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Separation
of Tumut, Adelong & Wagga Wagga from NSW 28
May 1846 The Australian (Sydney) |
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It is highly gratifying to us to
be enabled to inform our readers, upon unquestionable authority, that such
is the progress made in the adjustment of the Separation Question, that the
subject of the future boundaries of the Colony of Port Phillip are
now under discussion by the Government. What are the particular views of
his Excellency Sir Goorge Gipps
on the subject we are not, of course, prepared to say, nor yet those of
the Surveyor General; but thus much we feel at liberty to state
that the boundary line between Port Phillip and New South Wales will be
drawn with especial reference to natural land marks, so as to avoid the
complicated relations, and insurmountable difficulties which, as in the
case of the South Australian boundary line, would be certain to arise, if
some imaginary line or parallel of latitude were to be adopted, the precises
ascertaining of which, upon any individual spot, could only be
determined by tedious, expensive, and for mast purposes, especially
those of jurisprudence, impracticable process. On these grounds, therefore, and
being aware of the weight which will be attached by the Home Government
- or rather by the new Colonial Minister - to the views of his
predecessor Lord John Russell, we are inclined to expect that
the boundary struck out by his Lordship and now actually in force
by Act of Parliament for every purpose of Government, except municipal
and financial separation, will be the boundary line recommended, by
his Excellency and the Executive Council. This line commences at Cape Howe,
proceeds to the centre of the Australian Alps, (Mount Koskiusko ?) thence to
the nearest head of the Murrumbidgee (the Tumut ?) and so down the
Murrumbidgee to the Murray, and thence to the South Australian boundary.
Any other line than this will be gross
injustice to Port Phillip, for it will be a taking away a portion
of the Territory already given to, and now forming part of, the
Territorial District, as it ought to be, of the Colony of Port Phillip. From the Port Phillip Patriot, May 7. |