Tailoresses' Union, formation of in Victoria,135Tariff:New South Wales, Labour Party's disagreement on question of,49South Australia, tariff question settled in favour of Protection,24Victoria, protective tariff in, cause of contention betweenLegislative Assembly and Legislative Council,123Tasmania:Female Suffrage [see that title]Graduated Death Duties, assessment of,278Immigration of coloured races, restriction of,170Income tax on incomes derived from property and personal exertion,distinction between,279Legislative Council [see that title]Produce and Export Department--inspection of exported produce,172Public works, taxation for obtaining funds for,181Railways--land-grant railways for encouragement of privateenterprise,181Taxation:Additional taxation cause of conflict between LegislativeAssembly and Legislative Council,123Australian Provinces' form of direct taxation,279New South Wales Labour Party, taxation of land values obtained by,50New Zealand, assessment of land and income taxes in,89South Australia, progressive taxation first introduced into,16Tasmania, public works outlay, taxation for obtaining funds for,181Technical instruction in agriculture, &c., by experts, New Zealand,104Telegraphic and postal departments--Parliament of Commonwealth'sexclusive control of,221Town and country antagonism--reflex of antagonism between VictorianLegislative Assembly and Legislative Council,131Town and country inhabitants, difference in development of, necessityof considering with regard to Australasian Federation,299Trade Unions, workmen's willingness to form,281Traditional Conservatism, absence of among Australasian politicians,277
Undesirable Immigrants Exclusion Bill, forbidding introduction ofconsumptive persons into New Zealand,295Unemployed:Indiscriminate assistance,255New South Wales:Casual Labour Board and Labour Bureau,45Loafers, placing in Industrial Homes, proposed,48Money spent on works for,46,47New Zealand:Charitable Aid Expenditure of 1896,116Compulsory labour for loafers,115Improved-Farm Settlements system,111State Farm near Wellington,113South Australia:Village Settlements,6Victoria:Land Acts of 1893,149Leongatha Colony,151,268Public subscriptions for,150Shiftlessness of men,153Union Steamship Company, New Zealand, engineers' industrial dispute,290,291Upper House [see titles Legislative Council and Conflict betweenLegislative Assembly and Legislative Council]
Van Dieman's Land Company, Tasmania, Bill authorising construction ofrailway by,181Victoria:Australasian Federation Enabling Act--provisions of Victorian Act,230Confidence of the people in efficiency of State action,154Factories and Shops Acts [see that title]Female Suffrage:Abolition of plural voting included in Bill introducing,186Result of adopting,184Gold-mining, State encouragement of,147Income tax on incomes derived from property or personalexertion, distinction between,279Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council [see those titles]Produce and export--bonuses given to producers,148Protective Tariff:Cause of contention between Legislative Assembly and LegislativeCouncil,123Public works [see that title]Unemployed [see that title]Village Settlements,255New Zealand,95,99South Australia:Closed by Government,10Difficulties, encountered by settlers,10Failure of,8Formation of,6Murtho, success of,11New Zealand Settlements, differing from,99Victoria,149
Western Australia:Aborigines, protection of,158Assisted Schools Abolition Act,159Australasian Federation Enabling Act--Provisions of WesternAustralian Act,233Churches, grants to, abolition of,159Constitution Bill,157Female Suffrage, result of adopting,185Gold-mining:Coolgardie Goldfields [see that title]Inducements offered to immigrants,164Legislative Council:Property qualification:Electors',158Members not subjected to,121Public works, Government difficulties,160Responsible Government,156Women's Franchise Leagues, New Zealand, inducing female voters tosupport candidates on moral considerations,206Working classes [see title Labouring Classes]
Yates, Mrs., Mayor of Onehunga, inability of to fill position,208
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"A very interesting tale, written in clear and vigorous English."—Globe.
"The novel is a happy blend of truth and fiction, with a purpose that will be appreciated by many readers; it has also the most exciting elements of the tale of adventure."—Morning Post.
"Subject to the qualifications thus disposed of (videfirst part of notice), 'An Outcast of the Islands' is perhaps the finest piece of fiction that has been published this year, as 'Almayer's Folly' was one of the finest that was published in 1895.... Surely this is real romance—the romance that is real. Space forbids anything but the merest recapitulation of the other living realities of Mr. Conrad's invention—of Lingard, of the inimitable Almayer, the one-eyed Babalatchi, the Naturalist, of the pious Abdulla—all novel, all authentic. Enough has been written to show Mr. Conrad's quality. He imagines his scenes and their sequence like a master; he knows his individualities and their hearts; he has a new and wonderful field in this East Indian Novel of his.... Greatness is deliberately written; the present writer has read and re-read his two books, and after putting this review aside for some days to consider the discretion of it, the word still stands."—Saturday Review
"This startling, unique, splendid book."—Mr. T. P. O'CONNOR, M.P.
"This is a decidedly powerful story of an uncommon type, and breaks fresh ground in fiction ... All the leading characters in the book—Almayer, his wife, his daughter, and Dain, the daughter's native lover—are well drawn, and the parting between father and daughter has a pathetic naturalness about it, unspoiled by straining after effect. There are, too, some admirably graphic passages in the book. The approach of a monsoon is most effectively described.... The name of Mr. Joseph Conrad is new to us, but it appears to us as if he might become the Kipling of the Malay Archipelago."—Spectator.
"Mr. Louis Becke wields a powerful pen, with the additional advantage that he waves it in unfrequented places, and summons up with it the elemental passions of human nature.... It will be seen that Mr. Becke is somewhat of the fleshly school, but with a pathos and power not given to the ordinary professors of that school.... Altogether for those who like stirring stories cast in strange scenes, this is a book to be read."—National Observer.
"The appearance of a new book by Mr. Becke has become an event of note—and very justly. No living author, if we except Mr. Kipling, has so amazing a command of that unhackneyed vitality of phrase that most people call by the name of realism. Whether it is scenery or character or incident that he wishes to depict, the touch is ever so dramatic and vivid that the reader is conscious of a picture and impression that has no parallel save in the records of actual sight and memory."—Westminster Gazette.
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"A notable contribution to the romance of the South Seas."—T. P. O'CONNOR, M.P., inThe Graphic.
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"'Paddy's Woman and Other Stories' by Humphrey James; a volume written in the familiar diction of the Ulster people themselves, with perfect realism and very remarkable ability.... For genuine human nature and human relations, and humour of an indescribable kind, we are unable to cite a rival to this volume."—The World.
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