The Three Colonies of Australia/Index

by Samuel Sidney

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INDEX.

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Abstract of the New Constitution for the Colonies	194
Adelaide, a lady's description of	224
Adventures of John Buckley	204
Agreements between masters and servants, as arranged by Mrs. Chisholm	139
Agricultural stock, prices of, in 1792	36
"Algerine Clauses," the, of Governor Gipps	157
America, transportation to	20
Andrew Thompson, a valuable colonist	61
Anecdote about letter-franking	149
Ant-eater, engraving of the	293
Anti-convict contest, the	170
Antipodes Islands, sketch of the	189
Anti-transportation League, the	181
Apology for Earl Grey's colonial policy	180
Appendix	395
Archdeacon Scott	73
Arnheim's Land	15
Arrest of John M'Arthur by Governor Bligh	56
Arrival of overlanders at Adelaide	227
Arrival of the first judge in New South Wales	72
Association of Tasmanian settlers	202
Association, the Squatters'	171
Australia from 1520 to 1770	11
Australia, Geographical portion of	243
"Australia," as named by Flinders	13
Australian Agricultural Company, the	77
Australian declaration of rights	157
Australian discovery, records of	14
"Australian" newspaper established	74
Ballarat, gold-washing at	280
Bass' and Flinder's explorations	46
Bass, George, particulars regarding	51
Bathurst Plains, discovery of	66
Batman's estate at Port Phillip, how first obtained	202
Battle of the District Councils	157
Bendigo to Melbourne, diary of a journey from	365
Bingara diggings, the	346
Bishoprics in Australia	302
Black Forest, Bendigo to Melbourne by the	385
Blacks under gunyah, sketch of	274
Bligh, Governor, arrival of	40
Bligh, Governor, cowardice wrongly imputed to	57
Bligh 's expulsion from the Governorship	57
Blue Mountains, Macquarie's journey across the	67
Blue Mountains, passage found across the	66
Blue Mountains, road made across the	88
Bonded myrmicobius, or ant-eater	293
Botany Bay	13
Bounty system, evils of emigration by the	134
Bourke's Church and School Act	107
Bourke's regulations regarding convicts	105
Boyd's evidence on emigration	131
Boyd's protective association	130
Braidwood diggings, the	342
Breweries in New South Wales	317
Brisbane Downs, discovery of	201
Brisbane's (Governor) insult to the Presbyterians	74
Brisbane's regulations for the sale of land	87
Brisbane, Sir T., recal of	76
Bristol, Judge Jeffries at	22
Bronze-winged pigeon, sketch of the	270
Bubble, bursting of the South Australian	230
Buckley's adventures at Victoria	204
Burra-Burra mines, profits of the	297
Burra Burra mines, results of the	295
Burra Burra mines, struggle for the purchase of the	239
Bursting of the South Australian Bubble	230
Captain Sturt's discoveries	82
Case cooked for the House of Commons	233
Cathedral, Roman Catholic, founded at Sydney	73
Cattle, value of, in 1796	38
Charles Campbell, Mr., on the price of labour	132
Children cradling	354
Chisholm, Mrs., colonial opposition to	135
Chisholm, Mrs., liberal treatment of, by the settlers	139
Chisholm, Mrs. Caroline	134
Church and School Act for New South Wales	107
Church, first brick-built	62
City of Adelaide, description of the	291
City of Melbourne, approach to the	276
Climate of Australia, the	246
Cloth, manufacture of, in New South Wales	318
Colonel Gawler's Government of South Australia	217
Colonel Torrens' Colonisation Scheme	209
Colonial Commissions, Mrs. Chisholm's	153
Colonial Constitution, abstract of the new	194
Colonial Lunatic Asylums, management of	120
Colonial opinion, defiance of, by Earl Grey	178
Colonial policy, Earl Grey's apology for his	180
Colonial revenue under Governor Gipps	114
Colony of Swan River founded	90
Commissioner Bigge's Report	72
Committee of the House of Lords	189
Committees on emigration	129
Company, the Australian Agricultural	77
Comparative prices of labour at Melbourne	390
Conclusion	393
Contest between Governor Gipps and the colonists	159
Contest, the anti-convict	170
Contradictions in labour market	130
Convicts employed to make roads	61
Convicts, first batch of	24
Convicts selected for promotion by Macquarie	61
Convicts, treatment of, by Governor Darling	79
Convict ships, early management of	33
Convict system, colonial report on the	173
Cook's first landing-place	13
Cook's voyages	17
