University, which has schools of Law, Medicine, Music, Arts, and Science. There are also facilities for special instruction in mining, agriculture, viticulture, and other practical subjects at the School of Mines and Industries, and at the Roseworthy Agricultural College. Recently, too, farm schools have been established in Adelaide and the country. The climate of the city, although hot days are frequent in the summer, is most enjoyable, and the death rate is exceedingly low. The land in the vicinity is very fruitful, and orchards and vine- vards are remarkably prolific, while the gardens are always gay with flowers. Every cottager appears to be an expert horticulturist, for nowhere else in Australia are flowers SO plentiful as in Adelaide. The population of Adelaide proper is about 42,000, while with its ring of suburbs the number is brought up to 150,000. Leaving Port Adelaide by steamer the coast line is closely followed, which, however, possesses no special feature until the borders of the Victorian colony are reached, whence pleasant and varied scenery is met with all along up to Port Phillip Heads, which are strongly fortified on either side. Here a strange patch of waters is met with, called “ The Rip,” which at times is very awkward to get through, especially when wind and tide are at variance. In 1838 the authorities in Downing Street had a proposition under serious consideration of throwing a bridge from Port Phillip Heads to Van Dieman's Land. Only a distance of 160 miles ! Such was the geographical knowledge of Victoria 59 vears ago; and even now it is no uncommon thing for friends in Europe to ask one about to reside in Melbourne to be sure and call on an acquaintance in Brisbane, Christchurch, or Hobart. .- After entering the Heads, Queenscliff comes into view ; it is certainly one of the best watering-places of Melbourne, being at once a clean, convenient, and cheerful seaside resort, with first-class hotels. Continuing up the bay, Portarlington is passed, so famed for its production of onions. Most of the - --- - - - - --- --- 22 Australasian United Stram Navigation Company, Limit: 1. ====== == ===== == == = === ====== = = = = = = = ----- --- -- ---- ----- country around is well adapted for agriculture, and the people have not been slow in recognising the fact, for it is all well worked; it is undulating and shelves almost imperceptibly to the bay. Some distance to the west is Geelong, snugly sheltered at the end of a bay. The approaches to it have recently been greatly improved, thus enabling steamers of deep draught to berth at the wharves. Here the products are principally wool and agricultural produce. Geelong is a neat little place, well situated on highish clifts, which gradually slope down at right angles to the shore of Corio Bay--thus allowing the line from the principal pier to run right up into the main street-only to rise again where the spacious park and gardens of 180 acres now come into view-a truly delightful spot, whence the splendid scenery of the Bay, with the opposite shore in the far background, can be thoroughly appreciated. We pass Williams- town on the left, and, obtaining pratique, steam slowly up the Yarra. On the right we see Sandridge Pier, where all the ocean-going steamers are now berthed-this suburban district having supplanted Williamstown by its closer proximity to the city. Continuing up the river-here neither broad nor beautiful, but always busy-We come to miles of wharfage, with coasting craft of all descriptions becoming more numerous, and soon find ourselves alongside the Company's fine wharf in - -- - - --- ---- - MELBOURNE. The city proper lies on the north side of the river Yarra. Its chief streets are well laid out. The principal street is named after Lieut.-Governor Collins, of old colonial fame. It is easy to remember the order of the cross streets, for, beginning with Spencer Street, we have King, William, Queen, and Eliza- beth as cross streets to Collins Street. All the main streets of Melbourne are 99 feet wide. A notable feature of the city is the number of magnificent buildings, on which ornamentation has been lavished and much money spent. The great height of several of these buildings is most striking. The cable tramway system, affording communication to all suburbs from the city proper, is an admirable one. The cars, silent and swift, pass every few minutes, and are a great im- provement on the old horse cars. The smooth blocked tram- way tracks are par excellence the paradise of cyclists, the devotees of the wheel taking full advantage of them. The immediate suburbs of Melbourne are: West Mel- bourne, East Melbourne, Jolimont, and Carlton ; and then we have an inner ring of independent suburbs, such as Fitzroy = = = = Australasian United Steam Navigation Company, Limited. 23 --- -- --- ------- (population, 30,000), Collingwood (population, 30,000), Rich- mond (population, 35,000), Prahran (population, 35,000), South Melbourne (population, 35,000), Port Melbourne, late Sand- ridge (population, 15,000), and North Melbourne. Melbourne stands a city within a city, but there is yet an outer circle of suburbs, such as Williamstown, Footscray, Essendon, Brunswick, Coburg, Northcote, Preston, Heidelberg, Kew, Hawthorn, Camberwell, Toorak, Malvern, St. Kilda, Caulfield, Elsternwick, Brighton --although we can merely name these - which must be considered as part of Greater Melbourne, with its population of about 400,000. The law of gravitation that like draws to like --holds good in city life as elsewhere, so that whilst at the east end of Collins Street the big brass plate of an eminent doctor stares at you from every house, the west end is found to contain the offices of the steam shipping companies, and amongst them, at No. 493, the handsome offices of the Melbourne agents of the A.C.S.X. Co., Messrs. W. Siddeley & Co., are prominent. Then you can find other clusters. The lawyers throng in Chancery Lane and Temple Court, in quarters convenient to the Law Courts, a chaste edifice in William Street. Eastwards, again, you find the citizens of the Flowery Land, the Chinese residents of Melbourne, congregated in Little Bourke Street, about Celestial Avenue. Visitors will notice that each of the principal streets has, running parallel to it, on the north side a narrower street of the same name prefixed by the word “ Little.” These “ Little” streets were intended by the surveyors of Melbourne to have been rights of way, but such is the enhanced value of property that what was intended for the dustman has now most valuable property and frontages. The theatres of Melbourne are unsurpassed in Australia. There are the Princess in Spring Street; Bijou, Royal, and Opera House in Bourke Street ; and Alexandra in Exhibition Street. The principal hotels are Menzies' in Bourke and William Streets, Scott's and the Federal in Collins Street. There are several coffee palaces, viz., the Grand in Spring Street, the Victoria in Collins Street, the Melbourne in Bourke Street, at all of which excellent accommodation may be obtained. Just beyond the Law Courts stands the Royal Mint, and here the visitor may find much of interest. The Melbourne Mint is noted for the excellence of the coins it turns out, and much outside business is done in consequence, such as the minting of medallions for exhibition purposes, &c. Inside everything is in spick and span order, as is usually the case with Government institutions. The visitor may, on presentation of an order - -- - ---- - 24 Vavigation Company', Limited. Australasian United Steam ------- - -- ---- - - -- -- --- (obtained from the Mint itself), inspect the establishment and view the whole process of manufacturing gold coins—from the refining of the precious metal, through the alloying, drawing, rolling, stamping, &c., to the weighing. The Post Office, at the intersection of Elizabeth and Bourke Streets, is also well worthy of a visit. Here one may see the intricacies of the postal system, where time is money, and everything is carried out with great regularity and order at a high rate of speed, affording quick communication with all parts of the world. The Houses of Parliament, a noble structure at the top of Bourke Street, must not be overlooked. The handsome exterior is only exceeded in beauty by the magnificent interior, -- - -- The principal cathedrals and churches in the city of Mel- bourne, including St. Paul's, St. Patrick's, Scots' Church, Independent Church, &c., are all stately buildings, and should not fail to be seen. If the visitor has time, a call should be paid to the Pent- ridge Stockade, the large penal establishment of the colony, which is situated at Coburg, and covers a vast piece of ground. Turning to more pleasing sources of interest, the National Picture Gallery, in Swanston Street, with its attendant Technical Museum and Public Library, must be inspected by all who desire an intimate acquaintance with Melbourne. The Gallery contains many beautiful subjects, too numerous to detail, but paramount amongst them may be mentioned Alma Tadema's “ Vintage Festival," Orchardson's “First Cloud," Waterhouse's “ Ulysses and the Sirens," Long's “ A Question of Propriety” and “ Esther,” and Marcus Stone's “ Peacemaker," for most of which large sums have been paid. The chief items of interest in the Museum are exhibits relating to mining, and an immense fund of valuable informa- tion is here stored for the prospector and mining investor. --- - ---- conceivable subject, and is undoubtedly a valuable and impor- tant institution. It contains a free lending department, a circulating library without expense to the readers. The Exhibition Building, an immense structure, stands out prominently above all other buildings, its grand cupola being visible nearly all over Melbourne, and is particularly noticeable on entering the river. There is an Aquarium here which should be seen, the collection of marine animals and fishes being very fine. There are few places so highly favoured in the matter of public parks as the City of the South. A beneficent Govern- ment has wisely provided a profusion of these mighty "lungs," - -- - - - -- --- ----- - ---- - - - WEB MELBOURNE (COLLINS STREET, W.) NEN FUR TAIL TOUTFIT BEHIVE STORE BENDIGO. THE BACCHUS MARSH CON ENTRATED MILK COMPANY LIMITE TELEPHONE 177 OFFICE 59 WILLIAM SI MELBOURNE DAIRY DAIRY BA BACCHUS MARSH THE BACCHUS MARSH Concentrated Milk Co. TRADE SAWITAS -2020 LIMITED. @reet CONCENTRATED MILK- MARK 1/3 per Quart FRESH CREAM DAILY- 1/- per Pint FACTORY BUTTER Delivered in all Suburbs. ( . . . . .. . . . .. . .. . TELEPHONE 1777. OFFICE: 59 William Street, Melbourne. THE BACCHUS MARSH CONCENTRATED MILK is manufactured from Milk collected in the finest Dairy District of Victoria. BACCHUS MARSH is situated in the watershed of the Blackwood Ranges, and is traversed by the Werribee and Lerderderg Rivers, and its luxuriant pasturage provides the rich luscious Milk which is the secret of this Company's unrivalled success. CONCENTRATED MILK is Fresh Condensed Milk prepared from pure unskimmed Milk by evaporation to one-fourth of its bulk. By adding three or four times the quantity of water, and stirring, it resumes the original full- flavoured creamy milk from which it was derived ; and when diluted has the ordinary conditions of souring, so that not more than a day's supply should be mixed at a time. It is THE BEST MILK FOR GENERAL USE. It is THE BEST MILK FOR CHILDREN, and, heavily diluted, for the nourishing of Infants and Invalids, being easily digested; is recommended by the Central Board of Health and Medical Faculty as free from germ disease, and can be used diluted with pure water without further boiling. THE BACCHUS MARSH CONCENTRATED MILK is used by Hotels, Cafés, Clubs, and Public Institutions, and on the Ocean and Intercolonial Steam Shipping, on account of its economy and immunity from souring, while its value as a substitute for cream in salads, and for cooking purposes, makes it indispensable to high-class cuisine. FACTORY BUTTER AND CREAM FRESH DAILY. ------ --- - -- -- - --- --- -- --- - - - - Australasian Unite! Steam Navigation Company, Limited. 25 --- - - - ---- - ----- - - -- - - affording ample breathing space in and around Melbourne. In the Zoological Gardens, at Royal Park, you can for a modest sixpence see one of the finest collections of wild animals in the world. The Botanical Gardens at South Yarra are unsurpassed in Australia, and the noble edifice of Government House, with its large grounds adjoining the Gardens, makes a most enchanting bit of scenery, forming the subject of many an artistic sketch. The sporting proclivities of the public are indicated by the number of racecourses. There is Flemington, where the annual racing carnival is held, when near and far from all parts the people come ilocking to look at the Cup, all, of course, animated by the patriotic and laudable ambition to improve the breed of horses. There are also racecourses in the suburbs, notably Caulfield, Epsom, Mentone, Moonee Valley, and others too numerous to mention. At Cup time, H.M. warships, both imperial and auxiliary, find it convenient to extend their guardian care to Port Phillip. Melbourne has no beautiful harbour of which to boast, in fact she has not been well favoured in this respect; but what was lacking in nature has been to a great extent overcome by the genius and enterprise of the citizens, who under the rigime of the Harbour Trust have converted the swampy embouchures of the Yarra into a noble river, with miles of wharfage accommodation for the world's commerce. Education has not been neglected. The Melbourne University, in Carlton, has enshrined on its roll names of world- wide fame. Education is free, secular, and compulsory ; and the State schools are most imposing buildings in many places. victorians are determined to give the young hopefuls a fair start in life. From Melbourne many delightful trips can be made to coast and country. The watering-places near the Heads--- Sorrento and Queenscliff, &c.