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 libraries. He was at this time a contributor to the Otago Daily Times, and was consulted from time to time by the New Zealand Government on educational, statistical, and other public matters. When the Colonial Education Act of 1877 became law, Mr. Hislop accepted by invitation the position of secretary to the newly constituted Education Department, and he held this office until 1886, when he obtained permission to retire. He was elected a F.R.S. Edin. in 1878, and on his revisiting Scotland in 1882 the honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by his alma mater, the University of Edinburgh. Dr. Hislop now resides at Dunedin, where he is a member of the representative commission for the periodical readjustment of the parliamentary electoral districts. He is also a director of the Colonial Bank of New Zealand and of the Mosgiel Woollen Factory Company. Dr. Hislop was married at Edinburgh on June 2nd, 1846, to Miss Johanna Campbell Horne.

Hislop, Hon. Thomas William, sometime a Minister of the Crown in New Zealand, is the son of, LL.D. (q.v.) and Johanna Campbell (Horne) his wife. He was born on April 8th, 1850, at Kirknewton, near Edinburgh, and arrived in Dunedin, N.Z., with his parents in Sept. 1856. Having embraced the legal profession, he was admitted a barrister and solicitor of New Zealand in August 1871, and was Crown solicitor at Oamaru from 1872 to 1876, when he was returned to the House of Representatives, in which he sat till 1880, when he resigned, but again held a seat from 1885 to 1890, when he was defeated at the general election. Mr. Hislop was Colonial Secretary in the last Atkinson Government from Oct. 1887 to Sept. 1889, and Minister of Education in the same Cabinet from July to Sept. 1889 and from Oct. 1889 to Jan. 1891, when Sir Harry Atkinson resigned. Mr. Hislop was appointed an officer of the Legion of Honour by the French Government in consideration of his services in securing the effective representation of New Zealand at the Paris Exhibition in 1889. He married in 1873 Miss Simpson, of Dunedin, and practises as a barrister at Wellington.

Hitchin, Edward William, formerly Auditor-General, South Australia, was appointed clerk in the Registrar-General's department in that colony in 1850; clerk in the Colonial Secretary's department in 1851; second assistant Colonial Secretary in 1856; secretary to the Commissioner of Crown Lands and Immigration in 1857; secretary to the Commissioner of Public Works in 1859; Under-Treasurer in 1860; and Auditor-General in 1868. He retired from the Civil Service on Jan. 30th, 1883, and died on June 6th, 1885.

Hixson, Capt. Francis, commanding naval forces, New South Wales, is a native of Dorsetshire, and, entering the Royal Navy, arrived at Sydney in H.M.S. Havannah in 1848. When the Havannah was paid off, in 1852, he was appointed to the Herald, and when that vessel left Australian waters, in 1861, he was employed as chief assistant, to Commander Sidney in the survey of the coasts of New South Wales. In Jan. 1863 he left the navy, having reached the rank of "master," and was appointed superintendent of pilots, lighthouses, and harbours in New South Wales. In the same year he organised the New South Wales Naval Brigade, which he commanded for many years. He was appointed President of the Marine Board of that colony in April 1872, a position he has held ever since, and is Captain commanding the Naval Forces. Captain Hixson married in 1861 Sarah, second daughter of the Hon. Francis Lord, of New South Wales.

Hobbs, William, one of the earliest colonists of Queensland, practised as a doctor in Brisbane, and was for a considerable period the Government medical officer. He was nominated to the Legislative Council of Queensland, and was a member of the first responsible government, without portfolio, under the premiership of Mr. (now Sir), the permanent Under-Secretary for the Colonies, from April 1861 to Jan. 1862. Mr. Hobbs married a daughter of Mr. Barton, and sister of Mr. Edmund Barton, of Sydney. He died in Brisbane on Dec. 8th, 1890.

Hobhouse, Right Rev. Edmund, D.D., first Bishop of Nelson, N.Z., second son of the Right Hon. Henry Hobhouse, and brother of Lord Hobhouse, by Harriet, sixth daughter of John Turton, of Sugnall Hall, co. Stafford, was born April 17th, 1817, and educated at Eton and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1838, M.A. 234