Correspondence of Rev. Henry Styles	137
Correspondence with Parliamentary Agent	182
Costume of the South Australian overlanders	227
Counties in the Port Phillip district	255
Cowper, Parson, unjust treatment of	71
Cow Pastures, how originated	38
Criminals, number of, in New South Wales	312
Crown lands, sale of, in New South Wales	320
Customs' dues and taxes in New South Wales	322
Dampier's three visits to New Holland	61
Darling's land regulations, effect of	88
Darling's treatment of the convicts	79
Debt, the, of South Australia	235
De Caen's shameful treatment of Flinders	51
Defaulting Registrar, the	117
Description of Port Jackson	257
"Devil and the Governor," the	165
Diaries of Diggers	358
Diary of a journey from Melbourne to Bendigo	365
Diggers, diaries of	358
Dingoe, or native dog, the	63
Discovery of Bathurst Plains	66
Discovery of land at Adelaide	238
Discovery of Mount Alexander	205
Dispensary opened in Sydney	80
Distilleries in New South Wales	316
District Councils	156
Dodging the Commissioner	333
Dog, the native, or dingoe	63
Do-nothings, the, in the colonies	141
Dover emigrant to South Australia, the	235
Drive to the Burra Burra, a	298
Dr. Kerr's hundred pound nugget	334
Dr. Lang and his opinions	80
Dr. Leichardt, portrait of	271
Duck-billed platypus, sketch of the	69
Dugong, or sea-pig, description of	267
Dutch, explorations of the	13
Earl Grey on the land question	192
Earl Grey's despatches to Van Diemen's Land	176
Earl Grey's indifference about the gold discoveries	327
Earl Grey's unchanging policy	185
Eastern Australia, tabular view of	250
Education in Australia, past and present state of	303
Edward Hargreaves, portrait of	324
Election of Councillors	156
Emigrant females, dispersion of	139
Emigrant, sketch of a successful	223
Emigrants, proposed mode of apprenticing	394
Emigration	127
Emigration, Boyd's evidence on	131
Emigration, committees on	129
Emu, engraving of the	380
Evidence of Mrs. Chisholm before the Legislative Council	146
Explorations of Wentworth and his companions	66
Exports and imports of New South Wales	321
Exports and imports of South Australia	240
Expulsion of Governor Bligh	57
Extract from Macquarie's first despatch	59
Failure of Mr. G Wakefield's South Australian Charter	210
Failure of the South Australian gold-fields	387
Fair agreements between masters and servants	139
Famine and mortality in 1792	36
Father O'Flynn expelled from the colony	72
Father Therry	73
Female emigrants, treatment of, on board government ships	135
Females, distribution of, in the bush, by Mrs. Chisholm	139
First Australian newspaper established by a convict	40
First Australian steamer launched	80
First brick church built	62
First gold-commissioner appointed	330
First Governor, immense powers given to	29
First Governor of New South Wales	24
First insurrection at Sydney	40
First judge, arrival of the	72
First official proclamation about the gold discoveries	328
First overland journey from Sydney to Port Phillip	76
First revolution in New South Wales	57
Fisheries of New South Wales, the	319
Flinders, infamous treatment of, by De Caen	51
Flinders, neglect of, by the British government	51
Flinders, Matthew, portrait and account of	45
Flood, the Gundagai	168
Foot journey to Mount Alexander	375
Forest Creek, gold-seeking at	375
Francis Scott, Mr., the colonial correspondence with	182
Franking letters by Mrs. Chisholm	149
Free grant of land to emigrants	89
Future evils of the land system	191
General Post Office established in New South Wales	80
Geographical description of South Australia	283
Gentlemen emigrants to South Australia	222
George Barrington a thriving farmer	39
George Bass, account of	45
Gibbon Wakefield and South Australia	208
Gibbon Wakefield's colonisation scheme	93
Gipps, Sir George, integrity of	159
Gipps', Sir George, acknowledgments of Mrs. Chisholm's services	149
Gipps' Land, first discovery of	281
Gipps' treatment of the colonists	112
Gold diggings at Ophir	326
Gold discoveries, history of the	325
Gold, first mention of the existence of	325
Gold escort, sketch of the	350
Gold diggers at dinner	377
Gold fields, failure of the South Australian	387
Gold fields of Victoria	349
Gold first found about 1840	325
Gold seeking at Forest Creek	375
Gold washing at Ballarat	280
Gold washing, illustration of	343