—are easily accessible, whilst Fern Tree Gully, Dandenong, Healesville, Lilydale, Upper Yarra Valley, Yarra Glen, Macedon, Woodend, Yan Yean, &c., are all most interesting places and well worth a visit. The mining metropolis is Ballarat, 75 miles from Mel- bourne, and is aptly termed the Golden City. Ballarat is the largest inland city in Australia. Of 55,000,000 ounces of gold produced by Victoria---value, say, £220,100,000 -- not less than one-fourth has come from Ballarat. The largest nugget ever found on Ballarat was the Welcome, at Bakery Hill, at a depth of 180 feet, in 1858. This mass of gold weighed 2,217 ounces 16 dwts., and was valued at about £9,000. The next to it in size was one found in 1853 in the Canadian bully, a run famous for nuggets, no less than six being taken 26 Varigation Company, Limited. Australasian United Steam - - -- ------ ---- out of it in one vear. This one weighed 1,619 ounces iI dwts. The Lady Hotham, in 1854, weighed 1,177 ounces 17 duts. The largest nugget ever found, so far as records go, was dis- covered on the surface at Mount Moliagul, near Dunolly, in 1869. It weighed 2,280 ounces. Lake Wendouree and the Botanical Gardens of Ballarat are objects of surpassing interest. The lake is an ornamental sheet of water, the shores of which are fringed with gardens and plantations. The Botanic Gardens contain twelve marble statues, purchased at Carrara by Mr. Thomas Stoddart, a wealthy speculator, and were the first erected in the Gardens. They cost over £2,000. Since their erection several other statues have been added by means of a bequest left by Mr. J. Russell Thomson, one of the pioneers of Ballarat, who left what remained of his fortune (about £4,000) to be invested in statuary for the Gardens. One group, “ The Flight from Pompeii," perhaps the finest statuary south of the line, has been lavishly praised by the highest European critics, and the sculptor, Benzoni, refused an offer of £4,000 for it. A colossal statue of Sir William Wallace, executed in the colony by Percival Ball, and the Claxton Memorial, are the latest additions. A few general figures regarding the productions of Victoria may be of interest to the visitor, who, if he desires, can easily study the subject fully in the Government reports and other books of statistics. Victoria had for the year ending March, 1896, the following area under cultivation : Wheat, 1,412,736 acres ; oats, 255,503 acres ; potatoes, 43,895 acres ; hay, 464,482 acres. The gross produce of the same being-Wheat, 5,669,174 bushels ; oats, 2,880,045 bushels ; potatoes, 117,238 tons ; hay, 390,861 tons; which gives an average produce per acre of : Wheat, 4.03 bushels; oats, 11.29 bushels; potatoes, 2.67 tons; hay, .84 tons. The time of the wheat harvest varies in different parts of the colony, but the average time when the harvest begins is December ist, and the average time when it ends January 27th. Besides the above crops the colony produces barley, maize, rve, peas and beans, turnips, mangel wurzel, beet, carrots and onions, grass and clover seed, hops, and tobacco ; also a large quantity of fruit, such as apples, peaches, apricots, &c., &c. There are over 30,000 acres under cultivation for vines, yield- ing 479,071 cwt. grapes per year. The wine made is 2,226,999 gallons ; raisins, 11,183 cwt.; currants, 686 cwt. The estimated population, as given on the last return of the colony, is 1,174,859. - - -= = -=-_ __--- - - -- - - - - =- = -. - Australasian United Steam Vavigation Company, Limited. 27 -- - --- --- --- ---- - ----- - -- - - - - - - - - Leaving by steamer for Sydney, we pass Brighton, Morning- ton, Dromana, and other popular watering-places on our left; we come again into the Rip and out into the Pacific Ocean. Heading in a south-easterly direction we pass through Bass Straits and round Wilson's Promontory, which is the southern- most point of Australia. The islands, of which there are many in this vicinity, swarm with seals. We now shape a course for Cape Howe and thence to Sydney Heads, before reaching which lovers of coastal scenery can enjoy to the full the most magnificent of panoramic views, especially along the Illawarra district, where the little town of Woollongong lies snugly in between hills, presenting a cultivated and altogether unique appearance. Two bold and precipitous points of land denote the Heads, which are only one mile apart. A lighthouse, with a very powerful electric light showing to a distance of 22 miles, is situated on the South Head. Port Jackson may be admitted to have one or two rivals, but it may reasonably be doubted whether any other harbour in the world is its superior either for natural beauty or for safe anchorage. The geographical position of the harbour is such that it was selected by the Admiralty as the headquarters of the British naval forces in Australian and Pacific waters. It is almost like visiting fairyland to sail down this magnificent harbour on a bright sunny day -- and as this is “sunny New South Wales” such days are common enough. The sight is bewildering as the great expanse of the waters of Port Jackson comes into view, and as the scenery all around gradually unfolds itself. So indented with bays and harbours within harbours is Port Jackson that the foreshores positively extend to 100 miles. It matters little how long a man lives in Sydney, it is seldom that he is able to explore or casually visit even one-half of the charming resorts formed by the innumerable bays, creeks, beaches, headlands, and islands of “our harbour.” The gently rising ground surrounding the bay is generally green with vegetation and brightened with mansions, villas, and cottages. Half an hour's delightful run up the harbour brings us to the Company's wharf, and we are soon in a hansom on our way to one of the first-rate hotels in SYDNEY. In proportion and importance Sydney is a city well in keeping with its noble entrance gate and gloriously picturesque approach. The visitor, still warm with admiration excited by the natural beauties of the harbour and the handsome mansions crowning the heights, dotting the slopes, and even in some cases with the deep blue waters of the harbour lapping their - -.- - -- - 28 Australasian United Steam Varigation Company, Limited -- - ---- - --- --- ------ -- - - ---- - - -- - very foundations, has his attention diverted to the more solid and impressive evidences of commercial and industrial develop- ment presented by the huge piles of buildings lining the fore- shores and extending away back on every hand as far as the eve can reach. That we are at the threshold of a great city is clearly manifest long before we set foot on shore, and we are to some extent prepared for the further experiences which await us in this, the cradle of the Australian nation. In general appearance Sydner presents a marked contrast to the other capital cities of Australia. When the city was laid out it can scarcely be said to have been planned-no one could have had the faintest conception of what was in the womb of the future, and as the settlement expanded it was apparently considered suflicient for all purposes present and to come to follow the tracks made through the original scrub, as the contour of the country or as primary convenience suggested. One of the consequences of this go-as-you-please proceeding is that some of the principal streets are narrow and irregular, and in distinct contrast in this respect to the chess-board exactness with which some of the other Australian cities have been laid out. Much has been done of recent years to widen narrow and to straighten crooked thoroughfares, and also to cut down some of the steep hills which have operated to divert traffic from the most direct routes. There are still, however, plenty of curves and twists and hills and dales to lend variety, if not charm, to a peregrination of the city. Notwithstanding, Sydney possesses several fine wide thoroughfares which would do credit to any city in the world. Long lines of handsome business premises grace the principal streets, and the numerous huge stores and warehouses abutting on the water frontages, although, perhaps, not presenting any striking architectural features, appeal with considerable force to those who have an eve to the strictly utilitarian aspect of affairs. Sydney, of all the cities of Australia, has availed itself to the fullest extent of the facilities for street paving afforded by the abundant supplies of hardwood blocks available close at hand, and all the principal streets have splendidly laid hard clean roadways. One result of this wise provision is that the streets are remarkably free from the dirt and dust arising from heavy traffic in narrow city thoroughfares under other circumstances. Sydney has many fine public buildings and institutions which are well worthy of notice, but it is not to our purpose to mention more than one or two of these. First, perhaps, comes the Town Hall with its fine Centenary Hall, erected, as the name implies, in commemoration of the centenary of the colony in 1887. This is a fine group of buildings, the Town Hall having a specially ornate façade, while the Centenary is a - -- --- - - - - . ZA LAVENDER BAY, SYDNEY. ART OVE WYNYARD SQUARE. SYDNEY. ----- ----- -- ----=- == -- - -- - --- -- - - -- - -- Australasian United Steam Navigation Company, Limited. 29 -- - - - -- - -- - beautiful hall -- the largest in the colonies --- with the largest organ in the world, upon which recitals are given by a talented organist with a high European reputation. The Post Office is the most imposing of Sydney public buildings ; the tower, one of the highest in Australia, is open to visitors, and commands a view of the city and surroundings such as is unattainable from any other point. Other noteworthy public buildings are the Lands Department, a very extensive block; the Colonial Secretary's Offices, and the Technical Schools. Parliament House is an old-fashioned structure, and as soon as the circum- stances of the colony permit it is to be replaced with a building more worthy of the dignity of the Legislature. The Art Gallery (in the Domain) is also devoid of interest from an exterior aspect, but it contains a very fine collection of pictures, of which the Sydney folk are justly proud. There are many other noble edifices not strictly of a public character which are well worth attention, but space will not permit of special reference to them here. Apart from such impressions as may be conveyed by what is to be seen from the harbour, a visitor to Sydney cannot long fail to grasp the fact that the pastoral industry is the mainstay of the commerce of the country, of which Sydney is the great shipping and trading depöt. Wool, skins, hides, and all the other associated products of pastoral industry are in evidence, in more senses than one, in the streets and on the wharves, and the most imposing of the huge stores before mentioned as adjacent to the wharves are wool warehouses, where the great staple product of the colony is stored and dumped prior to passing into the holds of the many fine steamers and sailing vessels waiting for it. A few words about the pastoral industry of the colony may not be amiss here. It was not long after the first settlers established themselves in the neighbourhood of Sydney that the eminent suitability of the country for sheep breeding was recognised, but owing to the difficulties in the way of importing suitable stock the first few years in the history of Australian settlement passed without any appreciable progress having been made. By 1795, however, just over 100 years ago, the matter of sheep breeding was beginning to take a hold upon the attention of the people, and although the primary object in view was to provide meat for the colonists, the importance of growing good fleeces was not lost sight of. One of the first of the early settlers to realise the possibilities that lay before them in connection with wool growing was Captain Macarthur, an officer of the New South Wales Corps, who had, in the year above mentioned, accumulated a flock of 1,000. Macarthur was really the first man to enter into sheep breeding in the colony in a systematic way, and he was so - - - - -- -- - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - 30 Australasian United Steam Navigation Company, Limited. = = == == = = = = = = ===== == = = = = = = = impressed with the necessity of improving the quality of his fleece and producing wool which should command attention in the markets of the world that he incurred considerable expense in importing sheep from the Cape, where he was fortunate enough to secure three rams and five ewes of very fine Spanish breed, which had been presented by the King of Spain to the Dutch Government. These precious animals reached the colony in 1797, and from that date Macarthur went steadily on improving his flock, and in a few years obtained such fine fleeces as commanded the ready appreciation of English manu- facturers. Samuel Marsden, the first colonial chaplain, was another of those who got on to the right track, and early in 1806 he secured from England some merino sheep from the Royal farms at Windsor to improve the breed in the colony. Thus were the foundations laid of the great wool-growing industry of Australasia, which has now reached such proportions that the colonies possess upwards of 120,000,000 sheep and produce upwards of 750,000,000 lbs. of wool annually. The importance of the position occupied by New South Wales in this connection is plain when it is stated that this colony alone possesses upwards of 50,000,000, or nearly half the total number of sheep in the whole of the colonies, and exports a corres- pondingly large share of the wool. As a matter of fact, the wool export of New South Wales rose from 80,000 lbs. in 1819 to 306,824,358 lbs. in 1896, the product of the wool-growing industry now representing an annual value of £9,897,332 ! This includes, however, large quantities of Queensland wool, which is sent to the Southern capital for sale or shipment. The greater part of the vast area of country which pours its wealth into Sydney is of course occupied for pastoral purposes, but still agriculture is not neglected, and the total area returned as under cultivation is 1,348,600 acres. The area alienated or in process of alienation amounts to 44,895,582 acres, and the area under lease for pastoral purposes is 124,310,000 acres. The importance of Sydney as a shipping centre may be gathered from the fact that the value of the inward and outward trade amounts to £43,571,859 per annum, and a comparison with the principal ports of Great Britain shows that in point of value of trade Sydney is exceeded only by London, Liverpool, and Hull. Having diverted attention for the moment from the city itself to an explanation of the principal foundation upon which its prosperity rests, we may turn again to some of the leading features of the capital, which after all may prove more attrac- tive than dry statistics. Sydney has been so liberally endowed with parks and reserves of one kind and another that no one in the city need be at any time beyond three to five minutes' Australasian United Steam Navigation Company, Limited. 