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  2. R. HALL & SON.

    THE progress and advancement made by the business concerns of the city during a lengthened period of years give a fair index to the progress and prosperity of the city ...

    Article : 1,279 words
  3. INCREASE OF THE COAL TRADE.

    Another curious advertisement refers to the Lord Liverpool, cutter, in which shippers of cargo are notified that owing to the completion of the bridge over Wallis' ...

    Article : 691 words
  4. Earp, Gillam and Co.,

    ONE of the best-known commercial houses in the city to-day is that of Messrs. Earp, Gillam and Co., whose spacious and handsome business premises occupy a ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,057 words
  5. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The prosperous trade we now enjoy with South Australia commenced in 1848, when the schooner Rainbow (51 tons) sailed for Adelaide with a full cargo of coal. The ...

    Article : 563 words
  6. VICTORIA.

    The trade with Victoria, which to-day is the most extensive branch of our intercolonial trade, was opened in 1848, when the Sophia, 42 tons, and the Margaret and Mary ...

    Article : 968 words
  7. INDIA, CHINA, AND THE STRAITS.

    Very naturally the attention of our early shipping identities turned towards the East as a probable market for coal. In these early days California and the West Coast of ...

    Article : 549 words
  8. TASMANIA AND NEW ZEALAND.

    Of the various branches of our intercolonial trade that with Tasmania is the oldest, dating back to the beginning of the thirties, when a number of vessels regularly ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 818 words
  9. FROM SAIL TO STEAM.

    In 1831 the Sophia Jane, the first steamer to plough the waters of Port Hunter, arrived in the harbour, the residents turning out on masse to witness her arrival. The steamer ...

    Article : 485 words
  10. HOPE BROS.

    This establishment (late Capper Bros.), at 119 Hunter street, is undoubtedly one of the finest in Newcastle, and will be known to everyone in northern ...

    Article : 443 words
  11. The City Mutual Life Assurance Society, Ltd. (SYDNEY.)

    This young and most progressive Society, whose Head Office is situate at the corner of Hunter, Bligh, and Castleresgh streets, Sydney, is one of the most flourishing ...

    Article : 401 words
  12. THE CALIFORNIAN FLEET.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 582 words
  13. WEST AUSTRALIA.

    In the seventies there was a small trade done with West Australia, then better known as King George's Bound. The business, however, fell off, and for some years ...

    Article : 90 words
  14. HONOLULU

    A quarter of a century ago the coal export to Honolulu and Hawaii generally comprised an occasional shipment; but within recent years the rapid growth of the sugar industry ...

    Article : 46 words
  15. EARLY FOREIGN TRADE.

    It is extremely difficult to fix the dates which mark the beginning of our foreign trade. As early as 1799 Governor Hunter, in a despatch to the Duke of Portland, ...

    Article : 823 words
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