Readings in Melbourne: With an Essay on the Resources and Prospects of Victoria, for the Emigrant and Uneasy ClassesLow, 1879 - 329 sivua This book addresses on English life in the city of Melbourne. They cover a period commencing with the earlier gold discoveries, and they close with the visit of the Duke of Edinburgh to the colony, in the year 1868. |
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Sivu v
... Royal Highness in the colony . The Government voted 15,000l . for the purpose of meeting the cost of his trips up the country , and appointed a Royal Commission to superintend the expenditure . The Royal Commission , most royally ...
... Royal Highness in the colony . The Government voted 15,000l . for the purpose of meeting the cost of his trips up the country , and appointed a Royal Commission to superintend the expenditure . The Royal Commission , most royally ...
Sivu viii
... royal duke in Melbourne - Wonderful and extravagant demonstrations - Attempted explanation of- The virtue of being born - The London Spectator's criticism on colonial exuberance - Comparative loyalty of England and Australia - George ...
... royal duke in Melbourne - Wonderful and extravagant demonstrations - Attempted explanation of- The virtue of being born - The London Spectator's criticism on colonial exuberance - Comparative loyalty of England and Australia - George ...
Sivu ix
... Royal Marriage Act — Its failure in the working and evil consequences to royal family -Desirability of repealing the Act - Its unfitness to the present condition of English society - Demoralizing effects of the Act -- Gradual relaxation ...
... Royal Marriage Act — Its failure in the working and evil consequences to royal family -Desirability of repealing the Act - Its unfitness to the present condition of English society - Demoralizing effects of the Act -- Gradual relaxation ...
Sivu xiii
... royal mines " to a new country like Victoria - Claim of miners to mine under private property - Difficulties in the way - Successive rejections by Legislative Council of Bills passed by Assembly authorizing mining on private property ...
... royal mines " to a new country like Victoria - Claim of miners to mine under private property - Difficulties in the way - Successive rejections by Legislative Council of Bills passed by Assembly authorizing mining on private property ...
Sivu 3
... Royal Hotel , on the shore . In this house I found my friend amongst some of the members of his family , seated on a dingy and battered old sofa , with a patient persever- ance that almost brought tears into my eyes , as he endea ...
... Royal Hotel , on the shore . In this house I found my friend amongst some of the members of his family , seated on a dingy and battered old sofa , with a patient persever- ance that almost brought tears into my eyes , as he endea ...
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