31 walk from a well-planted and grassed space. The extent to which provision has been made in this direction is brought home to the mind by the statement that more than 776 acres in all, or one-fourth of the whole area of the city proper, has been so appropriated. The principal of these reserves is the Botanic Gardens, which, with Government House grounds, and what is known as “the Domain” (a very large park), occupies one of the most charming sites to be found on the shores of a harbour rich in the picturesque. These reserves overlook that portion of the harbour known as Farm Cove, where the war- ships have their moorings, and only the most attractive features of shipping of a great port are here presented--the grime and dirt and unsavouriness being restricted to the upper parts of the harbour. The other principal parks are Hyde Park (right in the heart of the city), Belmore Park, Cook Park, and outside the city proper are the Centennial Park (a noble gift to the citizens in commemoration of the centenary of the colony in 1887), covering 780 acres, and representing an expenditure to date of upwards of a quarter of a million of money ; Moore Park, and Victoria Park (which adjoins the University grounds). Besides these are the National Park, with an area of 36,320 acres, and the Kurringgai Chase, another similarly extensive reservation for national recreation purposes. The former park is situated 18 miles southward from the city, and the latter about 30 miles to the northward, both having been dedicated with a full appreciation of their specially picturesque features and varied resources from the point of view of the pleasure seeker. In other ways probably few people are better off than the citizens of Sydney for many and varied opportunities of spending their leisure time profitably and pleasantly away from the toil and moil of the city. It is safe to say that there are hundreds of charming retreats presenting features specially attractive to pleasure seekers within easy reach by train or boat ; and in the matter of boating or fishing alone the waters of Hacking River, George's River, Botany Bay, Narrabeen Lake, Hawkesbury River, Lake Macquarie, and other places, to say nothing of the extensively ramifying harbour itself, afford unbounded facilities. So far as the meaning of the word “history” is understood Australia, Sydney and the towns in the immediate neighbour- lood are the richest in the colonies. Captain Cook, in his famous voyage in the “Endeavour," discovered Botany Bay, and made an entrance there on 28th April, 1770, but he did nothing of importance beyond hoisting the Union Jack and taking ormal possession of the territory for the British Crown. He then sailed northward—and although he saw and named Port Jackson he did not apparently enter it-and kept on until he 32 Australasian United Steam Navigation Company, Limited. = == == = = = — came to an anchor in Moreton Bay. It was not until seventeen years later that Captain Phillip, R.X., was placed in charge of an expedition sent out for the purpose of establishing a colony in the new country reported upon so favourably by Cook. The fleet arrived in Botany Bay in January, 1788, but Captain Phillip was so little impressed with the suitableness of that place for the establishment of his settlement that he set out to explore the coast, and his satisfaction may be imagined when, within nine miles, the boats entered what proved to be one of the finest harbours in the world, with ample fresh water sup- plies to be obtained on shore and plenty of good timber. At Sydney Cove, the site now known as Circular Quay, where all the great ocean liners are provided with berths, Captain Phillip established his first camp, and from Sydney was directed the whole of the energies of the first settlers of the colony. As the colonists penetrated inland, Parramatta, Liverpool, and Windsor became established as subsidiary centres of trade and industry, and all these old towns whose history now spans a century are well worth a visit from those for whom matters bearing upon the early history of Australian settlement have any interest. Among the resorts adjacent to Sydney most favoured by visitors are the Blue Mountains, which are widely celebrated for the grandeur of their scenery, in this respect excelling any easily accessible mountain scenery in Australia. The principal sights in the mountains are to be reached from Mount Victoria, Blackheath, Katoomba, and Wentworth Falls, and the far- famed Jenolan Caves are also amongst the attractions of the Mountains. The Hawkesbury River trip is a favourite one, and specially attractive to people to whom imposing river scenery is a novelty. There are also a hundred and one other places within easy reach, at which a pleasant day or two may be spent, and any odd hours may be employed in visiting such places as Manly Beach, Coogee Bay, Bondi (all with open beaches), or Watson's Bay with its grand outlook from the South Head Cliffs over the Pacific on the one hand, and back over the harbour towards the city on the other. - - - - NEWCASTLE, N.S.W., is situated at the mouth of the Hunter River, some 60 miles north of Sydney, and is the second city of importance in the colony. Its population, including suburbs, consists of about 60,000 souls, supported chiefly by the production of coal, which is exported in large quantities to almost all parts of the globe. Newcastle is regarded as the great coal emporium of the Southern Hemisphere, and is justly entitled to this distinction - - -- Australasian United Steam Navigation Company, Limited. 33 --- from the extent of the operations in this commodity. During the year 1896 no less than 1,920,378 tons were shipped to foreign and intercolonial ports, and 1,274 vessels visited the port, representing a gross tonnage of 1,410,000, which will give some idea of the importance of the town. The harbour in ordinary weather is not difficult of access, and vessels drawing up to 23 feet 6 inches may enter and depart safely. The wharfage accommodation for the discharging of cargo is about one and a quarter miles long, and for loading between two and three miles, and the latter is being extended from time to time. To facilitate the shipment of coal twelve large hydraulic cranes and three steam cranes are constantly engaged, and, should occasion demand, any one of the former can load up to 100 tons per hour. A number of powerful electric arc lights, one of the finest installations in the world, have been erected on the loading wharf, which enable operations to be carried on at night quite as expeditiously as in daytime. The city is also lighted similarly, and presents an attractive sight after dark when viewed from the harbour. Besides the coal trade, a large business is done in wool and frozen meat. During the course of last year 55,000 bales of wool and 76,513 cwt. of meat were exported. In addition to this there are now in course of erection large works for the treatment of Broken Hill and other sulphide ores of low grade. The magnitude of these works may be estimated from the simple fact that they are expected to find employment for 500 people, and the probable consumption of coal will total 500,000 tons annually; and it is re- ported that negotiations are pending for the erection bytwo other companies of similar works. During the year two meat-freez- ing establishments were opened in the north, which now make four in full swing, the produce from which is mainly sent to Newcastle for shipment. The city and harbour are protected from hostile attacks by two forts---one on Allan's Hill (Fort Scratchley) and the other on Shepherd's Hill, heavy breech- loading guns of the most modern type being mounted there. Leaving the city and travelling southward by rail or coach for about 12 miles, the visitor finds himself on the shores of Lake Macquarie, a magnificent inland sea, joined to the Pacific Ocean by a narrow channel three miles long. The lake itself has a shore circumference of 360 miles, and is one continuation of land-locked harbours surrounded by hills of moderate size, thickly wooded and covered by native ferns and flora. Several of the leading citizens of Newcastle have country residences on its shores, and in the near future, when its charms become more generally known, it will no doubt become one of the leading holiday resorts, as apart from its splendid scenery a most enjoyable time can be spent shooting, fishing, and bathing. - -- ----== = = == _- = -- -- --- --- --------- 34 Australasian United Steam Navigation Company, Limited. To the north of Newcastle, about 20 miles, is Port Stephens, a beautifully land-locked harbour, abounding in fish, and a famous resort for sportsmen. Leaving Newcastle, we leave New South Wales as far as the larger steamers are concerned, for the ports between here and Brisbane-important though they be in providing an outlet for the products (sugar, dairy produce, &c.) of the fertile coastal districts of New South Wales are only available for small steamers, which convey those products to Sydney. About 30 hours after leaving Newcastle, the trip between which port and Brisbane is usually a very pleasant one, the track lying near enough to the land to afford a good view of the principal points on the way, we round Cape Moreton and enter Moreton Bay. Like Melbourne, Brisbane is situated some distance from the sea, and it will be about four hours after passing the Cape before we reach the city. The residents of Brisbane are very fond of the bay, and if we happen to be entering the port on a holiday we shall find it dotted with sailing vessels and small steamers crowded with passengers enjoying the fresh breezes or witnessing the various exciting events of a regatta. As we come up the river we notice on our right the works of the Queensland Meat Export Co., which shipped last year, among other products, 13,146 tons of frozen meat to Europe. On the opposite side, higher up the river, may be seen the works of the Graziers Butchering Co., who ship large quantities of tinned meat to Europe and elsewhere ; and near town the large refinery of the Colonial Sugar Co., an adjunct to similar establishments in the Southern colonies. When we come higher up the picturesque winding river to the residential portion of the city the eye is delighted with the foliage of the trees and by the gardens decked out with flowers, in which the residents take so much pride. The river itself takes about an hour and a half to negotiate after entering it, and we land at length at the A.U.S.N. Company's wharf, situated in the centre of the town, and find ourselves on QUEENSLAND soil. BRISBANE alone will not give the tourist much idea of Queensland as a whole, for in this vast colony, which comprises 668,497 square miles of country, being 1,300 miles long and 900 miles broad, we find, as we might well expect to do, a great diversity in climate as well as in products. It has been said, and we believe with truth, that in Queensland can be grown anything, whether suitable to temperate or tropical climates, and this is being verified year by year by the efforts of acclimatisation t l iii ៣០ សាលា បាញ BRISBANE, FROM WICKHAM TERRACE. ON'S HOTEL. GRAY'S WAT GEORGE STREET WEST, BRISBANE. WILSON TOELATAN 7 78 3 . PARLIAMENT HOUSE, BRISBANE. The Queensland Model Dairy, Fresh Food, Joe, and Storage Company, LIMITED. Butter Factory: TURBOT ST., BRISBANE. Cheese Factory : LAIDLEY. Fresh Butter, Cream, and Milk Delivered twice daily by the Company's Carts in Brisbane and Suburbs. Model Dairy Butter is manufactured from Cream specially separated in the following districts in Queensland:- Fernvale, Bellevue, Mount Brisbane, Purga, Flinders, Milbong, Mount Alford, Upper Coochin, Roodvale, Minden, Wolloon, Laidley, Forest Hill, Gatton, Grantham, Helidon, Logan Village, Beaudesert, Kerry, Tambourine, Pimpama, Nerang, and Caboolture. - - ----- - - -=-- --- - ----== -=- - Australasian United Steam Navigation Company, Limited. 35 ... - societies and of individuals who are endeavouring to increase products available either for home consumption or export. The chief articles at present on which the wealth of Queens- land is based are sheep, cattle, and gold, while among the agri- cultural productions sugar holds far and away the supreme place. You see evidence of what the country produces as soon as you set foot on the Brisbane wharves. In one place are huge stacks of neat bags of sugar; in another piles of bales of wool and sheepskins ; in another stacks of cased meats, diversified by casks of tallow and bundles of hides. But to show the various articles produced in the colony, we must refer the reader to the following list of exports during 1896 :- Gold, dust and bars ... £2,114,257 Hides and skins ... 449,265 Meat, preserved and frozen 899,275 Sugar, raw and refined ... 863,080 Tallow .. 337,967 Tin, ore and smelted ... 46,779 Wool 2,984,210 Pearl-shell and bêche-de-mer 102,249 Other articles ... ... ... 1,366,644 These total £9,163,726, while the imports reached £5,443,135 sterling. The total estimated yield from the various goldfields of the colony up to 1896 has been 11,196,605 ounces, valued at £39,188,117. Brisbane is not a mining centre, and those who wish to see the gold and other mines of the colony must visit Gympie, Eidsvold, Mount Morgan, Charters Towers, Herberton, Croy- don, Georgetown, and other districts, which we will describe later when we come to the ports whence their output is shipped, but the other commodities which pass through Bris- bane give employment to a large population. In connection with mining, however, the coal trade must by no means be overlooked. Ipswich, 24 miles from the capital by rail, is the centre of the industry; and the railway wharf, situated only a short distance above the wharves where the A.C.S.N. Company's steamers lie, presents a busy scene, long trains of coal-laden trucks discharging their contents into steamers and punts. The coal produced in Queensland in 1896 amounted to 371,000 tons. It is of very good quality, and little other coal is used in the colony, though at present the export trade in the article is but limited. The city of Brisbane is not laid out with such wide streets as Melbourne and Adelaide, but compares in this respect very favourably with Sydney. It has been said that there is not much to be seen in Brisbane, but the visitor will find the 36 Australasian United Steam Vavigation Company, Limited. --- -- - - Houses of Parliament, Government Offices, Picture Gallery, School of Arts, Gymnasium, the Museums, the Grammar and State Schools, and other institutions well worth a yisit. We strongly recommend a tour of the Museums, of which there are three-the General Museum in William Street, the Geo- logical at the corner of Queen and George Streets, and the Tech- nological Museum in William Street attached to the Department of Agriculture. A mere casual inspection cannot fail to con- vince the visitor that the resources of the colony are very large, and if his tastes or business pursuits lie in the direction of ethnology, natural history, the pastoral industry, mining or agriculture, he will find enough to occupy him for many a long hour, and make him determine to visit the districts whence the numberless object lessons have been brought at the earliest possible opportunity. When visiting the Houses of Parliament, it will be well to go through the adjoining Botanical Gardens, which are very prettily laid out and, having a long frontage to the river, form a pleasant promenade for pedestrians and a good road for cyclists. In addition to these gardens there are the Acclimatisation Grounds at Bowen Park, the curator of which is, only too delighted to display his treasures to visitors, and there are numerous parks about the city where a quiet hour may be very pleasantly spent under the shade of beautiful trees. The great attraction of Brisbane at present is the Inter- national Exhibition, which will draw the lines closer between the colony and its neighbours and also European countries, which have sent specimens of their manufactures. Brisbane is provided with two theatres and an opera house, besides the Centennial Hall and other places where concerts can be held, and the visitor should not lose any opportunity that offers of hearing the large organ in the Exhibition Building. If fond of horse-racing, cricket, football, or other sports he will find ample opportunities of witnessing or sharing in them, and the river affords unrivalled facilities for rowing, sailing, or fishing. When he gets tired of Brisbane itself he should select one of the numerous railway lines, which will take him in a com- paratively short time far into the country, or else to one of the pleasant Watering-places, such as Sandgate, Cleveland, and Southport, which dot the shores of the bay. Other watering- places, such as Humpybong, Redcliff, and Caloundra are reached by small steamers. The visitor will wish to see where the wool and other pro- ducts shipped away from here come from, and it will be well, therefore, for him to take a run by rail to Toowoomba, Warwick, and other places on the Darling Downs, situated from 1,400 to 2,000 feet above sea level. He will there find a very different climate to Brisbane, and in the winter will be - - - - - -----------= = = = = = WATERFALL GULLY, MAROON. II Australasian United Steam Navigation Company, Limited. 