372 INDEX 



Council an " oligarchy " not required, 144 ; joins new Cabinet of 

 McCulloch (unpaid), 145 ; moves address in the Assembly in detestation 

 of crime of shooting Prince Alfred, 151 ; Chairman of Royal Commission 

 on Education, 1866-67, 163, 164; on Payment of Members, 180; scene 

 with McCulloch, 185 ; " a waning power," 185 ; disapproving " stonewall " 

 tactics resigns, 187 ; as Chief Justice of Victoria, not being allowed pre- 

 ference of the Speaker, absent from procession at opening of Exhibition, 

 1888, 266 ; President of the Exhibition Commission, alarmed at its 

 financial pace, renounces his responsibilities, 267 ; jealousy of Downing 

 Street, 269 ; Chief Justice, 269 ; declines knighthood, 269 ; declining to 

 communicate with Colonial Office on domestic affairs, Sir Wm. Robinson 

 appointed Acting-Governor during absence of Lord Loch, 269 ; supports 

 Government against Chinese immigration in case Ah Toy v. Musgrove, 

 273 ; his desire for colony to remain part of the British Empire, 340. 



Hobson, Capt., in the Rattlesnake at Port Phillip, i., 153, 154 ; his instructions 

 and staff, 155, 156 ; again at Port Phillip, with Gov. Bourke, 163. 



Hoddle, Robert, surveyor, i., 163; lays out Melbourne, etc., 165-167, 242; 

 conducts first land sale, 169, 209, 211 ; purchases lots, 393. 



Hodgson, John, candidate for first Victorian Legislative Council, i., 338 ; 

 purchaser of Melbourne lot, 394 ; member of Goldfields Commission, 

 ii., 53. 



Hoey, Cashel, Secretary to Agent-General, ii., 160. 



Home Rule for Ireland denounced by Higinbotham, ii., 139. 



Hopetoun, Earl of, Governor, his liberality, generosity, etc., arrives on the 

 eve of troublous times, ii., 275 ; sanctions Sir J. Patterson's appeal to 

 country, 1894, 320 ; returns to England, 1895, 325 ; appointed Governor- 

 General of the Commonwealth, 338. 



Hospital, Melbourne, inauguration of, i., 257 ; theatricals on behalf, 327. 



Hotham, Sir Charles, Governor, his arrival hailed with delight, i., 388, ii., 73; 

 his first levee, i., 389 ; confronted with prospective deficiency in revenue, 

 382 ; his efforts to adjust expenditure, 383 ; mendacious accusations 

 against his retrenchments, 384 ; made mistakes, but always sound in 

 finance, 384 ; his opposition to nepotism and corruption, 384 ; lays foun- 

 dation-stones of University and Public Library, 386 ; visits goldfields, ii., 

 19, 25 ; quarrels with the diggers, 22 et seq. ; receives deputation from 

 Ballaarat and refuses demands, 32 ; sends troops, 33, 34 ; instructs Com- 

 missioner to enforce law, 35 ; asks for troops from Tasmania, 46 ; appoints 

 Goldfields Commission and dismisses petitioners on behalf of imprisoned 

 diggers, 49 ; denounced for his obstinacy and impulsiveness, 52 ; inflexi- 

 bility, 54 ; the New Constitution, 1855, and his ministers, 56-58 ; in- 

 augurates Melbourne gas-works, 61 ; his illness and death, 61, 62 ; on 

 railway policy, 92. 



Hovell and Hume's overland journey, 1824-25, i., 48-62 ; Hovell accompanies 

 expedition to Western Port and surrounding districts, 1826, 63-67. 



Howitt, Alfred W., his works on Australian aborigines, i., 215; conducts ex- 

 pedition in search of Burke and Wills, discovers one survivor, afterwards 

 brings back remains of the leaders, ii., 110. 



Howitt, Richard, his story of Batman, i., 99 ; his Impressions of Australia 

 Felix, 250, 307, 368. 



Hume and Hovell's journey overland to Port Phillip, 1824-25, i., 48-62. 



Humffray, J. B., Secretary Ballaarat Reform League, ii., 30 ; one of deputa- 

 tion to Governor, 32 ; reports result to mass meeting, 34 ; advises 

 moderation, 35 ; and to stand on the defensive, 39 ; chosen representative 

 of Ballaarat in Legislative Council, 46 ; elected M.L.A., 65 ; Com- 

 missioner of Mines, 85. 



Hunter, Capt. John, captain of the Sirius in the First Fleet, 1787, and subse- 

 quently governor of the colony of N.S.W., i., 3 ; convoys Fleet from Cape 

 to Botany Bay, 13 ; sends out exploring expeditions, Bass Strait discovered, 

 1798, 15, 16. 



