New South Wales: Statistics, History, and ResourcesYear-book of Australia Publishing Company, Limited, 1893 - 160 pages |
Common terms and phrases
acres additional Albury amount annual application arrived Australia average Balranald Bathurst Bourke Broken Hill building Caves cent charged churches Class-single coal colony Conditional Lease Conditional Purchase Cooma copper Council Court Creek Crown Lands deposits distance district Dubbo East Maitland England erected Esquire exceeding exports feet frontage gallons Gazette Glen Innes gold Goulburn Government Governor Gundagai Henry Hunter River important iron John JOSEPH PALMER ABBOTT Land Board lessee letters licence lode Macquarie mails Melbourne ment miles mineral Mines Minister Mittagong months mountain Mudgee Newcastle obtained Office Parkes Parliament House Parramatta pastoral pipes places population Port Post quantity railway rates rent reservoir residence River road schools Secretary session opened silver South Wales stations supply Sydney Telegraph timber tion tons town trade mark United Kingdom Victoria Wagga Wagga Wagga William
Popular passages
Page 86 - Scotland) any Article of Trade, Manufacture, or Merchandise, to be an Article or Thing of the Manufacture, Workmanship, Production, or Merchandise of such Person, or to be an Article or Thing of any peculiar or particular Description made or sold by such Person, and shall also include any Name, Signature, Word, Letter, Number, Figure, Mark, or Sign...
Page 38 - Ьа.ч spent a long and laborious life in working out the geological .structure of his adopted country, New South Wales. He found gold in 1841, and exhibited it to numerous members of the legislature, declaring at the same time his belief in its abundance. While, therefore, geologists in Europe were guessing, he, having actually found the precious metal, was tracing its occurrence far and near on the ground.
Page 2 - Knight Grand Cross of Our Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Knight Grand Cross of Our Royal Victorian Order, Member of Our Order of the Companions of Honour, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Our Dominion of Canada.
Page 38 - ... (as is the case at Anvil Creek, on the Hunter River), or thick-bedded masses of greater area as in the coal seams of Mount York, or of American Creek in the Illawarra, depending on the original amount of drift timber.
Page 38 - At 8 chains 50 links to river, and marked gum-tree — at this place I found numerous particles of gold in the sand and in the hills convenient to the river.
Page 10 - The hidden key that opes thy treasury. How mute, how desolate thy stunted woods; How dread thy chasms, where many an eagle broods; How dark thy caves, how lone thy torrents...
Page 9 - And ev'ry morn delighted sees the gleam Of some fresh pennant dancing in her stream, A masty forest, stranger vessels moor...
Page 12 - Britannia ! shouldst thou cease to ride Despotic Empress of old Ocean's tide ; — Should thy tam'd Lion — spent his former might — No longer roar, the terror of the fight ; — Should e'er arrive that dark, disastrous hour, When, bow'd by luxury, thou yield'st to...
Page 12 - Hippocrene ; And there a richer, nobler fame arise, Than on Parnassus met the adoring eyes. And tho', bright goddess, on those far blue hills, That pour their thousand swift pellucid rills, Where...
Page 7 - Say — whence your ancient lineage, what your name, And from what (shores your rough forefathers came? Untutor'd children, fresh from Nature's mould, No songs have ye to trace the times of old ; — No hidden themes like these employ your care, For you enough the knowledge that ye are : — Let Learning's sons who would this secret scan. Unlock its mystic casket if they can...