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 August 8th, 1878, and was accorded the tribute of a public funeral.

Langridge, Hon. George David, M.L.A., was born in Kent in 1829, and emigrated to Australia, where he represented Collingwood in the Legislative Assembly of Victoria from 1874 till he died. He was Commissioner of Public Works and Vice-President of the Board of Land and Works in the third Government from August 1880 to July 1881. In the -Berry Ministry he was Commissioner of Trade and Customs from March 1883 to Feb. 1886. In Nov. 1890, when Mr. became Premier, Mr. Langridge accepted the post of Chief Secretary and Minister of Customs, which he filled till his death on March 24th, 1891.

Langton, Hon. Edward, third and youngest son of David Elland Langton, was born at Gravesend, Kent, on Jan. 2nd, 1828, and emigrated to Victoria in 1852. He early distinguished himself as an unflinching opponent of fiscal protection, and in 1859 he lectured at Fitzroy in favour of the retention of free trade. In face of the rising tide of protection he unsuccessfully contested Collingwood in 1859 and 1861, East Melbourne in 1861, East Bourke Boroughs in 1864, and Dundas in 1865. At length, in Jan. 1866, his perseverance was rewarded, and he succeeded Mr. as member for East Melbourne. He exchanged that constituency for West Melbourne at the general election in 1868, and continued to sit until 1877, when he was defeated. In May 1868 Mr. Langton, who was a staunch Conservative as well as a Free-trader, became Treasurer in Sir Charles (then Mr.) 's short-lived Ministry, and occupied the same post, with the additional office of Postmaster-General, in the Government, from June 1872 to July 1874, when he resigned with his colleagues. Mr. Langton has written much for the Melbourne press, and was one of the earliest proprietors of the Spectator, a free trade organ started in 1865. He was secretary of the Free Trade League of Victoria from its commencement until 1866, has been an honorary member of the Cobden Club since 1874, and is a trustee and treasurer of the Melbourne Public Library and Museum. Mr. Langton was an unsuccessful candidate for the Assembly in April 1892.

Langtree, Charles William, was born in Glenarm, co. Antrim, on Oct. 25th, 1846. He went to Melbourne in 1852, and served his apprenticeship as a mechanical engineer in the Hobson's Bay Railway Company's workshops. After considerable experience in private employment, he entered the Department of Mines as draughtsman in July 1865, and was appointed chief draughtsman in Feb. 1866. In 1882 be became chief clerk, and in 1884 permanent head of the department as Secretary for Mines and Water Supply and Chief Mining Surveyor, which post he held till Feb. 1889, when he was appointed to his present position as one of the Civil Service Commissioners of Victoria. Mr. Langtree married on Oct. 15th, 1874, Jeannie, daughter of Peter McCracken, J.P., the well-known Melbourne brewer. He has held the offices of Vice-President and President of the Victorian Institute of Surveyors and Engineers, and is a Fellow of that body.

Lanigan, Right Rev. William, Roman Catholic Bishop of Goulburn, N.S.W., was born in Tipperary in 1820, and educated at Thurles and Maynooth Colleges. He was ordained priest at Maynooth in 1848, and emigrated to Sydney in 1859. After seven years' missionary work in Goulburn and Berrima, he was consecrated Bishop of Goulburn on June 9th, 1867.

Larnach, Hon. William James Mudie, C.M.G., sometime Colonial Treasurer and Minister of Railways in New Zealand, went to Otago, N.Z., in Sept. 1867, as manager of the Bank of Otago (afterwards merged in the National Bank of New Zealand). In 1866 he was returned to the House of Representatives for Dunedin; and in 1877, having carried a vote of no-confidence against the - Ministry, he joined the administration formed by Sir on Oct. 14th as Colonial Treasurer and Minister of Public Works. Subsequently he went to England in connection with a Colonial loan, but returned in 1880, the Grey Government having in the meantime been ousted. In the same year he re-entered Parliament. Mr. Larnach was Minister of Mines and of the Marine in the - Government, which entered office on Sept. 3rd, 1884, and went out on Oct. 8th, 1887. Mr. Larnach married Miss Eliza Jane 268