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 Windermere in 1889 and for the East Bourke Boroughs in April 1892.

Jones, John, the third son of Thomas Jones, one of the early settlers in New South Wales, was born in Sydney in March 1809. Early in life he entered into commercial ventures, and was part owner of several whaling vessels, which made New Zealand their headquarters. In 1839 he bought an extensive property from the natives at Waikouaiti, in what was afterwards the province of Otago, and in the following year induced some thirteen families to proceed from New South Wales and settle in the new colony. Mr. Jones was thus the original settler in Otago, and had done much to colonise it long before Captain Cargill and his fellows arrived in 1848. He continued to live in Dunedin, as the capital of the new settlement was called, until his death on March 16th, 1869. Mr. Jones was married in 1830, at Sydney, to Miss Sarah Sizemore, who died in 1864. He founded the Harbour Steam Navigation Company, which was the precursor of the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand, which still has its headquarters at Dunedin.

Jones, Richard, was born in Liverpool in 1816, emigrated in 1838 to Sydney, and worked at his trade as a printer until 1842, when he joined in starting the Maitland Mercury, of which he was sole proprietor from 1846 to 1854, when he returned to Sydney. He was elected to the first Assembly under responsible government for Durham in 1856, and was Colonial Treasurer under Mr. (afterwards Sir) Chas. Cowper, from Sept. 1857 to Jan. 1858, when he resigned. In 1859 he was returned for the Hunter District, and in the following year, on the resignation of the Forster Ministry, was asked by the Governor, Sir William Denison, to form a Ministry. He, however, declined the duty, and very shortly afterwards retired from political life. He has been chairman of that most successful institution the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney for many years past.

Jordan, Henry, M.L.A., was born in Lincoln on Nov. 22nd, 1818, and educated at Bramwell's Boarding School, Penzance, Kingswood School, and the London Institution for Diseases of the Teeth. In Feb. 1856 he arrived in Queensland, and was a member of the first Board of Education in Queensland, and represented the city of Brisbane in the first session of the first Parliament. From Jan. 1861 to Dec. 1866 he was in London as Commissioner and Agent-General for Immigration, and from 1868 to 1871 he sat in the Assembly as member for East Moreton. In 1875 he was appointed Registrar-General, which office he held until 1883. He was elected to the Assembly for South Brisbane in the same year. In August 1887 he succeeded Mr. C. B. Dutton as Minister for Lands, and went out of office with his colleagues in June 1888. At the general election in that year he was re-elected for South Brisbane, and died in June 1890.

Josephson, His Honour Joshua Frey, eldest son of Jacob Josephson, of Sydney, N.S.W., was born in 1815; entered at the Middle Temple in Nov. 1856, and was called to the bar in April 1859. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, and was Solicitor-General in the Robertson Ministry from Oct. 1868 to Sept. 1869, when he retired from the Government, and accepted a District Court Judgeship. He died in 1892.

Julius, Right Rev. Churchill, D.D., Bishop of Christchurch, New Zealand, is the son of the late Frederick Julius, M.D., of Richmond, Surrey, and was educated at Worcester College, Oxford, where he proceeded B.A. in 1869 and M.A. in 1873. In 1871 he was ordained deacon, and priest in 1872; and from 1871 to 1873 was curate of St. Giles', Norwich. From 1873 to 1875 he was curate of South Brent, Somersetshire, and vicar of Shapwick, Somerset, from 1875 to 1878. From 1878 to 1884 he was vicar of Holy Trinity, Islington. In the latter year he was appointed vicar of Christ Church, Ballarat, Vict., and Archdeacon of Ballarat. He was consecrated Bishop of Christchurch, N.Z., in Christchurch Cathedral on May 1st, 1890. 254