Oceana, or, England and her colonies

Longmans, Green and Co.

1886

English

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MS-2002-38 Jack William Goodwin - papers

Third edition

CHAPTER I: The dream of Sir James Harrington - The expansion of the English race - The American colonies - Second group of colonies - Colonial management - Policy of separation - The England of political economists - Population and national greatness - Popular desire for union - Indifference of statesmen - Difficulties - The problem not insoluble
CHAPTER II: The Children of the Sea - The -Australasian ' - Company on board - Storm in the Channel - Leave Plymouth - Great Circle sailing - Sea studies - Emigrants - An Irishman's experience - Virgil - Metaphysical speculations - Old measurement of time - Tenerife - Bay of Santa Cruz - Sunday at sea - Approach to the Cape
CHAPTER III: The Cape Colony - The Dutch settlement - Transfer to England - Abolition of slavery - Injustice to the Dutch- Emigration of the Boers - Efforts at reconquest - The Orange River treaty - Broken by England - The war - Treaty of Aliwal North - Discovery of diamonds - Treaty again broken - British policy at Kimberley - Personal tour in South Africa - Lord Carnarvon proposes a Conference - Compensation paid to the Orange Free State - Annexation of the Transvaal - War with the Dutch - Peace - Fresh difficulties - Expedition of Sir Charles Warren
CHAPTER IV: Arrival at Cape Town - A disagreeable surprise - Interviewers - State of feeling - Contradictory opinions - Prospects of Sir Charles Warren's expedition - Mr. Upington - Sir Hercules Robinson - English policy in South Africa
CHAPTER V: The lndian Ocean - New Year's night at sea - Extreme cold - Waves and currents - The albatross - Passengers' amusements - Modem voyages - The * Odyssey' - Spiritual truth- Continued cold at midsummer
CHAPTER VI: First sight of Australia - Bay of Adelaide - Sunday morning - The harbour-master - Go on shore - The port - Houses - Gardens - Adelaide City - The public gardens - Beauty of them - New acquaintances -The Australian magpie- The laughing jackass - Interviewers- Talk of confederation - Sail for Melbourne - Aspect of the coast - Williamstown
CHAPTER VII: Landing at Melbourne - First impression of the city - Sir Henry Loch - Government House - Party assembled there - Agitation about New Guinea - The Monro doctrine in the Pacific - Melbourne gardens - Victorian Society - The Premier - Federation, local and imperial - The Astronomer Royal - The Observatory - English institutions reproduced - Proposed tour in the Colony - Melbourne amusements - Music - The theatre- Sun- day at Melbourne - Night at the Observatory
CHAPTER VIII: Expedition into the interior of the Colony - Mr. Gillies- Special tram - Approaches to Ballarat - The rabbit plague - A squatter's station - Ercildoun and its inhabitants - Ballarat - Gold-mining - Australian farms - A cottage garden - Lake and park - Fish and flower culture - Municipal hospitality
CHAPTER IX: Bendigo - Sandhurst - Descent into a gold mine -Hospitalities - Desire for confederation - Mount Macedon - Summer residence of the Governor - Sir George Verdon - St. Hubert's - Wine- growing - Extreme heat - Mr. Castella - Expedition to Fernshaw - Gigantic trees - A picnic- A forest tire- Return to Melbourne 184
CHAPTER X: Colonial clubs - Melbourne - Political talk - Anxieties about England - Federation - Carlyle's opinions - Democracy and national character - Melbourne society- General aspects - Probable future of the Colony
CHAPTER XI: The train to Sydney - Aspect of the country - Sir Henry Parkes - The Australian Club - The public gardens - The Soudan contingent - Feeling of the Colony about it - An Opposition minority - Mr. Dalley - Introduction to him - Day on Sydney Harbour - The flag ship - Sir James Martin - Admiral Tryon - The colonial navy - Sir Alfred Stephen - Sunday at Sydney - Growth of the town - Excursions in the neighbourhood - Paramatta River - Temperament of the Australians