37 a utilised meely to be PF has been acra frui glad of clothes as thick as people are accustomed to wear in the mother country at that season. A month could be put in very well on the Downs if the visitor has provided himself with introductions to the various station owners. The Downs have in the past been utilised more particularly as pastoral country, but agriculture seems likely to be pre-eminent in the near future; and when the visitor sees what has been accomplished already in the way of growing wheat, grapes, and fruit of various kinds, he will be convinced that much more can be done, and will be satisfied that all that is required to develop this fertile country indefinitely is a large and industrious popu- lation. The Government is doing its best to encourage settle- ment, and particulars of the conditions on which land may be taken up are readily supplied by the Departments of Land and Agriculture in the colony or by the Agent-General in London. After thoroughly doing the Downs we return to Brisbane and embark for our next port-Maryborough—180 miles distant. Leaving in the evening we wake up to find ourselves ESTABLISHED 1876. R. Martin & Co., Ship-Chandlers and Coach Ironmongers. Edward and Margaret Streets, BRISBANE. IMPORTERS OF T. & W. Smith's celebrated Galvanised Flexible Steel Wire Ropes, Belfast Yacht Ropes, and Gourock Canvas, in large and varied quantities, always on hand. Anchors, Chains, Ropes, Blocks, Paints, Oils, Varnish, Wheel stuff, Axles, Springs, Lamps, Leather, Bar Iron and Steel. OOOO O O Sailmaking and Rigging in all branches attended to by a competent staff of workers, O KOMOZT ESTABLISHED 1863. POTTS, PAUL & SARGANT, Eagle Street, BRISBANE. Erskine & Lime Streets, SYDNEY. Ship-Chandlers and General Merchants. Large stocks always kept of the following: - Whitecross Steel Wire Ropes for all purposes H. Höeg's Anti-Corrosive and Anti-Fouling Compositions. Muntz Metal, Sheathing, Rod and Nails. Paints, Oils, Tar, and Varnishes. Lloyd's Admiralty Test Chains and Cables and Ships' requirements of every description. Mining Requisites. Contractors' Supplies. Hardware and General Ironmongery. Ships' Stores in all branches. Orders receive prompt and careful attention, Estimates given. - - - ---- - - - Australasian United Steam Varigation Company, Limited. 37 glad of clothes as thick as people are accustomed to wear in the mother country at that season. A month could be put in very well on the Downs if the visitor has provided himself with introductions to the various station owners. The Downs have in the past been utilised more particularly as pastoral country, but agriculture seems likely to be pre-eminent in the near future ; and when the visitor sees what has been accomplished already in the way of growing wheat, grapes, and fruit of various kinds, he will be convinced that much more can be done, and will be satisfied that all that is required to develop this fertile country indefinitely is a large and industrious popu- lation. The Government is doing its best to encourage settle- ment, and particulars of the conditions on which land may be taken up are readily supplied by the Departments of Land and Agriculture in the colony or by the Agent-General in London. After thoroughly doing the Downs we return to Brisbane and embark for our next port - Maryborough-180 miles distant. Leaving in the evening we wake up to find ourselves in smooth water about ten hours after starting from Brisbane, for the steamer has by that time crossed Wide Bay Bar, and we are in the quiet waters of Sandy Straits, bounded on our right by the huge extent of Frazer Island. We proceed along the Straits until we reach the mouth of the Mary River, up which we steam and land in Maryborough about sixteen hours after leaving Brisbane. MARYBOROUGH. This is a well laid out town, and shows signs of steady pro- gress. It is situated about 25 miles from the mouth of the Mary River, which is easily navigated by the coasting steamers. It may almost be called the Birmingham of the colony, possessing as it does foundries, sawmills, &c., that will compare favourably with any in the Australasian colonies, while the coal mines in the vicinity of the town are also an im- portant factor in its prosperity. The Yengarie Sugar Refinery has been long established on the banks of the Mary River, and more recently the Mount Bouple Refinery and the Mary- borough Sugar Factory have helped to swell the already large output of sugar from the district. The far-famed Isis Scrub, which only a few years ago was virgin forest but has now been transformed into miles of rolling sugar-land under full cultiva- tion, lies midway between Maryborough and Bundaberg, and has numerous large sugar mills—that of the Colonial Sugar Co., at Childers, being one of the largest in the world. The works of the Queensland Smelting Co., Ltd., are situated at Aldershot, - - - - ISIS CENTRAL SUGAR MILL, QUEENSLAND. 40 Varigation Company, Limited ustralasian United Slam ----- - -- - ---- -- ----- -------- ROCKHAMPTON, --- - -- -- ---- which derives its commercial importance as the principal town in Central Queensland, and the second in the colony from being the shipping port for the Central district, which com- prises some of the finest agricultural and pastoral lands in the colony. The Central Railway extends in a direct line 124 miles to Longreach, in addition to branches from Emerald to Clermont and Springsure. The downward traffic on the line for the year 1896 was as follows: 98,711 bales wool, 416,092 sheep, and 17,961 cattle, as well as large consignments of station produce (hides, tallow, &c.). It is in contemplation to extend the Central line from Longreach, and when this is done it will tap further country, and be the means of still further increasing the importance of Rockhampton as a shipping port. Communica- tion with deep water is now on the way, as a wharf is being erected at Broadmount (26 miles from the town) and the line being continued to Broadmount from a point on the Emu Park Railway. A bridge is also being built across the Fitzroy River, which will place the two systems in communication. Rockhampton is the port of entry for Mount Morgan, included in which is the celebrated gold mine, which is one of the wonders of the world, as since the formation of the com- pany in 1886 up to the end of 1896 no less than 1,562,625 ounces 14 dwts. 13 grs. of gold have been produced, and the sum of £4,250,000 distributed in dividends among its share- holders. Improved machinery and appliances for treating low grade ores have lately been brought into operation, and it is expected that the output for the current year will show a large increase on 1896. A railway from Kabra, on the Central line, to Mount Morgan is about to be built. When this is com- pleted Mount Morgan will have easy communication with Rockhampton, the present journey by coach, or coach and rail, occupying from three to five hours. The Lake's Creek Meat Works, situated on the bank of the river about four miles from town, are also a source of consider- able profit to the city, but their operations for 1896 did not come up to the standard of 1895 owing to dry weather. The following were the principal exports from Rockhampton for 1896 : 148,648 ounces gold, 101,412 bales wool, 10,769,776 lbs. preserved meats, 6,940,386 lbs. frozen beef, 2,988,016 lbs. frozen mutton, 139,006 lbs. meat extract, 5,757 tons tallow, 63,411 hides, 12,767 bales sheepskins, 459 bundles kangaroo skins, the total value of which comes to £ 2,405,792, being the largest of any port in the colony ; and the imports for the same year came to £ 569,731. --- --- --- = ==- ===--= - === = = = = == = = 42 Australasian United Steam - ---- Vavigation Company, Limited. - which promises to completely revolutionise the business of sugar growing and manufacture in this country. It is specially notable that while other districts claim that their lands are richer, and their crops heavier, there are no portions of the colony where anything like so high a price is given to the farmer for his cane as at Mackay. The crop last year amounted to 16,354 tons of sugar, but the district has done better than this in past years, and will do so again. Railway extension is anticipated within a short time, which will also open up new areas for cane growing, and no district in the colony offers such admirable opportunities for practical farmers to invest as this favoured one. The imports for last year were £79,143, and the exports were £ 168,861, of which £155,869 were for sugar. While the whole energy of the place is being devoted to one industry, there are many others which would be equally profitable only waiting development. Tropical plants of all sorts thrive luxuriantly, and the cultivation of coffee is likely to be an important industry in the near future. The district of Mackay presents many features of great interest to the traveller. To lovers of scenery there are some of the prettiest spots to be found anywhere in Queensland, while the busy scenes at the huge sugar mills, where quite an army of men, black and white, are employed, are a revelation to those who have never seen a modern sugar estate. Shortly after leaving the Pioneer River and clearing Flat Top quite a network of islands is threaded, for no sooner are some passed than others come into view, and so on for 60 miles, until Whitsunday Passage is entered. In naming this locality, Captain Cook perpetuated the time of its discovery. The grandeur and loveliness of the scenery presented here can hardly be surpassed, even if equalled, on the Australian coast. Islands, high and low, large and small, some well timbered, others with grassy slopes fringed with white sand or protected by rocks, coral islets, shining like gems in the sun, with the colour of the water varying from a bright green to a dark blue, clear as crystal and calm as a millpond, together go to make up a really enchanting scene. Proceeding some 40 miles, Port Denison is reached, and BOWEN is sighted lying snugly at the northern end, and may be with safety termed the sanatorium of North Queensland, as its beautiful climate attracts many visitors from other centres who are fond of a healthy resort and plenty of sea bathing. The harbour (surrounded by hills and mountains, rising to a height of 3,500 feet) is not only beautiful to look at but safe to enter STEAMERS AT BOWEN JETTY. - -- --- --- Australasian United Steam Navigation Company, Limited. +3 at all times by the largest vessels afloat. It has two entrances - the north about a mile wide, formed by the north side of Stone Island, and North Head, on which is placed a lighthouse 90 feet above sea level. The south entrance is three miles wide between St. Thomas and south end of Stone Island. The harbour, which is splendidly lighted, is not to be confounded with Port Bowen, an entirely different place and close to Rockhampton. In 1891 a large ship from England bound to Bowen (Port Denison) made for Port Bowen, and the captain did not find out his mistake until he anchored his vessel and had been ashore. This town commanded the trade of the far western interior until the extension of the Central Railway in 1875. The dis- trict of which Bowen is the port at present contains an area of about 10,000 square miles. The population of town and district is about 3,400. The jetty is over half a mile long, and forms a pleasant promenade. The harbour has of late been greatly improved, in order to increase the facilities of the shipping trade. Large ocean vessels of 10,000 tons burden can with safety moor alongside the jetty, as there is 22 feet of water at low spring tides a fact which is gradually bringing Bowen to the front. The town is delightfully situated on rising ground, and the beautiful Moreton Bay fig trees grow luxuriantly, giving grateful shade in many of the streets. The State schools and Hospital are built on high ground, whence a comprehensive view can be obtained on the one hand the Pacific Ocean with its islands, and on the other Port Denison, which appears as a lake amid the hills ; indeed, the tout ensemble at this point will well repay the walk. The pleasant sandy beach of the harbour makes a beautiful resort for visitors, and the Botanical Gardens with its large bush-house is also well worthy of inspection. The imports for 1896 were valued at £17,883, and the exports at £122,134, the chief items of the latter being frozen meat, tallow, hides, and over 18,000 cases of fruit, consisting of mangoes, oranges, pineapples, lemons, passion fruit, &c. During the last four years there have been annual shipments of horses to India. The district is rich in gold, silver, bismuth, copper, and coal ; but capital, judiciously expended, is required for their development. The Bowen Meat Works, six miles from town, treat large numbers of cattle. These are sent to the home markets in the shape of frozen meat, meat extract, and bve-products. There are also two other boiling-down establishments, viz., the Kingston and the Don, both of which are almost con- stantly employed in reducing the surplus stock of the district to merchantable products. - - - - - = = 44 Australasian United Steam Navigation Company, Limited. --- - - There is also a large area of excellent sugar land along the coast, and a mill, capable of manufacturing 4,000 tons of sugar in a season, has been erected near the Proserpine River, 40 miles south from Bowen. The railway at present extends 48 miles to Wangaratta Creek, whence a coach runs twice a week to the Reid River Railway Station on the Northern line, 52 miles distant, traversing the Burdekin sugar district en route. Coaches also run weekly to the Proserpine sugar district, the Normanby goldfield, and the Bowen River, where there is a rich pastoral district, 70 miles from town. A run of about 100 miles takes us past three very distinct promontories Capes Upstart, Bowling Green, and Cleveland ; when sharply rounding the last mentioned we are soon under the lee of Magnetic Island with our next halting-place. Tenders come alongside to take passengers ashore, and in twenty minutes we land at - - -- - TOINSVILLE, the growing town that has sprung up so rapidly since Captain Towns, of Sydney, landed in 1859. A view of the town from the bay presents a very pleasing picture ; the slopes on either side of Castle Hill, with its rugged and precipitous cliffs fronting the bav, rise from houses which nestle at their bases, and two smaller hills at the east are being steadily covered with picturesque little residences half hidden in the dark green foliage of trees and semi-tropical shrubs. This is the first place of importance we have reached in Queensland which is situated on the very shores of the Pacific, a most decided boon, especially in the summer, to its inhabitants of 13,000, when the sea breezes, blowing directly on the town, come up with regularity every morning. A pleasant walk of half an hour along the hard sandy shore brings one close to the Botanical Gardens, or Queen's Park. Here indeed is an enviable spot : the picture of a home country garden, with tropical foliage to boot. It is kept exceedingly trim. The adjoining paddock of 75 acres is open to all for cricket and football. Inside the gardens are two bush-houses, where the plants are arranged to the best advantage; in fact, the fernery is the daintiest to be seen anywhere. A kiosk for the band stands in the centre of the lawn, and there are many shady nooks under the sheltering trees where one can rest with comfort. This is also the favourite resort of tennis players, for whose pleasure there are a number of courts. Alongside the paddock is the Grammar School, one of the finest buildings north of Brisbane, with accommodation for forty boarders; and at present some -- --- - - ----- - 1 1, == ====== =========== = == = --- ----= = === TOWNSVILLE