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 road from Wellington, struck work until the original eight-hours' plan was reverted to. From that date to the present time eight hours has been the recognised day's labour for Wellington tradesmen. Mr. Parnell died on Dec. 17th, 1890, and his funeral was attended by the members of the Ministry as well as by a procession of the Trades.

Parry, Right Rev. Edward, D.D., was the son of Rear-Admiral Sir William Edward Parry, K.C.B., the well-known Arctic explorer, and the Hon. Isabella Louisa, his wife, fourth daughter of the first Lord Stanley of Alderley. He was born in 1830 at Government House, Sydney, N.S.W., where his father had taken up his residence in the previous year, as commissioner for the Australian Agricultural Company. He went to England with his father in 1834, and was educated at Rugby and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated first class in classics in 1852. He was ordained deacon in 1854 and priest in 1855, and after holding minor preferments, was appointed Bishop Suffragan of Dover for the diocese of Canterbury, in March 1870. He wrote a memoir of his father, and "Memorials" of his brother, Commander Charles Parry, R.N. In 1882 he was chosen by the Australian bishops to succeed the late Bishop Barker as Bishop of Sydney and Metropolitan of Australia, but he declined the nomination. Bishop Parry, who married, in 1859, Matilda, eldest daughter of Benjamin Williams, of Limpsfield, Surrey, died at Dover on April 11th, 1890.

Parry, Right Rev. Henry Hutton, D.D., Bishop of Perth, W.A., is the son of the Right Rev. Thomas Parry, D.D., Bishop of Antigua, and was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated B. A. in 1851 and M.A. in 1858. He was made D.D. of Durham in 1876. Dr. Parry was ordained deacon in 1851 and priest in 1852. He was curate of Holy Trinity, Trinidad, 1851-3; curate of All Saints, Trinidad, 1853-5; tutor of Codrington College, 1855-60; Archdeacon of Barbadoes, 1861-8, and was consecrated Bishop Coadjutor of Barbadoes on May 15th, 1868. He was translated to Perth in 1876, where he arrived on May 20th, 1877. Bishop Parry has been twice married, his second wife being a daughter of the Hon. George Walpole Leake, M.L.C.

Parsons, Hon. John Langdon, was formerly member for Encounter Bay, and afterwards for North Adelaide, in the Legislative Assembly of South Australia. The Education Department of this colony has, somewhat curiously, also under its control the affairs of the Northern Territory; and in April 1881, when Mr. (now Sir) formed his first Government, the conjoint portfolio was offered to and accepted by Mr. Parsons, who personally visited the territory, and has since displayed as much interest in its advancement as he had previously done in the cause of popular education. In March 1884 he retired from the Ministry, and was appointed Government Resident of the territory, a position which he retained till 1890. In 1884 he was granted the Queen's permission to bear the title of Honourable within the colony.

Pasley, Major-General Hon. Charles, C.B., R.E., formerly Commissioner of Public Works, Victoria, was the son of the late Lieut.-General Sir Charles Pasley, K.C.B., and Martha Matilda his wife. He was born at Chatham, Kent, on Nov. 14th, 1824, and entered the army in Dec. 1843, becoming colonel in April 1876, and retiring from the army with the honorary rank of major-general in August 1881. He served at Bermuda in 1850, and arrived at Melbourne on Sept. 18th, 1853, having been appointed in the spring of that year Colonial Engineer to the colony of Victoria. He found himself at the head of a considerable department, to which that of Colonial Architect was very soon added, and subsequently that of Central Road Board. In 1854 he was member of a commission to make arrangements for an exhibition of colonial products at the Paris Exhibition in the following year. Later in the same year he was nominated to a seat on the Legislative Council of Victoria. About this time the Ballarat riots broke out, and he offered his services to the Governor,, and was sent to the goldfields on a special mission. In 1855 the new constitution came into force in Victoria, and the first responsible ministry was formed by in November of that year, General Pasley taking the portfolio of Commissioner of Public Works. On Dec. 10th he was appointed a member of the Executive Council, and a few months later was made by an Act 365