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182 pointed first Bishop of (^ristchurch in May 1887 by Pope Leo XIII., and consecrated July 26 of that year. Residence— Christ- church, N.Z.

OBXMWAOB, Son. Frederic* ffflMppadrtU senior partner of Felton, Grimwade ft Co., Melbourne, wholsesale druggists and manufac- turers; b. Harleston, Norfolk, Eng., Nov. 10. 1840, t. of Edward Grimwade, Ipswich, ed. Queen Elisabeth's Gram. Sch. Ipswich. Arrived In Aust in 1862. M.L.O. of Vic. for N. Yarra Province 1801-1904 ; President of Mel- bourne Chamber of Commerce 1888-4, an*] member of the Tariff Commission 1882-4 Is Chairman of Directors of Royal Bank of Aust, Chairman of Melb. Glass Bottle Work*, Chairman of J. Bosisto ft Co. Ltd., and Di- rector of Cumins;, Smith ft Co. Is a member of the Chapter of 8t Paul's OathL and of the Diocesan Council, m, Jessie Taylor Bprunt Recreation* — Farming and country pursuits. Addreet— Flinders Lane, Melbourne.

•BOOM, Hon. Uttleton Brnest, M.A., LL.M., M.P. for Darling; Downs (Qland) in the Federal Parliament, Attorney-General of the Commonwealth; ft. Toowoomba, Apr. 22, 1867, $. of late Hon. W. H. Groom (who was for 40 years in Qland public life, was sometime Speaker, end also first member of the House of Representatives for Darling 1 Downs), ed. State Sch., Gram. Sch. Toowoomba (Kent gold medal and Caledo- nian 8oc. Prize), and Ormond Coll. Univ. of Melbourne (Scholarship in 1887 in French and German Languages and Literature with 1st class honours ; on graduating in Arts in 1889 Scholarship with 1st class honours in English, French, end German Languages, and Literature; Ormond Debating Soc Essay Prize; Scholarship in final law exam, with honours, LL.M. 1891). Elected to first House of Representatives for Darling Downs as sup- porter of Barton Govt. Sept. 1901, upon th» death of his father, re-elected 1908 and 1906, member of Royal Comns. on Iron Bonus (1902), and Navigation Bills (1904-5), Minister of Home Affairs in the Deakin Govt from July 1905 to Oct 1906, when he became Attorney-General. Be- veral times Crown Prosecutor, and twice see- ing Judge of District Court Qland, Secretary to University Extension movement Brisbane, lectured on constitutional law for several years, member of Bd. of Examiners for barris- ters, member of Ch. of Eng. Synod and Dio- cesan Council, and Vice-Pres. of Sch. of Arts Brisbane. Joint Editor of Q'lsnd Digest, first numbers of Australsaian Annual Digest, the Supreme Court Reports of Qland (five volumes), and Torrens Digest; assisted Mr. G. W. Power in editing the Real Property Acts Q'lsnd, and Joint author with Hon. Sir John Quick, M.P., of first book on High Court Practice— the Judicial Power of the Commonwealth, m. 1894, Jessie, d. of Rev. Charles Bell of Presbyterian Church.

GROSSMANN, Edith Searle (Mrs.), New Zealand authoress. Her Novel A Knight of  the Holy Ghost was published in 1907.

CrBTTBTOT, Surtaoe Beardoe, K.O.; b. Oheetham Hill, Manchester, Dec. 80, 1849, e. of Frederick Grundy, who was tor manv years a solicitor practising in Manchester, ed. Cheltenham Coll. Gloucester. Arrived in Aust 1874. President of the 8.A. Literary Societies* Union 1904, Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Freemasons of S.A. since 1908, previously sometime Grand Lec- turer. President of the Adelaide Park Land* Preservation League. Q.O. 1900. m. Lisi, s. d. of the late Sir Richard Davles Hanson, Knt, Chief Justice of SJL and first Chancel- lor of the University. Address — Grenfell St, Adelaide ; The Red House, Mill Terrace, N. Adelaide.

GTTOOKOIT, Walter Bdwnrd, O.M.G., Colonel, New Zealand Commissioner for the Cook group; b. 1842. Formerly Judge of Native Land Court, New Zealand, Commis- sioner of Police for the Colony, and Acting Under Secretary for Defence. He served In the Maori War from 1864 to 1870. Deco- rated in 1901.

crararoru, wminm mobcrt, f.l.&, Director of the Botanic Gardens at Melbourne, succeeded Baron 8ir Ferdinand too Mueller as Director in 1878 ; b. Chelsea, Eng.. Dec. 18, 1848, and ed. at Winchester and by an uncle, Louis Delafosse, and Stack's School Sydney, studied botany under the late Wil- liam Sharpe McLeay, John MacGfllivray, and Dr. Woolls. He arrived in Aust In 1858. He was botanist on board H.M.S. Challenger dur- ing a cruise in South Sea Islands In 1863, and afterwards was a sugar planter in Queensland. He has entirely remodelled the Melbourne Botanic Gardens snd added 39 acres since his appointment There are now 40 acres of spacious lawns of buffalo grass. He classified the plants (now 14,000 species)