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 remonstrances unavailing, Mr. Mantell resigned his official posts, being out of harmony with the native policy of both the Imperial and Colonial Governments. Mr. Mantell was Minister for Native Affairs in the Ministry from July to Dec. 1861; and Postmaster-General and Secretary for Crown Lands under Mr., in August 1862. He was again Minister for Native Affairs in the Weld Administration from Dec. 1864 to July 1865; and also, concurrently, Native Secretary from April to July 1865. Mr. Mantell was for some time a member of the House of Representatives, and in 1866 was nominated to the Legislative Council. Some of the most important ameliorative measures passed in the interest of the Maoris were due to his initiative, and in his place in Parliament he never failed to protest against measures regarding them which savoured of injustice. He married first, on July 29th, 1863, Mary Sarah, daughter of Edward Prince; and secondly, on Jan. 10th, 1876, Jane, daughter of Benjamin Hardwick, of Beckenham, England. Mr. Mantell was the first scientific explorer of the moa beds of Waikouaiti and Waingongoro, and he succeeded in forming some magnificent collections of fossil remains, which were forwarded to England and ultimately deposited in the British Museum.

Marmion, Hon. William Edward, M.L.A., Commissioner of Lands, Western Australia, represented Fremantle in the old Legislative Council, and was a member of the Finance Committee of that body in 1890. In December of that year he accepted he post of Commissioner of Lands in he administration formed by Mr., and was returned to the first Legislative Assembly of Western Australia for Fremantle. Mr. Marmion was one of the representatives of the Colony at the Sydney Federation Convention in March 1891.

Marryat, Very Rev. Charles, M. A., Dean of Adelaide, S.A., is the son of the late Charles Marryat, of Parkfield, Potter's Bar, by his marriage with Caroline, daughter of Charles Short, and is a nephew of the late Captain Marryat, the well-known novelist. His brother, Admiral J. H. Marryat, C.B., was a distinguished officer, and his sister married the late Sir H. G. Fox Young, formerly Governor of South Australia. He was educated at Queen's College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1851, taking the Ellerton Theological Prize, and M.A. in 1853. He was ordained deacon in 1850 and priest in 1851, and went to New South Wales in Dec. 1852, where he was for about three months chaplain to the penal establishments at Darlinghurst and Cockatoo Island. He removed to South Australia in April 1853, where Dr. Short (his mother's brother) had been bishop since 1847. Here the Dean was curate of Trinity Church, Adelaide, from 1853 to 1857, and incumbent of St. Paul's, Port Adelaide, from 1853 to 1868, when he became incumbent of Christchurch, North Adelaide, and was appointed Archdeacon of Adelaide, and succeeded the late Dr. as Dean in 1887. This position, with that of Vicar-General and Examining Chaplain to the Bishop, and the incumbency of Christchurch, North Adelaide, he still holds. The Dean, who was born in London on June 26th, 1827, married Grace Montgomery, daughter of (q.v.).

Marsden, Right Rev. Samuel Edward, D.D., late Bishop of Bathurst, N.S.W., grandson of the Rev. Samuel Marsden, senior chaplain at Parramatta, was born in 1832 at Sydney, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1855, M.A. in 1858, and D.D. in 1869. He was ordained deacon in 1855, priest in 1856, and was curate of St. Peter's, Hereford, from 1855 to 1858, and of Lilleshall, Salop, from 1858 to 1861, and perpetual curate of Bengeworth, Worcestershire, from 1861 to 1869, when he accepted the appointment of first Bishop of Bathurst, and was consecrated in Westminster Abbey by Archbishop Tait of Canterbury, and Bishops Jackson, of London, Selwyn of Lichfield, and Philpott of Worcester. He resigned the see in 1885, and resides in England.

Martin, Arthur Patchett, F.R.G.S., was born at Woolwich, Kent, on Feb. 18th, 1851. He is the son of George Martin and Eleanor (Hill) his wife, whose families were settled in Kent and Surrey, but who were both, on the maternal side, of Scottish extraction. When about eighteen months old, he was taken out by his parents to Melbourne, arriving in Hobson's Bay at Christmas, 1852. At St. Mark's Church of England School, 313