The Reports Made for the Year ... to the Secretary of State Having the Department of the Colonies, in Continuation of the Reports Annually Made by the Governors of the British Colonies, with a View to Exhibit Generally the Past and Present State of Her Majesty's Colonial Possessions, Transmitted with the Blue Books for the Year ...: North American Colonies; African settlements and St. Helena; Australian colonies and New Zealand; Eastern colonies; Mediterranean possessions and Ionian Islands, &c, 파트 2H.M. Stationery Office, 1860 |
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1st January 31st December Accra acres Adelaide agricultural amount annual average balance Bart Blue Book British bushels Cape Coast cent CEYLON Chinese cholera Civil Colonial Hospital Colonial Secretary Colonial Surgeon convictions cost Customs Deaths decrease DESPATCH from Governor disease districts Duke of Newcastle duty dysentery established estimated European expenditure favour fishery Gambia gaol Gold Coast Grace the Duke guinea worm head Hong Kong honour houses improvement increase interest IONIAN ISLANDS island labour land Launceston Liverpool Lumber and staves LYTTON Majesty's Government miles natives nearly number of persons obtained Office palm wine population port present produce progress proportion Province quantity Rain receipts Registrar remarks returns revenue River satisfactory settlements sheep Sierra Leone South Australia South Wales statement statistics staves Lumber supplementary votes Tasmania tons Total town trade Treasury Victoria votes wheat whilst wool worm
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25 페이지 - ... the natives on the coast and in the interior principally consume. Dr. Clarke, who was Colonial Surgeon on the Gold Coast, and surgeon to the natives, in his medical report for 1858 has dwelt on the food question as follows : — " Elephantiasis and Lepra (leprosy) in all its hideous forms prevail. The natives suppose it may be induced by drinking excessively of palm wine which has been mixed with the juice of the bamboo ; but it may, with much greater reason, be accounted for by an excess of...
76 페이지 - An Act to consolidate and amend the Law for preventing Frauds upon Creditors by secret Bills of Sale of Personal Chattels.—[2,2nd July, 1878.] WHEREAS it is expedient to consolidate and amend the law relating to bills of sale of personal chattels...
27 페이지 - The mass of the inhabitants bury their dead in the basement floor of their houses; a practice not confined to the pagan part of the population, but also practised by many respectable and wealthy families.
77 페이지 - Act to enable the Bishop, Clergy, and Laity of the United Church of England and Ireland in Tasmania to regulate the Affairs of the said Church.
28 페이지 - ... of the other districts of the protected territory. Strictly speaking, it might be extensively grown over large tracts of land, both at Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast, which are at present a wilderness of jungle ; the land under cultivation bearing so small a proportion to that lying waste, and which prevails to such an extent, that the former is the exception and the latter the rule. In the vicinity of Freetown, and the villages and hamlets of the former colony, and in the suburbs of Cape Coast,...
35 페이지 - Coast and at Sierra Leone, goes so far as to say*, " It is questionable whether persons of colour are better able to bear up against the influence of climate than persons of pure European blood, provided the latter are sober in their habits. There can be no doubt that Europeans, on their first arrival in West Africa, are in greater danger of losing their lives than the former ; but when once they have become acclimatized, they seem...
67 페이지 - Plenty of good land, and liberty to manage their own affairs their own way, seem to be the two great causes of the prosperity of all new colonies".2 The second cause was elaborated at great length.
35 페이지 - ... against the influence of climate than persons of pure European blood, provided the latter are sober in their habits. There can be no doubt that Europeans, on their first arrival in West Africa, are in greater danger of losing their lives than the former; but when once they have become acclimatized, they seem generally to withstand the influence of the climate better than coloured people, provided, I repeat, they are temperate in their habits.
113 페이지 - Its magnificent harbour invites the flags of all nations, which there is nothing in its legislation to repel. Its laws give no privileges to any, but afford equal security to all ; and I am persuaded the equity with which justice is administered is beginning to produce a most salutary effect on the minds of the Chinese...
28 페이지 - ... famine, for the Croboe revolt last year may be said to have been put down without bloodshed ; nevertheless the increase of population has not been in any degree commensurate with what might reasonably be expected under such favourable circumstances. To what then is the cause ascribable ? In my humble opinion the chief cause arises from the enormous mortality which continually occurs in infancy from mismanagement by the natives of their young, and by their unskilful medical treatment. Polygamy...