Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 26/3/1870 (3)
Corowa is reached in about twenty miles more, and here are more farms and vineyards, and a very neat group of buildings on rising ground-being church, parsonage, and schools. This is a very pretty little township, and across the bridge is the smart, well built little town of Wahgunyah, having an unmistakable Victorian air. Hotels, shops, mills, stores, almost all are in substantial brick; the farming neighbour hood being at least as extensively settled on and around Brown's Plains as the New South Wales side.
On my return I noticed a vineyard and orangery, belonging to Mr Wise of Wiseworth (the name of this pleasant farm). Mr Wise's brother has another orangery in this neighbourhood. These are tho only two I heard of.
About twelve miles out of Albury I observed a brick building in course of erection by the roadside-Church of England.
I am sorry to say I must shorten up, and suppress my notes on this district. I visited upwards of fifty farms, vineyards, mills, and business houses, and travelled over a hundred miles in five days; but fresh matter of importance is accumulating, and demands immediate attention. I must not omit to mention, however, that the population of the municipality of Albury is estimated at over 3000, and that their opinions, sentiments, and business relations are almost exclusively Victorian.
All down the Murray (the inhabitants are very proud of the Murray, and justly so; Molonglo and Queanbeyan rivers indeed ! if you call them rivers) the people look across the river to Victoria to Melbourne for their goods, and to Beechworth for their market, looking north only for their laws and Government.
March 21, 1870.
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