NA KOWO WASSETTES -- -- - --- Australasian United Steam Navigation Company, Limited. +5 necessary extensions are being made to suit growing require- ments. The school has established, and is maintaining, a high standard, both for education and moral training. Immediately at the back rises Castle Hill most abruptly nearly 1,000 feet, and one is well repaid for the hour's climb to its summit, which is now seen to be divided into three heads -- the “ Two Sisters," with the gardens at their base, overlooking Cleveland Bay with Magnetic Isiand in the distance, and the third head commands an unequalled view of the country to the west towards the Range, with its ever varving lines of light and shade. The sandy reach of the mainland shore is broken by Kissing Point with its masked fortifications, only, however, to continue in a northerly direction towards the Palm Islands, 40 miles distant. Altogether, the scene from here is not only extensive but really enchanting. The water supply of the town is of excellent quality and practically inexhaustible. The climate, as in most parts of Queensland, is in winter very pleasant, say from May to September. It is healthy, and cases of malarial fever are of rare occurrence. A bath on the shores of the bay affords a refreshing dip that can now be enjoyed without apprehension of sharks. Townsville is the centre of commerce for North Queensland, as a glance at statistics will show. The exports during 1896 totalled £1,903,961, the principal of which were gold £852,164, wool £511,084, and tallow £100,488 ; while the imports for the same period amounted to £722,992. The Queensland Meat Export and Agency Co.'s works have been doubled; the Burdekin River Meat Preserving Co.'s works at Sellheim, on the Burdekin River, are now in full swing, thus making the active meat pre- serving companies in this district to read as follow: North Queensland Meat Export Co., Ltd., Queensland Meat Export and Agency Co., Ltd., the Torrens Creek Meat Works, the Burdekin River Meat Preserving Co. The harbour is now under the control of a Harbour Board, in whose hands rests the power for further enhancing the present ample facilities for berthing ships. The breakwater, usually spoken of as the “ eastern jetty," is over a mile in length and allows large vessels to lie alongside in safety, and dredging is being steadily pursued to obtain a uniform depth of 22 feet at low water spring tides. Ships of smaller tonnage enter Ross Creek and lie alongside the town wharves. The town is the seat of the Protestant Bishopric of North Queens- land, and possesses a cathedral, which though in use is not yet completed. The Roman Catholic Church has laid the founda- tion of what promises to be one of the most imposing sacred edifices in Queensland. The town is also the residence of the Judge of the Northern Supreme Court. The School of Arts --- = - - -- - = -- -- = - =- -- -- --=- - -- - 48 Australusian Cnited Steam Vavigation Company, Limited. which encircle it. On we go, but still no exit is visible ; now the shore is only just ahead, it looks as if we must be aground directly, when smartly rounding a promontory, a narrow open- ing appears through which we sail to another superb lake similar in character to the one just astern. These lovely sea lakes are formed by points of land from Hinchinbrook Island and the mainland interlacing. Twenty-five miles are thus pleasantly passed, when one of the finest and most beautiful harbours in the colony now comes into view. Rockingham Bay was the making of CARDIVELL, which nestles naturally at the base of the woody range, by which it is so well protected. Founded in 1863, it was a place of considerable importance owing to the fact of its being the nearest port on the coast to the Gulf of Carpentaria, but since then greater facilities have rendered other places more con- venient. On its excellent soil much fruit is grown, while the cocoanut and candlewood palm, with fig trees and bananas, flourish luxuriantly. Industry is represented by the meat works. The population of the district is 3,435. It was from here that Kennedy's expedition took its final departure for the Worth early in June, 1848. Hence a run of seven hours up the bay, past Dunk Island, brings us to MOURILYAN HARBOUR. Looked at from the ocean, one would think there was not room enough to pass through such an awkward, narrow, and wild entrance, with precipitous rocks on both sides, and in the centre, too, one rears its black head to bar the way; but still the channel is 80 feet wide. If this be our first visit, we enter with our hearts in our mouths - it is next door to shooting a rapid. Once inside the lovely harbour, overshadowed by well- timbered hills, we are soon made fast to the wharf, and various are the nationalities employed in discharging and receiving the cargo, which eventually goes to the sugar plantations, some miles distant. From here there are but 15 miles to steam, through calm water and in view of many a charming scene, before reaching GERALDTON, - - on the Johnstone River, which exported goods to the value of £101,028 and received others valued at £10,354 during 1896 ; the principal sources of income being the sugar-cane, which is --_-_-_-_-_-_-_----- ------------------- - ---- - -- - - - - - - CAIRNS. - -- -- ----- -- - --- ----- - ---- -- - -- ------... ----- - --- - - - - Australasian United Steam Navigation Company, Limited. 51 in the temperate South are sweltering in the hundreds, the residents of Port Douglas rejoice in the pleasant warmth of the eighties. The cause is that the town being built on a peninsula only three quarters of a mile across, the winds are almost in- variably off the sea, and the ranges flanking the western side of the town protect it from the winds from that quarter. In fruit products, the purely tropical varieties grow to perfection, mangoes, granadillas, oranges, lemons, pineapples, guavas, shad- docks, &c., being the principal exports. As regards scenery, the principal beauty spot of the town is the fine semi-circular southern beach, a magnificent stretch of hard sand. This is the playground of the place, horse races and other sports being held there. Cassowary Creek is a regular fairy glen, palms, ferns, and vines forming a vast scrub, the tall trees being covered with orchids of rare kinds. On the Daintree it is wilder and more majestic, the mountains and river taking the thoughts back to the old country, while the coast range flank- ing the Mossman reminds one of Scotia's rugged heights. Weighing anchor again, the steamer makes its way north- ward, passing the Daintree, Bailey's Creek, and the Bloomfield River. Proceeding some 25 miles along a rugged and some- what inhospitable looking shore, Cape Tribulation is rounded, which speaks for itself of the difficulties encountered by Cap- tain Cook, especially when he had put his ship ashore here to examine a leak. His journal, under date of June, 1770, when here, runs as follows: “One of the seamen, who had been rambling in the woods, told us on his return that he verily believed he had seen the devil. We naturally enquired in what form he had appeared, and his answer was in so singular a style that I shall set down his own words. “He was,' said John, as large as a one-gallon keg, and very like it; he had horns and wings, and yet he crept so slowly through the grass that, if I hadn't been afeared, I might have touched him.' This formid- able apparition we afterwards discovered to have been a bat, and the bats here must be acknowledged to have a frightful appearance, for they are nearly black, and fully as large as a partridge ; they have no horns, but the fancy of a man who thought he saw the devil might easily supply that defect." Now passing the bay where Captain Cook spent a weary time, as the name he gave it indicates, we have but 25 miles to travel before Mount Cook, 1,450 feet high, is sighted, and rounding Grassy Hill, 500 feet high, we find ourselves at COOKIOITV. Cooktown is situated at the mouth of the Endeavour River, where in 1770 Captain Cook was enabled to safely beach and - - -- --- - - --- - - - 52 Australasian United Steam Navigation Company, Limited. -- -- -- - repair his damaged vessel, a handsome monument now marking the spot. About two miles to the eastward of the town lies Mount Cook, which rises to a height of 1,450 feet, and close to the entrance to the harbour is a lesser eminence, called Grassy Hill, on which there is a lighthouse and signal station. The town is pleasantly and healthfully situated on a small peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and the Endeavour River, and therefore enjoys a much milder climate than inland towns in a similar latitude. Cooktown owes its original prosperity to the discovery of the famous Palmer goldfield, which during the first four and a half years of its working gave the phenomenal yield of 839,000 ounces of gold. The field has since been almost deserted, but there are still many rich reefs which only require capital for their development. Another goldfield is located at the Starcke River, about 60 miles from Cooktown, and there are other alluvial fields further northward at the Rocky and Chester Rivers, each giving employment to a small number of miners. At Maytown and Limestone a few reefs are being profitably worked. About 175 miles northward is the Coen, a mining township where many fine and permanent reefs are being developed. Owing to the low price of tin, this mining industry has of late declined, but as there are large deposits in the district a revival may be anticipated with an improvement in the market. Although the béche-de-mer industry has declined, Cook- town is still recognised the chief market and port of export for the fish in the north. Coal experts are of the opinion that the surrounding district is rich in that mineral, but from a recent trial with a diamond drill the indications were not found to be of a payable nature. However, prospecting on a more elaborate scale is shortly to be resumed. There are some good agricultural lands at the Endeavour, Bloomfield, and M'Ivor Rivers, admirably adapted to the cultivation of sugar, but no great efforts have been made to establish an industry in this direction. The district is noted for the quality of its oranges and other fruits. Cooktown is the natural port for New Guinea, with which a subsidised mail service has been established for some time past, but it is expected that communication will become more frequent with the anticipated developments in New Guinea. The total imports of the port during 1896 amounted to £63,973, and the exports £91,865, among the latter being : Queensland gold, 11,603 ounces, valued at £38,122 ; New - -- --- --- -- - -- ---------------------- - - -- -- -- -- -- --------- --- COOKTOWN. Australasian United Steam Navigation Company, Limited. 53 Guinea gold, 7,492 ounces, valued at £24,841; bêche-de-mer, 63 tons, valued at £ 3,900. Hence keeping a more westerly course for some 25 miles, we reach THURSDAY ISLAND, and moor alongside the substantial Government jetty', com- pleted in March, 1893, at a cost of £41,318. This town, called after the island, which has a circumference of but a few miles, is pleasingly situated, and from the hills at the back a panoramic view of a number of islands is obtained. The population of THURSDAY ISLAND. this, together with adjacent islands, is some 1,350, who busy themselves principally with pearl-shell and bêche-de-mer fisheries, in which about 250 boats are engaged. The exports for 1896 were valued at £109,662, pearl-shell contributing £94,836 to this amount, while the imports showed a value of £41,940. The importance of this place from a strategic point of view has been recognised by the imperial as well as colonial authorities, and it is strongly fortified, and the presence of a permanent military force gives the island a prestige not to be gainsaid. After paying a visit to the interesting museum, we return on board and are off. Lying in a south-east direction is Possession Island, in Endeavour Straits. Here Captain Cook, in the name of King George III., took possession of the “whole = -= -= - - -- NORMANTON - -- Australasian l'nited Steam Navigation Company, Limited. 55 miles) is covered by a weekly coach service, and the tourist, especially if combining business with pleasure, should not omit to pay that important district a visit. The yield of the Croydon goldfield for 1896 was 85,905 ounces, valued at £178,461, and that of Georgetown for the same period was 26,865 ounces, valued at £ 63,804. BURKETOWN. This, the terminal port in the north for this line of steamers, is situated about 30 miles from the mouth of the Albert River. The township had for some time a very chequered existence, but the great pastoral country, of which it is the port, may eventually lead to its occupying a prominent position. There is fortnightly communication with the South by means of the A.C.S... Co.'s steamers, which anchor at the mouth of the bert River, passengers being conveyed to town by tender. During 1896 the imports were valued at £9,186, and the exports at £ 10,508, in which wool, £9,036, and tallow, £187, are included. The cultivation of vegetables for the Normanton and Thursday Island markets is carried on about four miles from town, and English potatoes of excellent quality are also produced, though at present not in suflicient quantities for export. Is regards local industries, the Boiling Down and wear, Extract Works are well worth a visit. have now travelled over 5,000 miles by the Australasian med, steam Navigation Company's steamers, which are indeed the finest in Australian waters. Leaving Queensland, we will follow the Company's opera- other parts of the Pacific. -- -- -- -- -- - - - - - - -- ---- -- ----- -- NOUMÉA, NEW CALEDONIA. Australasian United Steam Navigation Company, Limited. 