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 640 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. ILiiuatiE. This family of Habbixg is a Devonsliire one, and during tlii' first lialf of the present oentury was located at Milverton, near Taunton, oo. Somerset. Mr. Justice Harding is only eon of the late Key. Geokge Eogers Haedino, LL.B., Scsidence — St. John's Wood, Brisbane, Queensland, rector of Gittisliani, CO. Devon (Iiy Elizabeth, his wife, daughter of P. WiNiEB. of Watts House, Bishop's lydeard, co. Somerset) ; and grandson of Chkistopher Hakdisg, by Mary RoGEBS, his wife. iHatr. MAJOR WILLIAM GILBERT MAIR, of Auckland, New Zealand, judge of the Native Land Court of New Zealand, l>. at the Baj- of Islands, New Zealand, 20th November, 1832 ; m. at Alexandra, Auckland, ISth May, 1872, Jane Cafhcart, eldest daughter of Alexander Black, of New South Wales, and ha.s issue, I. Haeold Marmaduke, h. 4th November, 1874. ]i. Norman William Lynedoch, I. 13 ih September, 1876. I. Florence Agneta Alexandra. Major Mair, who holds his rank in the New Zealand Militia, served with distinction during the Maori war, in which he saw much active service. He was government agent and resident magistrate at Waikato from 1870 to 1882, and is a judge of the Native Land Court of New Zealand. slincagc. The Maies were formerly landed pro- prietors in the valley of the Deveron, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and at the end of last century embarked in the shipping trade at Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. Egbert Mair, d. at Peterhiad, N.B., about 1845. By Miss Johxstone, his wife, who d. at Peterhead, he was father of GiLBEET Maie, who was b. at Peterhead, fi.B., loth Juue, 1800; was among the early settlers in New Zealand, and became a leading merchant and shipowner at Eussell, Bay of Islands ; was appointed a justice of the peace upon the proclamation of the Q'leen's sovereignty over the islands of New Zealand ; and afterwards devoted himself to farming. He m. at Parramalta, New South Wales, 1827, Elizabeth, daughter of William PucKKT, of Penrbyn, co. Cornwall, who was one of the band of missionaiics sent by the London Cliurcli Missionary Society to Tahiti, South Seas, in the ship "Dufl'," early in this century, and who afterwards became natural history collector to the government of New South Wales. She d. 12th November, 1870, at Deveron, W'hangarei, New Zealand. He d. at the same place, July, 1857, having had issue, " I. Eobi>rt, 111. E. N . EoriT, and has issue, four sons and three daughters. II. Henry Abbolt, m. J. N. Grie.nwat, and d. leaving issue, two daughters. III. AVilltam Gilbert fMajor), of AucUand, the subjeit of this memoir. IV. Gilbert, of Duncdin, Captain in the New Zealand Militia, gained the decoration of the New Zealand Cross for di>tinguished bravei'v in the Maori war; is interpreter to the New Zealand Parliament, m. E. K. Sper- REY, and has issue, one son and one daugliter. I. Caroline Elizabeth, m. W. Bedlixg- TON, and has issue, three sons and one daughter. II. ilarian, m. G. J. Eraser, who rf. leaving issue, two sons and two daughters. III. Charlolte, m. 18f.2, Sir Walter Lawry Biller, E.C.M.G., F.E.S., J.P. of Wellington, New Zealand, who was b. 9ih October, 1838, was a member of the New Zealand Com- mission in London for the Colonial and Irdian Exhibition of 18S6, and for his services was created K.C.M.G., having been made C.M.G. in 1875. He is a barrister-at-law ; is doctor of science, fellow of sevei al learned societies ; and author of The Birds tf Ne^v Zealand ; son of the Ecv. James BrLiER, of Canterbury, New- Zealand. She d. 1st November 1801, having had issue, iv>'0 sons and one daughter. ' IV. Jessie Eliza, m. Jame-- Davis, who d. leaving issue, two sons and live daughters.