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 Governor Blackall without Parliamentary sanction. In 1874 he was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court, Chief Justice in June 1879, and was knighted by patent in 1881. Sir Charles Lilley has always taken a very active part in educational matters, and is at present chairman of trustees of the Brisbane Grammar School, an institution he was mainly instrumental in founding. He was chairman of the Royal Commission on Education, which resulted in the adoption of free, secular, and compulsory education. He was also the means of the Queensland Judicature Act being passed. Sir Charles Lilley has recently headed a movement for the establishment of a Queensland University. Sir Charles was one of the most active advocates of the separation of Moreton Bay from New South Wales, and its formation into the separate colony of Queensland. He now seems equally desirous to see Australia severed from the United Kingdom, some letters which he has recently published embodying the sentiment of Australian nationalism in its most extreme form. They have attracted considerable attention, owing to the outré language in which they are couched, and also owing to the fact that no colonial public man of anything like Sir Charles Lilley's standing has as yet taken up similar ground. He is also the most thorough-going advocate of the claims of the "Labour" party among all the prominent public men of Australia; and in laying the foundation of the Trades Hall, Brisbane (1891), he delivered a most sympathetic and outspoken address. As Premier, Sir Charles Lilley, who at any rate has the courage of his convictions, discouraged the popular borrowing policy, and refused to take office in 1874 under Mr. Macalister. He married in 1858 Sarah Jane, daughter of Joshua Jeays, sometime Mayor of Brisbane.

Lindauer, Gottfried, a well-known artist who has made Maori studies his specialty, was born at Pilsen, Bohemia, on Jan. 5th, 1839. Having early in life developed a taste for drawing, he was sent, at the age of seventeen, to Vienna as a resident student at the Academy of Artists, where he remained till 1865, studying in succession under Professor Joseph Freheich, Professor Kuppelwiesa, and Professor Rohl. After leaving the academy he was engaged for two years painting frescoes in the Cathedral churches of Austria. Then he went to Russia, where he remained two years, devoting himself exclusively to portrait-painting. Returning to Vienna in 1869, he painted some well-known public men, including Bishop Jieschek, of Budweis, in Bohemia. After a sojourn in that city of eighteen months, he went to Moravia for three years, and then migrated to New Zealand, arriving in the colony in May 1874. Devoting himself principally to Maori portraiture, he travelled through the colony and painted the prominent men and women of a generation now passing away. The series of life-size portraits of Maori chiefs and warriors exhibited by Sir Walter Buller at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886, were all from his hand, who had made the "Maori at home" a subject of special study. After visiting his native land in 1886-87, he settled down at Woodville, near Wellington, having shortly before married Rebecca, the daughter of Benjamin Prance Petty.

Linton, Right Rev. Sydney, D.D., first Bishop of Riverina, N.S.W., is the son of the Rev. Henry Linton, M.A., rector of St Peter le Bailey, Oxford, and Honorary Canon of Christ Church, by his marriage with Charlotte, daughter of Rev. William Richardson, rector of Ferrybridge, and was born in 1841. He was educated at Rugby, and at Wadham College, Oxford, where he graduated and took a second class in Law and History in 1864. He was ordained deacon in 1867, priest in 1868, was curate of St. Mark's, Cheltenham, from 1867 to 1870, vicar of Holy Trinity, Oxford, from 1870 to 1877, vicar of St. Philip's, Norwich, from 1877 to 1884, in which year, on the formation of the see of Riverina, he was appointed the first bishop, being consecrated in St. Paul's Cathedral on May 1st, 1884. Bishop Linton, who was created an honorary D.D. of Oxford in 1884, and who arrived in New South Wales in March 1885, married in June 1877 Jane Isabella, daughter of Rev. Professor Heurtley, canon of Christ Church, Oxford.

Lipson, Captain Thomas, R.N., was born in England in 1783, and entered the navy in 1793 as a first-class volunteer. After seeing considerable active service and being present at the battle of the Nile, he was appointed acting lieutenant of the 275