INDEX 383 



under protection the Government regarded as the mainstay of all industry, 

 118 ; Tariff tacked to Appropriation Bill, 123 ; sent up separately, 129 ; 

 but with aggressive preamble, and rejected by Legislative Council caus- 

 ing deadlock, 130 ; Protectionist Party overthrows McCulloch Ministry, 

 156 ; its failure, 172 ; Service seeks to reduce Tariff, 174-176 ; his speech 

 on the Protectionists' policy, 238 ; Border duties and Customs Officers, 

 Tariff wars and Riparian rights, 327 ; Protection deposed colony from 

 pride of position in Australia, 350 ; fallen behind the mother-colony in 

 1896, 351 ; its main results to the masses, 352. See Berry, Free Trade, 

 Government (Responsible), McCulloch, Manufactures. 



Public Service, The, ii., 242 ; Commissioners, 243 ; a growing incubus, 259 ; cost 

 in 1889, 260; percentage reduction of wages and salaries, 319. See 

 Patronage, Railways. 



Public Works, revenue devoted to, i., 341, 382, 384 ; works accomplished, 1856, 

 ii., 70 ; unemployed engaged on, 100, 101 ; Government Offices, Parlia- 

 ment Houses, Law Courts, Governor's Residence, Schools, Royal Mint, 

 Graving Dock, etc., 176, 260. See Melbourne Harbour Trust, Railways, 

 Telegraphs, Waterworks. 



RABBITS, eradication, ii., 353 ; now a source of profit, 354. 



Raffaelo, Carboni, Ballaarat rebel, ii., 81, 38 ; prisoner, 44 ; acquitted, 50. 



Railways : Melbourne and Hobson's Bay, Geelong and Melbourne, Melbourne 

 and Mt. Alexander, i., 385 ; Report of Committee and progress of, from 

 1855, ii., 92 et seq. ; cost in 1858, 95 ; servants and trades unions, 96 ; 

 opening of lines to Ballaarat and Sandhurst (Bendigo), 1862, 96 ; exten- 

 sions North-Eastern, Bendigo and Echuca, Ballaarat to Clunes, Mary- 

 borough and Dunolly, Ballaarat to Ararat, Geelong to Colac, Melbourne to 

 Sale, 1875, 177 ; proposed new lines, 236 ; management, 1862, 242 ; under 

 Commissioners, 245 ; accident at Windsor, 245 ; through line to Sydney, 

 1883, 249 ; increasing expenditure, 248, 260 ; Railway Bill (Gillies) and 

 Standing Committee to consider new lines estimated to cost 41,000,000, 

 276 ; Commissioners suspended, 316 ; and compensated, 317 ; control and 

 management, 349-350 ; loans, 93, 94, 95, 188, 238, 248, 275, 296, 349 ; loss 

 in working, 96, 116, 177, 350. 



Ramsay, Robert, Minister of Education, ii. , 185. 



Read, C. Rudston, Assistant Goldfields Commissioner, ii., 11. 



Rede, Robert, Goldfields Commissioner, ii., 26, 34, 36, 38. 



Referendum proposed, ii., 324. 



Reform League (Ballaarat) and its chief articles, ii., 29 ; efforts to avoid 

 bloodshed, 38 ; mass meetings, Melbourne, 47 ; its Radical programme, 

 48 ; all demands in time conceded, 51 ; new Reform Association, 63 ; its 

 demands, 64 ; continued agitation in the Metropolis, 80 ; People's Con- 

 vention, 79, 82 ; Loyal Liberal Convention, 144 ; Reform and Protection 

 League, 191, 209. 



Reid, G. H., Premier, N.S.W., summons other Premiers to Hobart, Feb., 

 1895, ii., 336 ; Federal Enabling Bill passed, 337. 



Religion, services and places of worship in Melbourne, 1838-39, i., 170 ; hold 

 of the pulpit, 325 ; Nonconformist opposition to State aid, 361 ; 50,000 

 conserved in New Constitution Act, 1855, 363, ii., 70; State aid ex- 

 tinguished, 1874, 155. See Churches, Presbyterian, Roman Catholic, 

 Wesleyan. 



Reserves, parks and gardens, i., 256. 



Revenue. See Finance. 



Roadknight, Thomas and Wm., early settlers, i., 150, 151, 176, 394, 395. 



Robbins, Lieut., examines Port Phillip, discovers the Yarra, 1803, i., 26 ; 

 reports it eligible for settlement, 48. 



Robertson Brothers, members of the P.P. Association, i., 102 ; their allotment, 

 134 ; visit their domain, 140 ; walk around Geelong Harbour, 143. 



Robinson, G. A., and the remnant of Tasmanian aborigines, i., 223. 



Robinson, J. P., represents Melbourne in Legislative Council, N.S.W., 1844, 

 i., 282 ; speaks in favour of separation of P.P., 288. 



