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Title: From colony to commonwealth, being a brief history of federation. Together with a record of the festivities and ceremonies which took place in the city of Sydney on the occasion of the proclamation of the Commonwealth in January, 1901
Year: 1901 (1900s)
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Subjects: Australia -- Politics and government
Publisher: Sydney W. Brooks
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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By Special Appointment Purveyors to Her Majesty The Queen. Contractors to the British Admiralty and War Office. ^ ^ no QOLD nEDflL5 J 7 AND FIRST AWAF AWARDS. MACONOCHES FAMOUS SPECIALTIES. Silvocea Fresh Herrings c Silvocea Kippered Herrings UitsurMssed for OualitvSilvoceas in Tomato Sauoe Mn$Hrpa»$gttTo^uMainy Silvocea Findon Haddocks I -^vv q) Preserved Fish of Every Description, j Universal Pickles ^. « - ... T7I ..^ Marmalade ^ the Best m the Ulorld. -^ Blotter Paste (9^^^^^^^^^ . Potted Meats MACONOCHIES Worcestershire Sauce Is the Most Delicious, and Cheapest in the Market. MACONOCHIE BROS., Ltd., LONDON. Australian Representatives:SWIFT & COMPANY, 7 Spring St. Sydney. FROM COLOXV TO COMMONWKALTII. 11
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T.K.H, DUKE AND DUCHESS OF CORNWALL AND YORK. 12 FROM COLONY TO COMMONWEALTH. and Italians ruled the land. When Austria was leaguedwith Burgundy and Spain, Germany suffered. Forweary centuries it was the seat of war and bloodshed.When the first Napoleon swept eastward with his con-quering hosts, he trampled Prussia in the dust anddegraded her old nobility. It seems but a short stepback to 1809-10, and the awful campaigns of those cruel•days, but even then Germany was not. England hadawakened to her destiny of mistress of the seas, butGermany was as yet unborn. Napoleon abolished the Holy Roman Empire, but placed no good thing in itsstead. After the allies had won the battle of Leipsic—after Moscow, after Elba and St. Helena, the scathedpeoples breathed in freedom, and the Federal Act of 1815was introduced, with 39 States. In 1828 Bavaria andWurtemburg formed a Customs Union, and Prussiajoined that, and by 1836 all Germany, except Austria,had joined it. But the federation, after al

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