Timor, Victoria (1.6 km) long - including houses, hotels and stores. Timor prospered until the collapse of the local mining industry during World War 1. The general store, established in 1852, is one of the oldest shops in the state and a school was established in 1863. The school still operates but the store ceased trading in 1997, after 145 years of continuous operation. The last pub closed in 1963. Timor, Victoria Timor is a locality in central Victoria, Australia. The locality is in the Shire of Central Goldfields, north of Maryborough and north west of the state capital, Melbourne. Now a
History of the Australian Capital Territory capital. Early advocate for Australian federation, John Dunmore Lang, backed Sydney, but Henry Parkes, a prominent New South Wales politician and Premier, proposed the capital be founded on "neutral ground", nominating the town of Albury as a location. (Albury was located in New South Wales, yet its position on the Murray River placed it on the border between New South Wales and Victoria). In 1898, a referendum on a proposed Constitution was held in four of the colonies – New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania. Although the referendum achieved a majority in all four colonies, the New South