Victoria and the Australian Gold Mines in 1857 - With Notes on the Overland Route From Australia, Via Suez #248627

The railway system, in this sifting of the political machinery, is likely to receive a reconsideration, which may induce the colonial Government, with its ex panding cares and obligations, to alter its proposed policy of constructing and owning the main lines, and to avoid the dificulties alike of a cumbrous public debt, and of a decision upon the cheap or costly principle of construction, by leaving the whole ques tion to the readier solution of private interests.