Australia Since the Camera, Volumes 1-3Cheshire, 1972 - History |
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... colonies were linked by electric telegraph in 1859. A more ambitious project was the construction , in 1870-72 , of the Overland Telegraph from Adelaide to Darwin , which , when linked with the cable from Darwin to Java , put Australia ...
... colonies were linked by electric telegraph in 1859. A more ambitious project was the construction , in 1870-72 , of the Overland Telegraph from Adelaide to Darwin , which , when linked with the cable from Darwin to Java , put Australia ...
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Gold in the West The shadows of depression still lay heavily over the eastern colonies , when two prospectors in Western Australia , Arthur Bayley and William Ford , found gold in a native well called Coolgardie , about 395 miles east ...
Gold in the West The shadows of depression still lay heavily over the eastern colonies , when two prospectors in Western Australia , Arthur Bayley and William Ford , found gold in a native well called Coolgardie , about 395 miles east ...
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... colonies , New South Wales , with its policy of free trade , and protectionist Victoria , were still too great to be bridged . Ten years later , Parkes , at a conference on intercolonial customs duties , proposed the creation of a ...
... colonies , New South Wales , with its policy of free trade , and protectionist Victoria , were still too great to be bridged . Ten years later , Parkes , at a conference on intercolonial customs duties , proposed the creation of a ...
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