Show australian FACTS AND FIGURES NEW SOUTH WALES GR GB DEBS in ID the premier australian col oy dy the money order 0 getem was brought into operation in january 1863 in which year there were issued a 3 orders to every hundred persons in the 0 clony to tn 1893 the number reached 44 the total value advancing tram to while the value or orders paid rose irom from to 1 during the same period A COLONIAL MUSEUM the australian museum the oldest institution of the kind in australia Aue occupies a conspicuous site eite i in the center ot of sydney facing one of the principal parks park the contents comprise carefully selected specimens of the principal objects of natural history to be found in kindred establishments and also a most moat complete of zoological specimens of distinctly australian character the museum Is in open to the public every day except monday on sunday the visitors are ext extremity numerous the number of visitors during 1898 was wa the dally daily average ave raffe being on sunday and on week days mississippi the murray the largest river in australia has its if sources in the snowy moun moon twins in the sou that corner of new south wales and from the farthest ot these to albury famous tor for vineyard to ia a distance of miles thence to its j a notion with the darling river 1 another of the great inland streams of australia the course of the murray is miles and from that hat point to the sea below lake alexandrine Alexandr lna miles the murray has thus M u total course of 1719 miles of which 1260 1250 are within the colony of now new south wales it has been navigated as far as an the burnie ournie goldfield gold field about miles above albury and 1590 miles from its mouth |