PROGRESS IN N.S. WALES.
Evidence of tlie growing prosperity of New South Wales colony may be found in the large number of public works in progress. The additions to the new General Post Office are being vigorously prosecuted, and are estimated to cost £205,000 ; four new lighthouses are in course of construction at a cost of about £55,000; the Callan Park Lunatic Asylum, which will cost £229,000, is being rapidly pushed on ; about £50,000 are being expended in increasing Sydney fortifications; the Goulburn Gaol, now in course of erection, is to cost £57,800 ; while numerous courthouses and post and telegraph offices bring the total of works in progress (exclusive, of course, of railway extensions) up to about £750,000.
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Patea Mail, 14 June 1881, Page 4
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