Advances to Settlers Act, New Zealand, 99, 118 Agricultural Bureau and Agricultural College, Adelaide, 20, 21 Arbitration and conciliation in industrial disputes: New South Wales, 281 New Zealand Act, 283 Awards under, 286 Queensland, 76, 282 South Australian Act, 24, 283 Assisted Schools Abolition Act, 159 Australasian Federation Enabling Act: Queensland Bill, rejection of, 235 Victorian Act, provisions of, 230 Western Australian Act, provisions of, 233 Australasians, character of, 302 B Batchelor, Mr. E. L., 5 Plebiscite, Bill for establishing introduced by, 29 Benevolent asylums for aged and incapable persons, 255 Betting and gaming, suppression of: New Zealand, female voters in favour of, 196 Tasmania, Parliamentary measures for, 170 Board of Land Purchase Commissioners, New Zealand, 97 Braddon, Right Hon. Sir E., 177 British capital in Australia: Co-operative enterprise due to, 248 Dependence on, causing ill-feeling towards Great Britain, 296 Financial activity arising from, 246 British fleet's protection, Australians' appreciation of, 297 Broken Hill, strike of 1891, 1892, 281 Building societies, Australian labouring classes availing themselves of, 260 Byrnes, Hon. T. J., 75 C C.D. Act, Repeal of, advocated by female voters in New Zealand, 196 "Caucus" meetings of New South Wales Labour Party, 51 Central and Northern Queensland's separation from the South [see title Queensland] Character of Australasians, 302 Charitable Aid expenditure for 1896, New Zealand, 116 Chataway, Mr. J. V., 66 Cheviot Estate purchased by New Zealand Government, 93 Chinese: Anti-Chinese legislation supported by Australasians, 293 Cabinet-making in Victoria, Chinese competition, 136 Immigration Act of 1887 limiting number of Chinese immigrants to Tasmania, 170 Christchurch, New Zealand, boot manufacturers' dispute, Arbitration Courts decision, 286 Churches, Western Australia, grants to, abolition of, 159 Civil Service, New South Wales: Public Service Board for investigation of all departments, 44 Royal Commission inquiry, 43 "Civis Brittanicus Sum," necessity of realising Australian unity before appreciating, 299 Cockburn, Hon. Dr., Minister of Education and Agriculture in South Australia, 3, 22, 26, 28 "Colonial," objection to term, 297 Colonial Office, Australians' resenting interference of, 298 Conciliation and arbitration in industrial disputes [see title Arbitration and Conciliation]