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 vegetable garden in full bearing. The whole comprises ten acres of good chocolate soil. Price, £525.

.—"Louisville Estate ": comprises eight hundred and forty-two acres of good land, part in small vineyard, fine orchard and flower garden. The house contains eight large rooms, servants' rooms, etc., stables, coach-house, cow-shed, and a splendid supply of water. A jetty also belongs to the property, at which local vessels can berth, and the Swansea and Hobart coach passes the gate. Price, £3000. And so on.

New South Wales has her unrivalled back country, her outlook on the Pacific, and the rather doubtful benefit of the Federal Territory, which is to be within her borderline. Queensland has her herds and flocks, her Mount Morgans and her frozen meat: Melbourne her Bendigo and Ballarat; the land-boom, and the bank-smashes, to look back upon; the butter-factories and wineries which are retrieving the past; and the wealth of the Western District, where the sons of the squatters play polo, and draw rents, when they can get them, from their onion-farms. South Australia sits content with her wheat and wine, her piety, politics, and gambling share-brokers. Even Western Australia has at least Kalgoorlie and the jarrah trade. Tasmania has been looked on mainly as a health resort, with her quays often covered with a glut of fruit, and with no more exciting question to debate than whether her capital should be called Hobart, Hobart Town, or Hobarton. But all this may be changed by the growth of the mineral output, and by the stimulus of the Federal markets: and it is highly probable that more than nine thousand acres of new land may be broken up annually for many years to come. Federation has been, all along, mainly a commercial question for Tasmania.