The estates it built between the first and second world wars ate up middlesex , whose name survives only in such relics as the eponymous county cricket club .
Country estates in queensland , which straddles the tropic of capricorn , can rival many of the big landholdings in the u.s. and canada .
昆士兰州横跨南回归线两侧,这里的乡村地产可以和美国、加拿大两国的很多大块地产相媲美。
But the impact of the economic downturn , cheap supermarket booze and the smoking ban , combined with too much debt and desperately underinvested estates , mean large portions of the industry are to all intents and purposes insolvent .