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 of Port Phillip, and after the name had been changed to Victoria, and responsible government had been conceded, he was returned to the first Legislative Assembly as one of the four members for Melbourne in Oct. 1856. Mr. Moore, who was a merchant in the latter city, was President of the Board of Land and Works in the second Haines Ministry from April 1857 to March 1858.

Moore, Right Rev. James, D.D., R.C. Bishop of Ballarat, was born in Listowel, Kerry, in 1834. After a preliminary training at the Collegiate School in Tralee and a six-years' course at All Hallows Missionary College, Dublin, he was ordained to the priesthood, and left immediately for Australia, arriving in Melbourne in Jan. 1859. He was soon appointed to the important pastorate of St. Francis' Church, Lonsdale Street, in that city, but, owing to failing health, took charge of the less onerous parish of Keilor. There he remained until 1865, when Archdeacon Shiel having been appointed Bishop of Adelaide, Dr. Moore succeeded him as head of the Ballarat Mission in Victoria, being appointed dean, and accompanying Archbishop Goold to Rome in 1873, when Pius IX. made him D.D. On the erection of Ballarat into a separate diocese he was appointed Vicar-General, and on the death of Bishop O'Connor, in 1883, the Pope, who had made him one of his domestic prelates and a monsignor in 1881, first named him administrator of the diocese, and then nominated him to the succession. He was consecrated on April 27th, 1884.

Moore, Maggie (Mrs. J. C. Williamson), whose name is a household word in theatrical Australasia, was born in San Francisco, and, like so many eminent actresses, began her professional career in childhood. After making her name as a local favourite, the young actress married Mr. J. C. Williamson, then, like herself, a member of the company of the California theatre. On August 1st, 1874, Mr. and Mrs. Williamson arrived in Melbourne, and achieved phenomenal success with a play entitled "Struck Oil," in which the talented pair fairly divided the honours. At a bound they jumped into the positions of established favourites, and have ever since maintained their hold on the playgoing public of Australia and New Zealand. After her husband became one of the partners in the great theatrical "Trio," both Mr. and Mrs. Williamson continued to act in the leading Australian theatres. Of Maggie Moore herself it needs only to record that she has sustained with unflagging vivacity not only the farcical and eccentric dramatic rôles for which her early training specially fitted her, but by her perseverance, added to native genius, has from time to time appeared in the long series of Gilbert & Sullivan's comic operas, in which she has both sung the music and acted the chief parts with unvarying success.

Moore, Hon. William, M.L.C., sat for Wellington in the Tasmanian Assembly from 1871 to 1877, in which year he was elected to the Upper House for Russell, formerly Mersey, the constituency which he still represents. Mr. Moore was Minister of Lands and Works in the Ministry from August 1873 to July 1876, and Colonial Secretary in the  and  Governments from August 1877 to March 1878. From Oct. 1879 to August 1884 he held the same position in Mr. Giblin's second Ministry. In July 1889 he was elected to his present position of President of the Legislative Council. In March 1891 he attended the Sydney Federation Convention as one of the delegates of Tasmania.

Moorhouse, Right Rev. James, D.D., Bishop of Manchester, son of James Moorhouse, merchant, of Sheffield, by Jane Frances, his wife, daughter of Capt. Bowman, of Whitehaven, Cumberland, was born at Sheffield on Nov. 19th, 1826. He was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. (Senior Optime) in 1853, M.A. in 1860, and D.D. jure dignitatis in 1876. Bishop Moorhouse married on Sept. 18th, 1861, Mary Lydia, eldest daughter of the late Rev. Dr. Sale, vicar of Sheffield. He was ordained deacon by the Bishop of Ely in 1853, priest in 1854; he was curate of St. Neots 1853-5, Sheffield 1855-9, Hornsey 1859-61, perpetual curate St. John's, Fitzroy Square, London,1861-7; Hulsean Lecturer at Cambridge 1865; vicar of Paddington and rural dean 1867-76; Warburtonian Lecturer and Chaplain-in-Ordinary to the Queen 1874; prebendary of St. Paul's 1874-6. In 1876 329