Colonial Australia, 1841-1874 |
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Page 279
... passed , and the news did not augur well for Britain , all sorts of rumours began to circulate and many people behaved as though the Russian navy were patrolling the Australian coastline . A visitor to Melbourne at the time recalled an ...
... passed , and the news did not augur well for Britain , all sorts of rumours began to circulate and many people behaved as though the Russian navy were patrolling the Australian coastline . A visitor to Melbourne at the time recalled an ...
Page 459
... passed wholly to his eldest son . It was proposed that in future such property be divided among the widow and children . When passed , the legislation became a model for other Australian legislatures , though they varied in the detailed ...
... passed wholly to his eldest son . It was proposed that in future such property be divided among the widow and children . When passed , the legislation became a model for other Australian legislatures , though they varied in the detailed ...
Page 610
... passed which is to have a sort of permissive operation , with a view of trying the compulsory principle there ... Now we are going to try the experiment of compulsion upon the whole of the colony , and I trust that we shall in this , as ...
... passed which is to have a sort of permissive operation , with a view of trying the compulsory principle there ... Now we are going to try the experiment of compulsion upon the whole of the colony , and I trust that we shall in this , as ...
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