57 town is well lit with gas, and there is a plentiful supply of good water. The market opens every morning at 5 o'clock and is over by 8, everything being sold in open stalls, and during the three hours the “ Place du Marché” is a very busy and noisy spot, and is well worth a visit. There are some fine drives in the neighbourhood of Nouméa, the “Pont des Français," “ La Coulée," and the “ Dumbea," and, in the opposite direction, the drive to the beach at “ Anse Vata.” Nouméa is well supplied with carriages, and the tariff is moderate. New Caledonia is, owing to its natural conformation, more of a mineral than a pastoral or agricultural country. Never- theless there are some fine coffee estates on the island, the New Caledonian coffee being much run after in France, and, if well looked after, a coffee plantation can be made remunera- tive. Indeed, coffee planting has taken such rapid strides that a steady immigration from France has set in during the last two years. This immigration is very much protected and encouraged by the home government, whose policy is to settle free people on the land and abolish gradually the penal element. Besides coffee, maize, lucerne, rice, and other produce are largely grown. Cattle, and sheep do not thrive owing to the poor nature of the pasture. Notwithstanding the heavy tax of £2 per head, cattle from Australia continue to be imported in sufficiently large numbers. Most of the island- grown cattle are absorbed by the meat preserving works at Onaco, on the west coast. This company has an extensive contract with the French War Office. Steamers leave Nouméa for the east and west coasts every week, carrying mails and passengers, and are back in time to meet the outgoing mail for Europe and Australia. The steamers on this line are new and commodious, electric lit, and are an improvement on those of the late contract, which has just expired. The trip round the island is a most charming one, and takes eight days to accomplish. The steaming is all inside the reef in smooth water, and the vessel anchors every night. Nickel ore, once the chief mineral product, is superseded by chrome ore, of which about 1,000 to 1,500 tons are shipped per month. The falling off in the export of nickel ore is due chiefly to over-production. The population of the island consists of a free white population of, say, 10,000, of which 8,000 are French. Ton- kinese, Javanese, Japs and Chinese, imported mostly as domestic servants, form about 800. The balance are natives of the New Hebrides and the Loyalty Islands. The penal element consists of the convicts, 6,000-libérés, about 4,000, 58 Australasian United Steam Navigation Company, Limited. and 1,000 rélégués. The last named are not felons, but people who are exiled for ever from France as recidivistes or habitual petty thieves. They are interned on the Isle of Pines, about 140 miles south-east of the mainland. The Australian holiday seeker who has a few weeks to spare cannot do better than make a trip to this colony by the A.C.S.X. Company's monthly steamer from Sydney. The voyage occupies four days. The semi-tropical climate and scenery, the French style of living, the open cafés and boule- vards, and principally the variety of people and colour that meets his eye-Tonquinese, Japs, kanakas, and Arabs, each in his national costume form a sight which he cannot find else- where at so short a distance from his home. - - - - F171. The A.C.S.N. Company have a regular service from Sydney with Fiji, viâ New Caledonia. The Fijian group is, next to the Sandwich Islands, the most civilised in the Pacific, for though New Caledonia has many advanced features, it is in the matter of internal development not on a par with this noted colony. There are few people who have not heard of the converted cannibal king, Cakobau-now Cakobau “of blessed memory.” He was the last of those native kings who feasted at whim and will on friend or foe, and launched his war canoes over the shining bodies of his subjects. Perhaps Cakobau would never have been a convert to Christianity if he had not been worried by a powerful and ambitious Tongan chief, Maafu, who had invaded Fiji and gathered rebellious spirits about him ; but that is neither here nor there. He is gone, his country remains. Of what value that country is to its inhabitants and to English commerce may be gathered from the fact that its revenue is over £100,000 a year, though the last few years have seen a depression. Yet there goes out to the world fruit, copra, cotton, pearl-shell, bêche-de-mer, maize, coffee, sugar, and molasses, mainly to the markets of Sydney, Melbourne, New Zealand, Hamburg, Falmouth, and other European ports. Fiji is considered one of the most important trading centres for the colonies as well as England. It is strange that, though discovered in 1643 by Tasman, there was little settlement in the early part of this century, until the fifties. Then adventurers began to make homes there, and at length, in 1858, Cakobau asked England to take the islands over. This was not done, however, until 1874, and after several abortive attempts had been made to establish a secure native government. There are 254 islands and islets in all, the ------- - TIT LEVUKA, FIJI. Australasian United Steam Navigation Company, Limited. 59 - --- largest being Viti Lévu, which is about 90 miles long and 60 wide. The capital was formerly Levuka, but is now Suva, which has one of the finest harbours in the world, and is admirably adapted by nature to become a great trading port. Viti Lévu, of which Suva is the capital, is about 1,800 miles from Sydney, and is one of the healthiest of the group of islands in the Pacific, the average temperature along the coast being about 80 degrees. Although Levuka is but some 30 miles from Suva, as the crow flies, the climate of the former is more bracing, and invalids from Suva migrate to its pure atmosphere to renew their energies from the somewhat relaxing air of Suva. The malarial diseases incident to so many of the South Sea Islands do not exist in Fiji. There is beautiful vegetation and foliage on the islands, and in the interior thousands of miles of fine grass and reed country. There are some grand mountains in the group. On Viti Lévu one sees well wooded hills reaching up 5,000 feet, and beneath them beautiful valleys stretching away into the sensuous atmosphere, or else rocky and defiant with no verdure and no fertile growth about them. Generally speaking, though, there is a graceful luxuriance in the hills and valleys. Up the mountains as high as 2,000 feet hollies and myrtles may be found, and sweet-smelling woods lie indolent and inviting in the southern sun. If one goes for business purposes to Fiji there is enough to occupy the mind ; if pleasure is sought there is sufficient to gratify the senses ; if a political economist, here may be studied communism in its primitive, but long-standing, thorough, and hereditary form. The tribe first and the individual afterwards is the motto. There one may yet see the mekê danced with barbaric delight, while the Church of England, Presbyterian, Wesleyan, and Roman Catholic missionaries labour on to make still larger the number of converts, which now comprise over nine-tenths of the population. The traveller who calls at Fiji will visit the sugar plantations on the River Rewa, those of Ba, Mango, Labasa, Penang, and Holmhurst, and get to understand where the 30,000 tons of sugar come from that leave the ports, as well as grasp the fact that the exports reach over £500,000. In this land of spicy breezes, of cocoanut palms and dark-visaged converts from a stalwart barbarism to a peaceful Christianity, one can learn many lessons, hear many a tale, and spend many an idle and not profitless hour, and be the better afterwards when the burden of life is picked up again in “the white man's land.” --- -- -- -- -- ---- ---- -- -- ----- Australasian United Steam Navigation Company, Limited. 61 There has recently been some excitement over gold finding, and the number of miners flocking to the various points has VILLAGE SCENE, WAGGA WAGGA, MILNE BAY, NEW GUINEA. justified the employment of small steamers between North Queensland ports and the possession. The men, however, suffer much from fever, and until communication with the -- -------------------------------------------- Advertisement. THE QUEENSLAND NATIONAL BANK, LIMITED. Incorporated under “ The Companies Act, 1863." BANKERS TO THE GOVERNMENT OF QUEENSLAND. SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL ... **** PAID-UP CAPITAL - . ... 0 4 .. * . .. ... ... ... 61,280,000 0 - ... 2928,527 16 DIRECTORS: Į G. S. MURPHY, Esq. - JAMES MILNE, Esq. AUDITORS: WILLIAM BULCOCK, ESQ. i G. C. HORSTMANN, Esq. SOLICITORS: Messrs. HART, FLOWER & DRURY. GENERAL MANAGER: WALTER VARDON RALSTON. ---- - - - GENERAL MANAGER'S OFFICE: ASSISTANT SECRETARY AND BRANCH ACCOUNTANT: G. H. PRITCHARD. SUB-INSPECTOR OF BRANCHES: ALEX. STEUART, --- --- HEAD OFFICE, BRISBANE: MANAGER: ICCOUNTANT: D. GEO. STUART. OHN BROWN. - -- BRANCHES: LONDON OFFICE: 8 PRINCES STREET, E.C. LOCAL DIRECTORS : SIR EDWYN S. DAWES, K.C.M.G. | C. E. BARNETT, Esq. Hos, VICARY GIBBS, M.P. R. H. SPENS, Esq. R. M. STEWART, ESQ. MANAGER: W. DICKINSON, BASKERS : THE BANK OF ENGLAND; LLOYDS BANK, LIMITED. - -- SYDNEY: 99 PITT STREET. MANAGER: L. 1. JOHNSTONE. ---- --- ALBION, ALLORA, BARCALDINE, BEENLEIGH, BLACKALL, BOONAH, BUNDABERG, BURKETOWN, CAIRNS, CHARLEVILLE, CHARTERS TOWERS, CLIFTON, CLONCURRY, COOKTOWN CROYDON, CUNNAM'LLA, DALBY, FORTITUDE VALLEY, GERALDTON, GYMPIE, HERBERTON, HUGHENDEN, INGHAM, IPSWICH, LAIDLEY, LONGREACH, JACKAY, MARYBOROUGH, MOUNT MORGAN, NORMANTON, PITTSWORTH, PORT DOUGLAS, RAVENS- WOOD, ROCKHAMPTON, ROMA, SANDGATE, SOUTH BRISBANE, ST. GEORGE, TAMBO, THARGOMUNDAH, THURSDAY ISLAND, TOOWOOMBA, TOWNSVILLE, WARWICK, WINTOX, WOOLLOONGABBI. --- -- --- ---- -- AGENTS: VicToR SOTH STRANA WESTERN STRALIA - The National Bank of Australasia Limited: NEW ZEALAND - Bank of New Zealand : TASMANIA -The Bank of Australasia. SCOTLAND - Royal Bank of Scotland : British Linen Company Bank. IRELANDUlster Bank, Limited. NEW YORK-Messrs. Laidlaw & Co. SAN FRANCISCO -Bank of California. CHINA AND THE EAST-Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation; Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China ; The Mercantile Bank of India Limited. ---- --- THE QUEENSLAND NATIONAL BANK, LIMITED, --- Grants Drafts on its Branches and Agents ; negotiates Bills against Wool, Tallow, Hides, Copper, Tin, &c., &c.; purchases and advances on Gold; discounts Commercial Paper; makes advances on approved security; receives Deposits, and allows Interest thereon according to arrangement; and transacts all other usual Banking business. ------------ = = = == =========== ==== === = 64 Advertisements. TELEPHONE No. 286. City Office : 133 ELIZABETH STREET. FISH Stanley Street, SOUTH STEAM BRISBANE LAUND R Y . Close to Victoria Bridge). The Most Complete Establishment in the Southern Hemisphere. (Close to Victoria Bridge). Special Attention to Tourists and Travellers. Urgent Work Executed in a Few Hours. Shipping, Hotel, and Family Laun- dryman. Laundryman to Principal Steamship Lines. Goods Called for and Delivered. CITY OFFICE 138 Elizabeth Street GEO. FISH, (Between Albert and Edward Sts., 5 doors from Albert St.) MANAGER. TELEPHONE No. 286. GIVE THIS BRAND A TRIAL Richest, LECTED Mildest, 4 PINEAPPLE BRAND and Best. EXTRA URED J.C. HUTTON & G0., Roma Street, BRISBANE. SEND FOR PRICE LIST BUTTER, BACON, AND CHEESE. The Australasian United Steam Navigation Company, Limited. CUS-N-C9-19 AUSTRALASIA TED STERY MONSTCATION COMPANTERNETE 47 HEAD OFFICES : MARY STREET, BRISBANE. Advertisements. ESTABLISHED 1854, HOLD THE BANNER ALOFT. JAS. CAMPBELL & SONS, Ltd. Creek Street, Builders' Merchants. BRISBANE. Largest Manufacturers and Suppliers of PLATE and SHEET GLASS, Building Materials in Queensland. Large Stocks. Albion Saw and Joinery Mills, 200 Horse-power. River, Road, and Rail connections, TIMBER and JOINERY of every kind supplied on shortest notice. Albion Fire Brick and Pottery Works. Prejudice against local article overcome, I 200,000 Fire Bricks of our own manufacture supplied during 1896. JAS. CAMPBELL & SONS, Ltd., Creek Street, BRISBANE. Telephone No. 1203. Helidon Spa W ater. Factory: North Quay, Brisbane. MR. PRIMROSE, TECHNICAL COLLEGE LABORATORY, SECRETARY, HARRIS STREET, SYDNEY, 4th Dec., 1894. HELIDON SPA MINERAL WATER CO. Silica . *** Dear Sir, —1he following is Analysis of the Sample of your Mineral Water left with me : - Gratas per Gal. Chloride of Sodium 2.99 Carbonate of Sodium 212.14 This water contains more lithia than any Carbonate of Lithium 2.68 of the European spa waters, except that Carbonite of Calcium 7:35 from the Murquelle at Baden Baden, Carbonate of Magnesium 3:39 which contains lithia as chloride, and it is 0.29 Organic Matter .. Traces also much richer in carbonate of sodium, Oxide of Iron and Alumina Traces though Birresborn, in Prussia, and Bilin, in Bohemia, approach it. Total 228.84 This water would be used as an antacid Total Solids on evaporation ... 233.01 and diuretic, the latter effect being due to the lithia. The difference, 4.17, being Carbonic Acid driven off on ignition. I remain, yours truly, WILL. A. DIXON, F.I.C., F.C.S. GREAT NORTHERN Family and Commercial PRIVATE SUITES OF ROOMS FOR FAMILIES. BILLIARD, BATH, AND SAMPLE ROOMS. Hotel. COOKTOWN. S. F. BALSER, PROPRIETOR. Advertisement. The Bellambi Goal Company Proprietary (F. WOOLCOTT-WALEY, Manager), LIMITED, Coal Contractors and Shipping Agents. PROPRIETORS BELLAMBI COLLIERY, WOONONA, N.S.W., And Sole Agents throughout the World for the Celebrated SOUTH BULLI COLLIERY. UNDER CONTRACT AT SYDNEY TO SUPPLY The Steamers of the Australasian United Steam Navigation Company, Ltd. The Orient Steam Navigation Company, Ltd.-R.M. Steamers. The Pacific Steam Navigation Company, Ltd.-R.M. Steamers. The British-India Steam Navigation Company, Ltd. The "Norddeutscher Lloyd ”_Imperial German Mail Steamers. The Canadian-Australian (Yancouver) R.M. Steamship Line. The Nippon Yusen Kaisha Imperial Japanese Mail Line. The “Prinz” Line of Belgian-Australian Steamers. &c., &c., &c. Steam Colliers : “Egmont,” capacity 700 tons “Currajong” 600 , Coal Hulk . “ Fortuna” „ 800 , The Company does the whole of the Trimming of many of the above lines of Steamers, and is prepared to contract to trim, load, and discharge coal cargoes of all sizes, with prompt despatch. OFFICES: SYDNEY - - Exchange Corner, 63 Pitt Street. MELBOURNE 469 Collins Street. LONDON - - 2 and 4 Lime Street Square. - - AGENTS THROUGHOUT GREAT BRITAIN, VICTORIA, & SOUTH AUSTRALIA: M'ILWRAITH, McEACHARN & CO. PROPRIETARY, LIMITED. Australasian United Steam Navigation Company, Limited. 67 Australasian etnited steam Navigation Company, Limited. ESTABLISHED 1839. THE OLDEST COLONIAL STEAM SHIPPING COMPANY. FLEET. VANE. Tonnage. H.P. COMMANDER. · *WODONGA *BULIMBA *WAROONGA *ARAMAC... *ARAWATTA *CINTRA *ROCKTON *WARREGO *BARCO0.. *MARANOA BIRKSGATE VICTORIA... QUIRAING EURIMBLA 2341 2510 2513 2114 2114 1979 1971 1552 1505 1505 1458 1250 - - - 3300 2000 2000 3000 3000 2000 2000 2200 2500 2400 1300 600 1100 1000 900 900 1000 1000 300 400 450 J. E. MEABURN J. ROSSITER J. B. S. MEDLEY. R. ARMSTRONG F. G. LEE J. E. BUTCHER W. J. SIMPSON W. R. FLEETWOOD JAMES BANKS W. SINCLAIR C. E. SAUNDERS C. A. THORPE H. McCAMLEY GEO. SAVAGE. D. MATHIESON, J. WATT. W. C. THOMSON T. LAW JOHNSTON JAS. GRAHL J. SIMPSON A. J. CLARK 1055 1006 946 870 ELAMANG FITZROY RANELAGH YARALLA.. CROYDON... PALMER 131 116 I 40 TALDORA... DOLPHIN... DUGONG FRANCIS CADELL PORPOISE... MANLY REDBANK... HORNET WASP 220 Is Steam Tenders at Rockhampton 100 100 Steam Tender at Normanton Steam Tender at Burketown Steam Tenders at Mackay Steam Lighter at Brisbane Steam Tenders at Sydney I ::: - GUNGA QUEENSLAND ... .. - - 1257 425 Hulk at Fremantle Hulk at Cooktown - ATLAS HERCULES ... ... 400 350 : . Lighters at Normanton - : - * These Steamers are fitted throughout with the Electric Light. 68 Company, Limited. Australasian ! nited Steam Nuvi ato AGENCIES. BRISBANE : The British áudia of Queensland, Agency fo. Etil. MANAGING AGENTS, ALBANY... ESPERANCE i FREVANILE GERALDTON ; ADELAIDE ; MELBOURNE GEELONG ... PORTARLINGTON ; SYDNEY... NEWCASTLE ; HOBART... LAINESTON ; FORMBY... BURNIE (Emu Bay) ; ; West Australia. ... Geo. Wills & Co. .... ... Burns, Philp & Co., Ltd. 1 A.U.S.V. Co. (D. Hamilton, Manager). ... ... Burns, Philp & Co., Ltd. South Australia. ... B. W. Macdonald. Victoria. ... W. Siddeley & Co. ... Huddart, Parker & Co. ... Huddart, Parker & Co. New South Wales. .. Burns, Philp & Co., Ltd. ... Dalgety & Co., Ltd. Tasmania. C. E. Knight & Co. ... Tasmanian Wool Growers' Agency Co., Ltd. ... The River Don Trading Co., Ltd. William Jones. New Caledonia. ... ... T. Johnston. Fiji. ... ... D. Calder. ... D. Calder. Queensland. Frederick Watson. ... M. M'Grade. P. Ridley. Aplin, Brown & Crawshay, Ltd. Burns, Philp & Co., Ltd. K. Macdonald. H. & J. Friend. W. H. Paxton & Co. H. V. Ramsay Burns, Philp & Co., Ltd. Walsh & Co. Walter Reid & Co., Ltd. Burns, Philp & Co., Ltd. Burns, Philp & Co., Ltd. NOUVEA ; LEVUKA... Sura .. ; ; BOWEN ... BROWDSOUND BIDABERG BURKETOI. CARVS .. COONTOWN GLADSTONE MACKAY VARYBOROCGH VORMAVTON ... L'ORT DOUGLAS ROCKHAMPTON TOWNSVILLE ... THURSDAY ISLAND CARDWELL ... DINGENESS MOURILYAN HARBOUR GERALDTON . ::::::::: :::::::::::::: * Sub. Agencies to Townsville. -=- =-=-=-=-=- ==== == = = - - - - - - - -- - - --= Australasian Cnited Steam Navigation Company, Limiteil. 