Catalogue of the Victorian Exhibition, 1861: With Prefatory Essays Indicating the Progress, Resources and Physical Characteristics of the Colony |
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Catalogue of the Victorian Exhibition 1861: With Prefatory Essays ... W. H. Archer,Ferdinand Mueller,R. Brough Smyth No preview available - 2008 |
Catalogue of the Victorian Exhibition 1861: With Prefatory Essays ... W. H. Archer,Ferdinand Mueller,R. Brough Smyth No preview available - 2008 |
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Page 5 - Presents will and ordain that this Our Commission shall continue in full force and virtue, and that you, Our said Commissioners, or any three or more of you, may from time to time proceed in the execution thereof, and of every matter and thing therein contained, although the same be not continued from time to time by adjournment : AND...
Page 4 - To Our Trusty and Welbeloved Jonathan Belcher Esq' Greeting. We reposing especial Trust and Confidence in the Prudence Courage and Loyalty, of you the said Jonathan Belcher, of Our especial Grace certain knowledge and mere motion have thought fit to constitute and appoint, and by these Presents do constitute and appoint you the said Jonathan Belcher to be Our Captain General and Governor in chief in and over Our Province of Nova Caesarea or New Jersey in America.
Page 5 - We do, by these presents, give and grant to you, or any three or more of you, full power and authority to call before you, or any three or more of you, such persons as you shall judge necessary, by whom you may be the better informed of the truth in the premises...
Page 144 - Barracoota," which visits us regularly, and is in some request for the table, is certainly the Cape of Good Hope Thyrsites atun. The small ling (the Lota brevinscula) is occasionally procured for food on the coast, but is chiefly remarkable for the old full-grown fish (about a foot long), having two or three years ago been stated by some fishermen to be the young of the great Newfoundland cod ; it was in vain that I pointed out the generic difference in the number of the...
Page 144 - Whiting" by the colonists Sillago punctata, are common in the fish shops for the table, together with three species of "flathead," Platycephalus nematophthalmus, P. tasmanius, and P. lamigutu.1 which are caught abundantly in the Bay at all times. Another tolerably good table fish is known to the colonists, and is found in the market under the name of "Pike...
Page 5 - WITNESS our trusty and well-beloved Sir HENRY BARKLY, Knight Commander of the Most Noble Order of the Bath, Captain-General and Governor-inChief of our colony of Victoria, and Vice-Admiral of the same, at Melbourne, this twelfth day of November, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and in the twenty-fifth year of our Reign.
Page 5 - And we do further will and command, and by these presents ordain, that this our Commission shall continue in full force and virtue, and that you, our said Commissioners, or any...
Page 40 - Government is obliged to undertake many functions from which, at a more advanced period of the country's growth, it is relieved. In addition to the ordinary duties of government, the Government of this country is compelled to conduct the business of a great landowner — to survey, to lease, and to sell its property, its town lots, its country lands its pastures, and its mines ; to construct and maintain roads and bridges, and other works of public utility ; to form railways and electric telegraphs...
Page 43 - Victoria. miles from the city, and 595 feet above its level. This reservoir is an artificial lake formed by the construction of an embankment 1,053 yards in length and 30 feet in height, which connects two bluffs, between which had been the only outlet for the drainage of a watershed of about 45,000 acres.
Page 73 - ... per annum. The effects were prodigious. "Lawyers forsook the courts, merchants their counting-houses, clerks their desks, and artisans and labourers fled precipitately from houses but half built, and foundations but partly dug. Even clergymen were drawn to the exciting scene, and not in every case did they confine themselves to their calling." This wild frenzy, however, cooled down by degrees ; and the colony felt in various ways the effect of this magnificent increase in wealth. The diggers...