INDEX

Aborigines, of a low order, [6];
customs of the native blacks, [120];
exterminated in Tasmania, [146].
Agriculture, of great importance, in Australia, [4];
in Tasmania, [148];
in New Zealand, [176].
Agricultural colleges and experimental farms, [117].
Albury, building of irrigation dam near, [66].
Alum, in the volcanic regions, [225].
American goods, great sale of in Australia, [137];
in New Zealand, [255] et seq.
American refrigerating machinery in New Zealand, [241].
American rule in the Samoas, [278].
American trade with the Fijis, [272].
Americans, many settlers in Australia, [82].
Animals, of a strange type, [5].
Ants, used as food by the aborigines, [123].
Ants, White, protection against, [29].
Anzacs, National holiday in memory of the, [167].
Apia, Samoa, made famous by the American-German controversy, [274].
Apples, great production of, in Tasmania, [147].
Arbitration in labour disputes in New Zealand, [204].
Arbitration Court, arbitrary rulings of, [107];
New Zealand Court, [204] et seq.
Arcades, a feature in the business section of Sydney, [31].
Art schools, state coöperation in establishing, [115].
Artesian wells, the blessing of, [68];
in the Coolgardie district, [100].
Asiatic exclusion, the policy of, [109].
Auckland, largest city of New Zealand, [202].
Australian Transcontinental, building of the, [91].
Automobile, use of, in the back country, [48].
Automobiles, American, Australia largest foreign purchaser of, [140];
use of, in New Zealand, [258].
Ballarat, and the gold rush, [84];
the first Australian gold field, [95].
Bananas, in Queensland, [14].
Bank deposits, of New Zealanders, [198].
Barmaids, in Melbourne, [79];
legislation against, in New Zealand, [187].
Bathing beaches, popularity of, [34].
Baths, medicinal at Rotorua, [222].
Bendigo gold field, great yield from, [96].
Birds, seven hundred varieties of, [133];
strange, of New Zealand, [248].
Bismarck Archipelago, now administered by Australia, [159];
strange tribal customs on, [160].
Bismuth, deposits of, in Queensland, [21].
Blue gum, durability of, [90].
Bonds, large Queensland issue floated in the United States, [140].
Bougainville, principal island of the Solomon group, [163].
Brisbane, the capital of Queensland, [12].
British New Guinea, government of, [8].
British trade, in New Zealand, [260].
Broken Hill Silver Mines, among the richest in the world, [4].
Broken Hill mining companies, production of iron and steel goods, [142].
Bullock drivers, characters of the sheep country, [54].
Burrinjuck Reservoir, of the Murrumbidgee irrigation project, [67].
Bushmen, customs of the, [120].
Butter, exportation of, from New Zealand, [244].
Cacao, its cultivation in Samoa, [277].
Camels, necessary in construction of Transcontinental railway, [92];
invaluable in Western Australia, [100].
Canberra, the new capital of the Commonwealth, [8], [73].
Cannibalism, among the aborigines, [124];
in New Guinea, [160];
among the Maoris, [230];
in the Fijis, [263], [264].
Canadian trade in New Zealand, [261].
Canterbury Plains, source of the famed mutton, [236], [237].
Carroll, Sir James, of Maori blood, [234].
Cassowary, a bird of the forests and jungles, [134].
Caterpillar, vegetable, [252].
Cathedral of St. John, at Brisbane, [13].
Cattle ranching in the back country, [69].
Cattle routes, laid out by the government, [70].
Centennial Park, Sydney, [34].
Chaffee brothers, start first irrigation project in Australia, [65].
Charters Towers, centre of gold and copper district, [21].
Cheese, exportation of, from New Zealand, [244].
Christchurch, centre of sheep industry, [236];
in the garden spot of New Zealand, [256].
Civil service, applied to railway employees, [87].
Coal, abundance of, [3];
mines worked by the government in New Zealand to prevent high prices, [207].
Cockney accent, in New Zealand, [215].
Coconut groves, in the Fijis, [270].
