Northern Territory
a territory of the Commonwealth of Australia, situated between Western Australia and Queensland on the west and east, and reaching from South Australia north to the Timor and Arafura seas. It has a total area of about 525,000 square miles.
There are mountain ranges and the country is for the most part exceedingly dry, although portions are well adapted to cultivation of tropical products. Cattle and sheep raising are the chief industries. The total population in 1912 was estimated at about 3,000.
NORTHFIELD CONFERENCES and SUMMER SCHOOLS, an annual series of meetings for Christian workers in the Evangelical Protestant Churches, established in 1882 by the famous evangelist Dwight L. Moody. The Student Conference met at East Northfield in 1886 and has held its sessions there ever since. It is a meeting designed primarily to interest students in Christian work. The Mount Hermon School for Bible study also has its sessions during the summer at Northfield. Other summer conferences are: the Home Mission School, the Young Women's Conference, the Sunday School Workers' Conference, and the Foreign Missionary School. Since Moody's death the work has been in charge of his sons.
NORTH LITTLE ROCK. See AR- GENTA.