The Reports Made for the Year ... to the Secretary of State Having the Department of the Colonies, in Continuation of the Reports Annually Made by the Governors of the British Colonies, with a View to Exhibit Generally the Past and Present State of Her Majesty's Colonial Possessions, Transmitted with the Blue Books for the Year ...: North American Colonies; African settlements and St. Helena; Australian colonies and New Zealand; Eastern colonies; Mediterranean possessions and Ionian Islands, &c, Part 2H.M. Stationery Office, 1861 - Great Britain |
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Page 37 - It has never been his wish to make that day any other than a day of devotion and rest, but circumstances compel him to employ it in labour. In this the whole are concerned, since the sooner we are enabled to leave this unpromising and unproductive country, the sooner shall we be able to reap the advantages and enjoy the comforts of a more fertile spot...
Page 14 - Sakia is the great instrument of irrigation. It is a rude contrivance of two perpendicular wheels, turned by a horizontal cog. The outer wheel is girdled with a string of earthen jars, which descend with every revolution into the pit open to the river, in which the wheel turns. As the jars ascend, they empty themselves into a trough, thence conducted away, or directly into a channel of earth ; and the water flowing into the fields, by little canals, invests each separate small square patch. There...
Page 137 - It realized £48,216 ; and but for the change of weather which set in at the end of March and the outbreak of cholera which ensued, there is every reason to believe that the proceeds would have reached £60,000. The great increase in the selling price of the oysters was owing to the profit (which could not have been less than 300 per cent.) made by the speculators in 1858. The fame of this brought all India into the field as competitors. Money was as plentiful as buyers, and the same oysters which...
Page 131 - It may b,: generally stated, however, that on a comparison of the results of the censuses in 1851 and 1858 respectively, it was found that during seven years the land under crop in the colony had increased from 29,140 to 140,965 acres, and the land fenced from 30,470 to 235,488 acres ; and the numbers of live stock, of all kinds, from 299,115 to 1,727,927.
Page 131 - Exports, which was £303,282 in 1853, and £458,023 in 1858, rose in 1859 to £551,484, being an increase of £93,461 in that year. Omitting the Exports of Articles imported from other Countries, and taking only the Exports of New Zealand Produce and Manufactures, (which are manifestly those from which the real development of the resources of the Colony is to be inferred), it is gratifying to find that there was an increase in the last year amounting to £87,358 12s., the Totals being £521,308 in...
Page 137 - It realized 48,215/. 18s. lOci., and but for the change of weather which set in at the end of March, and the outbreak of cholera which ensued, there is every reason to believe that the proceeds would have reached 60,000/. The great increase in the selling price of the oysters was owing to the profit, which could not have been less than 300 per cent., made by the speculators in 1858. The fame of this brought all India into the field as competitors. Money was as plentiful as buyers; and the same oysters...
Page 131 - Land Fenced 264,776 acres; and the aggregate number of Live Stock about 1,932,123. This estimate, however, affords no more than a very general idea of what a Census taken in 1859 might have been expected to show. The...
Page 34 - ... cordial hospitality, all the comforts and most of the luxuries and refinements of the houses of country gentlemen in England. The wonderful advance of this portion of the colony during the last ten years is due to no sudden and fortuitous discovery of the precious metals; it is derived wholly from the blessing of Providence on the skill and energy of its inhabitants in subduing and replenishing the earth. Assuredly, I have observed during the past week very remarkable illustrations of the proverbial...
Page 56 - Within the last twelve months (1853) the prices realized for land of an ordinary depth in Melbourne, not built upon, or with inferior tenements of small value, have been as follows, viz. — In the outskirts of...
Page 131 - It may be convenient to bring together here a few of the principal results of such a comparison.