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See also:GERMAN NEW See also:GUINEA
The German See also:protectorate of New Guinea, so called after the See also:island which contributes the greatest See also:area, comprehends, besides Kaiser Wilhelms See also:Land, the islands which are now commonly called the See also:Bismarck Archipelago—viz. New See also:Pomerania, New See also:Mecklenburg, with New See also:Hanover and the See also:Admiralty Islands and the See also:Solomon Islands (See also:Bougainville and Buka). There are besides nearly 200 smaller islands and islets scattered among their greater neighbours. In 1884 New Guinea was absolutely See also:wild, not a single See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white See also:man living on what is now the German See also:part. On the islands New Pomerania and Mioko only two trading firms had their establishments; and on New See also:Lauenburg the Wesleyans had a See also:mission station. After the See also:annexation commercial enterprise set in at once, See also:hand in hand with See also:political See also:administration. Now on the mainland and in the islands plantations have been established and See also:tobacco and See also:cotton have been successfully grown. Three German mission See also:societies formed settlements on New Guinea, with a See also:branch one on the Gazelle See also:peninsula. The protectorate is included in the Universal Postal See also:Union; each See also:harbour has its See also:post See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, also a leading See also:official with a number of assistants to See also:control the natives and the See also:revenue. It is divided into two districts with See also:separate administrations, New Guinea and the Bismarck See also:Archipelago; over both presides an imperial See also:governor, the seat of See also:government being HerbertshShe in New Pomerania. A small See also:police force of natives has been formed. In each See also:district there is a registry of deeds and a See also:court of See also:law, and in New Guinea a court of See also:appeal, of which the governor is See also:president. A See also:line of steamers plies between New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago and See also:Singapore. A See also:special See also:silver See also:coin of See also:rupee value has been introduced. The area of Kaiser Wilhelms Land is approximately 70,000 sq. m. It is impossible to speak with any precision of the number of the native See also:population, but the white population in 1906 was 149.
The revenue of German New Guinea is derived from taxes, dues and licences, and amounted on the 31st of See also:March 1892 to about £3000; on the same See also:rate, 1901, to £3750. The See also:annual revenue is averaged at £5000, and the See also:expenditure at £4200. The New Guinea See also:Company was to receive £20,000 for transferring proprietorship to government, which took over the administration in 1899. In 1903 imports into Kaiser Wilhelms Land were valued at £33,316,and exports at £7702, and the estimated expenditure for 1907–190g of £76,00o included an imperial subvention of £57,696. The See also:chief harbours are See also:Friedrich Wilhelmshafen and Konstantinhafen.
See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
Order is maintained by an armed constabulary force, under a See also:European officer, of about 180, almost all natives from different districts, whose members are found to be very efficient and trustworthy. The expenditure is about £38,000 annually, and the revenue, mainly derived from customs duties, is rapidly increasing.
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