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 constantly increasing usefulness and popularity. Mr. Pugh became secretary of the committee formed for the purpose of obtaining the separation of Queensland from New South Wales, on the retirement of Mr. William Wilkes in 1857, until the purpose of the movement was achieved in 1859. On Dec. 10th, 1859, Mr. Pugh issued the first Queensland Government Gazette, and continued to print and publish it until the appointment of Mr. Belbridge as the first Government printer. In May 1863 he was elected to represent North Brisbane in the second parliament, was re-elected for the city in June 1867, became chairman of committees in September, and was again returned in 1868, but almost immediately afterwards retired from parliamentary life. Mr. Pugh was appointed police magistrate at Goondiwindi in 1874, for Rockhampton in 1876, for Warwick in 1882, and for Bundaburg, where he is still stationed, in June 1887.

Pullen, Admiral William John, when a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, went to South Australia as one of Colonel Light's Survey Staff, arriving in the colony in August 1836. He was employed in exploring and surveying the mouth of the Murray river, and may be regarded as the discoverer of Port Adelaide, into which he sailed on Sept. 28th, 1836, three months before the arrival of the first Governor. He also surveyed Port Elliot, and did much to elucidate the geography of the South Australian coast. Returning to England, he sailed, In June 1849, with one of the Franklin search expeditions, and remained two years and a half with the fur traders of the Hudson's Bay Company, returning home via Northern America in Oct. 1851. The next year he explored Davis Straits, Lancaster Sound and Beachy Isle, and was icebound for two years. Goolwa was originally called Port Pullen, but the former name was, for some reason, substituted. He died on Jan. 22nd, 1887.

Pulsford, Edward, was born in 1844 at Burslem, Staffordshire, his father being a Baptist minister. Mr. Pulsford was for many years occupied with mercantile affairs in Hull. In 1883 he decided to settle in Australia, and chose the colony of New South Wales on account of its free trade policy. He arrived in Sydney early in 1884, and has since resided there. Within a few weeks of his arrival he wrote a small work entitled "Thoughts and Suggestions on the Commerce and Progress of New South Wales," which was published and distributed by the Sydney Chamber of Commerce. In 1885, in consequence of a protectionist agitation, the Free Trade Association of New South Wales was formed, and Mr. Pulsford was appointed the secretary. By his pamphlets, papers, letters to the press, and public addresses, he is considered to have been largely instrumental in maintaining the free trade policy of the colony. He was for some time commercial editor of the Sydney Daily Telegraph, and has lately become the proprietor of the Armidale Chronicle, one of the leading country newspapers in New South Wales.

Purves, James Liddell, Q.C., the eminent Victorian advocate, is the eldest son of the late James Purves, one of the pioneers of the colony of Victoria, and was born in Swanston Street, Melbourne, on August 23rd, 1843. He was educated in the first instance at Mr. Budd's school and at the Melbourne Diocesan Grammar School, but went to Europe in 1855 with his father, and passed through a course of instruction at various English and foreign schools. He also studied at King's College, London, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, to which he went up in 1859. He entered at Lincoln's Inn in April 1861, and was called to the English Bar in June 1865. Shortly afterwards he returned to Victoria, where he was admitted to the local Bar, and commenced the career as an advocate which has given him the foremost position, not only in Melbourne, but throughout Australia. Of recent years no Victorian cause célèbre has been complete without his retention on one side or the other. In March 1872 Mr. Purves entered Parliament as a Constitutionalist and Free-trader for the constituency of Mornington, in the representation of which he succeeded Sir, and sat till 1880. In the interim he refused offers of office from the first and the last MᶜCulloch Administration. Mr. Purves, though mainly devoted to his profession, has taken a prominent part in the proceedings of the Victorian Natives Association, and holds national Australian views nearly as advanced as those of Sir, the Chief Justice of Queensland. 380