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 vii
... squatters their habits , and mode of life - Freedom of and absence of constraint in colonial society - Home ignorance of social condition - Early government from Downing Street Undue depreciation of public life in the colony - The ...
... squatters their habits , and mode of life - Freedom of and absence of constraint in colonial society - Home ignorance of social condition - Early government from Downing Street Undue depreciation of public life in the colony - The ...
Sivu ix
... Squatters rather in the way in some parts - Squatter himself not always happy in his relations · . PAGE 73 with his " next friend , " the banker - Contents . ix.
... Squatters rather in the way in some parts - Squatter himself not always happy in his relations · . PAGE 73 with his " next friend , " the banker - Contents . ix.
Sivu xii
... squatters - Occasionally the victims of drought , mismanagement , and bad markets - The mining interest on the wane - Many thousands of miners who have never in the mother country had anything to do with mining -Enumeration of different ...
... squatters - Occasionally the victims of drought , mismanagement , and bad markets - The mining interest on the wane - Many thousands of miners who have never in the mother country had anything to do with mining -Enumeration of different ...
Sivu 3
... squatters here ; they smoked perennial black pipes , ate no end of clay - like damper and hard beef , and were so many Dr. Johnsons in the number of their cups of tea . Only by occasionally kidnapping one of these curiosities of ...
... squatters here ; they smoked perennial black pipes , ate no end of clay - like damper and hard beef , and were so many Dr. Johnsons in the number of their cups of tea . Only by occasionally kidnapping one of these curiosities of ...
Sivu 28
... squatters , and gold - diggers , seeming to them , perhaps , to be too familiar to be garnered into printed books ! And yet , men persist in running from this land of marvels in search of a more stimulating state of existence in the ...
... squatters , and gold - diggers , seeming to them , perhaps , to be too familiar to be garnered into printed books ! And yet , men persist in running from this land of marvels in search of a more stimulating state of existence in the ...
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