368 INDEX 



Gipps, Sir George, and the Henty claims, i., 85, 86; the Batman claims, 199 ; 

 his alarm at the rapid alienation of territory, 203 ; opposition to Land 

 Act, 1846, 206; and the aborigines, 225, 228, 230; Supreme Court, etc., 

 appropriations, 259 ; removes Judge Willis, 261 ; proclaims Constitution 

 Act, 5th Jari., 1843, 263 ; his casting vote given for Separation of Port 

 Phillip, 291 ; forwards report to Earl Grey, 291 ; Lang on his land 

 policy as regards Geelong, 312, 313 ; his report on results of land sales, 

 Portland, 314. 



Gippsland, landings on its shores, i., 316; explorations by McMillan, 1839, 

 and Strzelecki, 1840, 317-321; by M'Killop in 1835, 396; Special Sur- 

 veys, 203 ; aborigines of, 217, 219, 319 ; railway, ii., 177. 



Gisborne, H. F., entrusted with " Separation " petition for House of Commons, 

 1840, but dies on voyage, i., 283. 



Gladstone, Right Hon. W. E., Secretary for Colonies, inquiry as to sending 

 convicts to the colony, i., 272 ; on Australian Colonies Bill, 1849, 297 ; 

 advocates reduction of the franchise, but opposes Single Chamber, 298 ; 

 opposes a Federal House of Delegates, 1849, ii., 329. 



Glenelg, Lord, Secretary for Colonies, his instructions to Latrobe, i., 177, 178 ; 

 his name given to River Glenelg by Mitchell, 1836, 92 ; and proposed for 

 the town on the Yarra, now Melbourne, 165 ; his attitude towards the P.P. 

 Association, 181 et seq. ; on the aborigines, 224 ; appoints Latrobe Super- 

 intendent, 241. 



Gold discoveries in Australia prior to 1851, i., 337, ii., 1, 2 ; and condition of 

 Victoria before, i., 334, 335 ; Hargraves' discovery at Bathurst, i., 336, ii., 

 1 ; reward offered for payable goldfield within 200 miles of Melbourne, i., 

 337, ii., 2 ; Press on the, i., 338 ; discoveries in the Plenty Ranges, Ander- 

 son's Creek, Deep Creek, Caledonia diggings, etc., ii., 1, 2 ; at Clunes, 

 Buninyong, 3, 4 ; Ballaarat, 5, 6 ; Mt. Alexander, Forest Creek, Castle- 

 maine, Fryer's Creek, 6 ; Bendigo, Goulburn, Omeo districts, 7 ; Ovens, 

 M'lvor, Avoca, 8 ; Maryborough, Dunolly, Ararat, Tarnagulla, Talbot, 

 St. Arnaud, Pleasant Creek (Stawell), 98 ; restlessness of miners, 99 ; 

 disorganisation in public service, i., 342, 343 ; Lord Derby concedes entire 

 gold revenue for maintenance of law and order, 358 ; crime, debauchery 

 and confusion, 364 et seq. ; roads to goldfields and cost of carriage, 377 ; 

 by 1854 mining becoming an ordinary industry, 378 ; mainly workers for 

 wages, 1858, ii., 21, 98, in 1895, 116 ; character of the miners, 24 ; law- 

 abiding, 25. 



Gold discoveries at Port Curtis (Queensland), Kiandra (N.S.W.) and in New 

 Zealand draw away miners from Victoria, ii., 99. 



Goldfields management, ii., 1 et seq. ; licences issued, Commissioners appointed, 

 legislation enacted, 10; police venality, 11, 14; miners evade payment of 

 fee, 12 ; export duty on gold suggested, 15 ; Bendigo miners petition for 

 reduction of fee, 16, 17 ; reduction made, 18 ; Goldfields Act assented to, 

 19 ; visit of Sir Charles Hotham, 19 ; his remarks on the officials, 20 ; 

 70,000 miners at end of 1854, 21 ; revolt of the diggers, riots at Ballaarat, 

 etc., 22-46 ; Goldfields Commission appointed, 49 ; its report, 52 ; " Miner's 

 Right " and an export duty substituted for the obnoxious licence fee, 53 ; 

 gold duty surrendered, 121 ; mining legislation, 178, 246. 



Gold production by 1854, 33,000,000, i., 378; in 1856 and 1863, ii., 97 ; quartz 

 mining, 98 ; miners, 98 ; Chinese, 98 ; miners and gold product in 1865, 

 116 ; in 1875, 177 ; mining machinery, 178 ; diminishing returns, 1885 

 to 1895, 257 ; increased production of gold, 1893, 320. 



Gordon, General Charles, enthusiasm evoked by his fate, ii., 341. 



Goulburn River, discovered by Hume and Hovell, 1824, i., 55; gold diggings, 

 ii., 7 ; irrigation in valley of, 256. 



Government, Local Self-, first recorded " Case," and award in disputes, i., 148 ; 

 first impromptu parliament, 150-152 ; government under Superintendent 

 Latrobe, 178 et seq. 



Government, Municipal. See Local. 



Government, Representative : Constitution Act of 1842 carried through British 



