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 56 JOHNS'S NOTABLE AUSTRALIANS AND Boys* High School, Christchurch, Welling- ton College, Otago High School, Dunedin, and Otago University, where he graduated B.A. He studied law, was for two years private and literary Secretary to J. O. Williamson the well-known theatrical mana- ger, and afterward* represented a syndicate of New Zealand papers as war correspondent to China during the Boxer outbreak. He visited England in 1002, and returned to Australia in 1905. Author in conjunction with Alfred P. Hill (composer) of Hinemoa (cantata), and Tap* (Maori comic opera). His published works include Maoriland and Other Verses (Sydney, 1899), The Naearene (London, 1902), London Street* (1907)— all verse; Tu**ooh Land (novel); and articles in The Nineteenth Century, and various short stories in American and Eng- lish Trr g ^"** Unmarried. Recreation*— Lawn tennis and photography. Address — The Bulletin Office, Sydney. ADAMS, Joseph Robert George, Principal Librarian of the Public Library, Museum, and Art Gallery of South Australia ; 5. in Melbourne May 17 1859, *. of the late Joseph Adams of Hawthorn, Vic., and ed. at the Scotch College, Melbourne. He was appointed Assistant Librarian of the S.A. Institute in 1879, Assistant Librarian of the Public Library in 1884, and Librarian in 1896, and to his present position in May 1904. m. Alice Mary, d. of Robert Downing, Melbourne. Address — Public library, Ade- laide. a-nanjs^ Bobert Dudley; o. July 9, 1829, of English parents, and ed. at home by the family chaplain. As a youth he served in the Navy, was wounded in action and invali- ded. Afterwards he read for the law, and was for a time Private Secretary to the Hon. Sidney Herbert, who became Lord Herbert of Lea. He arrived in Sydney in September 1851, and later entered into partnership with Mr. Ford, Customs and Shipping Agent. This business, under the style of Ford, Adams, & Co., by which it is still known, became one of the largest of its kind in Australasia. The firm had transactions with London, the East, and New Zealand, and opened up the South Sea Island trade. In 1879, in co-operation with Sir George Wigram Allen and Sir Alexander Stuart in 8ydney, and with Lords Ashley and Colin Campbell and J. Upward in London, he founded the New South Wales Mortgage Land, and Agency Co., and in 1896, with the Hon. James Inglis and Colonel Burns, the Sydney Harbour Collieries, of both of which companies Mr. Adams remains Vice-Chair- man. He was consulted by the heads of various Governments, including Sir Henry Parkes, in connection with customs revenue duties, and was otherwise prominently con- nected with the tariff movement. He was also identified with numerous important public affairs in Sydney in earlier years, and served on most of the New South Wales) Commissions in connection with Interna- tional Exhibitions. For about a quarter of a century from the fifties he wrote article* on Australasian finance and resources for the London Times and English magazines, and contributed extensively to the daily press of Sydney and other publications. His volume of verse The Bong of the SUsrs, by "Alpha Crucis," was published by Cas- sell * Co. in 1888. Five generations of his family in unbroken line have served in the Army or Navy. m. 1846, Lavinia Amelie, nee Oomtesse de Vilme Hautemont (she died in 1904) ; issue six sons and one daughter — Florence Lavionica Deloitte, the present Oomtesse, the title being hereditary in the female line. Addre**— "Fernlee," Balmain, N.S.W.; WooIb^oke^s, Chambers, Sydney. ADAMSOV, Lawrence Arthur, 1C.A. (Melb.), B.A. (Oxon.), FJLG.S., Headmas- ter of Wesley College, Melbourne, sine* 1902; 6. Douglas, Isle of Man, Apr. 20, 1860, 2nd «. of Lawrence William Adam- son, LL.D., J.P., of Linden Hall, Northum- berland, and Eslington Lodge, Newcastle- on-Tyne, who was High Sheriff of Northum- berland in 1900 and is Deputy Lieutenant foi the same county, ed. Rugby School and Ox ford University, and called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1886. He arrived is Aust. in 1886, was admitted to the Victo- rian bar in 1887, Assistant Master of Wes- ley College. Melbourne, 1887-97, and Head- master of University High School 1898-1&OL He is a Fellow of Queen's College, Univer- sity of Melbourne, and a member of the Board of Public Examinations and of the Extension Board, University of Melbourne. He was President of the Victorian Amateur Athletic Association 1902-4, and sometime Chairman of the Australian Board of Ooni trol of International Cricket. Wesley College, Melbourne,