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acres agricultural alienated amount annual Australasia Australasian colonies average number Bank British Broken Hill bushels capital cattle Census cent coal coast colony considerable consumption cost crops Crown lands cultivation deaths deposits districts Dividing Range duties employed ended 30th June England established expenditure export extent feet females figures following table shows Freehold Fund gallons given gold Government Governor granted immigration important included increase industry labour large number lease license loans maize males manufacture marriage miles mineral mining months Mudgee Newcastle number of persons obtained occupied offences paid Parramatta pastoral period population Port Port Jackson Port Stephens principal Private Rented production proportion quantity Queensland quit-rents railway returns revenue River schools settlement sheep South Australia South Wales southern Sydney Tasmania timber tonnage tons total area total number trade United Kingdom vessels Victoria wages Western Australia wheat wool yield Zealand
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Page 772 - ... regulating the relations between workmen and masters, or between workmen and workmen, or between masters and masters, or for imposing restrictive conditions on the conduct of any trade or business, whether such combination would or would not, if this Chapter had not been passed, have been deemed to have been an unlawful combination by reason of some one or more of its purposes being in restraint of trade.
Page 79 - Commons; and all bills for the granting of any such aids and supplies ought to begin with the Commons; and that it is the undoubted and sole right of the Commons to direct, limit and appoint in such bills, the ends, purposes, considerations, conditions, limitations, and qualifications of such grants which ought not to be changed or altered by the House of Lords...
Page 72 - ... and according to such instructions as may from time to time be given to him under our sign manual and signet, or by our order in our Privy Council, or by us, through one of our principal Secretaries of State, and to such laws as are now or shall hereafter be in force in the State.
Page 3 - Terra begins at two or three degrees from the equator, and is maintained by some to be of so great an extent that if it were thoroughly explored, it would be regarded as a fifth part of the world.
Page 71 - An Act to enable Her Majesty to assent to a Bill as Amended of the Legislature of New South Wales to Confer a Constitution on New South Wales and to Grant a Civil List to Her Majesty...
Page 79 - That all aids and supplies, and aids to his majesty in Parliament, are the sole gift of the commons ; and all bills for the granting of any such aids and supplies ought to begin with the commons : and that it is the undoubted and sole right of the commons to direct, limit, and appoint in such bills the ends, purposes, considerations, conditions, limitations, and qualifications of such grants ; which ought not to be changed or altered by the House of Lords.
Page 904 - Government in 1877, and provides for the inscription and transfer of stock raised in the United Kingdom, and for stamp duty to be levied thereon. It also defines the position of the British Government as regards Colonial indebtedness, and provides that every document connected with stock transactions shall have printed upon it a distinct intimation that no liability direct or indirect is incurred by the British Government in respect to such stock, unless the loan is under Imperial guarantee. ISSUE...
Page 900 - The treasury bills of New Zealand do not rightly form part of the public debt, and such of these as were outstanding have therefore been excluded from the foregoing statement. REDEMPTION OF LOANS. Loans are either redeemed or renewed. In the former case, the amount of the obligations of the State to its public creditors is reduced ; in. the latter case, the liability remains the same or is only slightly altered.
Page 406 - Persons whose cases have not yet been disposed of are allowed to see their legal advisers and others who may visit them in reference to their trial. It is not required that they shall wear prison clothing ; and other privileges, consistent with safe custody, are granted to them. Persons under examination are not allowed to have any communication made to them while in the prison except by their legal advisers, unless such a proceeding is specially sanctioned by the Justice conducting the examination....
Page 430 - That gentleman attempted, some time ago, to pass the mountains, and to penetrate into the interior; but having got thus far, he gave up the undertaking as impracticable; reporting, on his return, that it was impossible to find a passage even for a person on foot.