366 INDEX 



Federation of Australian Colonies, foreshadowed, 1849, clause relating thereto 

 withdrawn from Australian Government Bill, 1850, by Earl Grey, i., 

 298 ; a growing topic, ii., 242, 332 ; Federal Council established, 249 ; Draft 

 Commonwealth Bill discussed, 289 ; absorbing topic, 1897, 324. 



Fellows, T. H., M.L.A., ii., 63, 65; submits Bill for admission of Barristers to 

 Supreme Court, 67; defeats O'Shanassy Ministry, 76; joins McCulloch 

 Ministries, 76, 91 ; M.L.C., moves that the Appropriation cum Tariff Bill 

 be " laid aside," 123 ; negotiations to form Ministry, 131, 132, 142 ; resigns 

 from Council, elected to Assembly, Minister of Justice in Sladen Cabinet, 

 145 ; on Duffy's disloyalty, 159. 



Finances (Public), revenue and expenditure up to 1839, i., 247 ; appropriation 

 of Port Phillip revenue by Sydney, 254, 291 ; Lang's speech on, 287 ; under 

 the first Legislative Council, 341 ; from diggers' licence fee, 343 ; Home 

 Government concedes entire gold revenue for maintenance of law and 

 order, 358 ; waste and extravagance during the " gold " period, 364 ; revenue 

 from Crown Lands secured under New Constitution, 1855, 363 ; for 1851-54, 

 382 ; expenditure, 1852-54, 382 ; deficiency confronting Hothain on his 

 arrival, 382 ; Finance Committee appointed, 383 ; large portion uncon- 

 trolled, 383 ; if extravagant, far from being wasteful, 384 ; surplus in 1856, 

 ii., 71 ; contribution of squatters, 84 ; financial position as affected by 

 railway policy, 93 ; surplus in 1865, 116 ; increasing expenditure, 156 ; 

 revenue in 1875, 176 ; deficit under Berry administration, 217 ; finances 

 under O'Loghlen, 247 ; under Service, credit of the colony enhanced, 248 ; 

 mining production declining, 1885-95, 257 ; surpluses, 1885-86, 1886-87, 

 1887-88, 1888-89, 258 ; estimate for 1889-90, 258 ; increasing expenditure, 

 259, 260 ; enormous increase, 1890, 276 ; financial irregularity at the 

 Treasury, 276 ; revenue and expenditure, 1885-91, 297 ; 1892, 315 ; 1893, 

 319 ; Customs diminishing, 1892, 315 ; increasing, 1897, 322 ; accumulated 

 deficit, 1892, 315; 1893, 319, 320; 1897, 322; revenue in 1897 exceeds 

 expenditure, 322. See Debt, Income Tax, Lands and Land Tax, Pro- 

 perty Tax, Tariff, Trust Funds. 



Financial troubles and disasters, 1842-43, i., 252 et seq., 279 ; recovery in 1845, 

 255, 268 ; injudicious legislation in " Bad Times," 255 ; cases dealt with 

 by Judge Willis, 259 ; Melbourne Corporation Bate and Improvements 

 suspended, 268; financial panic, palliation attempted by N.S.W. Legisla- 

 tive Council, 1843-44, 282 ; distresses surmounted, 321 ; financial collapse 

 and insolvencies, 1854-55, 364, 376, 379 ; losses to consigners of goods, 378 ; 

 commercial distress, ruined homes, 379 ; speculation in 1887-88, for- 

 tunes in mining, on the Stock Exchange, in land and real estate, ii., 261 ; 

 new companies floated, 262 ; financial spectre of 1891, 291 et seq. ; 

 " Broken Hill," a synonym for illimitable wealth, 294 ; speculative 

 " banks " in 1888, 301 ; all but two suspended, 302, 308, 309 ; building 

 societies responsible for disasters of the " eighties," 298 ; their number 

 and deposits, 299 ; suspensions in 1891-93, 300, 308 ; land and investment 

 companies, 1888, 301 ; all passed into liquidation, 302, 307-309 ; syndicates 

 and private partnerships for land dealings, 302 ; few mercantile failures, 

 302 ; limited liability companies, 302 ; breweries, 302 ; revisal of Com- 

 panies Act, 1896, 322 ; Australian investment companies in London, 303, 

 304 ; insolvencies in Melbourne and private compositions, 1892, 309 ; 

 restoration of financial position, 1897, 324. See Banks and Banking. 



Finn, Edmund, his Chronicles of Early Melbourne quoted, i., 283. 



First Fleet leaves England, May, 1787, starting-point of Australian history, 

 i., 1 ; composition of the Fleet, 2, 3 ; leaves English Channel, 6 ; arrives 

 at Teneriffe, 7 ; Cape Verde Islands, 8 ; Rio Janeiro, 10 ; Table Bay, Cape 

 of Good Hope, 10, 11, 12 ; Botany Bay, 14 ; Port Jackson, 15. 



Fitzroy, Sir Charles A., Governor of N.S.W., i., 272; correspondence on 

 transportation, 273 ; visits Melbourne, 1849, 274 ; resents election of Earl 

 Grey for Melbourne, 1848, 294 ; issues new writ for P.P. district, 295. 



Fitzroy (originally Newtown) land sale, held in Sydney, i., 213 ; resold in 

 small allotments, 243. 



