The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 7, Part 1John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell |
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He answered the first question wrongly : there was no strait , he said , and New Guinea was continuous with Australia . ( It may be well here to repeat that the voyage of Torres was unknown to the Dutch . ) The second question he ...
He answered the first question wrongly : there was no strait , he said , and New Guinea was continuous with Australia . ( It may be well here to repeat that the voyage of Torres was unknown to the Dutch . ) The second question he ...
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a question . There were many disputed land claims to be settled ; a Polynesian Land Company under a charter from Thakombau claimed 200,000 acres.1 The natives resented a land - tax imposed by the previous Government partly with the ...
a question . There were many disputed land claims to be settled ; a Polynesian Land Company under a charter from Thakombau claimed 200,000 acres.1 The natives resented a land - tax imposed by the previous Government partly with the ...
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1 These three questions — financial relations between Commonwealth and States , Australian loan policy ... all served to keep the general question politically alive , and to force upon the Commonwealth Government the necessity for ...
1 These three questions — financial relations between Commonwealth and States , Australian loan policy ... all served to keep the general question politically alive , and to force upon the Commonwealth Government the necessity for ...
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