VICTORIA'S BOUNDARY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8140, 16 May 1906, Page 7

VICTORIA'S BOUNDARY.

'Three may yet be w«»r between Viotoria and New Sooth Wales. 'The boundary question that is causing an international difficulty be 'tween Egypt and Turkey is not more important in its way than the question of the rightful boundary uf Victoria. The Age' has gone deep into historical geography, and has come out convinced <bat the State of Viotoria was robbed of a huge SLICE OF TERRITORY by a piece of political piraoy. The Murrumbidgee, and not the Murray, it contends, is the rightful northern boundary of the State. The aot of I;he Imperial Parliament Whioh separated Poit Philip from New ."South Wales declared that "the territories comprised within the -district of Port Philip, bounded on the noith and trior tb'east by a .straight line drawn from Cape Howe *to the nearest source of the river -Murray, and thence J3Y A COURSE •of that .river to the eastern boundary •of South Australia, shall . . . form a separate colony, to be known and designated "as Victoria." It is in the delimitation of thia boundary that Viotoria is said to have suffered an injustice. Instead of the nearest aourceof the river Murray being taken, the line has been drawn in a manner whioh excludes from Viotoria territory to which, under a proper interpretation of Imperial intention, she may rightfully lay olaim. The ownership of the whole of/the Riverina is at stake. It Is contended that the "Murray" was the NAME OF THE RIVER after the junction of the Hume and the Murrumbidgee, and that the source of the river nearest to Cape Howe must be the source of the Murrumbidgee, whioh is seventyfive miles from Cape Howe, whereas the source of the Hume, or Upper Murray, is 110 miles away. The Age quotes a variety of authorities and maps to show that the Murrumbidgee was contemplated as the northern boundary of the new State, and it alleges that the Legisalture of New South Wales robbed Viotoria of the Riverina by juggling with the names of rivers. New South Wales has had undisputed possession for fifty-five years, and treats the subject as a joke now, but Mr Bent is said to be convinced that his State has suffered an injustice.