The New International Encyclopædia/Maryborough (Queensland)

MARYBOROUGH, mā′rĭ-bŭr′ō̇. A seaport municipality of March County, Queensland, Australia, at the mouth of the Mary River on Hervey Bay, 160 miles north of Brisbane, with which it has railroad and steam communication (Map: Australia, J 4). It is the port of a rich coal, gold, and copper mining and agricultural region; has sugar mills and refineries, iron foundries, breweries, tanyards, shipbuilding industries, active fisheries, and a considerable export trade in timber, sugar, and minerals. The river is crossed at Maryborough by a wooden bridge; the commodious wharves are available to vessels of 17½ feet draught. Population, in 1891, 9700; in 1901, 10,159.