Parliamentary Papers, 54. kötetH.M. Stationery Office, 1884 |
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4. oldal - Lieutenant-Colonel Sir) Thomas Mitchell, who, entering from New South Wales on the north, and traversing a considerable portion of the (as yet) unknown territory, was so struck with its wondrous capabilities that he named it Australia Felix...
4. oldal - Tasmania was then called — who landed on 19th Nov., 1834, and soon commenced to till the soil, run and breed stock, and carry on whaling operations. Others followed, but the absence of good land in the immediate vicinity of the port, and the openness of the bay...
3. oldal - Jackson, a few miles to the north of Botany Bay, Phillip established a permanent settlement, but for nearly ten years afterwards nothing was done towards the exploration of the southern shores of Australia. At length George Bass, a surgeon in the Royal Navy, started in a whale-boat, manned by six seamen, and, passing Cape Howe, coasted along that part of Victoria now called Gippsland, and rounding Wilson's Promontory — the southernmost point on the Australian Continent — entered Western Port...
5. oldal - Kallarat goldfield towards the end of 1854. The disturbance was soon quelled, with some bloodshed on both sides, and the grievances complained of were afterwards redressed. A new constitution, giving responsible government to the colony, was proclaimed on the 23rd November, 1855.
27. oldal - ... under the system of deferred payments, and this, too, should the legal conditions be duly complied with, will pass away from the Crown in the course of a few years. Then there is land occupied by roads, the sites of towns...
30. oldal - State schools, and private schools. The Melbourne University was established under a special Act of the Victorian Legislature, which was assented to on the 22nd January, 1853, and the building was opened on the 3rd October 1855.
4. oldal - Sept., 1836; and on the 2nd March of the following year Sir Richard Bourke, the Governor of New South Wales, visited it, and named the metropolis Melbourne. Mr. Charles Joseph La Trobe arrived on the 30th Sept., 1839.
28. oldal - ... is employed, and except when the existence of industries of an unusual or interesting nature seems to call for special comment. No attempt is made to enumerate mere shops, although some manufacturing industry may be carried on thereat; were this done, the manufactories of the State might be multiplied to an almost indefinite extent.
4. oldal - Joseph La Trobe arrived on the 30th Sept., 1839. having been appointed to the principal official position in the settlement under the title of Superintendent. This title was changed to that of Lieutenant-Governor, when, on the 1st July, 1851, it was separated from New South Wales, and created a separate colony under the name of Victoria.
30. oldal - On the 22nd March, 1880, the University was thrown open to females, and they can now be admitted to all its corporate privileges except as regards the study of medicine. Affiliated to the University is a college in connexion with the Church of England, and one in connexion with the Presbyterian Church.