INDEX 363 



Crime, increase of, during gold fever, i., 364 et seq., chiefly by manumitted 

 convicts from V.D.L., 345; robbery with violence within sight of the 

 city, 345 ; boarding of the barque Nelson and carrying oft of 8,000 oz. of 

 gold, 345, 346; case of Capt. Melville, ii., 102; murder of Inspector 

 Price, 103 ; Col. Champ appointed his successor, 104 ; Hayter's and other 

 statistics, 170 ; lessening of crime consequent upon education of the 

 masses, 170 ; Kelly gang of bushrangers, 223 et seq. See Penal, Police, 

 Transportation. 



Croke, James, Crown Prosecutor, i., 259 ; purchaser of land from Lonsdale, 

 260 ; Solicitor- General, ii., 59. 



Curr, Edward, candidate for Melbourne in N.S.W. Legislative Council, 1843, 

 i., 280 ; father of Separation Movement, 295, and President of the League, 

 286 ; prepares memorial to Earl Grey on his Lordship's election for Mel- 

 bourne, 1848, 294; himself returned for Port Phillip district, 295; 

 resigned, 1849, 296. 



Curr, E. M., The Australian Race, i., 214, 217, 221. 



Cuthbert, Sir Henry, M.L.C., Bill for reform of Legislative Council, ii., 204 ; 

 joins Service Cabinet, 211 ; Minister of Justice in Gillies-Service Ministry, 

 253 ; Solicitor-General in Turner Ministry, 321. 



DALLEY, W. B., N.S.W. delegate Federal Convention, 1883, ii., 333; sends 

 military contingent to Soudan, 341. 



D'Arcy, F. B., surveyor, Melbourne, i., 156; purchases town lots, 213, 394. 



Darke, J. C., Protector of aborigines, i., 150, 156. 



Darling, Sir Charles, his training and character, ii., 112 ; weakness, suppres- 

 sion and garbling of despatches, 112 ; opposition to Legislative Council, 

 113 ; installation and proroguing of Parliament, 113 ; attitude on the 

 Tariff and Appropriation Bill, 127 ; rebuked by Colonial Office, 132 ; 

 sympathy and mass meetings on his behalf, 133 ; his resentment at 

 treatment of British Cabinet, 134 ; his recall due to his attack upon 

 members of Executive Council, 134 ; address from Committee of Assembly 

 thanking him for having saved the colony from anarchy, 135 ; 20,000 

 voted for Lady Darling, 135, 140 ; opposition to vote in Assembly, 141 ; 

 not sanctioned by Legislative Council, 142 ; Earl of Carnarvon, 140, and 

 Duke of Buckingham, on, 144, 145 ; intimation received that neither 

 Sir Charles nor Lady Darling could accept the bounty, 146 ; his pension 

 from Imperial Government continued by the colony to Lady Darling, 

 147. 



Darling, Sir Ralph, and the Western Port Settlement, 1826-27, i., 62-67, 101. 



Davies, J. M., M.L.C., Minister of Justice in Munro Ministry, ii., 289. 



Davies, M. H., financier, M.L.A., elected Speaker and knighted, ii., 270. 



Dawson, James, his work on Australian aborigines quoted, i., 215. 



Deakin, Alfred, M.L.A., Minister of Works, ii., 241 ; Solicitor- General, 241 ; 

 joins Gillies Ministry, 253 ; Chairman of Commission on Droughts visits 

 America, passes Irrigation Act, Water Supply Loan Acts, 254, 255 ; attends 

 Colonial Conference in London, 1887, 268 ; anti-Chinese Conference in 

 Sydney, 1888, 270, 272 ; goes to London to assist in passing Commonwealth 

 Act, 1900, 338. 



Debt, Public, how the foundations were laid, i., 381 ; Gabrielli loans, 381, 382 ; 

 railway loans, ii., 93-95, 188, 238, 248, 275, 296, 349 ; loan for school 

 buildings, 188 ; loans, 1884-86, 248, 249 ; public and private borrowings, 

 1885-91, 295 ; aggregate interest, 296 ; loans floated in 1892, 295 ; loan 

 raised on Treasury Bills, 1893, 319 ; municipal borrowings and rateable 

 value of property, 296 ; accrued deficiency in Public Funds, 1892, 310 ; 

 Public Debt in 1865, and in 1895, 116 ; deficiencies, accumulated, 1900, 

 9,000,000, 350 ; ample material for recuperation of Public, Municipal, 

 Private Debt, 353. 



Defences, Colonial, Verdon's Mission to London, ii., 136 ; Cerberus and Nelson 

 obtained, 136; Discipline Act, 1883, 246; defences organised, 257 ; dis- 

 cussed at Colonial Conference, London, 1887, 268 ; Major-Gen. Edwards's 



