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 to initiate a biological survey of Port Phillip, and of that committee Mr. Lucas is honorary secretary and treasurer. In conjunction with Mr. J. B. Gregory, he was the first to urge that Wilson's Promontory should be set aside as a national park for the colony.  Lucas, Hon. John, M.L.C., is the son of the late John Lucas, of Sydney, N.S.W., and Mary (Rowley) his wife. He was born at Kingston, near Sydney, on June 24th, 1818, and married on Jan. 4th, 1841, Miss Ann Salmons. In Feb. 1860 he was elected to the Legislative Assembly for Canterbury, and again later in the year. In 1864 he was returned for both Canterbury and Hartley, and elected to sit for the latter. In 1871 he was re-elected for Canterbury, for which he continued to sit till he was appointed to the Legislative Council on Dec. 10th, 1880. Mr. Lucas was Secretary for Mines in the Ministry from Feb. 1875 to March 1877. In 1858 he was appointed a magistrate of the territory.  Lucas, Richard James, was born at Kingston, Browns River, Tas. on Nov. 1st, 1837. He was educated at the school of the Rev. John Burrows of Brighton, Tas., and was admitted a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Tasmania, Aug. 2nd, 1865. Mr. Lucas was elected member of the House of Assembly for KingstonKingborough [sic] in 1883, and again in 1886. Mr. Lucas accepted office without portfolio in the Ministry on Feb. 25th, 1887, but failed to secure re-election, and the Ministry resigned on March 29th following.  Lukin, Gresley, was born at Launceston, Tasmania, on Nov. 21st, 1840, and after studying engineering for two years, settled in Queensland, where he entered the Civil Service in 1866, becoming two years later Chief Clerk in the Crown Lands Department, in which capacity he drafted the Land Act of 1868. In 1871 he was appointed Chief Clerk in the Supreme Court, but resigned this position two years later to edit the Brisbane Courier and Queenslander newspapers, which he purchased in 1873. Mr. Lukin, who represented Queensland at the Sydney International Exhibition in 1879 as Executive Commissioner, ultimately disposed of his interest in the Brisbane Courier and the Queenslander, and went to reside in Sydney. More recently he started the Boomerang, which he now conducts in Brisbane.  Lutwyche, His Honour Alfred James Peter, M.A., sometime Puisne Judge, Queensland, eldest son of John Lutwyche, of a Worcestershire family, who removed to London and started as a leather merchant, under the firm of Lutwyche & George, in Skinner Street, Snow Hill, was born in England in 1810, and educated at the Charterhouse and at Queens College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1828 and graduated B.A. in 1832, and subsequently M.A. After some journalistic experience as a colleague of Charles Dickens, on the Morning Chronicle, he was called to the bar in 1840, and went the Oxford circuit; but finding his health impaired, he decided to emigrate to Australia, and, after suffering shipwreck, landed in Sydney in Dec. 1853. Having entered the Legislative Council, he was Solicitor-General in the first Cowper Ministry from Sept. to Oct. 1856, and represented the Government in the Upper House. He was again Solicitor-General in the second Cowper Administration from Sept. 1857 to Nov. 1858, when he succeeded Mr. (afterwards Sir) as Attorney-General. This post he resigned in Feb. 1859, and was appointed in the following October Resident Judge of what was then the Moreton Bay district of New South Wales. Two months later he became sole Judge of the new colony of Queensland, and occupied the bench unaided until the arrival of the first Chief Justice, Sir James Cockle, in Feb. 1863. He died in Brisbane on June 12th, 1880. But for a certain lack of self-restraint in his judgmentsjudgements [sic] and utterances, Mr. Lutwyche would himself have been appointed the first Chief Justice of Queensland, and he keenly felt the disallowance of his claims.  Lyne, Hon. William John, M.L.A., Minister of Public Works, New South Wales, is the eldest son of John Lyne, of Gala, Tas., by his marriage with Lilias Cross Carmichael, daughter of James Hume, of Edinburgh, Scotland. He was born at Apslawn, Tas., on April 6th, 1844. When twenty years of age he went to Queensland, and was amongst the first to take up squatting country on the Gulf of Carpentaria. Returning to  284