Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (493 pages)
Year: (1874) 2011
ISBN: 9781921957086
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 1874, the fifth year of issue, is a guide with all kinds of interesting and unique information. This handbook gives a snapshot of the world of our ancestors in the mid 1870s.

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.

SAMPLE ENTRY:

QUEENSTOWN, a post town on Diamond creek, 28 miles north-east of Melbourne. A coach runs regularly, via Eltham, to and from the city. The workings in the vicinity are known as the Caledonia Diggings, and are both alluvial and quartz. Population, 207.

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 (sewing machine thread, engravings and works of art, bibles and books, wicker ware, glassware 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
• Australasian ministries
• leading events in Australia from November 1872 to October 1873
• obituaries of people who died between November 1872 and October 1873
• hundreds of advertisements

This product contains high quality scanned images of the original handbook. It has been bookmarked for easy navigation. Pages can be searched, browsed, enlarged and printed out if required.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
Any computer using Adobe (Acrobat) Reader 4 or later
Adobe Reader 6 or later is recommended for CDs with searchable text