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 Harcus, William, J.P., was a native of England, and brought up to the ministry of the Independent Church. He emigrated to South Australia in 1866, and occupied the pulpit of Clayton Church, Norwood, in that colony; but soon left the ministry to join the staff of the South Australian Register. Subsequently he became editor of the Advertiser—a position which he held till his death. He was commissioned by the Government to compile an account of the colony, which was published by Messrs. Sampson Low & Co., under the title "South Australia: its History, Resources and Productions." He died on August 10th, 1886, at the age of fifty-six.

Harding, Hon. George Rogers, Puisne Judge, Queensland, is the only son of the late Rev. George Rogers Harding, LL.B., vicar of St. Anne's, Wandsworth, Surrey, by Elizabeth, daughter of P. Winter, of Bishop's Lydeard, Somerset, and was born on Dec. 3rd, 1838, at Ash Priors, Somerset. He was educated at Magdalen College, Cambridge, but did not graduate. He entered at Lincoln's Inn on June 1st, 1858, and was called to the bar on April 30th, 1861. He married, on May 7th, 1861, Emily, fourth daughter of Thomas Morris, of Stone House, Worcester; and secondly, at Brisbane, on Dec. 23rd, 1889, Miss Isabella S. Grahame. He emigrated to Brisbane in 1866, and was admitted to the Queensland bar the same year. He was appointed a commissioner under the Civil Procedure Reform Act of 1872, and senior Puisne Judge of Queensland in 1879. He was Acting Chief Justice in the absence of Sir Charles Lilley, 1883-4. Judge Harding visited England in 1890. He is author of treatises on the Acts and Orders of the Supreme Court of Queensland, Civil side, ditto Crown side, the Insolvency Act with notes, joint stock companies, and ecclesiastical law. He was one of the delegates of New Zealand to the Federation Conference held in Melbourne in 1890.

Hardman, Edward Townley, F.R.G.S.I., sometime Government Geologist of West Australia, was engaged on her Majesty's Geological Survey in Ireland, and became an Associate of the Royal College of Science in Dublin. He emigrated to West Australia, and was Government Geologist of that colony from 1882 to 1884, when he returned to Ireland, where he died on April 30th, 1887, at the age of forty-two. Mr. Hardman was attached to Kimberley (Western Australia) Survey Expedition in 1884, and furnished a valuable report of the expedition, illustrated with numerous sketches.

Hare, Charles Simeon, was born in America in 1808, and arrived in South Australia in Sept. 1836, with Sir John Morphett, to whom he acted as private secretary, and was subsequently employed by the South Australian Company. He was a vigorous opponent of State aid to religion and transportation, and sat in the Mixed Legislative Council for West Torrens from July 1851 to June 1854, when he resigned. In Jan. 1855 he was appointed a Commissioner for effectuating the wishes of Parliament in relation to the Adelaide and Gawler Railway Bill. In March 1857 he was elected to the first Legislative Assembly for Yatala, but resigned in the following May, on being appointed Superintendent of the Stockade. Mr. Hare became Manager of Railways in succession to Mr. Drake, in July 1860, but was removed from office in May 1865, in consequence of an accident to a train carrying the Governor and Ministry, for which a Commission of Inquiry held him culpable. After an experience of several years as a planter in Fiji, Mr. Hare returned to South Australia and managed a mine near Moonta. In 1875 he was an unsuccessful candidate for the representation of the latter district in the Assembly, his defeat being due to his opposition to the men's demands during the great Moonta strike, in 1874. Mr. Hare met with better success in 1878, and represented the district till 1880, when he resigned and revisited England, returning to South Australia in the following year. He died on July 22nd, 1882.

Hargrave, His Honour the Hon. John Fletcher, M.A., sometime Puisne Judge, New South Wales, was the eldest son of Joshua S. Hargrave, an ironmonger in Greenwich, where he was born on Dec. 28th, 1815. His father was a prominent Wesleyan, and he was educated in the tenets of that denomination. Going to London University when fourteen, he won a first-class certificate of honour for rhetoric in 1831; and was an intimate friend of the late Dr. Woolley, afterwards Principal of Sydney University. 215