INDEX 387 



and Hesse, 160; welcomes Gov. Bourke to Geelong, 167; on Irish im- 

 migrants, 249 ; elected for P.P district, 1843, 279 ; resigns, 282 ; purchases 

 land, 311, 312; first mayor of Geelong, 1849, 313; purchases Mel- 

 bourne allotment, 392. 



Trade, profits of, during the gold fever, i., 365, 376 ; market glutted, 1854, 378 ; 

 on the goldfields, 378. See Exports, Imports, Produce, etc. 



Trade Unions' influence and strikes, ii., 278 et seq. See Labour. 



Tramways in Melbourne, ii., 294 ; loans for, 297. 



Transportation to American Colonies ceased, 1776, i., 2 ; to Botany Bay decided 

 on, 1786, 2 ; convicts in the First Fleet, their comparatively venal offences, 

 4-10 ; sent to Port Phillip, 1803, removed to Hobart, 1804, 27-46 ; convicts 

 employed on public works in Melbourne, 1839, 244 ; British Orders in 

 Council, 1840-49, 270 et seq. ; resistance to the British Government on, 

 in 1849, 258; introduction of "expirees" from Tasmania, 1846, 272; 

 Gladstone's inquiries, 272 ; Conditional Transportation approved by 

 Committee of Legislative Council, N.S.W., 272; petition by colonists in 

 favour of, to Earl Grey, 273 ; British Cabinet sends convicts and revokes 

 Order in Council of 1840, 274 ; opposition in Melbourne, 275 ; Randolph, 

 convict vessel, arrives in Hobson's Bay and proceeds to Sydney, 275 ; 

 meeting of protest in Melbourne, 275 ; petition to Crown, and convicts 

 ordered to be sent to Moreton Bay, 276 ; Australian Anti-Transportation 

 League inaugurated, 276 ; last convicts left England for the Derwent in 

 1852, Anti-Transportation League revived during gold fever, 345 ; Western 

 Australia continued to receive convicts till 1867, 277 ; Convicts Prevention 

 Act, 347 ; Sir Wm. Denison protests against, Duke of Newcastle disallows, 

 and suggests new Bill, 348 ; which when presented is passed with firmer 

 and more stringent clauses added : the Crown still withholding consent, 

 Council protests, 349 ; Hotham assents to measure for one year, and 

 circumstances caused it to remain on the Statute Book of Victoria, 850. 

 See Crime, Penal. 



Trench, R. le Poer, Attorney-General, ii., 184 ; reappointed, 193 ; resigns, 202 ; 

 Commissioner of Land Tax, 195. 



Trenwith, M.L.C., labour representative, ii., 278, 283 ; attacks Government, 

 286 ; gains experience, 288 ; on Berry pension, 325. 



Trust funds and Colonial securities, ii., 269, 304. 



Tucker, A. L., M.L.A., Minister for Lands, ii., 241. 



Tuckey, Lieut. J. H., account of the voyage to Port Phillip, 1803, i., 28, 29 ; 

 his report on Port Phillip, 37-39. 



Turner, George, M.L.A., Commissioner of Customs, etc., in Shiels - Berry 

 Ministry, ii., 320 ; Premier, 1894, his long tenure, retires, 1900, takes part 

 in Queen's Jubilee, 1897, knighted and made Privy Councillor, 321 ; his 

 Treasurership, 322 ; displaced by McLean, 1899, returns to power, 1900, 

 326 ; called to first Commonwealth Ministry, 326. 



UNIVERSITY of Melbourne, lands granted, and Act of incorporation passed, 

 i., 385; academic life commenced, ii., 70; endowment under Education 

 Act, 1870, 168 ; and Sir B. Barry, 222. 



VALE, W. M. K., M.L.A., joins Duffy Ministry, ii., 157. 



Van Diemen's Land Co., i., 185. See Tasmania. 



Verdon, G. F., M.L.A., Treasurer in Heales Ministry, ii., 85 ; adverse vote on 

 his Budget, 87; joins McCulloch, 91 ; attitude towards Protection, 119; 

 as Treasurer attaches Tariff to Appropriation Bill, 123 ; mission to London 

 on Colonial defences, 136 ; on Mint, 137 ; made C.B., 137 ; appointed Agent- 

 General, 146 ; knighted and resigns, 160. 



Vern, Frederic, Ballaarat rebel, ii., 31 ; proposes to burn diggers' licences, 35 ; 

 forms stockade, 37 ; escapes during fight, 42 ; 500 offered for his capture, 

 44 ; sends letter to Age, 44. 



Victoria, Queen, news received, 1849, that Her Majesty had promised to confer 

 her name on the new Colony, i., 296 ; patronised International Exhibition, 



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