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CONTENTS
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Lord Carnarvon on Australian development, 189
"Australia for the Australians," 189
Census Returns—Three out of every five persons in Victoria natives, 190
"Natives Association," 190
Racial and national speculations, 191
Anew "Utopia," 191-194
Comments by an old Pioneer, 195-198
Dr. Hearn's "Aryan Household," 195, 196
Are the opinions of Young Australia day-dreams? 199, 200
Echoes of the outworn traditions of Downing Street, 201, 202
Sir Henry Taylor's minute to Lord Carlingford, 1865, 202, 203
Sir Henry's comments thereon, 1885, 204
Policy of Colonial independence originated with Sir James Stephen, but never countenanced in Australia, 204, 205
Dr. Lang's "Coming Event," 204, 205
The typical colonist apathetic about Imperial Federation, 206
Lord Salisbury's opening speech at Colonial Conference, 207-210
"A matter purely of self-interest," 210
Are the colonies safer in the Empire? 210
America after the Declaration of Independence, 210
Colonies in the 18th and 19th centuries, 212
Effects of steam and telegraph, 212
Bars to legislative union, 214
What is meant by Imperial Federation? 214
Sir Henry Parkes' scheme of local federation, 214, 217
Queensland and Western Australia omitted, 216-218
Mr. James Service's successful efforts to initiate a "bund" between Victoria, Queensland, Tasmania, and West Australia, 217
"Foreign Pressure," 218
New South Wales, South Australia and New-Zealand stood out 218
"The Phantom at Hobart," 218
Imperial Federation a misnomer without Imperial Free-trade, 219
Victorian customs duties, 219
Must we drift? 220
The change of sentiment now shaping new Nationalities and combinations of peoples, 220
George Borrow and the Spanish Alcalde, 221
"The Grand Baintham," 221
South American Republics, 221, 222
Effect of the American Civil War, 222
The Republic of George Washington and that of M. Grevy, 223
The crux of the problem, 223
Can the colonies be received on equal terms into an Imperial alliance? 223
The question of Colonial Governorships—The Queen to appoint direct on advice from the Self-governing Colonies, instead of the Governor being a Downing Street nominee, 224-231
Over-centralisation, 230
Itinerant Councils, and peripatetic Secretaries-of-State, 231