Media: EBOOK - download
File format: PDF file 51MB 779 pages)
Year: (1879) 2025
ISBN: 9781742227467
Publisher: Archive Digital Books Australasia

Covering New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, West Australia, Tasmania, Queensland, New Zealand, and Fiji Islands, the 'Australian Handbook and Almanac and Shippers and Importers Directory for 1879', the tenth year of issue, is a guide with all kinds of interesting and unique information.

Apart from a descriptive account and statistical information for New Zealand and each of the Australian colonies and their towns, you will also find details on climate, education, religion, agriculture, population, societies and clubs, parliamentary and official departments, local self-government, telegraphic and postal details, police, banking, shipping, mining and land regulations, newspaper, manufacturers, emigration, as well as naval and military forces. You will also find details of the governors, consuls and ecclesiastical appointments of the time.

The Directory and Business Guide portion of the Handbook is a comprehensive listing of importers, exporters and shippers. For the importers and exporters it lists their name, address and what they trade (breech-loading revolvers, sewing machine thread, surgical instruments, patent pianos, ironmongery and more) - exporters from England and Scotland and importers throughout Australia, New Zealand and Fiji.

Features of this Handbook include:

• emigration information “likely to be of service to intending Emigrants”
• land regulations for each state and New Zealand
• mining regulations for each state and New Zealand
• historical outline and chronology of events in Australian history
• obituaries of people who died between October 1877 and September 1878
• hundreds of advertisements

This handbook gives a snapshot of the world of our ancestors at the end of the 1870s.

High quality scanned images of the whole of the original book, bookmarked for easy navigation. Pages can be searched, browsed, enlarged and printed out if required.

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