INDEX
A
Abdullah, Sultan, his banishment, 76, 77
Aberdeen, Lord, in Edinburgh, 58
Abergele, 262
Addison, Joseph, quoted, 25
Adelaide, H. H. at, 100
Agricultural Conference in Jamaica, 88
——Parcel Post, 279
Alexandra, Queen, thanks H. H., 242
Algiers, 188
Allen, Captain J. D., 47
Alverstone, Lord, on Government Whips, 23
Amettes, France, 61
Amsterdam Exhibition, the, 10
Anderson, Sir James, on the Mauritian cable, 82, 224
Anglo-American Parliamentary Chess Tournament, an, 52
——Penny Postage, 11, 36, 83, 135, 157, 191–197, 207, 247
Anglo-Australian Parliamentary Chess Match, an, 53
——Penny Postage, establishment of, 11, 31, 180, 182–184, 199, 200, 210, 215–221
Arctic expeditions, 145, 149
Ardiert Abbey, Kerry, izo
Arena, H. H. on cable reform in, 223
Argentine, the, H. H. in, 95
Argyll, Duke of, 110
——supports H. H., 111, 198, 225, 226
Army and Navy Estimates, 17, 30
Arnold, E. M., 50
Artillery, Royal, officers of the, 156
Asquith, Rt. Hon. H. H., as Chancellor of the Exchequer, 191
——on H. H., 198
Athenæum Club, the, 141
Atherlcy, Hamilton, 120
Australia, British Parliamentary party visit, 101
——cable communication with, 224, 225
Australia, Carlyle's interest in, 151
——copper mines in, 159
——gold mining in, 10, 16, 160
——Government of, 79, 167, 168
——H. H.'s early life in, 4–9, 131, 158–166, 216
——H. H.'s library on, 122
——H. H. visits, 71, 85, 95–102, 141, 153, 168, 192, 220, 242
——introduction of sheep into, 165
its contingent in the Dardanelles, 169
——its Navy, 101
——"Member for," vii, 10, 149
——postal communications of, 11, 31, 174, 180–184, I99, 200, 210, 215–221
——Sir George Reid, High Commissioner for, 43, 48
——tin-mines in, 165
Australian Banks, their testimonia to H: H., 242
Commonwealth Building, the, 141
Australian Dictionary of Dates and Men of the Time, The, 9, 159
Australian Town and County Journal, 5, 6
Austria, postal system of, 188, 279
B
Back River, the, 149, 150
Baker, Captain E. J., 72
Balcarres, Lord, as Junior Whip, 27
Balfour, Lady Frances, 113
Balfour, Rt. Hon. A. J., 15, 107, 111
——defeated in 1906, 30, 31, 86
——his gum-trees, 20
——Sir H. Parkes on, 167
Ballarat, 168
Ballyhooley, 137
Banks, Sir John, Queen's Physician, 120
Barlow, Sir Thomas, 139
Barrow-in-Furness, 133
Barton, Mrs, of Geneva, 251
Bath, H. H. at, 139
——Mr Birrell at, 22
