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	New South Wales - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		New South Wales is known the world over for the picturesque harbour of its capital, Sydney, Australia's oldest and largest city and a centre of international finance.
		New South Wales it is unknown whether or not he was referring to a new area that resembled South Wales, or a new southern version of Wales.
		Queen Elizabeth II is the Sovereign, represented by the Governor of New South Wales.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_South_Wales (993 words)

	New South Wales: Australia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The first settlement in New South Wales, the oldest of the seven colonies of Australasia, was effected by an expedition under the command of Captain Arthur Phillip, who landed at Botany Bay on the 19th January, 1788, and formally took possession of the whole continent.
		Though the colony was originally a penal settlement, there was an influx of free immigrants from the first and after the abolition of transportation in 1840 all traces of the penal element were rapidly lost.
		The Constitution Act of New South Wales was ascented to on the 16th July, 1855, and proclaimed on the 24th November of the same year; and the first representative Parliament was opened on the 22nd May, 1856.
	www.grandpapencil.com /austral/NSW.htm (221 words)

	Islands ~ Modern Maps
		New Caledonia is an island in the South Pacific east of Queensland, Australia.
		It became the second British possession in the Pacific when it was claimed by the Australian colony of New South Wales in 1788 and settled by a small party, including 15 convicts.
		In 1855 it was again abandoned as a penal colony and in 1856 the population of Pitcairn Island, descendants of the mutineers from the HMS Bounty, was resettled on Norfolk.
	sio.midco.net /dansmapstamps/islands19.htm (184 words)

	The Present Picture of New South Wales 1811 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		According to this determination, Governor Phillip was sent to this new continent, where he arrived on the 20th of January, 1788, with eight hundred convicts, and a portion of marines, and laid the foundation of the new settlement, which continued gradually to improve under his government, until the close of the year 1792.
		The religion most generally followed in the colony of New South Wales, is that established according to the usage of the Church of England; and it is a subject of satisfaction to observe that the churches are, generally speaking, well attended.
		The officers of the colony have also built a private billiard-room, by subscription, for their own use; and if these amusements possess not that degree of attraction which is attached to dramatic representations, they cannot, on the other hand, be liable to those abuses, and produce those injurious consequences, which previously existed.
	www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/1/5/5/3/15533/15533-h/15533-h.htm (13801 words)

	Resources - The Governor of New South Wales
		Born, of Lebanese descent, in Narrandera in the Riverina district of New South Wales, and educated at Narrandera Public School and Sydney Girls High School, Marie Bashir gained her bachelor degrees in medicine and surgery in 1956 from the University of Sydney.
		The colony of New South Wales was a penal colony with a military government.
		The New South Wales Act was primarily to regulate the system of courts and the judiciary in New South Wales, but there were provisions in the Act for the establishment of a Legislative Council of between 5 and 7 men to advise the Governor.
	www.parliament.nsw.gov.au /prod/web/common.nsf/key/ResourcesSystemTheGovernorofNewSouthWales (3222 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Australia
		They wept bitterly on receiving the news, "while those doomed to die, without exception, dropped on their knees and with dry eyes thanked God they were to be delivered from so horrid a place".
		Both in New South Wales and Tasmania, the children of Catholic convicts and all orphans under the care of the State were brought up in the profession of the dominant creed.
		For a time all the colonies of the Australasian group followed the example initiated by New South Wales in according State aid to the clergy and the denominational schools of the principal religious bodies, Anglicans, Catholics, Presbyterians, and Methodists.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02113b.htm (6386 words)

	Learn basics from Australian States stamps
		New South Wales and Victoria were the first of the Australian colonies to issue stamps, doing so in 1850.
		Another New South Wales series worth a closer look by budget-conscious collectors is the Centennial series issued in 1888 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the colony of New South Wales.
		One common New South Wales stamp with die varieties is the 1d Coat of Arms of 1897, Scott 98.
	www.linns.com /howto/refresher/australian_20040607/refreshercourse.asp (1839 words)

	NSW Waratahs Rugby History - ColonialRugby.com.au
		Calvert was a well known man in Sydney, he was a member of the NSW parliament and one of the colony's cricket selectors for matches against Victoria.
		New gentlemen's clubs and private schools followed including the King's School, playing on the Parramatta Domain, along with St. Leonards, Lyndhurst College, Camden College, Sydney Grammar School, Waratah F.C., Newington College and a handful of others.
		By 1877 the SRFU had thirteen member clubs from the twenty-three known to be playing rugby football in colony of New South Wales.
	www.colonialrugby.com.au /nsw-rugby.htm (968 words)

	New South Wales travel guide - Wikitravel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		New South Wales [1] (NSW) is one of Australia's south-eastern states and with a population of 6.7 million, the country's most populous.
		As the core territory of the first British colony on the Australian continent (settled in 1788), NSW is home to the country's oldest and largest city, the state capital of Sydney.
		NSW is bordered by three other Australian states: Victoria to the south, South Australia to the west, and Queensland to the north.
	wikitravel.org /en/New_South_Wales (1896 words)

