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 Asylum, near Melbourne, on Dec. 3rd, 1890.

Miles, Hon. William, M.L.A., was born in 1817 at Hails Quarry, near Edinburgh, and emigrated to New South Wales in 1838. He was employed on Mr. W. H. Chapman's station on the Macleay river, until 1852, when he commenced squatting on his own account on the Dawson river, in the present colony of Queensland. He was returned to the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Maranoa in 1865, for Carnarvon in 1874, and subsequently for Darling Downs. He was Colonial Secretary in the Douglas Ministry, from March to Nov. 1877, when he was transferred to the Public Works Department; but resigned in Feb. 1878, and was succeeded by, in whose first Ministry he was Secretary for Public Works and Mines from Nov. 1883 till his death on August 21st, 1887.

Milford, Samuel Frederick, sometime Puisne Judge, New South Wales, was the eldest son of Samuel Frederick Milford, D.L., of Heavitree, Devonshire, and was born at Exeter, in that county, on Sept. 16th, 1797. He received his preliminary education at the High School, Exeter, and afterwards graduated M.A. at St John's College, Cambridge. He was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn, London, and practised his profession for several years at Bristol, where he held the appointment of judge of the Diocesan Ecclesiastical Court. Owing to bad health, he was induced to seek an appointment in Australia. Through the influence of his cousin Sir William Follett, the then Attorney-General of England,. [sic]he was appointed Master in Equity of New South Wales, and left London in Sept. 1842 for Sydney. He landed on Jan. 1st, 1843, and held the post of Master in Equity, together with that of Chief Commissioner of Insolvent Estates, until his appointment as Resident Judge in the district of Moreton Bay (now Queensland) in Jan. 1856. Thence he returned to Sydney in Feb. 1859, and was a Supreme Court Judge till his death on May 26th, 1865. He held also during this period the offices of Judge of the Court of Vice-Admiralty and Primary Judge in Equity.

Miller, Granville George, Judge of the District Court, Queensland, is the youngest son of the late Robert Miller, serjeant-at law, and was born in London in 1847, and educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1874. He entered at the Inner Temple in Nov. 1873, and was called to the Bar in Nov. 1876, when he at once emigrated to Queensland, where from 1879 to 1882 he held the office of Master of Titles. In 1882 he was appointed Crown Prosecutor, and in November of that year Judge of the Central District Court.

Miller, Hon. Henry, was the son of the late Captain Henry Miller, of H.M.'s 40th Regiment of foot, who served with distinction in the Peninsular War, and was at the battle of Waterloo. He was born at Londonderry on Dec. 31st, 1809. In 1823 his father proceeded with a detachment of his regiment in charge of a batch of convicts to Sydney, his family accompanying him. Shortly afterwards he was appointed commandant at Moreton Bay, where he spent eighteen months, and was then transferred to Van Diemen's Land, where he died at Hobart in 1866. After the arrival of the family in what was afterwards Tasmania, Mr. Miller obtained an appointment as an accountant in the audit office at Hobart, and at the age of twenty-four married Eliza, second daughter of the late Captain Mattinson of the Merchant Service. In 1839 Mr. Miller visited Port Phillip, and subsequently resigned his appointment in Tasmania, and came to Melbourne, where he settled at Richmond. He was one of the promoters of the Bank of Victoria, which was incorporated in Oct. 1852, and was elected as the first chairman of directors, a post which he continued to occupy up till his death. He also originated a number of Insurance Companies and Building Societies. On the separation of Port Phillip from New South Wales in 1851, Mr. Miller was elected to represent South Bourke, Evelyn and Mornington, in the old Legislative Council. In July 1852 Mr. Miller induced the Legislative Council to petition the Queen to authorise the establishment of a branch of the Royal mint in Melbourne. Mr. Miller supported the ballot, and on the inauguration of the constitution in 1856 he was returned to the Upper House for the Central province. On the formation of the first O'Shanassy Administration, in March 1858, Mr. Miller became Minister of 323