Part 20

Dilke, Sir Charles, 300

Domestic servants' weekly half-holiday, Bill for establishing in New Zealand, 203

Drunkenness and rowdiness, absence of among Coolgardie miners, 314

Duffy, Sir Charles Gavan, 214

Eastern Railway, Western Australia, course of, 162

Ecclesiastical Grants, Western Australia, Abolition Act of 1895, 159

Education: South Australia: Primary and Religious Education in, alterations proposed, plebiscite taken on, 29, 274 Religious instruction in schools, 29 Secular character of, effect on working classes, 32 State system of in Australasia, 256 Western Australia--Assisted Schools Abolition Act, 159

Elective Executive: New Zealand Bill, 277 South Australia, substitution of, advocated, 26

Electoral Legislation: Queensland--Contingent vote, 176 Tasmania--Modification of Hare's System of Voting, 173 Victoria--Electoral Bill, cause of conflict between Legislative Council and Assembly, 122

Electoral Reform Policy: New South Wales Labour Party, 48, 49 Queensland Labour Party, 74

Expenditure [see title Revenue and Expenditure]

Export [see title Produce and Export Department].

Factories and Shops Acts, Victoria: Cabinet-making, Chinese competition, 136 Definition of factory, amendments, 133, 139 Protection of workers in factories, 137, 140 Royal Commission of Inquiry into working of the Act of 1890, 134 Shops, hours of closing, 140 Tailoresses' Union, formation of, 135 Wage Boards, appointment of, 138

Factories and workshops in Queensland, Royal Commission of Inquiry into, 77

Fair Rent Bill, New Zealand, 103

Family Home Protection, New Zealand, Act of 1895, 101

Federal Council: Abstention of New South Wales and New Zealand, from, 216 Act of 1885 establishing, 215 Permissive character of, 216 Status of, effect of Federation agitation on, 229 Utility of, causes tending to minimise, 217

Federation of Australasian Provinces: Artificial boundaries between the provinces, 299 Australasian Federation Enabling Act [see that title] Benefits of, 235 Climatic differences engendering divergence of opinions, 299 Committee appointed by House of Assembly, Victoria, to consider, 214 Constitution Bill [see that title] Federal Council [see that title] Hobart, Premiers' conference at, 227 Interdependence of Provinces, hastening establishment of, 230 Inter-provincial conference on, 214 New South Wales, Governor of, receiving commission as Governor-General of Australia, 213 Plebiscite, new Federal constitution proposed, referring to, 228 Prospects of, 236 Sydney conventions, 215 Town and country inhabitants, difference in development of, 299

Female Suffrage: New Zealand: C.D. Act, Repeal of, advocated by female voters, 196 Domestic servants' weekly half-holiday Bill, 203 Elections, Radical returns, 193 Electoral Bill of 1892 conferring franchise on all adult women, 192 Equal wages for similar work of men and women demanded by female voters, 209 Juvenile Depravity Suppression Bill, 203 Liquor legislation and prominence of temperance movement, due to, 194 Modifications of female voters' views, 207 National Council of Women, resolutions passed by, 204, 205 Sentiment, tendency of subordinating reason to, danger of Female Suffrage, 210 Totalisator, suppressing, result of, 196 Women's franchise leagues inducing female voters to support candidates on moral considerations, 205 Queensland, result of adopting in, 185 South Australia: Election to Parliament, women eligible for, 187 First elections under new franchise, 188; results of, 189 Licensed Victuallers' Act, prohibition of employment of barmaids, proposed under influence of, 191 Plebiscite [see that title] Voting privileges accorded to female electors in, 192 Tasmania: Plebiscite, proposed application of for, 177 Result of adopting in, 184 Victoria: Plural voting, abolition of, included in Bill, 186 Result of adopting in, 184

Finance [see title Revenue and Expenditure]

Financial crisis in Australia, causes of, 246

Financial extravagance in New South Wales, means of diminishing, 34

Financial statement, Queensland, 1896, extract with regard to export of home produce, 79

Foreign competition in Australasia: Great Britain, hostility towards in consequence of, 296 Labouring classes' opposition to, 294

Foreign politics, Australasians' imperialistic views of, 298

Forrest, Right Hon. Sir John, 157, 166, 253

Free trade policy of New South Wales, 212

Fremantle, Government harbour works to induce mail steamers to call at, 303