Governesses, sham	141
Government Gazette, establishment of a	38
Government of Sir Charles Fitzroy	169
Government of Sir Richard Bourke	84
Governor Bligh, arrest of, by the colonists	57
Governor Bligh, arrival of	40
Governor Bligh, tyrannical conduct of	53
Governor Bourke's administration	83
Governor Darling's administration	76
Governor Fitzroy's declaration	175
Governor Gawler's enthusiasm and innocence	220
Governor Gipps's administration	111
Governor Grey's administration	231
Governor Grose, arrival of	35
Governor Hindmarsh, doings of, at Adelaide	214
Governor Hunter, arrival of	36
Governor King, arrival of	39
Governor Macquarie, arrival of	58
Governor Macquarie's departure for England	73
Grant of land to John M'Arthur	85
Grass trees	370
Graves, gold seekers', on the Turon	392
Grey, Governor, administration of	231
Grey-headed vampire	19
Grievances, colonial, under Governor Gipps	116
Grievances unconnected with land	157
Grose, Governor, arrival of	35
Gulf of Carpentaria, why so called	15
Gum trees near Melbourne	202
Gundagai flood, the	168
Hanging Rock diggings, the	344
Hargreaves', Mr., gold discoveries	327
Hawkesbury, great flood on the river	40
History of Port Phillip	200
History of the gold discoveries	325
History of South Australia	208
"Home," description of the building used by Mrs. Chisholm as a	137
House of Lords' committee	189
House of Lords' committee, Mrs. Chisholm before the	151
How to appoint a colonial school-master	306
Hundredweight of gold found	334
Hunter, Governor, arrival of	36
Hyde-park barracks, convicts at	121
Imports and exports of New South Wales	321
Imports and exports of South Australia	240
Increase of free emigrants in 1849	178
Inscription on Flinders' obelisk	285
Integrity of Governor Gipps	159
Jamaica, transportation to	21
Jemmy Nyrang	158
Johnstone, Major, unrewarded by the colonists	58
Joseph Smith, statement of	42
Journey across the Blue Mountains by Governor Macquarie	67
Journey from Port Jackson to Port Phillip	273
Judge Jeffries, legend of	22
Kangaroo Island, in theory and practice	212
Kapunda mine, discovery of the	238
Labour, comparative prices of, at Melbourne	390
Labour market, contradictions in the	130
Land Board, establishment of a	88
Land auctions	122
Land, free grant of, to emigrants	89
Land-fund system of emigration	127
Land, grant of, to John M'Arthur	85
Land jobbing, Earl Grey on	192
Land mania in New South Wales	104
Land mania, result of the	123
Land orders, Mr. Lowe's pamphlet on the	187
Land question, Mrs. Chisholm on the	190
Land question, the	121
Land system, future evils of the existing	191
Land tenure, laws of	85
Land, upset price of, raised	122
Lang the agitator	80
Lake Alexandrina, discovery of	82
La Perouse, monument to	26
Last letter from Dr. Leichardt	270
Laughing jackass, engraving of the	352
Law in New South Wales	308
Lead first discovered at Adelaide	238
Legislative Council, answer of the, to Earl Grey	179
Legislative Council, first meeting of, at Sydney	80
Legislative Council, Mrs. Chisholm's proposition to the	145
Leichardt's expeditions, account of	269
Leipoa, description of the mounds built by the	290
"Letter from Sydney," Wakefield's	92
Life at the Summerhill diggings	337
Life in Adelaide before the crisis	225
Lodger, a pleasant, at Melbourne	362
Lodging-house, a novel	364
Lodgings in Melbourne	362
Lord Grey on the convict system	175
Lord Stanley and Mr. Cardwell	164
Lord Stanley's appointment of a prothonotary	119
Lowe's (Mr. Robert) pamphlet on the land orders	187
Loyalty of the Australians	34
Lunacy in New South Wales	312
Lunatic Asylum, management of a colonial	120
Lyre-bird, description of the	282
Marine lodging-house, a	364
M'Arthur (Mr. Peter) on the price of land	125
M'Arthur's enterprise and success	55
Macquarie, arrival of Governor	58
Macquarie's colonial tours	62
Macquarie the first talented governor	60
Magistrate, a convict appointed as a	61
Major Johnstone, trial of, at Chelsea	58
Management of early convict ships	33
Mania, result of the land	123
Maneroo, discovery of	201
Maneroo Plains, exploration of	76
Manufactures in New South Wales	316
Megapodius, engraving of the	291
Melbourne, description of the city of	278
Melbourne first planned out by Sir R. Bourke	205
Melbourne, morality of the diggers in	361
Melbourne to Ballarat, tandem drive from	351