	Sisters of St Joseph - New South Wales
		In 1866, Mary MacKillop was living at Penola (in the south-east of South Australia) where with Fr Julian Tenison Woods she founded a group of Religious Sisters who would be prepared to meet whatever needs arose in the new colonies.
		Mary MacKillop and her Sisters received friendly invitations from two bishops in New South Wales - Archbishop Roger Bede Vaughan OSB (Sydney) and Bishop Elzear Torreggiani OSFC (Armidale) - who were faced with maintaining a system of Catholic education with limited resources.
		In 1880, once again foundations were made in New South Wales - 'The House of Providence' in The Rocks area of Sydney, as well as schools at Penrith, St Marys, Lithgow, Wallerawang, Dapto, Picton, Inverell, Tenterfield, and in the Inner City of Sydney.
	www.sosj.org.au /about/new_south_wales/history.html (732 words)

	New South Wales Family History
		A major collection of records issued by the Archives Authority of New South Wales, including details of births, deaths and marriages, convicts, immigration, and land allocation for the period 1788 to 1900.
		New South Wales Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
		The index to Orphan School records is an ongoing volunteer project to index key records for the Orphan Schools, which are operated by the NSW colonial government in the first half of the nineteenth century.
	www.liswa.wa.gov.au /fhistnsw.html (534 words)

	New South Wales Ensign/Federation Flag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The AFF was originally designed as the proposed New South Wales (NSW) Ensign in 1831 by Captain John Nicholson, one of the designers of the National Colonial Flag.
		This is not surprising, because, as Burton says, New South Wales at that time included both Victoria and Queensland, and consequently the colony of New South Wales extended across the entire eastern seaboard, thereby constituting most of colonial Australia.
		The design was revived as a land flag in the late 1880's by political groups supporting federation of the colonies and it was used as an unofficial national flag in parts of Australia until the current flag was adopted in 1903.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/au_nswff.html (1004 words)

	Australian economy: Protectionists on the march
		The Age would have its readers believe that Victoria and New South Wale’s problems are rooted in free trade policies and the resources boom (Victoria, NSW victims of a boom with mixed blessings, 27 May 2006), especially competition from low-wage countries.
		The population of New South Wales in 1891 was 1,132,234 and 1,140,405 for Victoria.
		Moreover, a significant increase in New South Wales population was due to Victorians abandoning their progressive protectionist state to enjoy the ‘economic rationalist’ policies of New South Wales.
	www.brookesnews.com /060506feilft.html (1242 words)

	Political History of Victoria
		The first Australian colony was New South Wales, founded in 1788 by Captain Arthur Phillip as a British Penal colony on Port Jackson, now the city of Sydney.
		The first foreign military action by the colony of Victoria (and Australia I think) was to send troops and a warships to New Zealand as part of the Maori Wars.
		In 1901 Victoria ceased to be an independent colony and became a state in the commonwealth of Australia.
	www.fastload.org /po/Political_History_of_Victoria.html (767 words)

	Expedition down the Macquarie river, and into the western interior in 1828 and 1829 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		He embarked with them on his return to New South Wales in 1806, on board a vessel named by him “the Argo,” in reference to the golden treasure with which she was freighted.
		One of the greatest objections which families have to New South Wales, is their apprehension of the moral effects that are likely to overwhelm them by bad example, and for which no success in life could compensate.
		Oxley, the Surveyor–General of the Colony, was appointed chief of this expedition, and was directed to trace the Lachlan and Macquarie rivers, as far as practicable, with a view to ascertain their capabilities and the nature of the country they watered.
	etext.library.adelaide.edu.au /s/sturt/charles/s93t/v1ch0.html (10616 words)

	Origins of Parole & Its History in NY: Page 2 of 8
		In New South Wales, those prisoners who could not be indentured out to private employers providing them with shelter, sustenance and some remittance had to be cared for by – and remain in the custody of – the colony's government.
		As governor of New South Wales (1800-06), he made many improvements in penal management, agriculture, health, education, exploration and settlement while seeking peaceful relations with native peoples.
		What prompted New York State authorities to engaged in such liberal early release practices was precisely what had prompted New South Wales authorities to issue leave tickets – prison overpopulation, not prisoner reformation.
	www.correctionhistory.org /html/chronicl/parole/parolepage2.htm (809 words)

	Convicts in New South Wales - Ancestry Aid Message Boards
		After the colony of New South Wales became well established and permanent buildings had been erected, a routine for handling new arrivals was set in place.
		In 1836 Nancy Ryan was brought to New South Wales to be reunited with her convict husband.
		The 1828 Census of New South Wales is the most detailed and best surviving record of its type and is kept in most major libraries.
	www.ancestryaid.co.uk /boards/showthread.php?p=19363 (1526 words)

