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Her Majesty's Mails in New South Wales

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Her Majesty's Mails in New South Wales. New South Wales is enterprising and it is prosperous, it is also very big; and though immense sums have been spent in railway construction in the country, there are still vast territories which must be traversed on horseback or in carriages. We see here the Mail Coach changing horses at a wayside station. Neither the vehicle nor the team is quite up to the standard of the spanking mail coaches with their four horses and their red-coated guards which spun along the English roads at the beginning of the century. But doubtless splendour will follow efficiency, and by the time the post-house has become a large hotel, as it very likely will in a couple of years, the style of the turn-out will also have improved. Photograph from The Queen's Empire (Cassell, 1899).
CaptionHer Majesty's Mails in New South Wales. New South Wales is enterprising and it is prosperous, it is also very big; and though immense sums have been spent in railway construction in the country, there are still vast territories which must be traversed on horseback or in carriages. We see here the Mail Coach changing horses at a wayside station. Neither the vehicle nor the team is quite up to the standard of the spanking mail coaches with their four horses and their red-coated guards which spun along the English roads at the beginning of the century. But doubtless splendour will follow efficiency, and by the time the post-house has become a large hotel, as it very likely will in a couple of years, the style of the turn-out will also have improved. Photograph from The Queen's Empire (Cassell, 1899).
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