This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ... or fifteen millions of these, we can give to the remainder a value which it has not, neither can hope, to have, without improved means of communication, the bargain would be a satisfactory one, for the remaining 190 millions would be worth far more than the original 200 millions." It fell to the lot of Sir ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ... or fifteen millions of these, we can give to the remainder a value which it has not, neither can hope, to have, without improved means of communication, the bargain would be a satisfactory one, for the remaining 190 millions would be worth far more than the original 200 millions." It fell to the lot of Sir William Denison to inaugurate the new-principle of responsible government at Sydney, and it is somewhat amusing to read of the difficulties he encountered in this task. The Duke of Newcastle had denned this innovation as " Government by party," and Denison stated in reply, that in the Australian Colonies there were not the elements out of which political parties could be formed. In a letter to Mr. Labouchere, he wrote: --" Although the terms constitutional and unconstitutional have been bandied about like shuttlecocks from one side of the House to the other, the only question before the mind of every speaker has been a purely personal one: ' Why was riot I asket) to become a member of the Government?' The opposition does not object to any of the measures mentioned in the speech; but Mr. A says, ' I ought to have been sent for instead of Mr. Ii. I have more experience, more administrative ability, am, in short, a better man.'" It was not without the greatest difficulty, and a constant change of Ministers, that he succeeded in keeping the new legislative machine in motion. One of the most interesting incidents of his government was the transfer of the Pitcnirn Islanders to Norfolk Island. In writing to his brother on this subject he said: --" We are going to put them upon an island provided with cattle which they have never seen, sheep of which they know not the use, machinery, such as mills, itc., of the application of which they can have no...
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