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 from the family of the celebrated Sir Matthew Hale, and is the third son of the late Robert H. Blagden Hale of Alderley, Gloucestershire, and Cottles House, Wilts, by his marriage with Lady Theodosia Bourke, daughter of the 3rd Earl of Mayo. He was born in 1811 at Alderley, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1835 and M.A. in 1838. Having been successively curate of Tresham and Wotton-under-Edge in Gloucestershire, he was in 1839 appointed to the incumbency of Stroud in the same county. The next year he married Sophia, daughter of George Clode, of London, on whose death in 1845 he resigned Stroud, and was subsequently rector of Alderley, and then of Atworth and Wraxall in Wilts. In 1847 he met the late Bishop Short of Adelaide at a friend's house, and the latter persuaded him to go out to South Australia as his archdeacon. They went out in the same ship, and landed at Adelaide in Dec. 1847. The next year Archdeacon Hale accompanied the bishop on a visit to Western Australia, which at that time was included in the diocese of Adelaide. Here he married Sabina, eldest daughter of Lieut.-Colonel Molloy, an old Peninsular and Waterloo officer. In 1850 the archdeacon established the well-known aboriginal mission station at Poonindie, near Port Lincoln, S.A., and acted as its superintendent till 1856, when he resigned the archdeaconry of Adelaide on his being appointed first bishop of the newly constituted see of Perth, W.A. After paying a second visit of some months to Western Australia, Bishop Hale proceeded to England, and was consecrated in the chapel of Lambeth Palace on July 25th, 1857. He administered the diocese of Perth till 1875; when, on the unanimous nomination of the bishops of Australia and Tasmania, he was translated to the bishopric of Brisbane, Qd., rendered vacant by the retirement of Dr. Tuffnell. In March 1885 Bishop Hale resigned the latter see, and returned to England, where he officiated for some time as rector of Ozleworth, Gloucestershire. He has latterly resided at Cheltenham.

Hall, Edward Swarbreck, was born in England in 1804. Having entered the medical profession, he emigrated to Tasmania in 1833, and was appointed a medical officer under the Government, and subsequently house surgeon to the Hobart Hospital, which office he resigned in 1855 for private practice. He was active in philanthropic work, and especially exerted himself on behalf of the children in the Queen's Orphan Asylum and the inmates of the Government charitable institutions. In 1881 he was presented with a public testimonial from the citizens of Hobart in recognition of his services. In 1875 he was appointed Health Officer for Hobart. For twenty-five years he compiled and published the vital statistics of the colony. He is author of "Who Translated the Bible?" (Hobart, 1875), a work showing the part taken in the translation and dissemination of the Scriptures by the Roman Catholic Church, of which he was a member. He died at Hobart July 30th, 1881.

Hall, Hon. Sir John, K.C.M.G., M.H.R., formerly Premier of New Zealand, son of George Hall, of Elloughton, near Hull, was born at Hull on Dec. 18th, 1824, and educated on the Continent. In 1840-43 he was in a merchant's office, and subsequently became private secretary to the Secretary of the General Post Office. In 1852 he went out to Lyttelton, N.Z., and settled as a sheep farmer in Canterbury. Mr. Hall soon went into public life, entering the Canterbury Provincial Council in 1853, and in 1855 becoming Provincial Secretary, and in 1864 Secretary of Public Works. Until the abolition of provincial government Mr. Hall was thoroughly identified with Canterbury. In 1856 he was Resident Magistrate for Lyttelton, and Sheriff and Commissioner of Police, and in 1858 was appointed Resident Magistrate for Christchurch. In 1855 he was elected to represent Christchurch in the House of Representatives, and held office as Colonial Secretary in the Fox Ministry from May 20th to June 2nd, 1856. In 1862, after his return from a visit to England, he was nominated to the Legislative Council; but, resigning his seat in 1866, was elected to the House of Representatives for Heathcote, and took office in the Stafford Administration as member of the Executive Council (August 24th, 1866, to June 28th, 1869), Postmaster-General (August 24th, 1866, to Feb. 5th, 210