v3 Chapter 560： Unpretentious Melbourne

On March 18, 1869, William IV was once again invited to be interviewed by Hague, the ace reporter of "European Times", on the theme of "Moving the Capital to Melbourne? ".

Reporter Haig: "Thank you very much for His Majesty William IV's willingness to accept our newspaper's exclusive interview invitation again"

William IV: "I like freedom of speech, so I would like to be interviewed"

Reporter Haig: "In recent weeks, the world has been discussing more and more topics about the Netherlands, and the return of the three northern provinces of Belgium to Dutch rule has been hotly debated, making the world lament that the Netherlands has become stronger again.

Not long ago, Prime Minister Tolbeck announced that the capital of the Netherlands would be relocated from Amsterdam to Melbourne in the southern part of the Australian mainland, which caused consternation in the whole of Europe and even the world. In this regard, this newspaper hopes that in this visit, it can help the majority of the Netherlands and even the whole world. Many concerned people in Europe and around the world have answered their questions. Your Majesty, many people do not understand why the Netherlands puts the most advanced European technology in the Netherlands, and chooses the European continent far from the source of technology to go to the Far East. Isn't this putting the cart before the horse? "

William IV: "Everything has its own law of growth and death. Many people think that the Netherlands should not sanction France for the Kingdom of Siam, but the truth is that it happened; many people also because the United States should not be divided, but it is still happening. Moreover, the Confederate States of Southern America are still fighting internally; the Kingdom of Siam is the first country in the Far East to establish diplomatic relations with European countries, and it is also the most active country to send diplomatic envoys to European countries. It should be respected by European countries, but As the second largest country in Europe, France, led by Napoleon III, set a sinful precedent and destroyed the heart of the Siamese Kingdom of Chong Europe. happened.

All of these should not happen, but this is only part of our arbitrary perspective, but there are still some people who support it. Therefore, there is no certain standard for everything. It just depends on the number of people who accept it. I am in favor of moving the capital to Melbourne, which can be seen from my previous statement, because from my point of view, it is positive and positive.”

Reporter Haig: "Melbourne Port Phillip was discovered in a series of voyages. After the settlement in 1796, Englishmen Matthew Flinders and George Bass took a small open boat and explored the southeast of Sydney. Some coastline, Bass Strait, south of Melbourne, has been discovered. What is your Majesty's Melbourne like?"

William IV said: "This is a government matter. I am very interested in the urban development of Melbourne. I have passed the book of Rove Bolwood, a Dutch-born memoir from the early days of immigration, and Fergus Hume's "Two Wheels". Based on "The Secret of the Carriage", this paper studies the urban spatial changes of steel structures in the Australian mainland immigrant city Melbourne from the perspective of Australian mainland immigrants. Since the beginning of the 19th century, the immigration development of Australian port cities during the British rule was mainly in several stages. One is voyage exploration, secret exile. The second is to attract immigrants, the period of initial construction. The third is the period of immigration, the period of urban expansion.”

Reporter Haig: "Can you be more specific?"

William IV: "Dutch-born Rove Bolwood settled in Sydney in early 1831, then migrated to Melbourne in 1839, bought land near Port Fairy in 1843, and in 1863 after the Dutch acquired sovereignty there Abandoning pastures and investing in gold mine development, he became the Dutch inspector of gold mines in the local city. This is a humanistic change.

In terms of development, in the early days of British colonization, a number of strongholds were established along the coast of Australia and built into ports. In 1835, Melbourne was established in the lower reaches of the Yarra River. The gold rush caused by the 1851-1860 years broke out a large number of immigrants pouring into Melbourne. After becoming a Dutch city in 1863, it is currently the second largest city in mainland Australia after Sydney, and the third largest city in the Dutch Far East after Jakarta and Sydney. "

Reporter Haig: "What is Melbourne's urban planning?"

William IV: "Early Englishmen in Melbourne believed that planning was very profound in Melbourne. The urban area of ​​Melbourne developed in 1835 was arranged in a grill-like arrangement. The streets were like "drawn with a ruler, wide and straight." "

Haig: "What about now?"

William IV: "In new urban areas and towns, the streets are drawn with a ruler as the theatre actors describe them, keeping wide and straight while still providing sufficient Funding to clear the stumps from Melbourne’s streets every day”

Haig: "Even the tree stumps have been removed. It seems that the Dutch government and the Melbourne government have put a lot of effort into developing Melbourne. Does Your Majesty think it is necessary to move the capital here?"

William IV: "I can't answer you, because the answer is in the future. Busy Dutch immigrants and the local government are working hard to build Melbourne. The Dutch New Territory beyond 200 degrees will not be hit by drought like New South Wales, which has proven to be largely absent over the years, which is true for western Willem. of.

No drought disasters, no earthquakes for decades, plus the natural safe environment there, urban development is booming ~ www.novelhall.com~ It takes more than a day for the Dutch to build their new homes there, I don’t know if it’s worth it , but I think the Dutch immigration thinks it's right. "

Reporter Haig: "How will Melbourne develop in the future?"

William IV: "Melbourne has only 35 years of urban history from 1835 to the present, which is new for centuries-old cities in Europe, so even now it is still in the early stages of urban development. There are hundreds of settlements in Hong Kong. Now more than 30 years have passed, especially since 7 years ago, it has become the city with the second largest number of Dutch immigrants after Sydney. In just 7 years, it has more than 700,000 people. The population has even surpassed that of Rotterdam, the second largest city in the Netherlands, and is catching up with Amsterdam. At present, the spatial form of the urban center area on the south bank of the Yarra River has taken shape.”

Haig: "As the Netherlands moves the capital there, is it inevitable that the city will expand further?"

William IV: "Yes, the current urban construction is modeled after the Netherlands and other European countries. Collins Street is to southern cities what Bond Street is to Amsterdam, and those boulevards are comparable to romantic Paris."

Haig: "Can you tell me where the street is? It is said that your Majesty has been there."

William IV: "Of course, if you walk towards Collins Street and arrive at the Melbourne Club wagon parking lot, the wagon will take you towards Coplin Street, then quickly along Wellington Square, and the wagon will drive to Bolette Main Street, to Fitzroy, to Nickel Street, then to Evelyn Street, Copelin Street, until your wagon stops at the corner of Collins Street and disappears into the Treasury Gardens... ."

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