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 choice was a very happy one, as it linked the Governor's family with the most ancient Maori blood in the land, and brought the infant into brotherhood with the most powerful and most civilised chiefs in the North Island. After the child had been christened in due form, he was taken to Otahi by his parents on Sept. 12th, 1891, to be presented to the tribe whose name he had taken. The tribes from all parts of the surrounding country assembled to take part in the function, and the ceremonial was a very impressive one. The representative chiefs made speeches of welcome full of pathos and poetry, recounting the achievements of their forefathers who had "gone away into the eternal night" and drawing a pathetic picture of the decadence of the race. But throughout the speeches there was a full recognition of the honour the Governor had conferred on the Ngatihuia tribe. It was thus expressed by one of the speakers:—"Other governors have said kind things and done kind things, but it has been reserved for you, Governor, to pay this great compliment to the Maori people: that of giving to your son a Maori name. According to our ancient customs, no greater courtesy could be shown by one great tribe to another great tribe, and there was no surer way of cementing the bonds of friendship. It has long been said, 'Let the Pakeha and the Maori be one people,' and you have given practical shape to this by accepting for your son the name of an ancient chief. We invoke the spirits of our ancestors to witness this day that in your son Huia the friendship of the two races becomes united!" Lord Onslow having made a suitable reply, the hereditary young chief of the Ngatihuia, Tamihana Te Hoia, stepping forward, said:—"And now, O Governor and Lady Onslow, bring forward the infant Huia, that the tribe may do him honour." On being taken from the nurse's arms and presented to him, Tamihana solemnly "rubbed noses" with the child before the whole tribe, all the women present joining their voices in a soft and plaintive lullaby, composed expressly for the occasion. After this formal reception of Huia, there followed an incident of a touching kind, for all the chiefs of the tribe came forward and cast their offerings before the child, Costly robes of Maori workmanship in profusion, carved boxes, and ancient greenstones gave tangible expression to the genuineness of the Maori feeling.

Ord, Major-General Sir Harry St. George, R.E., G.C.M.G., C.B., sometime Governor of Western Australia, was the son of the late H. Ord, and was born in 1819. He entered the Royal Engineers in 1837, and was promoted to be lieutenant in 1839, captain in 1846, brevet-major in 1854, lieut.-colonel in 1859, and major-general in 1869. He served principally in the West Indies and on the coast of Africa. He acted as brigade-major in the combined French and English expedition to the Baltic in 1854; and was at the siege and capture of Bomarsund, for which he received brevet rank. He was employed under the Colonial Office in 1855-6 as Commissioner to the Gold Coast; and in 1856-7 and 1860 at the courts of Paris and the Hague, to assist the ambassador and minister in carrying out negotiations with respect to the French and Netherlands possessions on the coast of Africa. Sir Harry was appointed Lieut.-Governor of Dominica in August 1857; and Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Bermuda in Feb. 1861. He was sent on a special mission to the settlements on the west coast of Africa in Oct. 1864, and was made Governor of the Straits Settlements in 1867. He was Governor of Western Australia from Nov. 12th, 1877, to April 6th, 1880. He married in 1846 Julia Graham, daughter of Admiral James Carpenter, who still survives. Sir Harry died in 1885.

O'Reilly, Hon. Christopher, K.S.G., was Minister of Lands and Works in Tasmania from August 1876 to August 1877, in the Ministry, and was sworn of the Executive Council on the former date. He held the same portfolio in the and  Ministries from Dec. 1878 to Dec. 1882, when he resigned and accepted the appointment of Stipendiary Magistrate at Scottsdale. Mr. O'Reilly was created a Knight of St. Gregory by Pope Leo XIII.

Ormond, Hon. Francis, M.L.C., the well-known Victorian philanthropist, was the son of Captain Ormond, of the Mercantile Marine, who in 1839 visited Port Phillip, and having determined to settle there, bought a small ship and brought out his family (including his son Francis) in 1842. The glowing reports from the new 356