Merino ram, the	54
Middle District, counties south and west of the	254
Mines of South Australia	294
Mitchell (Sir Thomas) and his works	70
Morality in Melbourne	361
Mound-building birds, family of	289
Mount Alexander, foot journey to	375
Mountains in New South Wales, list of	250
Mount Alexander, first discovery of	205
Mount Disappointment	201
Moore (Mr.) on the land question	125
Monument to La Perouse	24
Mrs. Chisholm's appeal for her emigrants' "Home"	136
Mrs. Chisholm's "Countess"	140
Mrs. Chisholm's departure from the colonies	153
Mrs. Chisholm's "Home" for female emigrants	136
Mrs. Chisholm's colonial commissions	153
Mrs. Chisholm's colonial statistics	148
Mrs. Chisholm's registry-office	139
Mudie's attack on Sir Richard Bourke	105
Murray, steam traffic on the river	288
Names of towns in New South Wales	250
Native dog, sketch of the	63
New Australian constitution, how received	194
Newcastle, sketch of	37
New constitution for New South Wales	193
New South Wales, early incidents in	32
New South Wales, early judicial system at	32
New South Wales, first governor of	24
New South Wales, first revolution in	57
New South Wales, geographical sketch of	249
New South Wales, history and origin of	11
New South Wales, land mania in	104
New South Wales, list of counties in	250
New South Wales, new constitution for	193
New South Wales, "Voluntary Statements" of the people of	151
Nobs and snobs in South Australia	239
Northern counties of New South Wales	253
Nugget of gold, engraving of a large	336
Obelisk to Flinders at Port Lincoln	285
Objections to "indenting" emigrants	394
Obnoxious Order in Council, withdrawal of the	181
Official report on District Councils	157
Ophir diggings, account of the	341
Opossum, sketch of an	374
Origin of transportation	20
Overland journey between Adelaide and Mount Alexander	377
Palmer, disgraceful cowardice of Captain	49
Pamphlet, Mrs. Chisholm's first	138
Paradox, or water-mole, description of	68
Parliamentary report of 1812	62
Particulars regarding George Bass	51
Parson Cowper, shameful neglect of, by government	71
Passage, discovery of a, across the Blue Mountains	66
Peel River diggings, the	345
Platypus, or paradox, sketch of	69
Policy, Earl Grey's apology for his colonial	180
Population of New South Wales	310
Port Jackson, description of	257
Port Jackson, why so named	17
Port Phillip declined sending representatives to Sydney	206
Port Phillip district, mountains in the	255
Port Phillip, history of	200
Port Phillip, or Victoria	199
Port Phillip satisfied with the new Constitution	196
Port Phillip statistics	323
Port Phillip, why so called	13
Portrait of Edward Hargreaves	324
Portrait of the first gold-commissioner	331
Post-office returns for New South Wales	320
Post-office, the, at Sofala, Turon river	357
Practice versus theory	197
Presbyterians insulted by Governor Brisbane	74
Press, liberty of the, conceded to New South Wales	74
Price of labour, Campbell on the	132
Price of land, Leslie Foster on	125
Princess Royal outcroppings	239
Prisoners, recollections of	40
Proceedings of the Australian Agricultural Company	78
Proceedings in South Australia	388
Profits of the Burra Burra mines	297
Promotion of convicts by Governor Macquarie	61
Protective Association, Mr. Benjamin Boyd's	130
Prothonotary, Lord Stanley's appointment of a	119
Public works effected by Governor Macquarie	65
Question, Earl Grey on the land	192
Reapers, soldiers hired as	61
Rebels, transportation of	21
Reception of the new Constitution in South Australia	196
Recital of Henry Hale	43
Recollections of prisoners	40
Records of Australian discovery	13
Registrar, the defaulting	117
Registry-office, Mrs. Chisholm's	139
Religion in Australia, state of	302
Religious denominations in Australia	303
Remonstrance of the Sydney Legislative Council	196
Report, Mrs. Chisholm's remarkable	140
Report of Commissioner Bigge	72
Report of Dr. Lang's committee	147
Report of Parliamentary committee in 1812	62
Report of the colonial-grievance committee	157
Reports of the Commons' committee on South Australia	233
Report on the convict system	172
Retirement of Sir George Gipps	160
Responsible government	155
Results of Governor Macquarie's administration	71
Right sort of emigrants, the	223
Rivers of Australia, the	44
