Statistical Account of the Seven Colonies of Australasia1896 - New South Wales |
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acres Adelaide agricultural amount annual annum Australasian colonies Australia Western Australia Austria-Hungary average Bank of Adelaide Belgium Brisbane British bushels Cape Colony capital census cent coal companies cost crop debt deposits district exceeding expenditure exports Females figures following table shows gallons given gold Government granted head of population Hobart imports included income increase industry inhabitant interest Island June Launceston lease lines loans maize Males Melbourne Melbourne Mint ment mineral North Island Northern Territory obtained Parliament pastoral payable period Port Port Darwin principal production proportion provinces quantity Queensland South Australia railway returns revenue s. d. New South schools settlement sheep South Australia Western South Wales Victoria square miles Sydney Sydney Mint Tasmania New Zealand tion Tonnage tons total value trade treasury bills United Kingdom vessels Wales Victoria Queensland Western Australia Tasmania wool yield Zealand Australasia
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Page 372 - Any settlement of property, not being a settlement made before and in consideration of marriage, or made in favour of a purchaser or incumbrancer in good faith and for valuable consideration, or a settlement made on or for the wife or children of the settlor of property which has accrued to the settlor after marriage in right of his wife...
Page 360 - Society's own rules. 9. Members of registered Friendly Societies have the privilege of legally insuring money, on the deaths of their wives and children, for their funeral expenses, without having an insurable interest in their lives. 10. Members of registered Societies may dispose at death of sums payable by the Society by written nomination without a will ; and this nomination may be made by youths of sixteen who cannot make a will till they are twenty-one.
Page 182 - The result was that in 1866 the service was started, and continued in operation until the end of 1868, when it was terminated through the failure of the company by which it had been carried out. In the following year...
Page 410 - In the early stages of Australasian borrowing the expenditure was moderate, loans were hard to raise, and interest high ; but latterly, as the conditions under which loans could be contracted became favourable, especially since 1875, few of the states set any bounds to their requirements.
Page 337 - In the following table will be found a statement of the ordinary and preferential capital of each bank at the date shown, with the amount of the reserve fund of the institution. In the case of...
Page 11 - Excluding the surface covered by rivers and lakes, the area would be 195,882,150 acres, or about 306,066 square miles. The length of the State, from Point Danger on the north to Cape Howe on the south, is 680 miles. From east to west, along the 29th parallel, the breadth is 760 miles, while diagonally from the south-west corner, where the Murray passes into South Australia, to Point Danger, the length reaches 850 miles. Sydney, the seat of Government, is in 33° 51' 41-1
Page 465 - Society dies or becomes bankrupt or insolvent, or if an execution is issued against him whilst he has money or property of the Society in his possession by virtue of his office, the trustees of the Society are entitled to claim such money or property in preference to any other creditors. 4.
Page 8 - Assembly for the whole colony was provided for, to consist of a Legislative Council, the members of which were to be nominated by the Governor, and of an elective House of Representatives. The first session of the General Assembly was opened on the 27th May, 1854, but the members of the Executive were not responsible to Parliament. The first Ministers under a system of Responsible Government were appointed on the 18th April, 1856.
Page 23 - Convention, empowered to consider and report upon an adequate scheme for a Federal Constitution.
Page 110 - In the case of South Australia and Western Australia, whence no returns relating to breweries are obtainable, the consumption of beer has been assumed to be at the same rate as the average of the other five Colonies.