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... acres are reported as having been thrown out of cultivation , notwithstanding that there was a total increase of the area under plough . What does this mean ? Simply that 106,000 acres of land formerly valuable as grazing had been ...
... acres are reported as having been thrown out of cultivation , notwithstanding that there was a total increase of the area under plough . What does this mean ? Simply that 106,000 acres of land formerly valuable as grazing had been ...
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... acres out of every 100 of actual area under cultivation . That leaves very little room for grazing indeed , and the ... acreage ? Mr. ROGERS : There are plenty of cattle to carry on the cultiva . tion . However , as the time allowed me ...
... acres out of every 100 of actual area under cultivation . That leaves very little room for grazing indeed , and the ... acreage ? Mr. ROGERS : There are plenty of cattle to carry on the cultiva . tion . However , as the time allowed me ...
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... acres . The proposition to establish the new Colony was not carried out without considerable opposition by those who objected to any further cutting up of the older Colony , and many were the pro- phetic announcements that the ...
... acres . The proposition to establish the new Colony was not carried out without considerable opposition by those who objected to any further cutting up of the older Colony , and many were the pro- phetic announcements that the ...
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... acre raised by the Colony ? I shall take the average raised per acre of this cereal by all the Australian Colonies . Doing this , I find that in 1875 the average of wheat in the four principal Australian Colonies per acre was as follows ...
... acre raised by the Colony ? I shall take the average raised per acre of this cereal by all the Australian Colonies . Doing this , I find that in 1875 the average of wheat in the four principal Australian Colonies per acre was as follows ...
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... acre , dependent on the class , for ten years a party may become the absolute owner in fee simple . The object of disposing of the land in this way and at these low figures is to secure what , indeed , forms the condition of selection ...
... acre , dependent on the class , for ten years a party may become the absolute owner in fee simple . The object of disposing of the land in this way and at these low figures is to secure what , indeed , forms the condition of selection ...
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acres agricultural amongst amount Angora goat Athenæum Club Australian Colonies British possessions Canada Canadian Canadian Pacific Railway canal Cape Colony Cape Town capital Captain cent Ceylon Chinamen Chinese civilisation Club coast colonists considerable cultivation districts Duke of Manchester emigration Empire England English European exports famine favour foreign countries FREDERICK YOUNG gold-fields Government harbour hear HENRY hope immigration Imperial important increase India Institute interest island Jamaica James John Kafir labour lady Lake land large number Lord Lord Salisbury Macalister manufactures Melbourne Messrs miles millions Miss Molineux mother-country Natal natives Naval Pacific paper population Port present President produce province Queensland question railway Ramiseram raw material regard remarks revenue River road Royal Sir Julius Vogel South Africa South Australia South Wales Street Sydney territory textile tion Town trade Transvaal Victoria West Indies whole WILLIAM Zealand
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 59 - That for ways that are dark, And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar — Which the same I am free to maintain.
Seite 360 - Empire shall not be destroyed, and in my opinion no minister in this country will do his duty who neglects any opportunity of reconstructing as much as possible our Colonial Empire, and of responding to those distant sympathies which may become the source of incalculable strength and happiness to this land.
Seite 360 - But self-government, in my opinion, when it was conceded, ought to have been conceded as part of a great policy of Imperial consolidation. It ought to have been accompanied by an Imperial tariff, by securities, for the people of England for the enjoyment of the unappropriated lands which belonged to the Sovereign as their trustee, and by a military code...
Seite 48 - But, on the other hand, there can be no doubt that the truth which is presented in its absolute form in these discourses is presented in a specific act and in a concrete form in the Holy Communion ; and yet further that the Holy Communion is the divinely appointed means whereby men may realise the truth.
Seite 365 - The most triumphant death is that of the martyr ; the most awful that of the martyred patriot ; the most splendid that of the hero in the hour of victory ; and if the chariot and the horses of fire had been vouchsafed for Nelson's translation, he could scarcely have departed in a brighter blaze of glory. He has left us, not indeed his mantle of inspiration, but a name and an example which are at this hour inspiring thousands of the youth of England— a name which is our pride, and an example which...
Seite 246 - Winnipeg, an inland sea 300 miles long and upwards of sixty broad, during the navigation of which for many a weary hour he will find himself out of sight of land, and probably a good deal more indisposed than ever he was on the Lake of the Woods, or even the Atlantic. "At the north-west angle of Lake Winnipeg he hits upon the mouth of the Saskatchewan, the gateway...
Seite 354 - ... copper, silver, lead, marble, tin, slate, and opals ; wine — including all the varieties of the French and German vineyards — tobacco, and perhaps most important of all, wool. From Western Australia we find leather, timber, silk, coal, lead, and wines. Victoria, which boasts of 800 trees and flowering shrubs, exhibits also coal, wines, and cloth manufactures.
Seite 356 - England that from her loins have sprung a hundred millions — it may be two hundred millions — of men who dwell and prosper on that continent which the grand old Genoese gave to Europe. Sir, if the sentiments which I have uttered shall become the sentiments of the Parliament and people of the United...
Seite 384 - The band of the Grenadier Guards, under the direction of Mr. D. Godfrey, played a well-selected programme of music during the evening.
Seite 246 - Winnipeg, an inland sea three hundred miles long and upward of sixty broad, during the navigation of which for many a weary hour he will find himself out of sight of land, and probably a good deal more indisposed than ever he was on the Lake of the Woods, or even the Atlantic.