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346 January 8, 1904, leaving a long? list of beneficiaries, and half of the resi- due to charities of Victoria, and half to the Trustees of the National Gallery, Melbourne, for the purchase of works of art, pictures and sculpture, each about £8,000 per annum. Endowed with great wealth, he succeeded In acquiring- an art collection second to none outside the public galleries- Under his will he gave In addition to the annuity the whole of his library of books and art treasures to the National Gallery of Victoria.

rXBOUBOV, Hon. John (1880-1906), Queensland legislator, was toon at Killln, Perthshire, Scotland, 15th March 1830, and settled at Rockhamp ton In 1861; President of the Central Queensland Territorial Separation League, and visited England In 1892 as one of the delegation which plac&l the Separation question before the Colonial Office. He was sometime a member of the Queensland Legislature, and sat in the Senate of the first Commonwealth Parliament

FHBOUftSOV, Bt. Son. Sir James (1882-1907), sixth Bart., O.C.&L. K.C.M.G., CLE., LL.D., Governor of South Australia from 1869 to 1S73. and of New Zealand from 1873 to 1876; born at Edinburgh, son of lifts Jiart., whom he succeeded in 1849. He sat as Conservative member in the House of Commons for North-East Manchester from 1885, and was Under Secretary for the India, Home and Foreign Offices, and Postmaster-Gene- ral, and sometime Governor of Bombay. He served in the Crimea. CreatM a Privy Councillor In 1868. Killed at Kingston, Jamaica, during the earthquake of January 1907.

TC8XBV, Archibald (1829-1907), pastonlist, was born in Glasgow, ani arrived in Melbourne in 1840 with his father and uncle who settled on Ir.- arliston in 1841, and afterwards purchased Warren Help and Lai Lai. He was a leading pioneer pastoralist of Victoria, entered Into business as stock and station agent In Ballarat, founded the firm of Fisken, Read & Co., of Melbourne and Ballarat, and he was also a founder of the Melbourne wool trade. Was Chairman of one of the first Land Boards, and President of the first Shire in Victoria, and Managing Director of the Australian Mortgage and Agency Co for many years.

FITZOIBBOir, Edmund Gerald, C.M.G. (1825-1905), was born at Cork. Ireland, In 1825, son of Gibbon Carew Fitsgibbon, descendant of the White Knight. He arrived In Australia in 1852, was Town Clerk of Melbourne, from 1866 to 1891, and thereafter until his death Chairman of the Metro- politan Board of Works. He was prominently identified with the civie history of Melbourne. Died 11th December 1905. (See John*>$ KotabU Auitralxwu 1st ed.).

FO£,BEST, Alexander, C.M.G. (1849-1901), explorer, born In Western Australia, youngor brother of the Rt. Hon. Sir John Forrest, whom he accompanied on his expeditions of 1870 and 1874. In 1879 he crossed from the De Grey River to Daly Waters Station in the Northern Territory, and on this expedition discovered the source and course of the Fltxroy and other rivers as well as some of the most valuable country in the northern part of Western Australia, since stocked with cattle and sheep, and where sreat mineral wealth may yet be developed. Ho was elected to the first Legislative Assembly of the colony for West Kimberley, and was some- time Mayor of Perth.

POSTBB, Bon. Henry (1848-1902), Minister .of Mines in the Turner Government, Victoria, from 1894 to 1899, and member of the Legislative Assembly for East Gippsland until his death 25th May 1902.