Sydney water system origins and Botany tunnel plan
The 1850s inquiry into Sydney’s water supply traced early efforts from Botany’s Busby Tunnel to Lachlan Swamp sources. It notes a 12,000 foot Botany tunnel completed in 1837, convict labor costs, and preference for Lord's Dam Botany Swamp despite high expense for distant options. It outlines proposed distribution, rates, and a forecast revenue, warning the 50 year plan proved insufficient.
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Sydney
George Hill
Allen
Eigan
Fisher
Thurlow
Jenking
Roberts
Williams
Flood
Lachlan
Botany
James Busby
Busby
Centennial Park
4Sydney Morning Herald
Botany Swamps
Lord's Dam
Botany Swamp
Nepean
Hawkesbury River
George's River
Cook's River
Langley
Mr. Clarke
Hyde Park
Precem Commission
Population Study Notes Gender Proportions Referenced
A terse remark discusses population gender ratios. It states there are 10,000 females with a female proportion around 50.50 percent and males near the corresponding share of 49.50 percent. The note highlights an approximate division between genders.
Review of Australian and British literary works reviewed
The piece surveys new Australian novels including The Silvery Dawn The New Vicar of Wakefield and The Abandoned Farmer It also discusses Joe Wilson and His Mates Old Sydney and New Sydney by A J Barry with praise for the latter The Pall Mall Magazine and Strand Magazine contents are summarized noting fiction and essays on political and cultural topics with several authors named and critical assessments.
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Hildred Codrington
Clarence Clayton
Wakefield
S. G. Pielding
Church of England
Australia
Brooks and Company
Frank Stockton
Sydney H. Preston
Sydney Book Club
George Dibba Eald
Henry Parkes
Henry Lawson
Hfs
Joe Wilson
Bush
Mr Lawson
Kendall
Kendell
Kit
Lewson
Rodney
Jaanson
England
Wallaby
Won
Sydney
A. J. Barry
Old Sydney
A. C. Rowlandson
Sydney Bookstall Company
Barry
Pall Mall
M. Loubet
France
Loubet
Candish
Marie von Verne
Solomon
Alfred Sidgwick
Humieburn
Howard Angus Kennedy
Joseph Conrad
Siberia
Moscow
Vladivestock
E. Walter Maunder
F.R.A
Mr. Welle
Atlantic
Pacific
Christopher Furness
Old World
Count von Bulow
Bend
Magasine
Genes Dogie
A Holiday in New Zealand at Ohinemutu Lake Rotorua
On a bright Sunday in Ohinemutu Lake Rotorua a group of tourists and locals wander the steam vents and Maori huts. Tompkins the artist and other travelers join a church visit, a steamer ride, and a lake excursion with humorous mishaps including a cherry tree climb gone wrong and a mishap with a beachcomber sketch block.
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Vanderlan
Uite
Ohinemulu
Lake
Rotorua
Tompkins
Mr. Stinger
Ohinemutu
Jean
British Medical Association
Bones
Sawbones
Satan
Eha
Mokola
New Zealand
Obau River
Rotetta
Aix
Pearly
Auckland
Tommy
Napoleon
Ohau
Lake Ratoul
Lake Rotoiti
Lake Rotorua
Materfamilias
Duterfamilias
Mator
Allen
Paterfamilias
Iceland
Obau
Obinemutu
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Phosferine
Phosterine
H.lm
Russia
H.lh
Olga
H.M
Greece
H.R.H
Roumania
Ls.h
Leiningen
H.I.H
Grand Duchess
Serge
Grand Duchess of
Hesse
Xenia
Sciatica
Ashton & Parsons,Ltd
Farringdon Road
London
Ashton & Parsons, Ltd
Parringdon Road
Washington H. Soul & CO
Pitt Street
Sayers, Allport, and Co
Sydney Water Supply
Clyde Engineering
Keerney
Eulib
Adams & Go
Sherlock Holmes
Professor Moriarty
Sherlock
Britannia
Richard Marsh
Mr. Marsh
W. W. Jacobs
Sunwich Port
Jacobs
Max Pemberton
Pembertonias
Mr. R. Barr
B. Fry
Archibald Williams
Harry Furness
Rudolph de Cordova
Winifred Graham
Cassell and Company
Brunton Stephens
Angus and Robertson
South Africa
Tme
Wm, Adams & Co., Ltd
Clarence-St
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