Morriones, General, and Alfonso, 36, 37 Mount Cook, 89, 108 Mount Gambia, Blue Lake at, 93 Mount Lofty, 136; Adelaide from, 154; Hon. John Baker's home at, 167, 168; railway construction camp at, 138-142 Mount Nelson, Capetown, wartime reminiscences of, 254, 255 Murray, Colonel, High Commissioner, New Guinea, 311 National Rifle Meeting, 230 "National Service" Scheme, author's, 216 _et seq._; Kingston and, 216-217 New Guinea, visit to, 311 New South Wales, author appointed Commandant of, 280, 281 _et seq._; Naval Defence Scheme of, 177; troops for Egypt from, 188, 189; volunteers for Maori War, 188 New South Wales Defence Scheme, 187; guns for, 202 New South Wales Lancers sent to South Africa, 232; squadron of, in England, 232 New Zealand, 87 _et seq._; force in South Africa, 241, 242; system of land settlement, 91, 92; withdrawal of British troops from, 156 New Zealand Government and Maoris, 98, 99 Newcastle (N.S.W.), defences of, 295, 296 Newcastle-on-Tyne, 219 Newman, Dr. (afterwards Cardinal), headmaster at Edgbaston Oratory School, 23 Northern Territory and South Australia, 152, 213; defence of, 310 Norton Summit, 167, 168 Norval's Pont, destruction of bridge at, 239; Lord Kitchener at, 239; Rudyard Kipling at, 239 Ohinemutu, 105; eruptions at, 91, 93, 94, 104; Maori settlement, 91 Oliver, Maggie, 129 Omdurman, Kitchener's victory at, 228 _Ophir_, Duke and Duchess of York's voyage on, 266, 267 _Orama_, 312 Oratory School, Edgbaston, 23; Cardinal Newman, headmaster at, 23; head prefect of, 23, 24 _Orlando_, 265 Overseas Brigade in South Africa, command of, 242, 244 Owen, Lieut.-Colonel, J. F. (General), 177; arrival at Adelaide, 182; at Malta, 197; author and, 193, 195, 196; Commandant of Queensland, 197; economies and, 192; Hon. T. Playford and, 194, 195, 196 Paardeberg, Battle of, 238 Palotta, Grace, 219 Pamplona, author with Carlist troops at, 37 Paris, Artists' Ball at Grand Hotel in, 54, 55; author and Don Carlos in, 51, 52, 53; love affair in, 53-61 Parrott, Lieut.-Colonel, 236 Peterswald, Mr., 142, 143, 145; and strikers, 210 Phillips, Hans, 129 Playford, Hon. Thomas ("Honest Tom"), 194, 195; and General Owen, 194-197; and strikers, 210, 211; author and, 197, 276, 280; Commonwealth Minister of Defence, 278, 279 Point Cook, first aviation school at, 128, 301 Police, South Australian, author appointed instructor in, 136; author joins, 134 Polo at Adelaide, 162, 163, 171, 173 Ponce de Leon, Pepe, 46, 51, 52 Port Adelaide, arrival of Russian Fleet at, 178; building of, 160; forts at, 160, 161; strikes at, 209, 210, 211 Port Augusta, 157 Port Chalmers, 87, 89, 90 Port Darwin, 157 Powell, Captain, 156 Power, Tom, 166 Pretoria, author at, 256, 257; Lady Roberts at, 256; plot to kidnap Lord Roberts at, 255-256 Prim, General, assassination of, 30 Primo de Rivera and King Alfonso, 35