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Page 176
Early in 1840 W. C. Wentworth and others played for no less than twenty million
acres in the south island of New Zealand in return for two hundred gold
sovereigns, and an undertaking to pay the same sum each year to the Maori
chiefs for ...
Early in 1840 W. C. Wentworth and others played for no less than twenty million
acres in the south island of New Zealand in return for two hundred gold
sovereigns, and an undertaking to pay the same sum each year to the Maori
chiefs for ...
Page 190
Wentworth told them he was now a firm believer in a Legislative Council that was
part nominated, and part elected on a high property qualification. The man who
had written in his youth of an elected assembly as the birthright of the creators of
...
Wentworth told them he was now a firm believer in a Legislative Council that was
part nominated, and part elected on a high property qualification. The man who
had written in his youth of an elected assembly as the birthright of the creators of
...
Page 337
It was not one of those occasions when Wentworth distinguished himself either
by the brilliance of his oratory or his taste for clawing his opponents. His speech
was long, rambling and often incoherent. He did manage a few wounding words
...
It was not one of those occasions when Wentworth distinguished himself either
by the brilliance of his oratory or his taste for clawing his opponents. His speech
was long, rambling and often incoherent. He did manage a few wounding words
...
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Contents
ANOTHER PROVINCE FOR BRITAINS GENTRY | 17 |
A BRITISH PROVINCE WITH A LAUDABLE PURPOSE | 42 |
HIGH NOON FOR MORAL IMPROVERS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA | 62 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | A history of Australia, Volume 3 A History of Australia, Charles Manning Hope Clark |
| Author | Charles Manning Hope Clark |
| Publisher | Melbourne University Press, 1963 |
| Subjects | › AUSTRALIA Australia Australia - History Australia History History / Australia & New Zealand History / Oceania |
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