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 Australia to take out special surveys of land—viz., at Little Para and the Three Brothers, near Echunga. He was one of the committee appointed to name the streets of Adelaide, and purchased sixty-four acres at the first Government sale of town lands, so that had he been able to retain his property he would have become one of the wealthiest men in Australia. As it was, he had to begin life over again, and was much handicapped in the race. When the Burra mines were opened he started as a carrier between the capital and the mines, and then took the position of mercantile manager in a solicitor's office. In 1852 he went to the Victorian diggings, and was fairly successful. Returning to Adelaide, he embraced various employments, and then purchased a station on the Coorong, which also proved a failure. After further vicissitudes he was, in 1870, appointed accountant in the goods department of the Government Railways. When the Goods and Traffic departments were amalgamated he became assistant accountant, later on accountant, and finally accountant and comptroller of all railway accounts. This position he held until his retirement, owing to failing health, in June 1883. Mr. Hack married at Hardshaw, Lancashire, on July 9th, 1829, Bridget, daughter of William Watson and Martha his wife, who died in 1881. He died at the Semaphore on Oct 4th, 1884. His brother, Stephen Hack, who shared his misfortunes, did some valuable exploring work under the South Australian Government. One of Mr. J. B. Hack's sons, Mr. Theodore Hack, was elected a member of the Legislative Assembly in 1890; and a granddaughter, Miss Guli Hack, daughter of his son, Charles, was the winner of the Elder Scholarship to the Royal College of Music, where she greatly distinguished herself.

Hackett, Hon. John Winthrop, M.L.C., was called to the Irish bar in Nov. 1874, and to that of Victoria in March 1876. He was Sub-Warden of Trinity College, Melbourne, and entered into the political controversies of the day as a strong Liberal on the land question, contesting Sandridge in that interest against Dr. Madden. Removing to Western Australia he became part-proprietor of the Western Australian published in Perth. When responsible government was conceded, at the end of 1890, he was nominated a member of the new Legislative Council, and one of the Western Australian delegates at the Federation Convention in Sydney, in 1891.

Haddon, Frederick William, editor of the Melbourne Argus, was born on Feb. 8th, 1839, at Croydon, Surrey, and educated at private schools. He was for some time simultaneously Assistant-Secretary of the Statistical Society of London, and of the Institute of Actuaries of Great Britain and Ireland. He also assisted to edit the Journal of the Statistical Society, and wrote on statistical subjects in several London journals. Leaving England at the age of twenty-four, he arrived in Victoria in Dec. 1863; under engagement to the proprietors of the Argus, of which he was first a contributor and afterwards sub-editor. He was appointed editor of the Australasian early in 1865, and editor of the Argus, a position which he still holds. On Jan. 1st, 1867, Mr. Haddon visited India, the continent of Europe, and England in 1874, returning to Australia by way of America. He revisited England in 1879 on account of ill-health, and was requested to informally champion the views of the Victorian Constitutional party in influential quarters at home, in opposition to the Berry embassy, which was then in London. In pursuance of this object, he interviewed nearly all the leading British statesmen and metropolitan editors, wrote letters to the Times and other journals, and published a pamphlet giving a history of the Constitutional difficulty in Victoria, which was laid before the British Cabinet and sent to every member of both Houses of Parliament, and the editor of every political newspaper in Great Britain. Mr. Haddon returned to Victoria after the conclusion of the embassy, in 1879. He has been twice married.

Hadfield, Right Rev. Octavius, Bishop of Wellington and Primate of New Zealand, son of Joseph Hadfield, of Bonchurch, Isle of Wight, was born in 1816, and matriculated at Pembroke College, Oxford, on Feb. 19th, 1832, but was obliged to leave the University because of ill-health. He proceeded to Australia, and while in deacon's orders accompanied the Bishop (Broughton) of Australia to New Zealand 208