Rivers of New South Wales, list of	250
Rivers in the Port Phillip district	255
River Torrens, real and alleged capabilities of the	219
Roads first made by convicts	61
Road made across the Blue Mountains	89
Roman Catholic cathedral founded at Sydney	73
Romantic doings at Adelaide	226
Rude speeches of Governor Macquarie	60
Rum-drinking in New South Wales	71
Rum hospital at Sydney	71
Satin, or bower-bird, the	289
Schaffer, appointment of Mr.	35
Schoolmaster, singular appointment of a colonial	306
Schools in New South Wales	311
Scott, Archdeacon	73
Sea-pig, or dugong, description of	267
Sectarian zeal, singular instance of	304
"Self-supporting " colony, statistics of a	236
Sham governesses	141
Shelter, want of, for emigrants	365
Shepherd's hut, sketch of a	366
Ship-building in New South Wales	319
Shoal Bay, harbour of	265
"Shovelling" out emigrants to Australia	23
Sir Charles Fitzroy	169
Sir George and the Gibbet	168
Sir Richard Bourke's foresight	100
Sir Roderick Murchison's opinion regarding gold in Australia	325
Sir Thomas Brisbane's government	73
Sir Thomas Mitchell's evidence on the land question	189
Sketch of an opossum	374
Sketch of the lyre-bird	282
Smith's (Mr.) discovery of gold unheeded	327
Snobs and nobs at Adelaide	239
Soap and candle manufactures in New South Wales	319
Soil, varied character of the Australian	247
Soldiers hired as reapers	61
Songs of the Squatters	161
South Australia, difficulty in procuring a governor for	211
South Australia, history of	208
South Australia, proceedings in	388
"South Australian Gazette," establishment of the	211
South Australian Land Company, formation of the	209
Special survey system, effect of, in South Australia	216
"Spectator," the Sydney, to Mrs. Chisholm	154
Spirit currency in the colony	37
Squatters' Association, the	171
Squatters, songs of the	161
Squatting statistics of New South Wales	313
Statement of Mrs. Smith	43
Statistics, Mrs. Chisholm's colonial	148
Statistics of Port Phillip	323
Steam-boat first launched in Australia	80
Steam traffic on the Murray river	288
Straw-necked ibis, engraving of the	348
Styles' (Rev. Henry) correspondence with Mrs Chisholm	137
Suburbs of Melbourne	363
Success of Mrs. Chisholm's female emigration	139
Sudds and Thompson, treatment of, by Governor Darling	81
Sugar refining in New South Wales	317
Summary of Governor Gipps' administration	161
Summerhill diggings, life at the	337
Swan River, colony of, founded	90
Swan River Settlement, failure of the	91
Sydney cove, why so called	27
Sydney, dispensary opened in	80
Sydney, first insurrection at	40
Sydney, first meeting of the Legislative Council at	80
Sydney Legislative Council, remonstrance of the	196
Sydney, Roman Catholic cathedral founded at	73
Sydney, rum hospital at	71
Tabular view of New South Wales	250
Tambaroura Creek diggings	344
Tandem drive from Melbourne to Ballarat	351
Tasmanian settlers, association of	202
Tasman's voyages	16
Tenure, the laws of land	85
"The Assyrian came down," &c.	164
Theory versus practice	197
Thompson and Sudds, treatment of	81
Timber, import and export of, in New South Wales	319
"Tityre tu Patulæ," an Australian version of	162
Tobacco, manufacture of, in New South Wales	318
Tours, Macquarie's annual	62
Towns, names of, in New South Wales	250
Transportation first legalised	20
Transportation of rebels	21
Transportation, origin of	20
Transportation to America	21
Transportation to Jamaica	21
Trial of Major Johnstone	58
Turon gold-fields, the	341
Turon, gold-seekers' graves on the	392
University of Sydney	307
Unchanging policy of Earl Grey	185
Vampire, the grey-headed	18
Van Diemen's Land, Earl Grey's despatches to	177
Van Diemen's Land, first penal settlement founded in	40
Victoria, first Legislative Council assembled at	207
Victoria, list of counties in	255
Victoria, or Port Phillip	199
"Voluntary Statements" collected by Mrs. Chisholm	151
Wakefield's colonisation theories	95
Wakefield's "Letter from Sydney"	92
Water-mole, description of	68
Wentworth's, Lawson's, and Blaxland's explorations	66
Wesleyan chapel opened at Sydney	73
"Wives wanted!"	152
Wool-growing, success of McArthur in	65
Wool projects of Mr. McArthur	54
Women, Macquarie's protest against, as colonists	60
Wonga wonga pigeon, description of the	262
Works of Sir Thomas Mitchell	70
Yarra Yarra, the	201