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  2. AUSTRALIA ENTERING A NEW LIFE.

    The people of Australia are entering upon the [?] era of their national life with hear[?] lled with the brightest hopes for [?] ture, and the clounds of ...

    Article : 127 words
  3. FEDERATION

    There is undoubtedly a tendency among the British race to unite their different communities. The first great example of the federal spirit was ...

    Article : 431 words
  4. GREATER BRITAIN

    The term Greater Britain is applied to all the numerous possessions of Great Brtain outside the vicinity of the United Kingdom itself, consequently it covers a ...

    Article : 250 words
  5. RAILWAYS.

    The first sod of the first Australian railway line was turned on July 3, 1850, at Sydney. A private company proposed to build railways to Paramatta and ...

    Article : 177 words
  6. CROWN LANDS.

    Free grants were discontinued in 1831, and the land was sold by auction at an upset price of 5s per acre. Settlement rapidly advanced, and by 1836 over ...

    Article : 88 words
  7. A TASMANIAN MOVEMENT.

    In September., 1861, both Houses of the Tasmanian Parliament passed a resolution in favor of urging upon the Governments of the several Australian ...

    Article : 215 words
  8. A COMPARISON WITH OTHER NATIONS.

    And how does the expansion of the Prtish [?] appear [?] compared with that of other nations? According to a calculation the colonies and ...

    Article : 201 words
  9. THE FUTURE OF FEDERATION IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC.

    New Zealand, as stated in another article, is geographically district from Australia, and though her political representatives took part in the opening ...

    Article : 237 words
  10. CULTIVATION.

    In 1837 there were about 80,000 acres under cultivation; to-day there are 225,126 acres actually under crop, inclusive of land otherwise under cultivation. ...

    Article : 138 words
  11. TELEGRAPHS.

    The first telegraph messages were sent in New South Wales in 1851. IN Victoria the telegraph line between Melbourne and Williamstown was opened in ...

    Article : 143 words
  12. AUSTRALIA.

    It is believed that the continent which now bears the name of Austalia was first seen by De Gormeville, a French naviator, in 1503, and appeared on a map in ...

    Article : 112 words
  13. POPULATION.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 140 words
  14. ANOTHKR ABORTIVE ATTEMPT.

    Seven years later, in 1870, the Victorian Government appointed a Royal Commission to consider and report upon "the necessity of a federal union of the ...

    Article : 90 words
  15. GROWTH OF POPULATION.

    In regard to the growth of population to keep pace with the expansion of territory. a comparison between Britain, France, and Germany shows that the ...

    Article : 82 words
  16. TASMANIA AND THK MAINLAND.

    The establishment of other new settlements on the mainland afforded an outlet for Tasmania's produce, as, with the exception of New South Wales, it was ...

    Article : 191 words
  17. NEW ZEALAND.

    Captain Cook also made New Zealand (discovered by Tasman in 1612) knewante the world after he had surveyed the coast in 1769 and the following years. ...

    Article : 512 words
  18. AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH AND IMPERIAL FEDERATION.

    Haill to the southern lands, Those who are joining hands O'er Australa's sea; Those of the Commonwealth, ...

    Article : 400 words
  19. LAND SETTLKMKNT.

    The land settlement of Australia has a history of ist own, but there is no need here to detail the various measures which succeeded one another with the ...

    Article : 276 words
  20. THE FEDERAL COUNCIL.

    In 1883 a convention was held at Sydney, in which the late Sir James Service took a prominent part, and the result was the formation of the Federal ...

    Article : 110 words
  21. FIFTY-FOUR COLONIES.

    Who among the politicians of the mother country at the beginning of the century could have forseen the creation of a Greater Britain of such vast ...

    Article : 152 words
  22. EVIDENCES OF PROGRESS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 329 words
  23. SOUTH AFRICA.

    The federation of the British colonies in South Africa was proposed nearly a quarter of a century ago, when an Act was passed "for the union under one ...

    Article : 111 words
  24. "BOOM" AND REACTION.

    By this time the Bank of Australasia and the Union Bank had commenced business, in the island. Then came a "boom," speculation in land being the ...

    Article : 224 words
  25. THE FIRST FEDERAL CONVENTION.

    The late Sir Henry Parkes, however, strongly urged the federal union of the colonies, and in 1890 a federal conference was held in Melbourne, which ...

    Article : 190 words
  26. AUSTRALIA

    The history of Australia dates from 1788, when Governor Phillip arrived at Sydeny with a party of convicts to found I settlement, where the headquarters of ...

    Article : 351 words
  27. AUSTRALIA.

