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South Australia: Its History, Productions, and Natural Resources Jefferson Pickman Stow No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 99 - Act shall have been passed by the House of Assembly during any session of Parliament, and the same Bill, or a similar Bill with substantially the same objects and having the same title, shall have been passed by the House of Assembly during the next ensuing Parliament, a general election of the House of Assembly having taken place between such two Parliaments...
Page 99 - Bills shall have been rejected by or fail to become law in consequence of any amendments made therein by the Legislative Council, it shall be lawful for, but not obligatory upon, the Governor of the said province, by proclamation to be published in the 608 The Constitutional History of South Australia.
Page 243 - R. Br., bearing a globular fruit of the size of a small peach, with a succulent epicarp and a hard, bony, much-pitted endocarp, are all South Australia can boast of. There is also a deficiency in eatable root-bearing plants. A great many genera of plants of other countries which possess valuable and powerful medicinal properties have numerous congeners in the extra-tropical and more especially in the intra-tropical portions of South Australia, of which I will only mention the following orders, viz.
Page 256 - ... area of South Australia, consisting in endless undulating plains, stretching from the coast towards the north and east. Along the coast and hundreds of miles inland the grass plains have mostly disappeared, and now form agricultural districts producing the finest cereals known — the soil varying from the best to some indifferently good. But the grass plains of the interior, especially towards the north, so extensive as to be lost in the horizon, are like deserts, emphatically monotonous and...
Page 248 - ... one. The declivities of the mountain ranges are for the most part similarly timbered, the trees sometimes extending to the summits, often only half or two-thirds of the remaining part being grassed, here and there with copses of...
Page 256 - Sieb., wattle, Acacia pycnantha. The plains near the coast are of a different character, the soil mostly fertile, extending often to the sea, and constituting a great part of our arable land. The stratum of humus or fertile soil covering these plains occasions also an essential alteration in their vegetation. The grasses consist of more nourishing kinds, viz. : — Poa, Panicum, Festuca, Agrostis, Airia, Andropogon, Cynodon, Stipa, Pennisetum, Bromus, Eriachne, Anthistiria, Hordeum, &c.
Page 99 - Assembly, and thereupon all members of both Houses of Parliament shall vacate their seats, and members shall be elected to supply the vacancies so created ; or for the Governor to issue writs for the election of one, or not more than two, new members for each district of the Legislative Council : Provided always that no vacancy, whether by death, resignation, or any other cause, shall be filled up while the total number of members shall be...
Page 255 - Most of the leaves are ovate, entire, coriaceous, and pungent ; shrubs with pinnated leaves are seldom met with. ' The monotonous and dismal look of an extensive scrub is depressing, especially when viewed from an eminence. The equal height of the vegetation, the dull glaucous colour of the foliage, look in the distance like a rolling sea reaching the horizon —at least the first sight of the Murray Scrub, extending hundreds of miles, produced this impression on my mind.
Page 259 - Mesembryanthemum australe, Soland. In some localities this period appears earlier or later. The seeds of the annual plants have been scattered, perennial herbage returned to its dormant state, to awake to new life at the setting in of the following rainy seasons ; and the plains have during the summer months a dismal dried up appearance. There is another kind of grass land, appearing here and there in large tracts, called