Wealth and Progress of New South Wales1887 - New South Wales |
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Page 523 - Governor) to do and execute all things that belong to his said Office, according to the tenor of these Our Letters Patent and of such Commission as may be issued to him under Our Sign Manual and Signet, and according to such Instructions as may from time to time be given to him under Our Sign Manual and Signet, or by Our Order in Our Privy Council, or by Us, through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State, and to such Laws as are now or shall hereafter be in force in the Dominion.
Page 8 - Farms wave with gold, and orchards blush between. — There shall tall spires, and dome-capt towers ascend, And piers and quays their massy structures blend; While with each breeze approaching vessels glide, And northern treasures dance on every tide!
Page 8 - ye rising realms ! record ' Time's opening scenes, and Truth's unerring word.— ' There shall broad streets their stately walls extend, ' The circus widen and the crescent bend ; ' There, ray'd from cities o'er the cultured land, ' Shall bright canals and solid roads expand.
Page 8 - Where Sydney Cove her lucid bosom swells, Courts her young navies and the storm repels, High on a rock, amid the troubled air, Hope stood sublime, and wav'd her golden hair; Calm'd with her rosy smile the tossing deep, And with sweet accents charm'd the winds to sleep; To each wild plain, she stretch'd her snowy hand. High-waving wood, and sea-encircled strand. 'Hear me,' she cried, 'ye rising realms!
Page 32 - ... and until they are satisfied that the nominated, or the future elective Council, which they recommend, will not effect the object they have In view, of placing a safe revising, deliberative, and conservative element between the Lower House and Her Majesty's Representative in this Colony they do not feel Inclined to hazard the experiment of an Upper House, based on a General Elective Franchise.
Page 56 - ... and Bogan are the most important. These streams are all of considerable length and similar in character; their upper valleys are on the tablelands, and their lower courses lie through alluvial plains and good pastoral country. The Darling is navigable, in times of freshets, as far as the township of Walgett, 1,758 miles from its confluence with the Murray; thence to the sea the distance is 587 miles, making a total length of navigable water from Walgett to the sea of 2,345 miles, and it therefore...
Page 38 - 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 533 - ... the Legislative Assembly has, on one occasion, punished one of its members, by expelling him for conduct, beyond its precincts, assumed to be dishonourable. As regards disorderly conduct within the walls of the Chamber, it has been held by the Supreme Court, and affirmed by the Privy Council, that the Assembly only possesses the power of suspending a member for disorderly conduct for the period of the sitting at which he displays such conduct.
Page 103 - The roots of the eucalyptus lie at no great distance from the surface soil, an adaptation of nature to the peculiar climatic conditions of the country. The finest specimens of most of the timber trees, those yielding the most valuable timber, are found on ridges and hill sides, in places frequently too rough and stony for cultivation. This circumstance is in many ways fortunate for the Colony.
Page 529 - It should be understood that no capital sentence may be cither carried out, commuted, or remitted, without a consideration .of the case by the Governor and his Ministers assembled in Executive Council. A minor sentence may be commuted or remitted by the Governor, after he has duly considered the advice, either of his Ministers collectively in Executive Council, or of the Ministers more immediately responsible for matters connected •with the administration of justice...