The Handbook to Sydney and Suburbs: With a Plan of the City and Map of the Roads of the ColonyS.T. Leigh & Company, 1866 - 177 sider |
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The Handbook to Sydney and Suburbs: With a Plan of the City, and Map of the ... Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 1867 |
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annum Australian Balmain Bank bath Bathurst Botany branch building Chairman charge Charles Cowper Church Circular Quay Colonial Secretary Colonial Treasurer Comp Council Cove Creek Daily Darling Harbour Darling Point District ditto Double Bay erected establishment exceeding half-ounce feet gallons gardens GEORGE STREET Glebe Government Governor harbour Hill House institution Insurance Company Island James John June ladies Letters Lodge London Macquarie Macquarie-street Mail Melbourne Messrs miles Monday Money Order Mudgee Municipality Newcastle Newtown p.m. NM p.m. SDaily p.m. SMon Parramatta Parramatta River PITT Pitt-street Point Point Piper Police Port Jackson Post Office present principal Pyrmont Railway Redfern residence River Secretary for Lands ship shore Solicitor South Head Road South Wales southern steam steamers suburb Sydney Sydney Cove Thomas tons town United Kingdom vessels Victoria visitor Ward Water Police Waverley wharf William Woolloomooloo Zealand
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Side 52 - Appear like mice; and yon' tall anchoring bark, Diminish'd to her cock; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight: The murmuring surge, That on the unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard so high: — I'll look no more; Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong.
Side 52 - Come on, sir; here's the place: — stand still. — How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Side 19 - He was the warm friend of the liberty of the press He extended trial by jury after its almost total suspension for many years By these and numerous other measures For the moral religious and general improvement of all classes He raised the Colony to unexampled prosperity And retired amid the reverent and affectionate regret of the people having won their confidence by his integrity Their gratitude by his services Their admiration by his public talents and Their esteem by his private worth.
Side 19 - Realized extensive plans of immigration He established religious equality on a just and firm basis And sought to provide for all without distinction of sect A sound and adequate system of national education He constructed various public works of permanent utility He founded the flourishing settlement of Port Phillip And threw open the unlimited wilds of Australia To pastoral enterprise He established Savings Banks and was the patron of the first Mechanics...
Side 10 - In order to guard against and correct as much as possible some of the errors arising from atmospheric and other causes appertaining to telegraphy, every important message should be REPEATED, by being sent back from the station at which it is to be received to the station from which it is originally sent.
Side 2 - Spirits — On all kinds of spirits imported into the Colony the strength of which can be ascertained by Sykes
Side 10 - The Company will not be responsible for Mistakes in the transmission of unrepeated messages, from whatever cause they may arise.
Side 14 - Every packet must be sent either without a cover, or in a cover open at the ends or sides.
Side 13 - The Observatory is visited by a Board consisting of His Excellency the Governor, the Colonial Secretary, the Surveyor-General, the Professor of Mathematics in the University of Sydney, and the Commanders of such of Her Majesty's ships-of-war as may be in the harbour. The time ball is dropped daily at 1 pm, Observatory mean time, or 14h 55m.
Side 24 - Be it thus recorded, that the road round the inside of the Government Domain, called Mrs. Macquarie's Road...