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Rh der reponsible Govt in 1890, and sits for 8- Wert. Province, for which ho via first elected in 1894. Member of Federation Can- mention tit Sydney 1891 and of the Conven- tion which framed the Oomwlth. Constitu- tion 1897-8, alao delegate to Federal Council 1895, 1897, and 1899. Declined Knighthood in 1902. Past Grand Hester of the Grand Lodge of Freemaaona of WJL, President of the Zoological Gardens, and of West Aus- tralian Museum, Library, and National Gal- lery, Registrar of the Diocese of Perth, and Chancellor of St. George's Cathedral, Chair, man of the. Karrakatta Cemetery Board, Chairman of the University Endowment Trustees, and of the University Extension Committee, Chnirmin of the Board adminis- tering the South African War Relief Fund, and President of the Caves Board, at. 1905 j Deborah Vernon, 8rd d. of Fred. Brockman, and has issue one daughter. Address— St GeoraysTerrace, Perth. » EAXCOXB, Prederlok, m.A„ Clerk of the Parlts. and Legislative Council South Austra- lia since May 1901; b. Marlborough, Wilts. Eng., 1886, ed. King Edward VL Gram. Sen. and at Macclesfield, and WadhamOolL Oxford (BJL 1859 and M.A.). Arrived in S.A. in 1861, entered the public service as Parlia- mentary Librarian in 1870, was Clerk As- sistant of the Legislative Council 1874-87, and Clerk of the House of Assembly 1887- 1901. ZAXJatt, AUnd Arthur Oraanwood, novelist, lecturer, and special correspondent of London Daily News; p. Kent Town, Ade- laide, July 21, 1860, ». of F. Q. Hales, manufacturer, and ed. Baker's and Burgan's Academies, Adelaide. At the outbreak of the Boer War he proceeded to South Africa, was wounded at Slingers- fontein while serving as special correspon- dent for the London Daily News, and was offered a comm i s si on in scouts attached to Bundle's column in the same campaign for services rendered. He served as an officer in the insurgent ranks during the Macedonian struggle against the Turks in 1908. His articles appearing in the London Press on Macedonian affairs were translated into the Bulgarian language, and are now used as a text book in schools of that country by order of the Minister of Education. He was special correspondent for the Daily News during the first year of the Japanese-Busso war. He has lectured in England, America, South Africa, and Australia. Author of MoGluaky, Gamp Fire Sketches. Campaign Pictures, Driscoll King of Scouts, Jsir the Apostate, Angel Jim, Molly Mickeldene, Little Blue Pigeon, The Watcher on the Tower, and The Viking Strain, and many m a gsrinc stories, poems, and several songs, m. Emmaline Pritchard of Adelaide. Address —Leigh-on-sea, Essex, England. ■' (■ T i T i, David mobart, M.P., member of the House of Representatives for Werriwa, N.S.W., barrister-at-law; 6. at Bright, Vic- toria, 1874, and ed. at Cooma and Forest Lodge public schools and Sydney University. Admitted to the bar 1908. He was member of the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales for Gunnedah from July 1902 to August 1905, Secretary to the Navigation Commission 1906, and returned to the House of Representatives Dec. 1906. Addw— 69 Elisabeth St., Sydney.

Hall, Eisie Stanley, pianist; b. at Toowoomba, Darling Downs, Queensland, d. of W. Stanley Hall, a Queensland and Syd- ney journalist. Before two years of age she manifested the poss e s si on of a remark- able musical gift. In 1888 her mother took her to Stuttgart, where she was at once admitted to the Oonservatorium on the Professors hearing her at the piano, and she became the special pupil of Professor Pruck- ner. At 12 she played by command before the Queen of Wurtemberg, before she was 18 won a pianoforte scholarship at the Lon- don Royal College of Music in open compe- tition from among 46 competitors, and at 18 took the blue ribbon of the musical world — the Mendelssohn Stent Stipendium — competed for at Berlin. At that period Miss Hall was a student at the Berlin School of Music, of which Professor Joachim was the Principal. She was the first British lady, if not the first British subject, to gain the coveted distinction, which is an annual prise given by the German Government to per- petuate the memory of the great composer. She toured Australia and New Zealand during 1897-1900, after which for a year she was Pianoforte Professor at the Elder Conservatorium of Music, Adelaide, and played by command before the Prince an" Princess of Wales in that city. Subsequentlv she returned to London to pursue her profes-