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 1G8 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. in 1859, on which he formed stations, and for many years was settled at Thargomindah, until 1875. He also opened up the country on the BuUoo, Wilson, and several other rivers. Mr. Dowling was appointed a justice of the peace for the colony of New South Wales in I860, and for Queensland on the formation of that colony. In Queensland he holds several stations, among them the Gummin Gummin station. He purchased from Dr. Cox in 1877 the estate of Luie, which consists of 14,900 acres of land, on which are pastured many sheep, the wool from which has taken numerous prizes, among them the gold medal at Calcutta and the silver medal at Amsterdam. Htneaae. Vincent George Dowling, Esq., a war correspondent, brother of Sir James Dowling, Knight, who was father of His Honour James Sheen Dowling, of Sydney, New South Wales, district court judge; was for many years editor of Bell's Life in London, and he it was who first caught Beliingliam after the assassination of the Right Hon. Spencer Perce- val, cliancellor of the exchequer and prime minister of England, in the lobby of the House of Commons, 11th May 1812. He was father of WiLLOUGHBT Dowling, Esq., who emi- grated to New South Wales in 1830, and resided at Flinton, near Sydney. He m. in 1834, and d. in 1848 (his widow surviving till 1870), having had issue. I. Vincent James, of Luie. II. John Francis, murdered by blacks in Queensland while exploring, 1865; viim. I. Susan Emily, m. Francis Alexander Powell, Esq., eldest son of Nathaniel Powell, Esq. of Turalla, Bungendore, New South Wales, J. P., and has issue two sons and two daughters. Arms used — Or on a bend az. a stag's head cabossed between two billets. Crest — A falcon belled and jessed, holding in the dexter claw a sword. Motto — Fortis et egregius. Residence — Liiie, Rylstone, New South Wales, Australia. Club — Union, Sydney. DENISON, LIEUT.-COLONEL FREDERICK CHARLES, C.M.G. (1885), F.R.H.S., of Rusholme, Toronto, Canada, lieut. -colonel in Governor- General's Body Guard, M.P. for West Toronto, Canada, h. at Rusholme, Toronto, 22nd November, 1846; m. at Chippawa, Niagara Falls, Ontario, 22nd April, 1874, Julia Abigail, daughter of Oliver Tiffany Macklem, Esq. of Niagara Falls, Ontario, and lins issue, I. Frederick Coningham, h. 5th July, 1875. II. Harold Edmund, h. 3rd June, 1878. III. Edgar Street, h. 13th August, 1879. IV. Victor Edward, h. 13th December, 1882. V. Gordon Cyril, h. 30th March, 1885. VI. Egerton Boyer, h. 6th February, 1887. I. Jessie Florence. II. Dora Louise. Colonel Denison was called to the Bar 1870, and was alderman of the city of Toronto from 1878 to 1884 ; was a cornet in the Governor-General's Body Guard during Fenian raid into Canada in 1866 ; served as orderly officer to Sir Garnet (now Viscount) Wolseley in the Red River Expedition of 1870, appointed captain in 1872, major in 1876, and lieut.-colonel in 1884. Went to Egypt in command of Canadian voyageurs, employed by the Imperial Government in the campaign in the Soudan, 1884 — 85, for the relief of