69 -- - COMPANY'S SERVICES, LINE No. 1. MELBOURNE and COOKTOWN (MAIL LINE)-Once a Week (without transhipment). Calling at Sydney, Brisbane, Keppel Bay (for Rockhampton), Flat Top (for Mackay), Bowen, Townsville, Cairns, and Port Douglas. LINE No. 2. SYDNEY and ROCKHAMPTON -- Bi-weekly. l'iâ Brisbane, Varyb vrough, Bundaberg, and Gladstone. WINE No. 3. SYDNEY and BURKETOWN LINE Fortnightly. Calling at Brisbane, Townsville, Cooktown, Thursday Island, and Normanton. LINE No. 4. TOWNSYILLE, DUNGENESS, CARDWELL, MOURILYAN HARBOUR, GERALDTON, and CAIRNS-Weekly. LINE No. 5. SYDNEY, NEW CALEDONIA, and FIJI- Monthly. LINE No. 6. SYDNEY and NEW HEBRIDES about every Three Weeks. LINE No. 7. SYDNEY and W.ST AUSTRALIAN LINE Weekly. Calling at Melbournt, Adelaide, Albany, Fremantle, and Gerald- tun, with occasional service to Bunbury and Rockingham. (Passen- yers and cargo booked through to North-west Australian ports.) LINE No. 8. MELBOURNE and FREMANTLE-Fortnightly. By express steamer “Barcoo.'' LINE No. 9. COOKTOWN and NEW GUINEA-- Fortnightly. Calling at Port Moresby, Samarai, and Woodlark; also Sudest and other Islands as inducement offers. Sailing Days, see pages 70 and 71. TABLE OF DISTANCES, 75. AVERAGE PASSAGES, 76. 70 Australasian United Steam Navigation Company, Limited. INTERCOLONIAL AND COASTAL SERVICES. Steamers will be despatched (weather and unforeseen circumstances permitting), as under :- NORTHWARD: Arrival and Departure. WEST AUSTRALIAN AND UNILAINIS MELBOURNE AND COOKTOWN WEEKLY LINE, AND SIDNEY TO BURKETOWN, FORTNIGHTLY, MAIL SERVICES. SIDNEY AND ROCKHAMPTON LINE. PORTS. - --- Weekly. Weekly: Fortnightly: Bi-weekly. - : : : :: : ---- : : : :: : : - :: : - Dep : : * : :: :: : iiiii Пер. Do. ер. : : Geraldton, W.A. Dep. Arr. Fremantle Dep. Do. . Albany Arr. Dep. Do. Arr. Adelaide ... Do. Dep. Arr. Melbourne Do. Arr. Sydney ... Do. Dep. ... Brisbane ... Arr. Do. , Dep. Maryborough Arr. Do. , ер. Bundaberg Arr. Do. Dep. Gladstone Arr. Do. Rockhampton Wharf Arr. Arr. Keppel Bay Broadsound Dep. Mackay (Flat Top) Arr. Do. Dep. Bowen Arr. Do. Dep. Townsville Arr. TOWNSTILLE ., Dep. JSP: Arr. DUNGENESS Dep. Arr. CARDWELL Dep, Arr. MOURILYAN HARPOUR Dep. Arr. GERALDros, Q... Dep, (CAIRNS Arr. Townsville Dep. Cairns ... Arr. Do. Dep. Port Douglas Arr. Do. ... Dep. Cooktown Arr. Do. ер. Thursday Island Irr. Do.... Dep. Normanton (NORSAN BAR)... Arr. Do.... Dep. Burketown (ALPERT BAR) . Arr. ::: an Ports to all Fastern forts. Frequent sailings from West Australian Ports to all Eastern Ports, See daily papers, : Branch Steamcr. Saturday Monday Tuesday Friday Friday Wed' day Thursday Sunday Sunday Friday Saturday Monday Tuesday Saturday Wednesday Thursday Sunday ! Monday Thursday Thursday Friday Tuesday Sunday Sunday Occas ionally. Monday Monday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Thursday Tues, 8 p.m. Wed. 3 a.m. Wed. 5 a.m. Wed. ro a.in. Wed. 10.30a.m Wed. 4 p.m. Wed. 5 p.m. Wed. 7 p.m. Wed. 8 p.m. Thurs, 6 a.m. Wednesday Thursday Thursday Thursday Thursday Thursday | Friday Friday Sat. 8 a.m. Mon. 6 a.m. Mon.* Wed. Thurs.noon Thurs:5 pm -- - - - In time to catch tide at Norman Bar-say, am From March to September, 8 a.m.; October to February, noon. All steamers are at liberty to call at any port or ports if inducement offers. WEST AUSTRALIAN SERYICES. In addition to the Company's regular lines running from Sydney to the West, the s.s. “Barcoo" conducts an express fortnightly service from Melbourne to Fremantle, via Adelaide, affording the quickest means of travelling to and from the West. AUSTRALASIAN UNITED STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED. SALOON SINGLE. RATES OF PASSAGE MONEY BETWEEN ALL PORTS (subject to fluctuation). 6 00 4 10 Ovvanno auto www 0007 + +AWNO! лооллллллллоом і ADELAIDE. 2 too MELBOURNE. 4 00 2 10 O SYDNEY. BRISBANE. 6 100 50 00 MARYBOROUGH. ol010 BUNDABERG. 9 00 0 2 15 O GLADSTONE. 3100 o 215 0 0 15 ROCKHAMPTON. 910 0 8 TO 4 00 2 0 0 I 10 O BROADSOUND. 9 10 O 8 10 0 200 200 115 MACKAY. 10 00 90 5 10 0 0 3 5 0 2 10 0 2 0 0 Bowen. 00: 9 O! 5 10 O 3 50'2 10 0 2 0 0 I 10 O TOWNSVILLE. 0010 O 3 7 6 3 0 0 I 15 0 1 0 0 DUNGENESS. II 00 0 3 7 6 3 0 0 1 150 1 10 0 0 15 o CARDWELI. 0 3 7 6 3 00 15 0 I 10 O 0 0 0 12 6 MOURILYAN, I 0010 0 4 50 4 50 37 15 0 1 10 0 1 0 0 0 12 6 0 76 GERALDTON, Q. II 0 0 0 0 0 8 10 o 3 7 6 300 1 15 IIOO 1 50 50 100 0 17 0 CAIRNS. I 10 O 10 10 0 9 o 4150 400 3 10 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 1 150 0 17 6 PORT DOUGLAS. 12 00' 00 9 10 OO 70 0 5 10 O 4150 400 300 2 10 0 2 0 0 2 10 2 5 2 0 0 1 5 0 0 17 6 COOKTWN. 15 50 13 10 0 12 15 o'900 8 8 0 8 0 0 6 10 0 5 10 0 5 100 5 00 | 5 005 00 4 150 3150 3 10 0 3 0 0 THURSDAY I. 16 150 15 0 0 13 10 O o u no 10 50 10 5 0 : 10 50' 8 10 0 7 10 0 7 10 0 7 5 0 7 5 0 700 615 600 5 10 0 5 5 0 3 10 O ORMANTON. 18 10 0 16 10 o 15 50 13 10 0 12 15 0 12 15 0 12 0 0 12 0 12 0 10 50 950 1950' 900 900 8150 8 10 0 7 10 0 7 5 0 7 Oo 5 on 2 2 6 BURKE- TOWN 00 onuncun Children, under 2 years, Free ; between 2 and 5 years, Quarter Fare ; between 5 and 12 years, Half Fare. Scholars--20 per cent. to be allowed off full fares. No allowance off children's fares, School Teachers-An allowance of 10 per cent. to be made to Teachers travelling during vacation only. Fernale Servants, travelling with their employers, may travel in Saloon at Stecrage Fares. Clergymen, Theatrical Artists, Commercial Travellers, Pressmen, Sisters of Mercy, Salvation Army Officers (and Football, Rowing, Shooting, or other Clubs, if in parties of not less than 10), to be allowed 20 per cent, reduction on Saloon Passage Money only. No Discounts allowed off passage money other than those hercin specified. Commercial Travellers allowed 40 cubic feet of Luggage, and other passengers -- Saloon, 20 feet; Stecrage, io feet, Free, Australasian United Steam Navigation Company, Limited. 75 TABLE OF DISTANCES. 1424 MELBOURNE AND BURKETOWN LINE. MELBOURNE. 564 SYDNEY, BRISBANE. 510 1074 860 - KEPPEL BAY. 350 1614 1050 540 100 MACKAY. 1719 1155 295 ! 645 BOWEN 105 1822 1258 208 TOWNSVILLE. 103 1982 1418 903 368 263 160 CAIRAS, 2017 1453 943 298 105 35 25 Port DOUGLAS. 1518 1008 363 260 TOO 65 COOKTOWN, 2522 1958 1448 1098 908 803 700 540 505 440 THURSDAY ISLAND. 3022 2458 1948 1598 | 1408 1303 1200 1040 | 1005040500 NORMANTON. 1200 1040 1005 940 3160 2596 2086 1736 | 1546 1441 1338 1178 1143 1078 638 138 BURKETOWN 748 198 558 403 593 - 658 468 SYDNEY AND ROCKHAMPTON LINE. SYDNEY. 510 BRISBANE. 690 180 MARYBOROUGH, 782 272 92 BUNDABERG. 882 372 1921 100 GLADSTONE, 982 472 472 292 200 100 ROCKHAMPTON. -- ----- - -- BRISBANE to BU'NDABERG Direct... ... BRISBANE to MACKAY (via Sandy Straits) ... 210 miles SYDNEY to NOUMEA ... 1,063 miles BRISBANE to FIJI... ... 1,540 » SYDNEY to Fiji (Suva) ... 1,733 » NOUMEA to FIJI ... ... 730 » 500, TOWNSVILLE, JOHNSTONE RIVER, AND CAIRNS BRANCH LINE. TOWNSVILLE. 60 DUNGENESS. 85 25 CARDWELL. 130 TOURILYAN. 145 15 GERALDTON, 8 GOONDI. 208 148 123 78 63 55 CAIRNS 153 WEST AUSTRALIAN SERYICES. SYDNEY. 564 MELBOURNE. 1072 508 ADELAIDE. 2090 1526 1018 ALBANY. 2450 18861378 360 FREMANTLE. 2670 2106 1598 580 220 GERALDTON. Australasian United Steam Navigation Company, Limited. 77 ADELAIDE (Capital of South Australia).-Lat. 34° 57'S. Long. 138° 38' E. Pop. (including suburbs), 150,000. Hotels—York, United Service Club, South Australian Club, and Prince Alfred. Anchorage-Alongside wharf at Port Adelaide, 7 miles by rail from the city. Company's Services from this Port :- To Melbourne, Sydney, and all Fijian, Queensland, and New Guinea ports, every week by West Australian liners. To Albany, Fremantle, and Geraldton, W.A., every week. Agent-B. W. Macdonald. ALBANY (West Australia).—Lat. 35° 2' S. Long. 117° 54' E. Pop., 2,858. Hotels—Royal George and Freemasons'. Anchorage—Alongside wharf. Company's Services from this Port :- To Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, and all Fijian, Queensland, and New Guinea ports, every week. To Fremantle and Geraldton, W.A., every week. Agents-George Wills & Co. BOWEN (Queensland).-E. coast of Australia. Lat. 20° 1' S. Long. 148° 16' E. Pop., including district (estimated), 3,400. Hotels—North Australian, Cook's, and Union. Anchorage-Alongside jetty, half a mile from town. Company's Services from this Port :- To Townsville, Cairns, Port Douglas, and Cooktown, every Tuesday. To New Guinea ports, every alternate Tuesday (transhipping at Cooktown). To Thursday Island, Normanton, and Burketown, every alter- nate Tuesday (transhipping at Cooktown). To Dungeness, Cardwell, Mourilyan Harbour, Geraldton, and Cairns, every Tuesday (transhipping at Townsville). To Mackay, Rickhampton, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Ade- laide, and West Australian ports, every Monday (inidnight). To Gladstone, Bundaberg, and Maryborough (with transhipment at Rockhampton), every Monday (midnight). To Noumea (New Caledonia) and Fiji, monthly (from Sydney). To New Hebrides, three weekly (from Sydney). To Tasmanian and New Zealand ports, weekly (from Sydney). Agent-F. Watson. Australasian United Steam Navigation Company, Limited. 79 BUNDABERG--Continued. To New Guinea ports, every alternate Monday (with tranship- ment at Rockhampton and Cooktown). To Thursday Island, Normanton, and Burketown, every alter- nate Saturday (with transhipment at Brisbane). Agent-Peter Ridley. BURKETOWN.-Situated on the Albert River, Gulf of Car- pentaria. Port for the Bower Bird goldfield. Lat. 17° 45' S. Long. 139° 34' E. Pop., 300. Hotels-Albert and Commercial. Anchorage-At Bar ; passengers and their luggage con- veyed to town by steam tender, tides permitting; other- wise to Truganini landing, 4 miles from there. Company's Services from this Port: To Normanton, every alternate Saturday. To Thursday Island, New Guinea ports, Cooktown, Port Douglas, Cairns, Townsville, Dungeness, Cardwell, Mourilyan, Geraldton, Bowen, Mackay, Rockhampton, Gladstone, Bunda- berg, Maryborough, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Fremantle, Geraldton, and other West Australian ports, every alternate Saturday. To Noumea (New Caledonia) and Fiji, monthly (from Sydney). To New Hebrides, three weekly (from Sydney). To Tasmanian and New Zealand ports, weekly (from Sydney). Agents—Aplin, Brown, & Crawshay, Ltd. - -- - - - - -- --- - -- CAIRNS.-Situated on the shores of Trinity Bay. Port for the Barron Falls. Lat. 16° 56' S. Long. 145° 49' E. Pop. (including district), 7,000. Hotels-Cairns and Railway. Anchorage-Alongside wharf. Company's Services from this Port:- To Townsville, Bowen, Mackay (Flat Top), Rockhampton (Keppel Bay), Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Al- bany, Fremantle, Geraldton, and other West Australian ports, every Saturday. To Geraldton, Mourilyan, Cardwell, and Dungeness, every Thursday. To Noumea (New Caledonia) and Fiji, monthly (from Sydney). To New Hebrides, three weekly (from Sydney). To Tasmanian and New Zealand ports, weekly (from Sydney). To Port Douglas and Cooktown, every Thursday. To New Guinea ports, Thursday Island, Normanton, and Burketown, every Thursday. Agents-Burns, Philp & Co., Ltd. - -- --- ---=-== = = === ======= 80 Australasian United Steam Navigation Company, Limited. CARDWELL.-Situated on the shores of Rockingham Bay. Lat. 18° 16' S. Long. 146° 4' E. Pop. (including district), 3,435. Hotel Marine. Company's Services from this Port :- To Mourilyan and Geraldton, every Wednesday. To Dungeness and Townsville, every Saturday. To Bowen, Mackay (Flat Top), Rockhampton (Keppel Bay), Gladstone, Bundaberg, Maryborough, Brisbane, Sydney, Mel- bourne, Adelaide, Albany, Fremantle, Geraldton, and other West Australian ports, every Saturday. To Noumea (New Caledonia) and Fiji, monthly (from Sydney). To New Hebrides, three weekly (from Sydney). To Tasmanian and New Zealand ports, weekly (from Sydney). To Cairns, every Wednesday. To Port Douglas and Cooktown (with transhipment at Cairns), every Wednesday, To New Guinea ports, Thursday Island, Normanton, and Burketown (with transhipment at Cairns), every alternate Wednesday. Agents—Burns, Philp & Co., Ltd., Townsville. CHARTERS TOWERS.—The leading goldfield of Queens- land, connected by rail with Townsville; distance, 82 miles. Pop., 22,000. Hotels–Excelsior and Exchange. Agents-Burns, Philp & Co., Ltd. COOKTOWN.-Situated at the mouth of the Endeavour River. Port for the Palmer goldfields. Lat. 15° 18' S. Long. 145° 25' E. Pop. (including district), 5,080. Hotels-Great Northern, &c. Anchorage-Alongside wharf. Company's Services from this Port :- To New Guinea ports, fortnightly. To Port Douglas, Cairns, Townsville, Bowen, Mackay Flat Top), Rockhampton (Keppel Bay), Brisbane, Sydney, Mel- bourne, Adelaide, Albany, Fremantle, Geraldton, and other West Australian ports, every Saturday and alternate Thurs- day. To Dungeness, Cardwell, Mourilyan, and Geraldton (with tran- shipment at Cairns or Townsville), every Saturday and alter- nate Thursday. To Gladstone, Bundaberg, and Maryborough (with transhipment at Rockhampton), every Saturday and alternate Thursday. To Noumea (New Caledonia) and Fiji, monthly (from Sydney). To New Hebrides, three weekly (from Sydney). To Tasmanian and New Zealand ports, weekly (from Sydney). To Thursday Island, Normanton, and Burketown, every alter- nate Saturday. Agent-K. Macdonald. = - - - - - - - - Australasian United Steam Navigation Company, Limited. 83 LEVUKA (Fiji).—Lat. 17° 45' S. Long. 178° 47' W. Hotels-Planters' Club and Royal. Anchorage—Alongside wharf. Company's Services from this Port:- To Suva, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Albany, Fremantle, Geraldton, and other West Australian ports, and all Queens- land and New Guinea ports, four weekly. Agent-D. Calder. MACKAY.-Situated on the Pioneer River. Large sugar dis- trict. Lat. 21° 7' S. Long. 149° 13' E. Pop., 11,000. Hotels-Prince of Wales, Imperial, and Dimmock's. Anchorage-Flat Top Island, 6 miles from town. Steam tenders convey mails and passengers to town free of charge. Company's Services from this Port :- To Bowen, Townsville, Cairns, Port Douglas, and Cooktown, every Monday. To New Guinea ports, Thursday Island, Normanton, and Burketown, every alternate Monday. To Dungeness, Cardwell, Mourilyan, and Geraldton (with tran- shipment at Townsville), every Monday. To Rockhampton (Keppel Bay), Brisbane, Sydney, and Mel- bourne, every Tuesday. To Adelaide, Albany, Fremantle, Geraldton, and other West Australian ports (with transhipment at Sydney), every Tues- day. To Gladstone, Bundaberg, and Maryborough (with transhipment at Rockhampton), every Tuesday. To Noumea (New Caledonia) and Fiji, monthly (from Sydney). To New Hebrides, three weekly (from Sydney). To Tasmanian and New Zealand ports, weekly (from Sydney). Agents—W. H. Paxton & Co. - - --- --- ------ MARYBOROUGH.-Situated on the Mary River. Port for Gympie goldfield. Lat. 25° 33' S. Long. 152° 44' E. Pop., 9,706; district, 11,724. Hotels—Custom House, Royal, and Grand. Anchorage-Alongside wharf. Company's Services from this Port :- To Rockhampton, every Wednesday. To Bundaberg, every Wednesday (viâ Brisbane). To Brisbane, every Wednesday. To Gladstone, every Wednesday. To Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide (transhipping at Brisbane), every Wednesday. To Albany, Fremantle, Geraldton, and other West Australian ports (transhipping at Brisbane), every Wednesday. To Noumea (New Caledonia) and Fiji, monthly (from Sydney). 