Commerce of the United States with Australia, [137].
Compulsory military service voted for in New Zealand during the war, [260].
Conciliation and Arbitration Act, in New Zealand, [204].
Constitution of the Commonwealth, similar to that of the United States, [8].
Consular service, American, best of any nation, [259].
Convicts, the first settlers, [7].
Cook Islands, annexed by New Zealand, [172].
Cooking, in the hot pools, [228].
Coolgardie, gold rush to, [98].
Coöperative associations, of New Zealand, [199].
Coöperative butter and cheese factories of New Zealand, [244].
Copper, rich deposits of Queensland, [20].
Copra, preparation and how used, [270].
Cricket, finest grounds in the world at Melbourne, [75].
Dairy products, state aid in development of industry, [117].
Dairying, growing importance of, in Australia, [4];
in New Zealand, [174], [244].
Dances of the Maoris, [232].
Darling Downs, a rich agricultural section, [15], [29].
Darling River, one of the most important of Australia, [63].
Department stores, of Sydney, [31];
of Melbourne, [80].
De Rays, Marquis, attempt to start the Free Colony of Oceania, [162].
Desert lands, extent of, [4].
Dingoes, a serious problem in the sheep country, [60].
Discovery and settlement, [6].
Distances, between Australia cities, [3];
to other parts of the world, [6].
Divers, pearl, Japanese the most efficient, [155].
Dogs, wild, kill many sheep, [60].
Domain, the, the gathering place of Sydney, [34].
Dress, observance of, on the sheep stations, [47].
Drinking, a national vice, [77].
Droughts, the horrors of, [64].
Duck-billed platypus, link between bird and beast, [131].
Dugongs, sea-cows resembling the fabled mermaid, [132].
Dunedin, a Scotch city in New Zealand, [256].
Earthquake Flat, in New Zealand’s “Yellowstone Park,” [220].
Education, excellence of the public schools, [113].
Eight-hour day, first established in Australia, [104];
monument commemorating, [104];
explained by a government official, [111].
Electric power, generated at coal mines for use ninety miles away, [143].
Employees, state and federal, proportion to number of inhabitants, [112].
Emu, the national bird of Australia, [135].
Eucalyptus, use of, as paving blocks, [27];
forests of, [28];
remarkably durable for railroad ties and paving blocks, [90].
Exports, extent of, from the United States to Australia, [137].
Farms, smaller, movement toward, [38];
for settlement, in New Zealand, [184];
of New Zealand, [213].
Farmhouses, the prevailing type, [28].
Federation of the states, [7].
Fences, rabbit, enormous extent of, [58].
Fencing, on the sheep ranches, [38], [39], [41].
Ferns, in great variety in New Zealand, [175], [214].
Fiji Islands, the country and the people, [263].
Fire walkers, ceremony of the, in the Fijis, [268].
Flax, New Zealand, a wild product of the swamps, [252].
Fodder, preservation of, for dry years, [69].
Foxes, introduced to combat rabbit plague, prove a pest, [60].
Free Colony of Oceania, vicissitudes of the, [162].
Freaks of nature, from New Zealand, [246.]
Fruit, production of, in Tasmania, [147].
Fruit growing, advantages and opportunities, [14].
Gambling, a national vice, [76], [77].
Games, New Zealanders much interested in, [210].
Gasoline, price of, in New Zealand, [203].
Germany’s former possessions now administered by Australia, [159];
by New Zealand, [159], [172].
Geysers, of New Zealand, [223].
Glaciers, of New Zealand, [174].
Godley Glacier, New Zealand, [174].
Gold, discovery of, and amount produced, [3];
the Mount Morgan mine, Queensland, [19];
the Ballarat rush, [84], [95].
Golden Mile, famous gold mine, [99].
Government of the Commonwealth, [8].
Government ownership, results of state control of railways, [87];
New Zealand a leading exponent, [171], [200].
Governor of the Fijis, duties of, [269].
Grasshoppers, used as food by the aborigines, [124].
