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Page ii - Crown 8vo., is. 6rf. net. THE ADJUSTMENT OF WAGES : a Study on the Coal and Iron Industries of Great Britain and the United States. With 4 Maps. 8vo., 12s. 6d. net. BRITISH INDUSTRIES : a Series of General Reviews for Business Men and Students.
Page ii - BRITISH DOMINIONS: THEIR PRESENT COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL CONDITION A SERIES OF GENERAL REVIEWS FOR BUSINESS MEN AND STUDENTS EDITED BY W.^ J.*'ASHLEY MA, HON.
Page 169 - It is the man of science who is to decide the fate of the tropics ; not the soldier or the statesman with his programmes and perorations, but the quiet entomologist.
Page 259 - Reciprocity which would naturally follow would still further weaken those ties and make it more difficult to avert political union with the United States. "9. Because the disruption in the channels of Canada's trade which was caused by the termination of the Reciprocity Treaty of 1854 and the subsequent establishment of a protective tariff by the United States gave rise to a decided leaning in many minds towards annexation with the United States, and this at a time when Canada was mainly peopled...
Page x - Institute, were established in order to provide for the investigation of new or little-known natural products from the Colonies and India and of known products from new sources, with a view to their utilisation in commerce, and also to provide trustworthy scientific and technical advice on matters connected with the agriculture, trade and industries of the Colonies and India.
Page 216 - These resolutions were duly laid before the various legislatures and adopted in the shape of addresses to the Queen, whose sanction was necessary to embody the wishes of the provinces in an imperial statute ; and in February 1867 the British North America Act was passed by Parliament.
Page 216 - That a humble address be presented to her Majesty, praying that she will be graciously pleased to take into consideration the propriety of establishing a Protectorate at Fiji, or of annexing those islands, provided that this may be effected with the consent of the inhabitants,
Page 216 - That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, praying that She may be graciously pleased to cause a measure to be submitted to the Imperial Parliament, for the purpose of uniting the Colonies of Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, and Prince Edward Island, in one Government, with provisions based on certain Resolutions', which were adopted at a Conference of Delegates from the said Colonies, held at the city of Quebec, on the 10th October, 1864.
Page 17 - Government that the foreign state would apply in case of any question arising under it. 7.To give the Colonies the power of negotiating treaties for themselves without reference to Her Majesty's Government would be to give them an international status as separate and sovereign states, and would be equiva lent to breaking up the Empire into a number of independent states...
Page 210 - Committee would grossly misrepresent their countrymen if they were to affirm that their loyalty to their Sovereign would be diminished in the slightest degree by the withdrawal, through the unfriendly action of a foreign Government, of mere commercial privileges, however valuable these might be deemed, they think they cannot err in directing the attention of the enlightened statesmen who wield the destinies of the great Empire of which it is the proudest boast of Canadians that their country forms...