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Around the Coasts of Australia and Fiji. Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nivn, Bayonne, St. Palais, Orthes, Lambega, Toulouse, Quartre-Bras and Waterloo. Salute! Lake Innes, once the home of the gallant Major Innes, and the scene of historical proceedings in Governor Fitzroy's time, is a charming waterway. The Valleys of the Hastings and Wilson Rivers are crowded with delightful picnic spots. Lakes, varying in area from great sheets of water to little pools, stretch nut f.ir from the coast line almost all the way from here to Sydney, and Offer splendid spurt with rod and gun. Camden Haven, another old-lime centre, is south of Port Macquarie, and then we reach tin1 Manning River, which Hows from the distant ranges through beautiful scenery and splendid soil. Cape Ilawke, and then Sugar Loaf Point and its lighthouse follow. Off the latter are the well-known and avoided Seal Rocks. South from here, 30 miles, is Port Stephens, a great sea haven, with Nelson Lighthouse on its southern promontory. Port Hunter, at the mouth of the Hunter River, the port of the famous Newcastle coal fields is 25 miles south of here in latitude 3d, and north of Sydney, lOi miles by rail, and 50 by sea.
Falls on the Dorrigo, near Bellinger. Coast rivers with splendid country on their banks. The latter river flows into the sea near Smoky Cape light, set on a great headland. Forty miles south of here is the mouth of the Hastings River on which is the historic town of Port Macquarie. easily reached from Newcastle, and the capital city, Sydney. The town has an old world stir about it. with old and decrepit buildings, mostly convict-built, scattered about. The Hastings joins the sea in close proximity to the township. The tourist should see the old Norman Church, built between 1824 and 1828, a severely plain brick building with a massive tower, easily picked out by ships at sea. The box pews and old-fashioned furnishings are a little later—from the time that the church was filled with a motley gathering of civilians, soldiers, and convicts. A mighty soldier before the Lord lies under an old weather-beaten monument at Port Macquarie. The inscription reads:—Sacred to the memory of Major James Crummer. Late Her Majesty's 28th Regiment of Foot. He fought at Copenhagen, Busaeo, Badajns, Campo-Mayor, Albuera,
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Map of the Newcastle District.