Great Barrier Reef, a chain of coral, [10].
Great Britain, regard for in New Zealand, [260].
Griffin, Walter Burley, wins prize for plan of city of Canberra, [74].
Griffin, model city in the irrigated district, [67].
Gympie gold fields, [21].
Half-holiday, compulsory in New Zealand, [210].
Hargraves, discovers gold at Ballarat, [95].
Harvesters, immense factory of the Sunshine Harvester Co., at Melbourne, [142].
Hermitage, the, the government sanctuary of the kea parrot, [249].
Hobart, Tasmania, one of the “farthest south” towns of the globe, [144].
Hoddle, auctioneer of first lots sold in Melbourne, [83].
Horse racing, an enthusiasm of Australians, [49].
Horse racing, at Melbourne, [75];
in New Zealand, [211].
Horses, saddle, indispensable on the big farms, [49].
Hosiery, American, commands the Australian market, [139].
Hot springs, at Rotorua, New Zealand, [222].
Hours of business in Melbourne, [82].
House servants, scarcity of, in New Zealand, [191], [192].
Houses for workmen built by the government in New Zealand, [209].
Hunting, as practised by the bushmen, [125].
Hydro-electric development in Tasmania, [150];
in New Zealand, [258].
Immigration, opposition to, [110].
Implements, American, used extensively in Australia, [141].
Industrial school near Suva, Fiji, [266].
Insects, used as food by the aborigines, [123].
Insurance, issued by the government, in New Zealand, [197].
Invercargill, the southernmost town, [261].
Iron, extensively mined, [3];
deposits, in Queensland, [21].
Iron and steel, growth of the industries, [142].
Irrigation, the beginning of, in Australia, [65];
in New South Wales, [67].
“Jackeroo,” meaning of the term, [49].
Jam, exportation of, from Tasmania, [147].
Japanese divers, most efficient in pearl fisheries, [155].
Jarrah, a remarkably durable wood, [90].
Kaiser Wilhelm’s Land, now administered by Australia, [159].
Kalgoorlie, artesian wells at, [92].
Kangaroo, the, a marsupial, [5].
Kangaroos, of many kinds, [129].
Karri, a remarkably durable wood, [90].
Kauri gum, the quest for, [252].
Kava, and the chewing process, [279].
Kea parrot, the sheep killer of New Zealand, [249].
Kimberley gold fields, [98].
Kiwi, a strange bird of New Zealand, [248].
Koutu, village in volcanic region of New Zealand, [222].
Labour, white men only employed in cane fields, [14];
the powerful sheep-shearers’ union, [52];
conditions on the state-owned railways, [87];
wages and hours of work in New Zealand, [200];
hours and wages in the mutton refrigerating plants, [242];
scarcity of in the Fijis, [271].
Labour laws, protecting women workers in New Zealand, [188].
Labour unions, their part in public affairs, [9];
Australia thoroughly organized, [104].
Lake Eyre, a body of salt water below sea level, [4].
Land Act Bill, passage of, [17].
Land for Settlements Act, and the redivision of the large holdings, [182].
Land ownership system of New Zealand, [178], [182].
Land settlement in Tasmania, [149].
Laughing jackass, or kookooburra, [136].
Launceston, Tasmania, to receive electric power from Great Lake plant, [151].
Lead, deposits of, in Queensland, [21].
Leeton, model city in the irrigated district, [67].
Levuka, one of the two principal towns of Fiji, [268], [269].
Libraries, state coöperation in establishing, [115].
Life insurance, issued by the government in New Zealand, [197].
Liquor-option law, workings of, [78].
“Living wage,” as laid down by New South Wales Court of Industrial Arbitration, [106].
Lizard, three-eyed, of New Zealand, [250].
Lollipops, origin of name, [36].
London Missionary Society, good work in Samoa, [280].
Lyre bird, native of Australia, [134].
Macarthur, Captain John, said to be the introducer of the prickly pear pest, [22];
pioneer in the sheep industry, [45].
