This text was transcribed from the print from the printed entry in The Cambridge History of the British Empire Volume VII Part 1: Australia, edited by J. Holland Rose, M.A., Vere Harmsworth Professor of Naval History in the University of Cambridge; Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge , A. P. Newton, M.A., Rhodes Professor of Imperial History in the University of London; Fellow of King's College, London , E. A. Benians, M.A. Fellow and Senior Tutor of St John's College, Cambridge, Advisor for the Dominion of Australia, Ernest Scott Professor of History in the University of Melbourne Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1933, pp. 455-90. The digital text transcription was created in 2001, and was sponsored by the New South Wales Centenary of Federation Committee.