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 he graduated B.A. (third class Classical Tripos) in 1866, M.A. in 1870, and was created D.D. in 1885. He was ordained deacon in 1869 and priest in 1870, and was curate of Alrewas, Staffordshire, from 1869 to 1870, curate of St. George's, Wolverhampton, in 1871, and vicar in that and the next year. From 1875 to 1877 the Bishop was employed by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel as a missionary in Melanesia, and on Feb. 18th in the latter year was consecrated at Nelson, N.Z., Missionary Bishop of Melanesia by the Metropolitan (Harper) of New Zealand and Bishops Suter of Nelson, Hadfield of Wellington, Cowie of Auckland, and Nevile of Dunedin. In 1891 he revisited England, and in Dec. resigned the bishopric on the ground of ill-health.  Senior, William, journalist and author ("Redspinner"), is the angling editor of the Field. In 1873 he published "Notable Shipwrecks," which has passed through several editions. This was followed in 1875 by "Waterside Sketches"; in 1877 by "By Stream and Sea"; in 1878 by "Anderton's Angling," a novelette; in 1880 by "Travel and Trout in the Antipodes"; in 1883 by "Angling in Great Britain," being one of the handbooks issued in connection with the Great International Fisheries Exhibition; and in 1888 by "Near and Far," a book of sport in Australasia and at home. Mr. Senior is a regular contributor to periodical literature. In 1875 he accepted an appointment from the Government of Queensland as editor of the Hansard of that colony, and proceeded thither to start an official daily report of the parliamentary debates. This publication, the first of the kind ever issued in the colonies, having been most successfully established, he returned to England, after five years' residence in Queensland, and rejoined the special correspondent staff of the Daily News.  Service, Hon. James, M.L.C., is the son of the late Robert Service, and was born at Kilwinning, in Ayrshire, in Nov. 1823. Having formed relations with the eminent Glasgow firm of Thomas Corbett & Co., Mr. Service emigrated to Australia when just thirty years old, and settling in Melbourne, ultimately started the well-known commercial house with which his name has ever since been allied. Mr. Service was first brought into prominence through his connection with the agitation for erecting Emerald Hill into a separate municipality, of which when formed he was elected the first chairman. In 1857 he was returned to the Assembly for Melbourne, as an opponent of the O'Shanassy Government, but was unsuccessful at the general election two years later, when he stood for Emerald Hill. He was, however, promptly returned for the country constituency of Ripon and Hampden, and retained the seat till 1862, when he resigned, preparatory to paying a visit to England. In the meantime he had been in office for a brief interval (Oct. 1859 to Sept. 1860) as Minister of Lands in the Nicholson Government, and in this capacity introduced the first Land Bill, involving the important principle of selection before survey. It was not, however, passed, owing to the strenuous opposition of the Upper House squatters. In connection with the contest with the Council over this bill, circumstances arose within the Cabinet which convinced Mr. Service that his personal position would be stultified were he to continue a member of the Ministry, and, to the great regret of his colleagues, he therefore resigned; Mr. Francis, with characteristic chivalrous impetuosity, electing to go out with him. Both gentlemen subsequently declined to join the Heales Ministry. As a private member Mr. Service conferred an enormous boon on the colony by carrying through the Victorian Parliament what is popularly known as the Torrens Act, for facilitating the transfer of real property. He returned from England to find the colony plunged in the throes of the conflict brought about by the protectionist tendencies of the tariff. Being a staunch free-trader, Mr. Service took the unpopular side; and though he contested several seats in the interim, was kept out of Parliament till 1874, when he was returned for Maiden, for which constituency he sat till 1881, when he resigned prior to paying a second visit to England. Mr. Service was thus absent from the Assembly throughout the embittered conflict with the Upper Chamber over the tariff and Darling grant tacks. Though an unswerving free-trader, advocating his views on every hustings at which he appeared, Mr, Service did not  410