CHAPTER XII: Visit to Moss Vale - Lord Augustus Loftus - Position of a Governor in New South Wales - Lady Augustus - Chinese servants - English newspapers - Dinner-party conversations - A brave and true bishop - Sydney harbour once more - Conversation with Mr. Dalley on Imperial Federation - Objections to proposed schemes - The Navy - The English flag
CHAPTER XIII: Alternative prospects of the Australian colonies - Theory of the value of colonies in the last century - Modem desire for union - Proposed schemes - Representation - Proposal for Colonial Peers - Federal Parliament impossible - Organised emigration - Danger of hasty measures - Distribution of honours - Advantages and disadvantages of party government in colonies - Last words on South Africa
CHAPTER XIV: Sail for New Zealand - The -City of Sydney ' - Chinese stewards - An Irish priest - Miscellaneous passengers - The American captain and his crew - The North Cape - Climate and soil of New Zealand - Auckland - Sleeping volcanoes - Mount Eden - Bishop Selwyn's church and residence - Work and wages - The Northern Club - Hospitalities - Harbour works - Tendency to crowd into towns - Industries - A Senior Wrangler - Sir George Grey - Plans for sightseeing
CHAPTER XV: Tour in the interior of the North Island - Aspect of the country - A colonial magnate - Federation, and the conditions of it - The Maori- Cambridge at the Antipodes - The Waikato Valley - Colonial administration - Oxford - A forest drive - The Lake Country - Rotorua - Ohinemutu - The mineral baths - A Maori settlement - The Lake Hotel
CHAPTER XVI: Road to the Terraces - The Blue Lake- Wairoa - An evening walk - The rival guides - Native entertainments - Tarawara Lake - A Maori girl - The White Terrace - Geysers - Volcanic mud- heaps - A hot lake - A canoe ferry - Kate and Marileha - The Pink Terrace - A bath - A boiling pool - Beauty of colour - Return to Wairoa and Ohinemutu
CHAPTER XVII: Ohinemutu again - Visitors - A Maori village - An old woman and her portrait - Mokoia island - The inhabitants - Maori degeneracy - Return to Auckland - Rumours of war with Russia - Wars of the future - Probable change in their character
CHAPTER XVIII: Sir George Grey's Island - Climate- House- Curiosities- Sir George's views on Cape politics- His hobbies - Opinions on federation - Island retainers - Their notion of liberty - Devotion to their employer - Birds and animals - Expedition into the interior - A Maori dining-hall - Shark-fishing - Caught in a storm - Run for the mainland - A New Zealand farm and its occupants - End of visit to Sir George - Auckland society - Professor Aldis - General impression on the state of New Zealand - Growth of state debt and municipal debt - Seeming approach of war - Party government
CHAPTER XIX: Sail for America - The -Australia ' - Heavy weather - A Now Zealand colonist - Easter in the Southern Hemisphere -Occupations on board - Samoa - A missionary - Parliamentary government in the Pacific Islands- A young Australian - The Sandwich Islands - Honolulu - American influence- Bay of San Francisco
CHAPTER XX: The American Union - The Civil War and the results of it - Effect of the Union on the American character - San Francisco - Palace Hotel - The Market - The clubs - Aspect of the city - Californian temperament - The Pacific Railway - Alternative routes - Start for New York - Sacramento Valley - The Sierra Nevada- Indian territory - Salt Lake - The Mormons - The Rocky Mountains - Canon of the Rio Grande - The prairies - Chicago - New York and its wonders - The -Etruria ' - Fastest passage on record - Liverpool
CHAPTER XXI: The English Empire more easily formed than preserved - Parliamentary party government - Policy of disintegration short- sighted and destructive - Probable effect of separation on the colonies - Rejected by opinion in England - Democracy - Power and tendency of it - The British race - Forces likely to produce union - Natural forces to be trusted - Unnatural to be distrusted - If England is true to herself the colonies will be true to England

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