The London “Daily Chronicle” recently remarked Towns are so usually born, not made, that there is something,coldblooded in the proposed building of Tumut as the capital of Australia. The nearest parallel is the case of St. Petersburg, which Peter the Great erected, on the swampy delta of the Neva just two hundred years ago, decapitalising Moscow. Madrid was similarly made to the order of Philip U. in, 1561. Formerly it had been merely a Moorish fort, but its loft site led the Spanish consort of Queen Mary to build his residence there on account of the asthma from which he suffered. Singapore was likewise the deliberate creation or S taint ora Raffles not a century ago*
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1651, 21 October 1903, Page 58
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116Untitled New Zealand Mail, Issue 1651, 21 October 1903, Page 58
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