Manua, one of the American Samoas, [273], [278].
Maoris, of advanced civilization, [171].
Maoris, number of, in New Zealand, [177].
Maoris, the story of the, [227].
Marriage customs of the Maoris, [231].
Marsupials, preponderant in Australia, [5];
many varieties, [129].
Marsupial mouse, of New Zealand, [250].
McCaughey, Samuel, his fortune in land and sheep, [38].
Meat-export trade of New Zealand controlled by a government board, [244].
Melbourne, a magnificent commerce centre, [72];
laying out of the site and auctioning of first lots, [83].
Melbourne Cup Race, chief sporting event of the South Pacific, [76].
Merino sheep, extra fine fleece of the, [44];
weight of fleece greatly improved by breeding, [51].
Milford Track, the most beautiful walk in the world, [174], [175].
Minerals, abundant in Australia, [3].
Mining school at Ballarat, [97].
Minting gold coins at Melbourne, [101].
Missionaries, success in the Fiji Islands, [266].
Moa, the extinct giant bird of New Zealand, [246].
Moore Park, Sydney, [34].
Mount Bischoff tin mines in Tasmania, largest in the world, [148].
Mount Cook, New Zealand, the “cloud piercer,” [174].
Mount Egmont, New Zealand, [173].
Mount Leviathan, composed of pure iron, [21].
Mount Lyell, Tasmania, gold, copper and tin production of, [148].
Mount Morgan, richest gold mine of the world, [19].
Municipal ownership, Wellington, New Zealand, a leading example, [168].
Murchison Glacier, New Zealand, [174].
Murray-Darling, the only important river system in Australia, [4], [63].
Murrumbidgee irrigation project, in New South Wales, [67].
Murrumbidgee River, one of the most important of Australia, [63].
Mutton, amount exported, [40];
exportation from New Zealand, [236];
export trade of New Zealand controlled by a government board, [244].
Nails, not used in Samoan dwellings, [275].
National Park, near Sydney, [34].
National Provident Fund, a New Zealand institution, [199].
New Britain, of the Bismarck Archipelago, [161].
New Guinea, former German territory now administered by Australia, [159], [160].
New Ireland, of the Bismarck Archipelago, [161].
New Plymouth, New Zealand, in the dairy district, [174].
New South Wales, size, and wealth of its people, [24].
New Zealand, location, and physical geography, [170] et seq.;
form of government, [171];
climate, [173];
population, and proportion of aborigines, [177];
early colonization movements, [179].
New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company, a coöperative association, [199].
Newspapers and their circulation, [118].
Ngauruhoe, volcano in New Zealand, [173].
Nuggets, remarkable, found in the Ballarat gold field, [96].
Nukualofa, capital and only town of the Tonga Islands, [272].
Nullarbor Plain, difficulties in building railway over, [91].
Oats, high yield in New Zealand, [176].
Old-age pensions, in New Zealand, [194].
Opals, in Queensland, [21];
quantities offered for sale, [81].
Organs, pipe, rivalry between Melbourne and Sydney, [32], [74].
Owls, the solution of the pest of birds in fruit region, [257].
Papua, government of, [8];
administered by Australia, [159], [160].
Parliament of the Commonwealth, organization of, [8].
Pasteur, fails in production of virus to combat rabbit plague, [59].
Phillip, Captain, brings first sheep to Australia, [45].
Pearl fisheries, at Thursday Island, [152].
Pearl shell, the commerce in, [154].
Pelicans, common in Queensland, [132].
“Pelorus Jack,” the pet whale, [251].
Pensions, old age, in New Zealand, [194].
Pineapples, produced extensively in Queensland, [14].
Pipe line water supply in Coolgardie district, [100].
Pipe organs, rivalry in, of Melbourne and Sydney, [32], [74].
Platypus, strangest of the animal kingdom, [5];
link between bird and beast, [131].
Plug tobacco used as money in New Guinea, [138].
Poisoning, of rabbits, [57];
of dingoes and foxes, [60].
