INDEX 379 



Mercer, Major George, Member of P.P. Association, i., 102; his shares, 

 131 ; selection of land, 133, 144, 145 ; his mission to England and his 

 correspondence with Lord Glenelg, etc., 182 etseq. ; purchases Melbourne 

 allotment, 1837, 393 ; presides at " Separation" meeting, Melbourne, 13th 

 May, 1840, 283 ; one of deputation to London, 1841, 285. 



Metropolitan Board of Works (Melbourne), ii., 254. 



Michie, Archibald, defends Ballaarat rebels, ii., 50 ; elected M.L.A., 65 ; 

 Member of Federation Committee, 1857, 331 ; joins McCulloch Ministries, 

 76, 91 ; anti-Protectionist, 119 ; supports Protectionist Tariff, 121 ; rejected 

 at poll, 128 ; Attorney-General in McCulloch Ministry, 1870, 154 ; Agent- 

 General, 1874; knighted, 1878, 161 ; fathers Education Bill, 1858, 162. 



Military, first contingent under Capt. Lonsdale, i., 156 ; increased under 

 Latrobe, 244 ; during gold fever, pensioners spared from Tasmania, and 

 regiment sent from England, 344 ; invoked to keep Hotham's official 

 regulations, 390 ; military sent to Bendigo, ii., 17 ; more troops asked for 

 from Tasmania, 17 ; troops sent to Ballaarat, 33 ; attacked on their en- 

 trance to town, 34 ; cavalry charge the crowd, 37 ; Eureka Stockade cap- 

 tured, 41-43 ; N.S.W. contingent sent to Soudan, 1884, 340, 341 ; various 

 contingents sent to South Africa, 1900, 342. See Defences. 



Miller, Henry, wealthy colonist, elected first Victorian Legislative Council, 

 i., 340 ; on Committee to formulate Bill for New Constitution, 360 ; Chair- 

 man Bank of Victoria, ii., 95 ; attends Melbourne mass meeting on 

 Ballaarat disturbances, 37 ; opposes Haines' Land Bill, 78 ; Commissioner 

 of Customs, 79 ; joins McCulloch Ministry, 91. 



Mining on private property, ii., 246; on waste lands, 10. See Goldfields 

 Management. 



Ministries. See Government, Responsible; also Haines, O'Shanassy, Nicholson, 

 Hsales, McCulloch, Sladen, McPherson, Duffy, Francis, Kerferd, Berry, 

 Service, O'Loghlen, Gillies, Munro, Shiels, Patterson, Turner, McLean. 



Mitchel, John, Irish rebel, i., 292 ; ii., 68. 



Mitchell, Sir Thomas, expedition to Australia Felix, 1836, i., 81, 87-95, 334 ; 

 " The Major's Line " becomes the Overlanders' route, 175 ; on the abori- 

 gines, 217; candidate for P.P. district, 1843, 280; the Mallee country, 

 ii., 246. 



Molesworth, Robert, prosecutes Ballaarat rebels, ii., 50 ; Solicitor-General, 59 ; 

 judge, i., 323. 



Moor, Henry, Member Melbourne Town Council, i., 267 ; proposes its abolition, 

 267 ; elected mayor, 267. 



Municipal affairs. See Local Government. 



Munro, James, financier, M.L.A., proposes vote of want of confidence in Gillies 

 Ministry, ii., 276 ; leads Opposition, 277 ; on the maritime strike of 1890, 

 286 ; forms Ministry, 289 ; takes Agent-Generalship, 289 ; his connection 

 with the Real Estate Bank, 308 ; and Federal Bank, 310 ; his recall, 317. 



Murchison, Sir R., on gold in Australia, 1844, ii., 1. 



Murphy, Francis, elected Speaker Legislative Assembly, ii., 69 ; re-elected, 

 114, 129 ; knighted, 161. 



Murray, Lieut. John, with the Lady Nelson at Western Port, Dec., 1801, 

 with Lieut. Bowen discovers Port Phillip, Jan. and Feb., 1802, i., 19-23. 



Murray (Hume) River discovered by Hume and Hovell, 1824, i., 54 ; recrossed, 

 60 ; Sturt's voyage down the river to the sea, 1830, 71-75 ; Mitchell's 

 journey up the river from the Darling, 1836, 89 ; recrossed, 94. 

 Murrumbidgee, crossed by Hume and Hovell, 1824, i., 52 ; proposed as 

 boundary for P.P. district by Lord John Russell, 285 ; and for new 

 colony of Victoria by Westgarth, 1851, 302. 



NAYLOB, Rev. Mr., goes in search of Gellibrand and Hesse, i., 162. 

 Nelson, gold-ship, robbery, i., 345, 346. 

 New Caledonia and convicts, ii., 247. 



Newcastle, Duke of, disallows " Convicts Prevention Act," i., 348 ; leaves 

 colony to revise its own land laws, 355, 356 ; against constituting any 



