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 retained till March 1880. During the latter period he also, by permission of the New Zealand Government, acted as Consulting Engineer for the county of Westland from April 1877 to April 1878, and as Consulting Engineer to the Hokitika Harbour Board from April 1877 to March 1880. From March 1880 to Nov. 1883 Mr. O'Connor was Inspecting Engineer for the whole of the Middle Island of New Zealand, being Under-Secretary for Public Works for the colony from Nov. 1883 to May 1890, when he was appointed Marine Engineer. Mr. O'Connor, who was admitted a member of the Institute of Civil Engineers in April 1880, accepted the appointment of Engineer-in-Chief of Western Australia in April 1891, arriving in that colony at the end of May.

O'Connor, Hon. Daniel, M.L.C., is of Irish extraction, and has been an alderman of the city of Sydney. He represented West Sydney in the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales until the last General Election. He was Postmaster-General in the last Government from Dec. 1885 to Feb. 1886, and was reappointed to that position in March 1889, when the late  Ministry came into power, and took a prominent part in the Postal Conference at Sydney in 1891. At the General Election in June 1891, he was defeated for West Sydney, and subsequently contested Monaro with like ill-success. He was, however, nominated to the Legislative Council, and retained his seat in the Government until its defeat in Oct. 1891.

O'Connor, Hon. Richard Edward, M.L.C., Minister of Justice, New South Wales, was nominated to the Legislative Council of that colony in Dec. 1887. When Mr. became for the third time Premier of New South Wales—in Oct. 1891—Mr. O'Connor accepted office under him as Minister of Justice.

O'Doherty, Kevin Izod, F.R.C.S., was born in Dublin in June 1824, and educated for the medical profession. Whilst still a student he entered heartily into the "Young Ireland" movement, and joined with R. D. Williams ("Shamrock," of the Nation), in founding the Irish Tribune, the first number of which was published in Dublin on June 10th, 1848. At the fifth number, issued on July 10th, the new journal was suppressed by the Castle authorities, and Mr. O'Doherty was lodged in gaol on a charge of treason-felony. In the following month he was placed on his trial, but the jury disagreed, and the same fate awaited a second experiment. Arraigned a third time, he was found guilty, and sentenced to ten years' transportation. Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) was his destined location, for which he sailed in company with John Martin, arriving in Nov. 1849. He was at once released on parole, and his professional services were utilised at St. Mary's Hospital, Hobart. Five years later Mr. O'Doherty received a pardon, conditional on his residing anywhere out of the United Kingdom. Of this he availed himself to settle in Paris, where be resumed his medical studies, making a secret excursion to Dublin in order to marry Miss Kelly ("Eva," of the Nation), to whom he had been affianced at the time of his trial, and who had promised to wait for him when their prospects of reunion seemed blackest. In 1856 Mr. O'Doherty received an unconditional pardon, and in the following year he returned to Dublin, where he was admitted F.R.C.S. in 1857, and L.M. and L.R.Q.C.P. in 1859. After practising in Dublin for some time with much success, Mr. O'Doherty emigrated to Brisbane, where he took a leading position in his profession, and was for six years one of the members for the capital in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland. In 1877 he was nominated a member of the Legislative Council, and retained his seat till 1886, when he resigned, with the view of settling in Europe. He was received with great cordiality on his return to Ireland, and was at once nominated and returned to the House of Commons for Meath in the Parnellite interest. After a few months, however, he resigned his seat in Parliament, and returned to Queensland, where he still resides. Mr. O'Doherty was for some time president of the Irish National League of Australia, and was chairman of the Irish Australian Convention, held in Melbourne in 1883.

O'Donovan, Dennis, F.R.G.S., was born on August 23rd, 1836, in the county of Cork, and educated in Ireland and France. Prior to his arrival in Queensland in 1874, when he was appointed to 349