Port Arthur, old convict colony of Van Diemen’s Land, [145].
Postal savings banks, in New Zealand, [198].
Poverty, almost unknown in New Zealand, [194], [198].
Prickly Pear, its fateful introduction in Queensland, [22].
Prickly-Pear Commission, in search of means to destroy the pest, [22].
Prohibition, in New Zealand, [187].
Prosperity, in New Zealand, [255].
Public debt, huge, of New Zealand, [202].
Public schools, excellence of, [113].
Public Trust, a government institution of New Zealand, [199].
Purchasing power of the Australian people, [138].
“Queen Emma” of New Guinea, [162].
Queensland, size and location, [13];
population, [16];
travels in, [10].
Rabaul, principal European colony in Bismarck Archipelago, [161].
Rabbits, the plague, and efforts to combat it, [56];
exportation of frozen carcasses, [59];
a serious pest also in New Zealand, [240];
freezing in New Zealand for export, [257].
Rabbit skins, exportation of, Australian, [59];
New Zealand, [240].
Railway fares, in New Zealand, [218].
Railway ties, durable woods used, [90].
Railway travel, [28].
Railways, owned by the different states, each of different gauge of track, [85];
total amount of trackage, [86].
Railways of New Zealand, travelling over the, [213];
government owned, [214].
Rainfall, scarcity of, in Australia, [62].
Ratu Epele Nailatikau, high chief of the Fijis, [265].
Refrigeration and shipment of New Zealand mutton, [237], [240].
Religious belief of the bushmen, [126].
Reptiles, used as food by the aborigines, [123].
Rimutaka Mountain, New Zealand, steepest railway grade in the world, [216].
Rockhampton, city of gold and copper, [19], [20].
Rotorua, most famous health resort of the South Seas, [222].
Ruapehu volcano, in New Zealand, [173].
Salote, Queen of the Tongas, [272].
Samoa, German, now administered by New Zealand, [159], [172].
Samoas, the islands and the people, [273] et seq.
Sapphires, from Queensland, [22].
Satin-bower bird, and its habits, [134].
Sausage casings, amount exported, [40].
Savaii, volcanic island of the Samoan group, [273], [274].
Schools, travelling, in New South Wales, [114].
Seddon, Richard, New Zealand’s greatest premier, [181].
Sharks, danger from in diving for pearl shell, [156].
Sheep, Australia the largest producer, [40];
fine breeding stock produced in Tasmania, [148].
Sheep, blooded, great demand for, [41].
Sheep industry, importance of, [4], [37].
Sheep raising, New Zealand’s chief industry, [184], [236] et seq.
Sheep ranches, immensity of the, [38], [41].
Sheep shearing, how conducted, [52];
in New Zealand, [239].
Sheep shearers, the aristocrats of the sheep business, [51].
Sheep show, annual, at Sydney, [40].
Sheep stations, social life on the, [47].
Sheepskins, annual exportation, [40].
Shoes, American, in New Zealand, [259].
Signs, curious to an American, [81].
Silver, great deposits of, [4];
great output of the Broken Hill field, [142].
Slang, Australian, [81].
Slaughtering, and refrigerating of mutton for export, [241].
Sleeping cars, in New Zealand, [217].
Social legislation, New Zealand first in many laws, [194].
Solomon Islands, the natives and the products, [163].
South Pacific Ocean, wild and stormy, [165].
Sports, New Zealanders’ devotion to, [210].
Squatters, meaning of the term, [39].
Squid, danger from in pearl fishing, [157].
State-owned railways, the, [85].
States, comprising the Commonwealth, [7].
Steel, manufacture of, a growing industry, [142].
Stevenson, Robert Louis, his villa at Apia, Samoa, [274], [280], [281];
not a successful planter, [277].
Stores and business of Melbourne, [80].
Street cars, municipally owned in Auckland, [203].
Strikes, rare in New Zealand, [204].
Sugar cane, extensively grown with white labour, [14].
Sugar plantations in the Fijis, [270].
“Sun-downer,” the tramp of the sheep country, [54].
