A Great Boom Decade.--Causes of Inflation of Values. --Excessive Rating Valuations.--False Basis of Assessing Capital Value.--Prodigality Succeeded by Financial Stringency and Collapse of Boom. --Difficulty in Determining Real Values.--Sir Hugh Nelson's Legislation.--Sound Finance.--Stability of State.--Prospects Good To-day 54-56 CHAPTER VIII. CROWN LANDS LEGISLATION. The Code of 1860.--Crown Lands Alienation Act of 1868.--Pastoral Leases Act of 1869.--Homestead Areas Act of 1872.--Crown Lands Alienation Act and Settled Districts Pastoral Leases Act of 1876.--The Griffith-Dutton Land Act of 1884.--Co-operative Communities Land Settlement Act.--Land Act of 1897 --Forms of Selection.--Act to Assist Persons to Settle on Land by Advances from the Treasury. --Extension of Pastoral Leases.--Closer Settlement Act.--Land Orders 57-65 CHAPTER IX. APPROPRIATION OF LAND REVENUE. Land Sales Receipts; not Consolidated Revenue. --Arguments used in favour of Treating Proceeds as Ordinary Revenue.--Auction Sales have now Practically Ceased.--Certain Proceeds Payable into Loan Fund. --Special Sales of Land Act; Appropriation of Receipts 66-68 CHAPTER X. LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN QUEENSLAND. First Municipality Established.--Brisbane Bridge Lands. --Grant for Town Hall.--Consolidating Municipalities Act.--Provincial Councils Act.--Government Buildings not Rateable.--Brisbane Bridge Debentures and Waterway Acts.--Municipal Endowment.--Local Government Act of 1878.--Divisional Boards Act of 1879; Success of the Act.--Local Works Loans Act.--Two Pounds for One Pound Endowment Repealed.--Rating Powers Extended by Local Authorities Act of 1902.--Cessation of Endowment. --Valuation and Rating Act.--Decline in Land Values. --Unequal Incidence of Rates Levied.--Efficiency of Local Authorities 69-77 CHAPTER XI. PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. Primary Education: Board of National Education; Education Act of 1860; Board of General Education; Education Act of 1875; Department of Public Instruction; Higher Education in Primary Schools; Itinerant Teachers; Status of Teachers; Statistics.--Private Schools.--Secondary Education: Grammar Schools Act; Endowments, Scholarships, and Bursaries; Success of Grammar Schools; Exhibitions to Universities; Expenditure.--Technical Education: Beginning of System; Board of Technical Instruction; Transfer of Control to Department of Public Instruction; Statistics; Technical Instruction Act; Continuation Classes; Schools of Arts and Reading Rooms.--University: Royal Commissions; University Bill; Standardised System of Education 78-85 _PART III.--OUR JUBILEE YEAR._ CHAPTER I.