Chapter 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].

F

Factories and Shops Acts, Victoria:
Cabinet-making, Chinese competition, 136
Definition of factory, amendments, 133, 139
Protection of workers in factories, 137, 140
Royal Commission of Inquiry into working of the Act of 1890, 134
Shops, hours of closing, 140
Tailoresses' Union, formation of, 135
Wage Boards, appointment of, 138

Factories and workshops in Queensland, Royal Commission of Inquiry into, 77

Fair Rent Bill, New Zealand, 103

Family Home Protection, New Zealand, Act of 1895, 101

Federal Council:
Abstention of New South Wales and New Zealand, from, 216
Act of 1885 establishing, 215
Permissive character of, 216
Status of, effect of Federation agitation on, 229
Utility of, causes tending to minimise, 217

Federation of Australasian Provinces:
Artificial boundaries between the provinces, 299
Australasian Federation Enabling Act [see that title]
Benefits of, 235
Climatic differences engendering divergence of opinions, 299
Committee appointed by House of Assembly, Victoria, to consider, 214
Constitution Bill [see that title]
Federal Council [see that title]
Hobart, Premiers' conference at, 227
Interdependence of Provinces, hastening establishment of, 230
Inter-provincial conference on, 214
New South Wales, Governor of, receiving commission as
Governor-General of Australia, 213
Plebiscite, new Federal constitution proposed, referring to, 228
Prospects of, 236
Sydney conventions, 215
Town and country inhabitants, difference in development of, 299

Female Suffrage:
New Zealand:
C.D. Act, Repeal of, advocated by female voters, 196
Domestic servants' weekly half-holiday Bill, 203
Elections, Radical returns, 193
Electoral Bill of 1892 conferring franchise on all adult women, 192
Equal wages for similar work of men and women demanded by female
voters, 209
Juvenile Depravity Suppression Bill, 203
Liquor legislation and prominence of temperance movement, due to, 194
Modifications of female voters' views, 207
National Council of Women, resolutions passed by, 204, 205
Sentiment, tendency of subordinating reason to, danger of Female
Suffrage, 210
Totalisator, suppressing, result of, 196
Women's franchise leagues inducing female voters to support
candidates on moral considerations, 205
Queensland, result of adopting in, 185
South Australia:
Election to Parliament, women eligible for, 187
First elections under new franchise, 188; results of, 189
Licensed Victuallers' Act, prohibition of employment of
barmaids, proposed under influence of, 191
Plebiscite [see that title]
Voting privileges accorded to female electors in, 192
Tasmania:
Plebiscite, proposed application of for, 177
Result of adopting in, 184
Victoria:
Plural voting, abolition of, included in Bill, 186
Result of adopting in, 184

Finance [see title Revenue and Expenditure]

Financial crisis in Australia, causes of, 246

Financial extravagance in New South Wales, means of diminishing, 34

Financial statement, Queensland, 1896, extract with regard to export of home produce, 79

Foreign competition in Australasia:
Great Britain, hostility towards in consequence of, 296
Labouring classes' opposition to, 294

Foreign politics, Australasians' imperialistic views of, 298

Forrest, Right Hon. Sir John, 157, 166, 253

Free trade policy of New South Wales, 212

Fremantle, Government harbour works to induce mail steamers to call at, 303

Friendly societies and savings banks, individual efforts of labouring classes demonstrated by, 259

Frozen meat industry:
Queensland:
Distributing agencies, 80
Financial statement of 1896, 79
South Australia, receiving depot at Port Adelaide, 21
Victoria, State advances for, 148

Fysh, Hon. Sir P. O., 178

G

Gold-mining:
Discovery of gold, effect of, on Australasian Democracy, 244
New South Wales, right of mining on private land obtained by
Labour Party, 49
New Zealand goldfields, roads and water-races on, Government
constructing, 105
Victoria, state encouragement 147
Western Australia:
Coolgardie goldfields [see that title]
Crown lands, miner's rights on acquiring, 165
Inducements offered to immigrants, 165

Goldstein, Colonel, Honorary Secretary of Leongatha Labour Colony, Victoria, 151

Government advances to Settlers Act, New Zealand, 99, 118

Government Architect Department of New South Wales--designer of Crown Lands office receiving less salary than principal messenger, 44

Government Railways Act of 1888, New South Wales, means of diminishing political pressure, 39

Graduated Death Duties, assessment of, in Australasia, 278

Great Britain:
Closer union with, Australians' indifference to, 298
Friendly relations with, suggestions for maintaining, 298
Ill-feeling towards, causes of, 296
Sympathy of the middle classes of Australia with, 297

Great Southern Railway, Western Australia, loan for purchase of, 163

H

Hobart, Premiers' conference on Federation of Australasia at, 227

Homesteads Act of 1893, Western Australia, free grants of land offered to settlers by, 166

Humanitarian Legislation in Queensland:
Factory Act of 1896, 77
Labour Party's complaint, 74
Royal Commission of inquiry, 77