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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

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