    The closing year of the nineteenth century witnessed the passage through the Imperial Parliament of an Act agreeing to the formation of a Commonwealth ...

    Article : 69 words
  28. SHIPPING.

    In 1841 shipping in Australia was represented by the entrance and clearance of 2576 vessels of 532,374 tons. Last year the figures were 16,860 vessels, of ...

    Article : 62 words
  29. EARLY STEPS TO AUSTRALIAN FEDERATION.

    The possibility of two or more of the Austrasian colonies federating was recognised as far back as 1849, when the question of conferring self-governemnt ...

    Article : 327 words
  30. THE GOLDEN ERA.

    The discovery of gold in Victoria in 1851 caused an enormous rise in the price of produce and the value of exprots; but on the other hand, it ...

    Article : 304 words
  31. SAVINGS BANKS.

    If the material progress of a country is to be gauged by the savings of the wage earners, the class which utilises the advantages of the savings banks, ...

    Article : 123 words
  32. THE CONSTITUTION OF'91.

    The bill, however, was not proceeded with , owing to a combination of unfavor able circumstances. In the first place the mass of the people had not been fully ...

    Article : 138 words
  33. COMPARED WITH THE UNITED STATES.

    In a recept issue of the "Atlantic Monthly." Mr George Burton Adams, an American writer drew a comparison between the growth of Australia and that ...

    Article : 350 words
  34. FIJI.

    The Fiji Islands are perhaps the most important tropical possession of Britain next to the West Indies. The formal annexation of the islands did not take ...

    Article : 163 words
  35. THE DOMINION OF AUSTRALIA

    he is not yet; but he whose car Thrills to that finer atmosphere Where footballs of appouned things, Reverberant of days to be, ...

    Article : 407 words
  36. AUSTRALIAN PROGRESS.

    Much more might be written to show that the Australia of to-day, just beginning its history 100 years ago, has grown with marvellous rapidity, ...

    Article : 84 words
  37. THE SECOND CONVENTION.

    In 1895 a conference of Premiers was held at Hobart, when a Federal Enabling Bill was drafted, which was subsequently passed through the Parliaments ...

    Article : 296 words
  38. SETTLING THE COLONIES.

    The island of Tasmaina had been known before and in order to anticipate a probable French settlement a party was sent from Sydney in 1803 to take ...

    Article : 388 words
  39. NEW GUINEA.

    The largest island in the world after Australia is remarkable in the fact that it is divided between three Powers Britain, Germany, and Holland. In it ...

    Article : 222 words
  40. TASMANIA

    The moral and social condition of Tasmania for many years after its settlement was similar to that of New South Wales, inasmuch as it was a huge penal ...

    Article : 379 words
  41. MINING.

    Encouragement was given to prospecting, and in 1869 gold mining companies were in work at Fingal. In 1871 tin was discovered at Mount Bischoff, and ...

    Article : 196 words
  42. THE PROGRESS OF FEDERATION.

    In 1837 open expression was given to the desirability of having some central form of government. On March 31 of that year the General Association for the ...

    Article : 364 words
  43. THE END OF ONE ERA. AND THE BEGINNING OF ANOTHER.

    The fifties saw the end of one era and the commencement of another. The convict system and all its evils ceased and the existense of the gold helds. ...

    Article : 395 words
  44. WHAT GREATER BRITAIN IS.

    The verious other parts of Greater Britain are [?] referred to and nothing more re[?] than to speak of them in a general senso, Greater ...

    Article : 464 words
  45. 1837—1899.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 234 words
  46. FGDERATION BY REFERENDUM.

    The result of the Convention was that the desirability of federation was absolutely decided upon, as far as the federal representatives were concerned, and ...

    Article : 299 words
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    Mr Lough, M.P. has just returned from Ireland with a satchel of anecdoted worthy of the good old times. Here are a couple. Having asked an Irish ...

    Article : 234 words
  48. THE OLD CONDITIONS AND THE NEW.

    The progress made in settlement and the condition of New South Wales in the early part of the history may he gathered from the following extract from ...

    Article : 496 words
  49. ACTION IN VICTORIA.

    In September of the same year the Victorian Legislative Assembly, which had only come into existence the year before, received a report of a select committee ...

    Article : 206 words
  50. EARLY SETTLEMENT.

    Free settlers began to arrive in the colony abouth the year 1820, and each new settler was entitled to receive a free grant of land in proportion to the ...

    Article : 176 words
  51. AUSTRALIAN LEGISLATURES.

    The first Austalian Paliament—that of New South Wales, met on May 22, 1856. The first Victorian Parliament on November 21; and the ...

    Article : 137 words
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