Suva, capital of the Fijis, [268], [269].
Swans, black, of New Zealand, [250].
Sydney, metropolis of the Antipodes, [24];
its shipping and fine harbour, [25];
walks about the city, [31].
Sydney Bulletin, widely read newspaper, [33], [47].
Tarawera, Mount, eruption of, [220].
Tariff, protective, to foster home industries, [141], [143].
Tariff, preferential, with Great Britain, [143].
Taronga Park, cageless zoölogical gardens, [34].
Tasman Glacier, New Zealand, [174].
Tasmania, the Switzerland of the southern Pacific, [144].
Tattooing, among the Maoris, [229].
Taupo, largest lake in New Zealand, [175].
Taxation system of New Zealand, [179].
Te Anau, second largest lake in New Zealand, [175].
Tea, great amount used by Australians, [112].
Technical schools, in many cities, [116].
Thakombau, last king of the Fijis, [264].
“Three Eights” monument at Melbourne, [105].
Thursday Island, the centre of the pearl-fishing industry, [152].
Tikitere, the “hell” of New Zealand’s volcanic region, [225].
Tin, extensively mined, [3];
deposits of, in Queensland, [21];
Mount Bischoff mines in Tasmania the largest producers in the world, [148].
Tonga Islands, the country and the people, [263], [272].
Toorak, residential suburb of Melbourne, [73].
Toowoomba, principal city of the Darling Downs district, [15].
Topography of Australia, [4].
Torrens Title, system of land transfer, [16].
Trackers, remarkable keenness of the bushmen as, [125].
Trade schools, in every large city, [116].
Travelling schools, in New South Wales, [114].
Turnips, production of, in Tasmania, [148];
as feed for sheep, in New Zealand, [213], [238].
Tutuila, one of the American Samoas, [273].
Tyson, James, wealthy stockman, [37].
Unions, encouraged in New Zealand, [204].
Unionism, Australia thoroughly organized, [104].
“Universal providers” the Melbourne department stores, [80].
Universities and higher education, [116].
Upolu, an island of the Samoas, [273], [274], [275].
Victoria, irrigation projects in, [67].
Volcanoes, of New Zealand, [173], [220].
Voting, compulsory, in New Zealand, [186].
Voyage to Australia, the, [1].
Wages, on the sheep ranches, [39].
Waikato River, largest in New Zealand, [213].
Waimangu Geyser, New Zealand, [224].
Wallaby, a species of Kangaroo, [131].
Water, scarcity of, in Australia, [63].
Water supply in the dry lands, [66].
Wealth, in Sydney, [24];
of the Australian people, [138].
Wellington, New Zealand, the capital city, [167].
Wells, artesian, furnish water in the desert, [92].
Whale, “Pelorus Jack,” the pet of New Zealand, [251].
Wheat, immense production and export of, [4];
transportation and care awaiting exportation, [90];
production of, in Tasmania, [148];
high yield in New Zealand, [176].
White Island, New Zealand, a bed of hot sulphur, [173].
White men, a country for, [104].
Williams, U. S. Consul to Fiji, his part in the transfer of the islands to the British, [264].
Wimmera-Mallee irrigation system, the, [66].
Wool, immense production, and of fine quality, [4];
annual production, [40];
how handled and sold at Sydney, the chief wool market, [42];
prices attained, [43];
the science of grading, [44];
handling of the crop, [53];
weight of fleece of the different breeds of sheep, [240];
handling the clip of New Zealand, [243].
Woollen mills, of New Zealand, [243].
Woman suffrage, adds strength to labour element, [9];
in New Zealand, [186].
Women, in politics and labour, in New Zealand, [186].
Women divers in the pearl fisheries, [157].
Workmen’s houses, built by the government, in New Zealand, [209].
Yates, Mrs., the first woman mayor, [186].
“Yellowstone Park” of New Zealand, [220].
Zinc, works of the Electrolytic Zinc Corporation in Tasmania the largest of the kind in the world, [150].

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