INDEX. 



Specially compiled at the Author's request by Mr. E. A. PETHERICK, 



London. 



ABBREVIATIONS: M.L.A., Member of Legislative Assembly ; M.L.C., Member 

 of Legislative Council; N.S.W., Neio South Wales; P.P., Port Phillip; 

 V.D.L., Van Diemen's Land. 



A'BBCKETT, T. T., M.L.C., legal adviser, diocese of Melbourne, Commissioner of 

 Customs, 1870, assists Bill for Abolition of State Aid to Beligion, ii., 155. 



A'Beckett, Sir Wm., Judge, arrives Melbourne, 1846, Chief Justice, 1851, i., 

 262 ; his literary work, 262 ; administers oath to Gov. Latrobe, 302 ; tries 

 Ballaarat rebels, ii., 50 ; resigns, 75. 



Aborigines of Port Phillip, their treatment, i., 214 et seq. ; friendly to Grimes' 

 party, 1803, 26, and to Hume and Hovell, 1824, 59 ; hostile to Tuckey's 

 party, 1803, 37, who fired upon them, 38 ; numbers seen, 41 ; alternately 

 hostile and friendly to Sturt on the Murray, 1830, 71-74 ; Batman's treaty 

 with P.P. Blacks, 102, 108, 109 ; apprehensions of their hostility by Yarra 

 settlers, 126 ; at Indented Heads, 143 ; natives of Western Port tribe act 

 as guides and shepherds, 145 ; Melbourne district natives treated 

 humanely, 149, 151, 218 ; settlers elsewhere too free with the gun, 163 ; 

 Gov. Bourke meets straggling parties, 167 ; Lord Glenelg's instructions, 

 178, and on Batman's treaties, 182 ; Mercer's appeal on their behalf, 184, 

 185; estimates as to their numbers and census of 1851, 1881, 1891, 217, 

 218 ; intertribal relations, 218 ; infanticide, 219 ; vitality, diseases, 219 ; 

 small-pox, measles, etc., 220; deterioration, 220; murders and outrages, 

 1836-44, 221 ; " firewater," 221 ; mission stations, 222 ; Protectors ap- 

 pointed, 224 ; their districts, 226 ; difficulties with squatters, 227 ; results 

 of system, 228-230 ; Mt. Bouse Station, 230, 231 ; remonstrances with 

 Protectors, Gipps reports system broken down, 231 ; Lord Stanley's 

 advice, 232 ; decreasing numbers, 232 ; office of Protectors abolished, 

 1849, 233; failure of missions, 233, 235; Aboriginal Board established, 

 233, and Aboriginal reserves, 234 ; loss of life in murders, etc., greatly 

 exaggerated, 235 ; some raids and outrages, 235 et seq., 319; 50 whites, 

 350 blacks killed in ten years, 239. 



Aborigines of Van Diemen's Land, the " Black War," i., 99, 216, 218. 



Acclimatisation Society, ii., 97. 



Age, The, on Ballaarat riots, ii., 44 ; champions the people against the Govern- 

 ment, 47 ; and Governor (Hotham), 54 ; unfavourable to Duffy's Land 

 Act, 1862, 88 ; on Berry Embassy, 208. 



Agriculture : Seeds and plants for the colony taken on board at Bio Janeiro, 

 i., 11, 12; in 1851, 305; decline in produce, 1852-54, 380, 381; agri- 

 cultural districts adjacent to mining townships, ii., 100; land under 

 cultivation, 1865, 116 ; districts favoured by this and Land Act, 1869, 153 ; 

 exports of wheat and flour, 1884, 248 ; subsidies to agricultural and wine 

 industries, 260 ; abundant harvests of 1892-93, 320 ; 1895-96, 1896-97 sadly 



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