The Three Colonies of Australia, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia: Their Pastures, Copper Mines, & Gold FieldsIngram, Cooke, & Company, 1852 - 425 páginas |
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... labour . The convicts were heaped on board ship without selection , the vilest and most venial criminals chained together . No classification of degrees of crime , or for the purposes of useful labour , was attempted . The overseers ...
... labour . The convicts were heaped on board ship without selection , the vilest and most venial criminals chained together . No classification of degrees of crime , or for the purposes of useful labour , was attempted . The overseers ...
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... Labour stood suspended for want of energy to proceed ; the coun- tenances of the people plainly bespoke the hardships they underwent . " " Garden - robbing became prevalent , the most severe measures were em- ployed to repress the crime ...
... Labour stood suspended for want of energy to proceed ; the coun- tenances of the people plainly bespoke the hardships they underwent . " " Garden - robbing became prevalent , the most severe measures were em- ployed to repress the crime ...
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... labour for a quarter of a century , the Sydney district never could have been cleared . During this period , the government was obliged to carry on culti- vation as well as it could on public account , although with indifferent success ...
... labour for a quarter of a century , the Sydney district never could have been cleared . During this period , the government was obliged to carry on culti- vation as well as it could on public account , although with indifferent success ...
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... labour of one man was impor- tant ; " and it was no wonder that all who could endeavoured to fly from a colony where the population was annually put on short allowance of food , and very often in danger of actual starvation . At this ...
... labour of one man was impor- tant ; " and it was no wonder that all who could endeavoured to fly from a colony where the population was annually put on short allowance of food , and very often in danger of actual starvation . At this ...
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... labour , by a convention of employers , and mutual agreement not to outbid each other . Harvest wages were settled at 10s . a day ; but we find , from frequent proclamations , that the rule of supply and demand prevailed , and labourers ...
... labour , by a convention of employers , and mutual agreement not to outbid each other . Harvest wages were settled at 10s . a day ; but we find , from frequent proclamations , that the rule of supply and demand prevailed , and labourers ...
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acres Adelaide agricultural appointed arrived Australian Agricultural Company Bathurst Bathurst district Bligh Botany Bay Brisbane bush capital Captain cattle Chisholm Church coast Colonel colonists commenced commissioners convicts Creek crown cultivation Darling despatch Diemen's Land diggings discovery district dray emigrants England English expense exports farm feet Flinders flocks Gawler gentlemen gold gold-digging gold-fields governor grants ground harbour hills horses hundred Island labour Legislative Council live Liverpool Plains M'Arthur Macquarie Melbourne miles months Moreton Bay mountains Parliament party pastoral persons population Port Jackson Port Macquarie Port Phillip pounds price of land prisoners purchase Ralph Darling revenue River servants settlement settlers sheep shepherd ship Sir George Gipps Sir Richard Bourke soil sold South Australia South Wales squatters Sydney Thomas Brisbane thousand tion town trees Turon Van Diemen's Land Victoria voyage wages Wakefield wheat wool