266 
loans on, 244; seasonal changes, 
119; quotations of Aus. stocks, 108. 
Exports, after 1880, 79ff.; price 
levels, 97; and loans, 129, 134, 187, 
196; and production, 196. See 
Trade. 
IND 
Factors, of production and loans, 178. 
Federation, effects of, 104 ff. 
Finance, Anglo-Australian, 47; after 
1860, 40; F. Dillon Bell on, 48; 
early troubles, 9; Melbourne domi- 
nance after 1860, 40 (see Bank); 
Imperial, 155. See Contents. 
Freight, charges, 146, 203 ff.; index 
of, 149, 204; Viner on, 146 ff. 
Glasgow, City of, bank failure, 47. 
Gold, discoveries, 22 ff.; embargo on 
export, 216; Hawtrey on, 117 ff.; 
movements, 95, 125 (see Contents); 
after 1901, 132; after 1914, 185 ff.; 
return to, 214, 219 ff.; Mount 
Morgan, 44, 59; production, 34 fi. 
Gregory, T. E., on Bank of England, 
14; on discount rate, 223; on 
return to gold, 216. See Foreword. 
Hawtrey, on causes of capital move- 
ments, 116 ff. ; international credit, 
118 ft. ; exchange, 116 fi. 
[mmigration, 81, 210. 
Imports, and loans, 128 ff., 187, 195; 
capital goods after 1850, 32; after 
1900, 198 ff.; excess of, 17, 118; 
price levels, 97. See Trade. 
(mperial finance, 1565. 
[ncome, ‘disposable’, 237. 
Indebtedness, balance of, 6, 141 ff., 
160 ff., 193 ff., 211 ff. ; estimates of 
public, 169 ff., 193 ff,, 211 ff.; and 
wealth, 235 ff. 
index, of prices, see Prices, Contents; 
of wages, 99, 137; of freight, 149, 
204; of productivity, 238. 
Industry and capital, 244. 
Inflation, after 1850, 27; war-time, 
164, 188; Copland on, 188. 
Insurance, on imports, 150, 205; 
investments abroad by Aus. com- 
panies, 158, 211. 
[nterest on public debt, 150, 205 {i., 
251. See Indebtedness. 
[nternational Trade, see Trade. 
Investments (see Capital), Australian, 
abroad, 158, 211; and tariff, 155. 
Johnston, R. M., on borrowing, 226. 
Joint Stock Companies Act, 1862, 42. 
BX 
Keynes, J. M., on credit, 201 ; imports 
and loans, 199 ff.; return to gold, 
214 ff. 
Knibbs, on price indexes, 98, 135. 
Land, bank policy and the, 13 ff.; 
booms, 7, 11 ff., 55 ff., 59; banks in 
1890, 52, 63 ff.; rewards to, rent, 
179; sales 1830-40, 11; after 1850, 
27, 46. 
Lehfeldt, on return to capital, 153. 
Loans, argument for, 226; Aus. and 
U.S.A. cfd, 126; and imports, 
128, 198; and govt. revenue, 234; 
and capital goods, 200; and stan- 
dards of living, 231; and tariff policy, 
249 ; ‘business’, 1564, 225; classified, 
1901, 155; diminishing returns 
from, 235 ; expenditure, 240 ; muni- 
cipal, 208; regulation, xiii, 123; 
statistics, 47, 52, 93, 108 fi., 122, 
153, 178; stoppage of, effects, 47, 
52, 108, 111 fi., 174 ff., 243 ff. See 
Contents. 
Marshall, Alfred;-on imports, 141; 
capital export, 163; statistics, 172. 
Melbourne, dominance in finance 
after 1860, 40, 46. 
Migration, assisted, 209. 
Mining after 1860, 40 ff. 
Monopoly, organization towards, 3 ff. 
Mount Morgan, 59. 
Municipal loans, 155, 208. 
New Zealand, after 1872, 74. 
Overend Gurney crisis, 43. 
Overseas trade, see Trade. 
Pastoral industry, 45, 54, 57, 64; 
and banks, 58 n. - 
Phillips and Wood, Peopling of Austra- 
lia, 228. 
Population and borrowing, 80, 247. 
Port charges, 148. 
Price, A. G., on 1840 in 8. Aus., 19. 
Prices, Copland on, 164 ff. ; after 1830, 
14 ; after 1870, 45; after 1880, 96 ff. ; 
after 1900, 133 ff., 167, 189; 
changes in group (sectional), 31, 
136, 232; metals, 106, 114. See 
Contents. 
Private capital, 168. See Capital. 
Productivity, fluctuations, 6 ff., index 
of, 238; and debt, 1890, 84; and 
exports, 196; after 1900, 238. 
Prosperity (see Booms), after 1872, 
46; after 1880, 50; after 1906, 154. 
Public, debt, in 1870, 45 ff.; in 1887, 
78 ff.; after 1900, 153 ff.; after