INDEX 385 



Ministry, 1877, 192 ; his proposed land tax, 175, 194 ; on Berry Embassy 

 to London, 206, 207 ; forms Cabinet, 211 ; his Reform Bill rejected and 

 dissolution granted, 212 ; Berry's adverse vote carried, resigns, declines 

 Coalition and withdraws for a time, 213 ; his Castlemaine speech on loans, 

 reform, Free Trade and Protection, 238 ; on Australian Federation, 239, 332- 

 334 ; returned to House, forms Coalition Ministry, including Berry, 240, 

 241 ; his character in debate, 241 ; initiation of Public Service, Railway 

 Management and other Acts, 242 et seq. ; financial task, 247 ; difficulties 

 overcome, 248 ; lays down the insignia of office to take part in Federal 

 Council, 249 ; suggested knighthood, 252 ; appoints Commission on 

 Droughts, 254 ; attends Colonial Conference in London, 1887, 268 ; elected 

 Legislative Council, 274 ; on the public finances, 277 ; on the great strike, 

 1890, 286 ; invited to lead fresh Coalition, 317 ; on the sending of military 

 contingent to the Soudan, 341. 



Shiels, William, M.L.A., Attorney-General in Munro Ministry, ii., 289; Premier, 

 Treasurer and Attorney-General, 289. 



Shillinglaw, J. J., edits journals of Grimes, i., 25, of Knopwood, 30. 



Shipping, first, from Great Britain to Port Phillip, 1839, i., 170, 247 ; forty-four 

 immigrant vessels arrived in 1842, 249. 



Sievewright, C. W., Protector of aborigines, i., 224 ; his district, 226, 238 ; diffi- 

 culties, 227 ; Fyan's report on, 231 ; his suspension, 231 ; on natives killed 

 for raiding Whyte's Station, 236 ; attack of whites on natives at Smith and 

 Osprey's Station, 236, 237. 



Simpson, James, member of P.P. Association, i., 102 ; his selection, 133 ; ap- 

 pointed honorary arbitrator, 146, 150 ; chairman of first public meeting, 

 150 ; represents P.P. Association in Sydney, 193 ; resigns magistracy, 260 ; 

 purchases Melbourne allotment, 394. 



Sladen, Charles, settler, i., 323; Treasurer, L.C., ii., 59; elected M.L.A., 65 ; in 

 Legislative Council, objects to tacking of Tariff to Appropriation Bill, 124 ; 

 forms Ministry, 145 ; important service rendered, 146 ; knighted, 1875, 161 ; 

 Sladen-Cuthbert Bill for reform of Council, 204 ; on Berry Embassy, 207. 



Slavery, abolition of, and treatment of aborigines, i., 218. 



Smith, George Paton, Attorney-General in McCulloch Ministry, 1868, ii., 146. 



Smith, John Thomas, i., 324 ; seven times Mayor of Melbourne, 265 ; erects 

 theatre, 327; elected first Legislative Council, 340; first Legislative 

 Assembly, ii., 63. 



Smith, R. Murray-, M.L.A., Agent-General, ii., 231 ; on the state of the public 

 finances, 277 ; opposition to, 1897, 324. 



Smyth, Rev. Father, Ballaarat, protests against burning of diggers' licences, 

 ii., 35 ; efforts to save bloodshed, 38, 39 ; assists Lalor to escape, 45. 



Smyth, R. Brough, his Aborigines of Victoria referred to, i., 214, 217. 



Socialism, State, its delusions, ii., 352, 353. 



South Australia, migration of population from, during the gold fever, i., 365 ; 

 and her part in Federation, ii., 331, 332, 333, 334, 337. 



Speight, Richard, Commissioner of Railways and Chairman of Board, ii., 244, 

 245, 246 ; suspended, 315 ; compensated, 316 ; his successor, 349 ; returns 

 to England, 350. 



Spencer, Baldwin, his Native Tribes of Australia referred to, i., 214. 



Squatters and land regulations, i., 206, 207 ; so-called squatting monopoly, 

 207 ; their enterprise, privileges, etc., 208 ; attitude towards aboriginal 

 Protectors, 227 ; interest in transportation, "exiles " and " expirees," 271, 

 272 ; prosperity of, before the gold era, 322 ; squatters and the mining 

 population and right of pre-emption, 350 ; their leases, " Disputed 

 Boundaries Act," and surveys, 351 ; Duke of Newcastle's reply to their 

 claims, 388; their prosperity after the discovery of gold and increase 

 of population renders them territorial aristocrats, 357 ; Royal Commission 

 and report on squatting tenure, 357, 358 ; their market for mutton during 

 the influx of population, 1852-54, 376 ; bitterly denounced, ii., 84 ; their 

 annual contribution to the Treasury and exportable products, 84 ; as 

 effected by Duffy's Land Act, 1862, 90 ; their alleged monoply of the land, 



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