A

Aborigines:
Constitution Bill for establishing Federation, special
provisions for, [220] Maoris of New Zealand [see that title]
Protection of, [158], [305] Right of possession not recognised in Tasmania and Australia, [85]
Absentee Tax, assessment of in:
New Zealand, [91] South Australia, [19]
Adelaide, Agricultural Bureau and Agricultural College in, [20], [21]
Adult Suffrage:
Lower Houses of South Australia and New Zealand elected on
basis of, [2], [192] Liquor legislation in New Zealand, Local Option and Licensing
Committee polls placed on basis of, [198]
Advances to Settlers Act, New Zealand, [99], [118]
Agricultural Bureau and Agricultural College, Adelaide, [20], [21]
Arbitration and conciliation in industrial disputes:
New South Wales, [281] New Zealand Act, [283] Awards under, [286] Queensland, [76], [282] South Australian Act, [24], [283]
Assisted Schools Abolition Act, [159]
Australasian Federation Enabling Act:
Queensland Bill, rejection of, [235] Victorian Act, provisions of, [230] Western Australian Act, provisions of, [233]
Australasians, character of, [302]

B

Batchelor, Mr. E. L., [5] Plebiscite, Bill for establishing introduced by, [29]
Benevolent asylums for aged and incapable persons, [255]
Betting and gaming, suppression of:
New Zealand, female voters in favour of, [196] Tasmania, Parliamentary measures for, [170]
Board of Land Purchase Commissioners, New Zealand, [97]
Braddon, Right Hon. Sir E., [177]
British capital in Australia:
Co-operative enterprise due to, [248] Dependence on, causing ill-feeling towards Great Britain, [296] Financial activity arising from, [246]
British fleet's protection, Australians' appreciation of, [297]
Broken Hill, strike of 1891, 1892, [281]
Building societies, Australian labouring classes availing themselves
of, [260]
Byrnes, Hon. T. J., [75]

C

C.D. Act, Repeal of, advocated by female voters in New Zealand, [196]
"Caucus" meetings of New South Wales Labour Party, [51]
Central and Northern Queensland's separation from the South [see title
Queensland]
Character of Australasians, [302]
Charitable Aid expenditure for 1896, New Zealand, [116]
Chataway, Mr. J. V., [66]
Cheviot Estate purchased by New Zealand Government, [93]
Chinese:
Anti-Chinese legislation supported by Australasians, [293] Cabinet-making in Victoria, Chinese competition, [136] Immigration Act of 1887 limiting number of Chinese
immigrants to Tasmania, [170]
Christchurch, New Zealand, boot manufacturers' dispute, Arbitration
Courts decision, [286]
Churches, Western Australia, grants to, abolition of, [159]
Civil Service, New South Wales:
Public Service Board for investigation of all departments, [44] Royal Commission inquiry, [43]
"Civis Brittanicus Sum," necessity of realising Australian unity before
appreciating, [299]
Cockburn, Hon. Dr., Minister of Education and Agriculture in South
Australia, [3], [22], [26], [28]
"Colonial," objection to term, [297]
Colonial Office, Australians' resenting interference of, [298]
Conciliation and arbitration in industrial disputes [see title
Arbitration and Conciliation]
Conflicts between Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council:
Causes of contention:
New South Wales:
Rejection of Taxation Bill, [36] Tasmania:
Female Suffrage Bill, [177] Public Works Expenditure, [178] Victoria:
Additional Taxation, [124] Electoral Bill, [125], [126] Protective Tariff, [123] Right of selection upon pastoral properties, [123] Proposals for remedying, [273-276] New South Wales, [130] New Zealand--Proposed joint session of the two Houses, [131] South Australia--Dissolution of both Houses, success of, [178] Tasmania--Plebiscite, [180] Victoria:
Dissolution of both Houses, [131] Royal Commission's recommendations, [129] Town and country antagonism, reflex of antagonism
between the two Houses, [131] Ultimate appeal, absence of, [129]
Consolidated Goldfields Company dispute, New Zealand, [286]
Constitution Bill for establishing "the Commonwealth of Australia,"
1891, [218] Governor-General's Executive authority, [219], [224] Failure of Bill, [227] Money Bills, authority of Senate with regard to, [222] Parliament of Commonwealth:
Aboriginals, special provisions for, [220] Postal and telegraph services, &c., to be exclusively managed by, [221] Revenue and expenditure, regulations for, [221] Salary of members, [220] Senate, composition of, [219] States:
Provinces to be so called, [219] Powers of, under Commonwealth, [226] Supreme Court of Appeal, [225] Tariff, uniform, to be imposed, [222] Territories surrendered by states, administration of, [221]
Constitution Bill for establishing "the Commonwealth of Australia,"
1897, draft of, reprint from Melbourne Argus, [237]
Consumptive persons, Bills forbidding immigration of, [295]
Continuity of representation in Australian Houses of Assembly, means of
obtaining, [276]
Coolgardie Goldfields:
Camp settlements, [310] Coolgardie town, [308] Drunkenness and rowdiness, absence of, [314] Earnings of the miners, [311] Kalgoorlie, [309] Mines, description of, [311] Perth to Coolgardie, discomfort of journey from, [307] Population of Western Australia increasing since discovery of, [305] Salvation Army services, [312] Waterworks for supplying water from a distance, [164]
Coolies [see title Kanakas]
Co-operative construction of Public Works, New Zealand, [105]
Crown Lands:
New South Wales, Act of 1884, means of diminishing political
pressure in, [37] New Zealand:
Local land boards for disposal of, [117] Sale of, [93] Western Australia--mining rights on acquiring, [165]

D

Darling Downs, Queensland, pastoral industries, success of, [70], [71]
Darling, Ex-Governor, proposed grant to, cause of conflict between
Legislative Council and Assembly in Victoria, [123]
Death Duties, graduated, assessment of in Australia, [278]
Democratic Government established in New South Wales, [48]
Democratic tendency:
Gold, discovery of in Australia, result of, [244] South Australian democratic tendency due to Constitution, [2]
Denominational Schools, Western Australia, termination of grants, [159]
Dibbs, Sir George, [36], [50]
Dilke, Sir Charles, [300]
Domestic servants' weekly half-holiday, Bill for establishing in New
Zealand, [203]
Drunkenness and rowdiness, absence of among Coolgardie miners, [314]
Duffy, Sir Charles Gavan, [214]

E

Eastern Railway, Western Australia, course of, [162]
Ecclesiastical Grants, Western Australia, Abolition Act of 1895, [159]
Education:
South Australia:
Primary and Religious Education in, alterations proposed,
plebiscite taken on, [29], [274] Religious instruction in schools, [29] Secular character of, effect on working classes, [32] State system of in Australasia, [256] Western Australia--Assisted Schools Abolition Act, [159]
Elective Executive:
New Zealand Bill, [277] South Australia, substitution of, advocated, [26]
Electoral Legislation:
Queensland--Contingent vote, [176] Tasmania--Modification of Hare's System of Voting, [173] Victoria--Electoral Bill, cause of conflict between
Legislative Council and Assembly, [122]
Electoral Reform Policy:
New South Wales Labour Party, [48], [49] Queensland Labour Party, [74]
Expenditure [see title Revenue and Expenditure]
Export [see title Produce and Export Department].