| Joseph Holt - Ireland - 1838 - 454 pages
...and his wife and children should be the companions of his days in exile." 294 CHANGE OF SYSTEM. 1806. the Duke of York, instructions concerning the officers...CORPS. 297 makers, man-milliners, tobacconists, and ped- 1806. lars, that were called captains and lieutenants, made their fortunes ; by the extortion... | |
| Samuel Bennett - Australia - 1865 - 710 pages
...hundred per cent, profit, and paying in grain. " It thus would happen, that one of these monopolisers, who never grew a grain, would sometimes have a thousand...wheat to put in the store ; and this was the manner ia which all those old tailors, and shoemakers, staymnkers, maa-milliners, tobacconists, and pedlars,... | |
| Charles White - Australia - 1889 - 710 pages
...hundred per cent. profit, and paying in grain. " It thus would happen, that one of these monopolisers, who never grew a grain, would sometimes have a thousand...manner in which all those old tailors, and shoemakers, staymakers, man-milliners, tobacconists, and pedlars, that were called captains and lieutenants, made... | |
| John McMahon - Australia - 1913 - 466 pages
...for their own private gain to the sittVr at a profit of from 50 to 500 per cent., and th." settler paying in grain. It thus would happen that one of these monopolizers, who never grew a grain, wmild sometimes have 1,000 bushels of wheat to put into the Ciovernnvnt stores. And this was the manner... | |
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