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Title: The web of empire : a diary of the imperial tour of their Royal Highnesses the Duke & Duchess of Cornwall & York in 1901
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Wallace, Donald Mackenzie, 1841-1919 Hall, Sydney Prior, 1842-1922, ill Martino, Eduardo de, d. 1912
Subjects: George V, King of Great Britain, 1865-1936 Mary, Queen, consort of George V, King of Great Britain, 1867-1953
Publisher: London, New York : Macmillan and company, limited
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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h Wales. Already meat-factories and cold-storage depots are being constructed on a very large scale. At Aberdeen, for example, a little town n 24. THE GENERAL GORDON WITH THEIR ROYAL HIGHNESSES ON BOARD we have crossed, durmills culminating at the station ot feet above and that we rurundi, 273 e Oueens- )ur route lies °* tJie Hu; er. The so-called vai a railway carriage,ily country; and the rt river,from time to time, neof a modest brook. At, where we are to stop for thr hour, a thriving seaport, with a popula-60,000. The Duke and Duchess are received >rd Hopetoun, Sir and oth JAYOil £I3HT HTIW VlOGftOO I\ y^.VAVO 3HT a^Aoa no eaeaawHoiH- Empire, which their cordial approval ofdo not excludcal patriotism. The;-ieve in its future. Ia great export aediate neighbourhc0,000 tons annua -recently added the export of frozen meathich reached in 1899 the respectablen the next few years this sum mayi, for the industry is still in its•veloped to any extent in tAlready meat-fact largeseal. -■
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vi BRISBANE AND SYDNEY 183 which we passed during the night, 4000 sheep are slaughtered daily ; and according to the official returns the number of sheep slaughtered annually throughout the State amounts to about five millions. In the export trade Newcastle has to compete, of course, with Sydney,which is distant only 60 miles by sea and 100 by rail ;but the enterprising citizens believe that their port can hold its own against its elder rival, and they quote in support of their opinion the fact that its tonnage often exceeds that of the Capital. Before I have exhausted this interesting topic with my new acquaintances, their Royal Highnesses return, and we go on by train to the Hawkesbury River, where the Ophir is waiting for us.Here we are to remain quietly till Monday morning. Sunday, 26th May 1901. This is a day of rest preparatory to the Sydney functions and festivities, which are to begin to-morrow and last ten days. After the ordinary morning service we go on board a local stern-wheeler called the General Gordon...

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"The General Gordon was a wood stern wheel paddle steamship, built by Thomas Davis at Terrigal Haven in 1886. After launching the ship it was towed to Sydney where two horizontal high pressure steam engines of 55 h.p were fitted. The engines were built in 1862 and repaired by Fulton & Co of Melbourne in 1886. General Gordon was ‘first run’ on 15 August 1887 and registered in Sydney in October 1887."