	NSW Police History
		It consists of a crown, signifying Her Majesty's Government, surmounting the segment containing the New South Wales Crest and the Eagle carrying Nemesis, representing Justice and Law.
		The Office of the New South Wales Sheriff is the second oldest public position in English law.
		Prior to this, the duties of the Sheriff were performed by the Provost-Marshal of the Colony of New South Wales.
	www.policensw.com /info/history/h1.html (947 words)

	Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Volume I eBook
		Extent of new south Wales and divisions of the colony.
		Whether we are to attribute the present flourishing state of the colony to the beneficial influence of that system of government which has been exercised over it for the last seven years it is not for me to say.
		I allude not to the period of great martial achievements, should any such adorn its pages, but to that in which the enterprise of its merchants was roused into action, and when all classes of its community seem to have put forth their strength towards the attainment of wealth and power.
	www.bookrags.com /ebooks/4328/4.html (420 words)

	German Settlement in New South Wales
		During his early travels in the settled areas of the colony the explorer Ludwig Leichhardt noticed this, and thought that if German immigrants were brought in they would be more likely to settle down and work for a better life than they could have had in Germany.
		This group of migrants from South Australia were mainly of Wendish background.
		They moved on, and when they had found suitable land they named the new settlement Ebenezer (in memory of the place they'd left in SA), but later it was changed to the present name of Walla Walla, as an Ebenezer already existed in NSW.
	www.teachers.ash.org.au /dnutting/germanaustralia/e/nsw-setl.htm (1141 words)

	Norfolk Island - The First Settlement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Ground was cultivated, crops planted and harvested; the settlement became a tiny township.
		Sydney and the expanding colony of New South Wales had no further need to import food from Norfolk; the people who had occupied it were shipped back to New South Wales.
		The structures of the settlement were razed or pulled down stone by stone in order to dissuade passing ships from reoccupying the island - and to make the island less alluring for escaped convicts.
	www.pitcairners.org /settlements.html (386 words)

	Murnanes In Australia And New Zealand
		Their descendants in turn were pioneers in Tasmania, northern New South Wales, Queensland, and Western Australia and some may have moved to New Zealand (part of New South Wales until 1841).
		Murnanes of County Tipperary and Bathurst (New South Wales)
		Owen Murnane, born in Tipperary in 1822, and married to an Ellen Ryan, was a farmer and grazier at Bathurst, an agricultural city in the central west of New South Wales.
	www.murnane.org /aus-nzupdate.htm (3703 words)

	Mini Biographies of Scots and Scots Descendants - McLachlan of Avondale
		He seems to have had his eye firmly on a life in "the colonies" and as soon as he found his life partner, the couple was married and set off straightaway for the colony of NSW.
		She was the eldest surviving daughter and second surviving child of Duncan McPherson, the son of Angus and Isabella McPherson, and Jean Wagstaff, the second daughter and sixth child of Joseph/Josiah Wagstaff and Jean Brown.
		Thus it was that when she received news from Scotland, that her dearly loved mother, Jean Mann (born Wagstaff and formerly McPherson) had passed away on a day in June of the same year, Jane nee McPherson McLachlan, the mother, was reported as "desponding".
	www.electricscotland.com /webclans/minibios/mc/mclachlan_avondale.htm (2161 words)

	THE STORY OF MARY BRYANT - PART III
		The British flag was raised and toasts drunk to Their Majesties in distant Britain and the new colony had begun.
		The new settlers were far home and most had had to leave their loved ones behind.
		This was the place where they would have to carve out a new home and town from the wilderness and few had the skills for it.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/aus_history/89769 (454 words)

	Postal Convention
		The Post Office of Sydney shall be the New South Wales office of exchange, and Honolulu the Hawaiian office of exchange for all mails transmitted under this arrangement.
		The Post Office of New South Wales shall levy and collect, to its own use, on newspapers and other articles of printed matter, patterns and samples of in merchandise, addressed to the Hawaiian Kingdom, the regular rates of domestic postage chargeable thereon by the laws and regulations of the Colony of New South Wales.
		The register fee for each article shall be four pence in New South Wales and fifteen cents in the Hawaiian Kingdom.
	www.pixi.com /~kingdom/wales1874.html (369 words)

	ADay -
		Manning Clark notes that on the 26 January 1808, the 'anniversary of the foundation of the colony' was observed in the traditional manner with 'drinking and merriment'.
		The sense of belonging to a new nation must surely have been encouraged in 1817 when Governor Macquarie recommended the adoption of the name 'Australia' for the entire continent instead of New Holland.
		This inaugural public holiday in New South Wales was to become an annual event from that year, held on or around the 26 January.
	www.fortunecity.com /millennium/puppet/756/AUSTDAY/aday2.htm (879 words)

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