INDEX 371 



Griffith, Charles, visit to the aboriginal station at Mt. Rouse, 1842, i., 230, 



231 ; his remarks on land fund and immigration, 253 ; candidate for 



Speakership, Legislative Assembly, ii., 69. 

 Griffith, Sir S. W., represents Queensland at Federal Council, Hobart, Jan., 



1886, ii., 333; drafts Commonwealth Bill, 1891, 335. 



Grimes, Charles, and Bobbins survey Port Phillip Bay, 1803, i., 25, 26, 97. 

 Grimes, Edward, immigration department, i., 366 ; Auditor-General, 366 ; 



on Committee of Finance, 1854, 383. 

 Gurner, H. F., Crown Solicitor, 1851, Clerk Supreme Court, i., 259 ; on correct 



name of the Yarra Yarra " Yanna Yanna," 129. 



HAINES, Wm. Clark, nominated member first Legislative Council, Victoria, 

 i., 340 ; Colonial Secretary, ii., 55 ; his history and character, 56 ; relieved 

 of office and reappointed, 59 ; his Ministry resigns, 61 ; but resumes 

 office, 62; elected M.L.A., 65; again consults his colleagues, 74; resigns, 

 75 ; joins McCulloch, 76 ; his Land Bill rejected by Upper House, 78 ; 

 Bill for increasing Members of Assembly thrown out, resigns, 78 ; Treasurer 

 in O'Shanassy Ministry, 87 ; and railway loan, 94 ; opposes Heales' 

 Education Bill, 1862, 163. 



Harbour Trust for Port of Melbourne, ii., 188, 189 ; Sir John Coode's plans, 

 189 ; carried out, 190 ; borrowings, 297. 



Hargraves, E. H., discovers gold, N.S.W., i., 336 ; ii., 1. 



Harker, George, M.L.A., Treasurer in Chapman Ministry, ii., 79 ; Director 

 Bank ot Victoria, 95. 



Hart, W. H., of Bank of Australasia, on Committee of Finance, 1854, i., 383. 



Harvests. See Agriculture, Produce. 



Hastie, Rev. W., resident at Buninyong, ii., 4. 



Hawdon, Joseph, brings stock overland from N.S.W., 1836, i., 174; conveys 

 mails between Sydney and Melbourne, 175. 



Hayes, Timothy, chairman at Ballaarat meeting, ii., 34 ; advises moderation, 

 35 ; taken prisoner and committed for trial, 44 ; acquitted, 51, 53. 



Hayter, H. H., statistics of crime, ii., 170. 



Heales, Richard, social reformer, temperance lecturer, ii., 85; elected M.L.A., 

 65 ; attacks Land Bill, 1860, 83 ; i( elected " Chief Secretary, 85 ; his Land 

 Act, 85, 86 ; Ministry defeated, granted a dissolution, 87 ; joins McCulloch 

 Ministry, his Education Act, 91 ; Bill to amend Duffy's Land Act, 113'; 

 his death, 1864, 85, 119. 



Health, Department of, ii., 254. 



Hearn, W. E., Professor, drafts Duffy's Land Bill, ii., 89, 90; on Reform of 

 Legislative Council, 205. 



Henty family, their history, at Swan River, 1829, i., 77 ; in Tasmania, 1831, 

 settled at Portland Bay, 1834, 79 | their treatment by the Government, 

 77, 82-87, 114 ; asked no Government protection, their intrusion officially 

 unnoticed, 181 ; settlement proclaimed, 1840, 313, 314. 



Hepburn, John, brings stock overland from N.S.W., 1836, i., 174 ; occupies 

 Smeaton Hill Estate near Clunes, 175. 



Hesse, Mr., accompanies Gellibrand, i., 160 ; lost in the bush, 161. 



Hicks-Beach, Sir M., on differences between Legislative Council and Assembly, 

 ii., 201 ; and the Berry Embassy, 207, 208. 



Higinbotham, George, M.L.A., " the most striking figure in Victorian politics," 

 ii., 139 ; his conscientiousness, etc., i., 241 ; a dweller in Canvas Town, 

 368 ; editor of the Argus, ii., 78 ; supports Heales' Education Bill, 1862, 

 163 ; (with McCulloch), under Gov. Darling, virtual ruler of the colony, 

 112 ; anti-Protectionist, 119 ; but introduces Tariff Bill, 122 et seq. ; 

 dominates Parliament in 1867, " fair in debate, extreme in action," 137 ; 

 " self-seeking conspicuously absent," his devotion to official duties excep- 

 tional, his weakness as a politician the result of his strength of character, 

 138 ; denounces Irish Home Rule, 139 ; would have abolished Legislative 

 Council, the theory of a Second Chamber unworkable, 139 ; defends grant 

 to Lady Darling, condemns its opponents as " a vile faction," 140 ; the 



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