Historical Records of Australia: Governors' despatches to and from England. Series I, Volume 20Library Committee of the Commonwealth Parliament., 1924 - Australia |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Aborigines acknowledged by lord acres addressed appointment April Augt August Australia Bligh Board Captain Captn charge Church of Scotland circumstances claim Colonial Secretary Committee consideration Convicts copy Court Crown dated Decr Despatch Diemen's Land District Downing Street duty Emigration enclose Enclosure England Establishment expence Feby GIPPS TO LORD Government House herewith honor instructions July June Justice Legislative Council letter Lord Glenelg LORD JOHN RUSSELL Lord Normanby Lords Commissioners Lordship Maconochie Majesty Majesty's Government March MARQUESS OF NORMANBY Memorialist ment Ministers Mission Missionaries Natives Norfolk Island NORMANBY TO SIR Office opinion Ordnance persons Police Port Phillip Presbyterian Church present proceedings proposed purchase received your Dispatch reference Regulations request respect Revd RUSSELL TO SIR salary SECRETARY STEPHEN Sept ship SIR GEORGE GIPPS Sir Richard Bourke South Wales Sub-enclosure Sydney Synod tion Transmission transmit Treasury Van Diemen's Land Wellington Valley William Bligh Zealand
Popular passages
Page 110 - Nothing doubting but at the general resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God. And as touching such worldly estate wherewith it has pleased God to bless me in this life I give, demise, and dispose of the same in the following manner and form...
Page 110 - God and calling unto mind the mortality of my body and •knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament, that is to say principally and first of all I give and...
Page 513 - To the end, therefore, that the said defendants may, if they can, show why your orator should not have the relief hereby prayed, and may, upon their several and respective corporal oaths, and according to the best and utmost of their several and respective knowledge, remembrance, information, and belief, full, true, direct, and perfect answer make to such of the several interrogatories hereinafter numbered and set forth, as by the note hereunder written they are respectively required to answer; that...
Page 773 - Act, or in any Charter of Justice or Order in Council made or issued in pursuance thereof respectively, or in any Law, Statute, or Usage, to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.
Page 770 - As human beings partaking in our common nature — as the aboriginal possessors of the soil from which the wealth of the country has been principally derived — and as subjects of the Queen, whose authority extends over every part of New Holland — the natives of the colony have an equal right with the people of European origin to the protection and assistance of the law of England. To allow either to injure or oppress the other, or to permit the stronger to regard the weaker party as aliens with...
Page 338 - Majesty, his Heirs, and Successors, "in such manner as shall appear most conducive to the maintenance and promotion of religion, and the education of youth in the said Colony.
Page 778 - Majesty's royal navy, to be lieutenant-governor in and over any territory which is or may be acquired in sovereignty by Her Majesty, her heirs, or successors, within that group of islands in the Pacific Ocean commonly called New Zealand...
Page 770 - They will endeavour to induce the chiefs in their respective districts to make themselves responsible for the good conduct of their tribes, and they will use every means in their power to acquire such personal influence over them, as may either prevent aggression, or ensure the immediate surrender of the parties who may be guilty of it. His Excellency thinks it right further to inform the public, that each succeeding despatch from the Secretary of State, marks, in an increasing degree, the importance...
Page 160 - One of the highest offences known to human law is thus likely to go altogether unpunished. In the note of Lord Palmerston to Mr. Stevenson, above referred to, his lordship said that, " slavery being now abolished throughout the British empire, there can be no well-founded claim for compensation in respect of slaves who, under any circumstances, may come into the British colonies, any more than there would be with respect to slaves who might be brought into the United Kingdom.
Page 146 - Convicts productive. In order to carry this proposal into effect, a Prison will require to be erected, capable of holding as many Convicts as can be conveniently and profitably employed in the Island, and so arranged as to facilitate the adoption of the most effectual means of enforcing an improved system of discipline, and that, for this purpose, as no correct estimate can be formed here of the expenses to be incurred in the erection of such a Prison at Norfolk Island, I have to desire that you...