The description of New South Wales by Cook and his companions, which charmed the public, attracted the attention of the Crown; and Botany Bay, named on account of the variety and beauty of its vegetation ...
Article : 2,154 wordsIn the extreme north of the colony the works at Cur[?] [?]bula, on the read from Tabulam, to Tanterfield, and [?] Bohvia, on the road from Glen Innes to Tenterfield, are progressing. The resident officers is employed [?]veying [?] ...
Article : 1,913 wordsGeneral Macquarie is entitled to be regarded as the founder of these colonies: before his time, they were but hutted camps. To their improvement he devoted all his, energies: he foresaw and felt the inspiration ...
Article : 891 wordsNo believer in the glorious destinies of the AngloSaxen race can look upon the events of the last few years without wonder and hope. The American and British empires are seated on all waters; the old and ...
Article : 1,507 wordsThe Australian colonies owe their pastoral wealth originally to Captain John Macarthur, of the 102nd regiment: he was assisted by the enterprise of Captain Waterhouse, of the Royal Navy, who, though a ...
Article : 582 wordsTHE several lines of railway in the colony, are gradually being extended; and while preparations are in progress for opening portions of the newly constructed lengths for traffic in the south and west, arrangements are being made ...
Article : 2,318 wordsFor many years the government of these colonies was absolute: could it be otherwise[?] A company of exiles, overawed by dissolute soldiery, interspersed here and there with few persons of a superior class, ...
Article : 517 wordsTHE massives foundations of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Cathedral Cl[?]ch, the work of which has been at a stand st[?]ll for sems weeks past, in consequence of the first contractor having thrown up the job, are about being proceeded ...
Article : 1,435 wordsIn closing this mournful record, the reader is conscious that the history of the aboriginal is but the experience of myriads. As an exhibition of Providence, it [?]ills us with astonishment; of human passions, with ...
Article : 1,504 wordsThe Inquirer, of 25th January, says:—We have again to camplam of the absence of all notice on the part of the Secretary of State, of the petition for a change in our Legislature. No movement has yet been made towards ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 21 Feb 1867, Page 8
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