State Experiments in Australia & New Zealand, 1. köideG. Richards, 1902 |
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Page 214 - But, gentlemen, talk of corruption ! talk of jobbery ! why if all the corruption which has defiled England since the expulsion of the Stuarts were gathered into one heap, it would not make such a sum as this ; if all the jobs which have been done since the days of Sir Robert Walpole, were collected into one job, they would not make so big a job as the one which Mr. Wentworth asks me to lend a hand in perpetrating ; — the job, that is to say, of making to him a grant of twenty millions of acres,...
Page 51 - I hereby pledge myself not to oppose the selected candidate of this or any other branch of the Political Labour League. I also pledge myself, if returned to Parliament, on all occasions to do my utmost to ensure the carrying out of the principles embodied in the...
Page 82 - Chinese-made furniture. (16) Any measure that will secure for the wage-earner a fair and equitable return for his or her labour.
Page 169 - We have but to turn to the country from which we took the Australian ballot for our lesson. Since 1892 the elector there has enjoyed the right to use what is called the "contingent vote." This is simply the " order of preference " called into play to assert the principle of election by absolute majority. This plan provides a ballot upon which the elector marks his first and second choice or
Page 142 - Looked at, then, from every point of view, the whole weight of the argument is against New Zealand entering into any Federation, except a Federation with the Mother Country.
Page 6 - The various terrors of that horrid shore; Those blazing suns that dart a downward ray, And fiercely shed intolerable day; Those matted woods where birds forget to sing. But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling...
Page 185 - My father arrived in the colony as a free settler in the month of January, 1824, having an order for a grant of land from Earl Bathurst. On presenting the order at the Colonial Secretary's Office, he merely pledged himself to employ twenty convict servants, and accordingly obtained a grant of two thousand acres; but in the year 1823 my younger brother, who had had no order from the Home Government, but merely offered to maintain ten servants, on applying for a grant of land, obtained a grant of one...
Page 188 - It is related, at least, that a reputable individual of this class having transmitted representations against his measures to the Secretary of State, Governor Macquarie, doubtless under the influence of strong irritation, observed in reply, " that there were only two classes of individuals in New South Wales — those who had been convicted, and those who ought to have been so.
Page 253 - ... sons and country labourers, were growing up and working on other men's land, albeit they had the skill, knowledge and strength to manage holdings of their own. The cry for land in New Zealand in 1890 was no mere urban sentimentalism . . . ; in the main it was a genuine hunger for land, coming from the landless amongst a rural population.33 Reeves earlier points out that in 1894 one-eightieth of the holders possessed two-fifths of the value of occupied rural land.34 It is true that refrigeration...
Page 214 - Wentworth aaks me to lend a hand in perpetrating— the job of making him a grant of twenty millions of acres at the rate of one hundred acres for a farthing ! The Land Company of New South Wales has been said to be a job ; one million of acres at eighteenpence an acre has been thought to be a pretty good job ; but it absolutely vanishes into nothing by the side of Mr. Wentworth's job...