84 Australasian United Steam Navigation Company, Limited. MARYBOROUGH-Continued. To New Hebrides, three weekly (from Sydney). To Tasmanian and New Zealand ports, weekly (from Sydney). To Mackay (Flat Top), Bowen, Townsville, Dungeness, Card- well, Mourilyan, Geraldton, Cairns, Port Douglas, and Cook- town (transhipping at Rockhampton), every Wednesday. To New Guinea ports, Thursday Island, Normanton, and Burketown (with transhipment at Brisbane), every alternate Wednesday. Agent-H. M. Ramsay. MELBOURNE (Capital of Victoria).—Situated on the River Yarra Yarra. Lat. 37° 49' S. Long. 144° 58' E. Pop., 1896 (including suburbs), 448,410. Hotels- Menzies' and Scott's. Coffee Palaces—Grand and Victoria. Berth—Queen's Wharf, foot of Spencer Street. Company's Services from this Port :- To Adelaide, every Tuesday and Saturday by West Australian liners. To Albany, Fremantle, Geraldton, and other West Australian ports, every Tuesday and Saturday. To Sydney, Brisbane, Rockhampton (Keppel Bay), Mackay (Flat Top), Bowen, Townsville, Cairns, Port Douglas, and Cooktown, every Tuesday and Saturday To New Guinea ports, Thursday Island, Normanton, and Burketown, every alternate Saturday. To Dungeness, Cardwell, Mourilyan, and Geraldton (with tran- shipment at Townsville), every Saturday. To Maryborough, Bundaberg, and Gladstone, every Saturday. To Noumea (New Caledonia) and Fiji, monthly (from Sydney). To New Hebrides, three weekly (from Sydney). To Tasmanian and New Zealand ports, weekly (from Sydney). Agents—W. Siddeley & Co., Robb's Buildings, 529 Collins Street. - ----- MOURILYAN HARBOUR.-Sugar port. Lat. 17° 36' S. Long. 146° 8' E. Anchorage-Alongside wharf. Company's Services from this Port :- To Geraldton and Cairns, every Wednesday. To Cardwell, Dungeness, and Townsville, every Friday. To Port Douglas and Cooktown (with transhipment at Cairns), every Wednesday. To New Guinea ports, Thursday Island, Normanton, and Burketown (with transhipment at Cairns), every alternate Wednesday. To Bowen, Mackay, (Flat Top), Rockhampton (Keppel Bay), Gladstone, Bundaberg, Maryborough, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide (with transhipment at Townsville), every Friday. ----------- ------------------- ==--- ---- - ----- --- - Australasian United Steam Navigation Company, Limited. 85 MOURILYAN HARBOUR-Continued. To Albany, Fremantle, Geraldton, and other West Australian ports (with transhipment at Townsville and Sydney), every Friday. To Noumea (New Caledonia) and Fiji, monthly (from Sydney). To New Hebrides, three weekly (from Sydney). To Tasmanian and New Zealand ports, weekly (from Sydney). Agents—Burns, Philp & Co., Ltd., Townsville. - NEWCASTLE.-Situated at the mouth of the Hunter River, N.S.W. The great coal emporium of the Southern Hemisphere. Lat. 32° 55' S. Long. 151° 49' E. Pop., 60,000. Hotels-Great Northern, Criterion, and Centennial. Anchorage-Alongside wharf, or in stream. The Company's steamers call at this port when inducement offers. Agents-Dalgety & Co., Ltd. -- - ---- -- NORMANTON.-Situated on the Norman River. Port for the Croydon, Etheridge, and Bower Bird goldfields. Lat. 17° 45' S. Long. 141° 5' E. Pop., 600. Hotels-Hely's and Queen's. Anchorage--Off Kimberley, 60 miles from town. Mails and passengers conveyed by steam tender to town free of charge. Company's Services from this Port :- To Burketown, every alternate Thursday. To Thursday Island, New Guinea ports, Cooktown, Port Douglas, Cairns, Townsville, Bowen, Mackay (Flat Top), Rockhampton (Keppel Bay), Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Albany, Fremantle, Geraldton, and other West Australian ports, every alternate Sunday. To Dungeness, Cardwell, Mourilyan, Geraldton, and Cairns, (with transhipment at Townsville), every alternate Sunday. To Gladstone, Bundaberg, and Maryborough (with tranship- ment at Rockhampton), every alternate Sunday. To Nouinea (New Caledonia) and Fiji, monthly (from Sydney). To New Hebrides, three weekly (from Sydney). To Tasmanian and New Zealand ports, weekly (from Sydney). Agents—Burns, Philp & Co., Ltd. -------- ---- =-- NOUMEA (Capital of New Caledonia).—Lat. 22° 29' S. Long. 166° 28' E. Pop. of the island : Civil and military, 6,323 ; convicts, 11,368 ; Native pop., including Loyalty Islands and Isle of Pines, 40,750. Hotels-- Sebastopol and Commerce. Anchorage-Alongside wharf. Company's Services from this Port :- To Suva and Levuka (Fiji Islands), four weekly. Agent–T. Johnston. --- - -- - 86 Australasian Cnited Steam Navigation Company, Limited. PERTH (Capital of Western Australia).—Lat. 31° 52' S. Long. 116° E. 12 miles by rail from Fremantle. Pop., about 15,000 ; rapidly increasing. Hotels—Governor Broome, Shamrock, Royal, and Metro- pole. Agent-D. Hamilton. PORT DOUGLAS.-East coast of Australia. Lat. 16° 28' S. Long. 145° 29' E. Pop. (including district), over 5,000. Hotels- Exchange, Commercial, and Court House. Anchorage-400 yards from the shore. Mails and passen- gers landed in boats free of charge. Company's Services from this Port :- To Cooktown, every Thursday. To New Guinea ports, Thursday Island, Normanton, and Burketown (transhipping at Cooktown), every alternate Thursday. To Cairns, Townsville, Bowen, Mackay (Flat Top), Rockhamp- ton (Keppel Bay), Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne, every Saturday. To Dungeness, Cardwell, Mourilyan, and Geraldton (with tran- shipment at Townsville), every Saturday. To Gladstone, Bundaberg, and Maryborough (with transhipment at Rockhampton), every Saturday. To Adelaide (transhipping at Sydney), every Saturday. To Albany, Fremantle, Geraldton, and other West Australian ports (transhipping at Sydney), every Saturday. To Noumea (New Caledonia) and Fiji, monthly (from Sydney). To New Hebrides, three weekly (from Sydney). To Tasmanian and New Zealand ports, weekly (from Sydney). Agents-Walsh & Co. ROCKHAMPTON.-On the Fitzroy River, Queensland, east coast of Australia. Port for the world-famed Mount Morgan gold mine. Lat. 23° 25' S. Long. 150° 25' E. Pop., 11,629. Hotels-Criterion and Leichhardt. Anchorage-Alongside wharf and at Keppel Bay, 40 miles from Rockhampton. Steam tender conveys passengers and luggage to the city free of charge. Company's Services from this Port :- To Mackay (Flat Top), Bowen, Townsville, Cairns, Port Doug- las, Cooktown, every Sunday: To New Guinea ports, Thursday Island, Normanton, and Burketown (transhipping at Cooktown), every alternate Sun- day. To Broadsound, occasionally, as inducement offers. To Dungeness, Cardwell, Mourilyan, and Geraldton (with tran- shipment at Townsville), every Sunday. Advertisement. ¥.ne................... ...... . ....... ... . New Zealand Shipping Company, Ltd. New Zealand and London, Calling at Monte Video, Rio de Janeiro, Teneriffe, and Plymouth. ROYAL MAIL. OG FLEET. ha - -- - STEAMER. TONS. STEAMER. TONS. - RUAHINE... RIMUTAKA KAIKOURA RUAPEAU TONGARIRO 6,127 4,515 4,507 4,202 4,163 WAIKATO TEKOA OTARAMA RAKAIA MATAURA 4,706 4,050 3,808 5,628 5,764 F Leave New Zealand every Fourth Thursday for London. All are modern vessels, built of steel expressly for the Colonial Trade, and owned in the Colony. L A SSENGER Accommodation is replete with every convenience, and the Dietary arrangements unsurpassed, fresh provisions being carried in a frozen state. The homeward passages have hitherto been remarkably quick, averaging thirty-six to forty days. By this route the heat of the Red Sea is avoided, and the magnificent scenery of New Zealand, Straits of Magellan, Monte Video, Rio, and Teneriffe is a great and enjoyable attraction. SPECIAL RETURN TICKETS. -- FOR FURTHER PARTICULARS APPLY TO The British India & Queensland Agency Co., Ltd., Agents in Queensland. 20 60 40 CHART OF THE -OF BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAV THE BRITISH INDIA ASSOC AUSTRALASIAN UNITED ST > Baltic Sex - ANE MORTI MBIOTISA SEA D Du blind Berlin LADONA PLYMOUTAT bru - Irtisch o Paris Vierina Dricper L. Badkash or SCAY Trieste Odessa Venice (arseilles Rondea BLACK SEA Constantinople KASPIA Madrid Constantinople altar PERS 1 SE e, Japles Algiers Tumit Athens then PELS rs Tunis Tehera MALTA V SEA BAGHDAD S Madeira 9 Morocco Canary Is Tripoh BUSREH Alexandria..PISAID Cairo SUEZ EGY PI IS A HAR A AA RA eran Cabul. A Punjaub Bushire B Abbas Gwadur KURRACHEE RAIN Muscat 33 Visad BOMBAY Coconi ARABIAN SEA Socotra andann Cochin NU BI & Sangeet L. Chad Wodcida R Nige Alors BYSSINIA Senegambia 19 Micut Baper Sierra Leone Ashanti A F R I c COLOMBO Maldive Fernando POAT GULF OF GUINEA I S. 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YELLOW SKA Yokohama harga yokohama NORTH Nagasaki ay kiong Nanking JA In Shangha Shangha.com P A C I F IC Torre toe kia farger Foo Chow Amoyen Cantons Mecao al 0 C E A N Hong Kong CHINA Philippine Manilla CALCUTTA A Chittagong C BURMAH reten NR yab de fadas RANGOON arthdamh Manimein MADRAS BAYS a mvay andicherry Bergue n o Peckshands DENGAL Koplity Penang ACHIN SEA Islands ON in the Ceylon O Hay Peg DELETE SINGAPORE Sinkawang Pontianak Padang 2 Bencosto de ke NRW GUINE 27 ? cakarta Thursday KURKETOW W CALEDONIA NEW HEBRIDES . Bowen P! Darwin CORAL SEA Cooktown IMBERLEY BROOME SE DERBY Normentor townsville ONSLOW LED Mackay ASHBURTONA QUEENSLAND CARNARVON, WESTERN ROCKHAMPTON WA U S T R A LI A BRISBANE GERALDTON MURCHISON SOUTH F COOLGARDIE AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIA SOUTH st FREMANTLZPERTH WALES. BUNBURY NEW STRALIA NEWCASTLE A abla de Α Ν Ι bans Omo Melbourne Auckland NEW 40 Nelsory Wellington ZEALAND Tasmania Leguanceston V Hobart Otago from Greenwich 100 120 140 160 180 90 Australasian (nited Steam Navigation Company, Limited. Passage tickets issued on board by ship's officers are charged 55. extra. It is therefore advisable that all arrangements as to tickets should be completed before embarking. The other terms on which tickets are issued by the Company's steamers are endorsed on each ticket, and these are commended to the attention of passengers. Saloon Regulations. The following are the meal hours on board the Company's steamers :-Saloon- Breakfast, 8.30 a.m., except when steamers make an early arrival in port, when Breakfast will be served at 8 a.m. ; Lunch, I p.m. ; Dinner, 6 p.m. Second Class - Breakfast, 7.30 a.m. ; Dinner, noon ; Tea, 5 p.m. The dressing bell is rung half an hour before saloon breakfast and dinner. Lights in the saloon are extinguished at 10.30 p.m., and in the state rooms at II p.m. The bar opens at 7 a.m., and closes at 10.30 p.m. at sea. Through Tickets. Passengers booked to and from coast ports, at through rates, are transferred with their baggage from one steamer to another by the Company, without extra charge ; but if detained at the transhipping port waiting for a steamer, they must pay their own expenses. Return Tickets. Return tickets are issued at reduced rates, and are available for six months from date of issue. Horses Dogs, &c. Horses, dogs, other animals, and birds are carried on deck, by special arrange- ment only, at shipper's risk. Dogs, birds, or pet animals of any kind will not be allowed in the saloon or state rooms under any circumstances. Food has to be sup- plied by the sender, unless specially arranged otherwise. Bicycles cannot be carried as passengers' luggage, but will be charged special rates, Dogs must be placed in charge of the chief officer on board. Children. Children under two years of age, free ; no berth provided. five years, quarter fare : between five and twelve years, half fare. Between two and Servants. Female servants travelling with their employers may travel in saloon at second class fare, but are not allowed to sit at table with the other passengers. Deck Passages. Asiatics and Polynesians are carried on deck at special rates. Baggage. Each first class adult passenger is allowed 20 cubic feet of personal baggage free. Second class and servants, 10 cubic feet ; children paying half fare, half this space. Commercial travellers are allowed 40 cubic feet. Extra luggage charged according to rates of freight. Deck chairs received and placed on board at owner's risk. Passengers who may miss any baggage on arrival at their destination are recommended to apply, without delay, to the Company's Agents, giving full par- ticulars, in writing. 92 Advertisement Turnbull - LONDON, Martin Co., DUNEDIN, N.Z. GLASGOW, & DUNEDIN, N.Z. Owners of the .SHIRE LA ON FIRST CLASS STEAMERS. he STEAMER. REG. TONNAGE. STEAMER. REG. TONNAGE. BANFFSHIRE 5,526 NAIRNSHIRE ... BUTESHIRE ... 5,574 FIFESHIRE ... PERTHSHIRE ... 5,549 ELDERSLIE MORAYSHIRE ROSS-SHIRE 3,720 3,120 2,761 2,080 3,822 .. REGULAR SAILINGS To and from LONDON, AUSTRALIA, and NEW ZEALAND. HE above vessels, some of which are the largest in the Aus- * tralian Trade, are fitted in the most improved manner for the carriage of Frozen Meat, Dairy Produce, and General Cargo, at Moderate Rates of Freight. - - - Splendid Accommodation For a limited number of Saloon Passengers at Reduced Fares. - - -- FOR FURTHER PARTICULARS APPLY TO THE BRITISH INDIA AND QUEENSLAND AGENCY CO., LTD., AGENTS, MARY STREET, BRISBANE. = = = = ==== === --- = -=-= - - - - --- ---== =- - - - - - -- - = ==--=-==-=- Royal Mail Line. Queensland 0000000OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Queensland Ropal Mail Line. BRITISH INDIA ASSOCIATED STEAMERS, LTD. UNDER CONTRACT WITH H.M. GOVERNMENT OF QUEENSLAND. Comprising the following High-Class Steamers :-- Tons. Tons. AYOCA 5,324 INDIA ... 4,074 JUMNA ... 4,749 MERKARA ... 3,099 JELUNGA ... 5,186 Monthly Service to London from Brisbane and other Queensland Ports, via Batavia, Aden, Suez, Port Said. Extra Steamers as inducement offers. Travellers by this line have the great advantage of visiting the Queensland ports and enjoying the picturesque scenery and smooth water passage afforded by this route, while the monotony of a long sea voyage is relieved by the numerous interest- ing breaks in the journey, at Batavia and elsewhere. SALOON TO LONDON, £ 50; RETURN, £87 10s. SECOND CLASS (by Ducal Steamers), £ 37 Single ; £65 Return. STEERAGE, £14 145., BRISBANE; £16 FROM NORTHERN QUEENSLAND PORTS. Parcels received for any part of the United Kingdom at 6d. per Ib. Minimum charge, 2s. 6d., covering 5 lbs. Cargo and passengers booked through to the Continent of Europe, America, India, Burma, China, Japan, Straits Settlement, Java, New Zealand, Tasmania, Fiji, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Africa, Persian Gulf, Egypt, Algiers, &c. The Service is conducted in connection with the following Companies :-- BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION Co., LTD, UNION STEAMSHIP CO. OF NEW ZEALANT), LTD). CASTLE MAIL PACKET Co. PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION Co. EASTERN STEAMSHIP CO., LTD. (DUCAL LINE), NORTH GERMAN Lloyd's. GERMAN AUSTRALIAN STEAMSHIP Co. MESSAGERIES MARITIMES Co. AUSTRIAN LLOYD's Co. FRENCH TRANSATLANTIC Co. RUBATTINO Co. GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION Co. And the principal Atlantic Steam Lines. === -- - ------- ----- - - ---- --- -- --- - THE NORTH QUEENSLAND MORTGAGE AND INVESTMENT COMPANY, LIMITED Registered May 18, 1886. AUTHORISED CAPITAL, £1,000,000. Head Office, LONDON. Head Queensland Office, TOWNSVILLE. Queensland Board of Advice: The Hon. WILLIAM APLIN, M.L.C. WALTER HAYS, ) . FRANK NEAME, Esq. Manager: WARRINGTON LAING, Townsville. The Company is prepared to grant LOANS ON MORTGAGE for fixed periods. THE BRITISH INDIA AND QUEENSLAND AGENCY COMPANY, LIMITED, Agents. ancone LANDMD ones >>> >>XeeKacheKeka > British India 11133DDER Steam Navigation Co., Limited. > >>> >>53