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  secretary. In 1864 he took the degree of M.D. in the University of Melbourne, and the following year was appointed lecturer on forensic medicine. Dr. Neild is the author of several novelettes, and has had two comediettas successfully placed upon the stage. He married in 1857 the eldest daughter of Mr. D. R. Long.

Neill, Andrew Sinclair, J.P., is one of the commissioners of the newly constituted Railway Board of South Australia.

Nelson, Hon. Hugh Muir, M.L.A., was born at Kilmarnock on Dec. 31st, 1836. He is the son of the Rev. Dr. Nelson, and was educated at the High School, Edinburgh, and the Edinburgh University. In 1863 he arrived in Queensland, and was elected to the Assembly for Northern Downs at the general election in 1883. In 1888 he was returned for Murilla, and was appointed Secretary for Railways in the Ministry in June 1888. This post he retained when the Ministry was reconstructed under, in November of that year. He resigned with his colleagues in August 1890.

Nevill, Right Rev. Samuel Tarratt, D.D., Bishop of Dunedin, New Zealand, son of Jonathan and Mary Nevill, was born at Nottingham in 1837. He was educated at St. Aidan's and at Magdalen College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. (second class Natural Science Tripos) in 1865, and M.A. in 1868, being created D.D. in 1871. He was ordained deacon in 1860 and priest in 1861. From 1860 to 1862 he was curate of Scarisbrick, Lancashire, and rector of Shelton, Staffordshire, from the latter year till 1871, when he accepted the bishopric of Dunedin. He was consecrated in the pro-cathedral, Dunedin, by the Primate of Dunedin and Bishops Suter of Nelson,  of Wellington, and Williams of Waiapu. Dr. Nevill has twice since revisited England to attend the Lambeth Conferences. He was married at Heavitree, Devon, in 1863, to Miss M. S. C. Penny. When rector of Shelton the Bishop held a certificate of the Science and Art Department of South Kensington qualifying him to instruct candidates for examination under the Department, and was thus instrumental in laying the foundation of the career of some who have attained positions of eminence. The branch of the Nevill family to which the Bishop belongs had been for many generations settled in Suffolk, but the Bishop's great-grandfather having assisted Count Zinzendorf in the establishment of the Moravians in London and Ockbrook, Derbyshire, married Elizabeth Thring, of Badminton, whose son, J. B. Nevill, married Millicent de Terrot, anglicised Tarratt, of a Huguenot family mentioned by Smiles ("Huguenots in England"), of which family the late Bishop of Edinburgh, Dr. Terrot, was a member.

Newbery, James Cosmo, C.M.G., fourth son of William Boxer Newbery, was born in 1843, near Leghorn, Italy, whence he went when quite young to America, and ultimately graduated as Bachelor of Science at the Harvard University. After leaving Harvard he studied at the School of Mines, Jermyn Street, London; and in 1865 was appointed analyst to the Geological Survey of Victoria—an appointment which he held until 1868, when the department was abolished. In 1870 he was appointed to his present position of Superintendent of the Melbourne Industrial and Technological Museum and Analyst to the Department of Mines; and he is, in addition, Instructor in Chemistry and Metallurgy at the Museum Laboratory. Mr. Newbery, who is a member of the Royal Society of Victoria, was Honorary Superintendent of Juries and Awards at the Melbourne International Exhibition of 1880. He married, in 1870, Catherine Maud Florence, daughter of G. Hodgkinson. In 1881 he was created C.M.G.

Newland, Simpson, J.P., is the son of the late Rev. William Ridgway Newland, Independent minister, who emigrated to South Australia in 1839. He represented Encounter Bay in the Legislative Assembly of that colony, and was Treasurer in the Downer Ministry from June 1885 to June 1886, when he resigned, and was succeeded by Mr. (now Sir). He was rejected at Encounter Bay at the general election in 1887.

Newton, Hon. Hibbert, entered the Legislative Assembly of Victoria, and was Postmaster-General in the Government from Oct 29th to Nov. 26th, 1860. He died on May 30th, 1890.

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