The Cambridge History of the British Empire: pt. 1. Australia; advisor Ernest ScottArthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians Cambridge University Press, 1933 - Commonwealth of Nations |
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... Commissioners on an unde- veloped and disorganised province . In these circumstances , Gawler was forced to use an emergency authority which permitted him to deviate from his instructions and draw bills in case of pressing need . He ...
... Commissioners on an unde- veloped and disorganised province . In these circumstances , Gawler was forced to use an emergency authority which permitted him to deviate from his instructions and draw bills in case of pressing need . He ...
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... Commissioners in the country districts , and to guard settlers and stock parties at Port Lincoln and on the Murray , where the natives had become a menace . In this , as in other matters , the British Government refused assistance ...
... Commissioners in the country districts , and to guard settlers and stock parties at Port Lincoln and on the Murray , where the natives had become a menace . In this , as in other matters , the British Government refused assistance ...
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... Commissioners awoke to the magnitude of their obligations they fell into a panic , and cast the colony upon the Government ; but the latter merely rejected Gawler's bills and allowed the system of colonisation , the credit of the colony ...
... Commissioners awoke to the magnitude of their obligations they fell into a panic , and cast the colony upon the Government ; but the latter merely rejected Gawler's bills and allowed the system of colonisation , the credit of the colony ...
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