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 . He was reappointed to the Civil Service in 1875, and successively held the appointments of Secretary to the Police Superannuation and Police Medical Boards, and the Central Board of Health. He was Secretary to the Royal Commission on Vegetable Products. In 1870 he became proprietor and editor of the Colonial Monthly magazine. He published "Arctic Discovery" in 1850, and in 1865 edited "Cast Away on the Aucklands," a book which the Times said was as interesting as "Robinson Crusoe." In 1858 he compiled a "Shipmaster's Guide," for Victorian mariners. Some early annals of the colony, which he discovered in 1878, were printed by Parliament under the title of "Historic Records of Port Phillip [sic]."  Sholl, Lionel Henry, J. P., Under-Secretary and Government Statist, South Australia, son of the late William Horatio Sholl, M.R.C.S, and Jane his wife, was born on Sept. 15th, 1844, at Perth, W.A. Having come to South Australia when five years old, he was educated in Adelaide, and entering the Civil Service as a junior clerk in the Public Works Office in July 1858, was appointed clerk in the waterworks department in Jan. 1859, clerk in the Audit Office in Sept. 1863, chief clerk in the Audit Office in Jan. 1872, chief clerk and accountant in the Treasury in July 1874, accountant and receiver of revenue in July 1876, cashier and accountant in July 1879, Under-Treasurer in July 1883, and Under-Secretary and Government Statist in May 1890. Mr. Sholl was married at Wallaroo, S.A., on Feb. 22nd, 1870, to Clara L., second daughter of H. B. Hinton, late surgeon-major her Majesty's Bengal army.  Sholl, Captain Richard Adolphus, J.P., Postmaster-General, Western Australia, son of Robert John Sholl and Mary Ann (Brockman) his wife, was born on Dec. 18th, 1846, at Bunbury, W.A. He entered the Civil Service of Western Australia as a probation clerk in the Post Office in 1863, and became Chief Clerk of the department in 1873; Chief Clerk and Accountant of the Treasury in 1879; Chief Clerk of the Post Office in 1881; and Postmaster-General in 1889. He became lieutenant in the Metropolitan Rifles in 1875, captain in 1883, and captain commandant in 1888. He was appointed a J.P. of the colony in 1891. Captain Sholl married Mary Howard, daughter of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Sanders, late 30th Regiment.  Short, Right Rev. Augustus, D.D., first Church of England Bishop of Adelaide, belonged to the family of the Shorts of Bickham, in Devonshire. His father, Charles Short, who practised as a barrister in London, resided at Woodlands, Wartlington, Hants. He was born on June 11th, 1802, and educated at Westminster School and at Christ Church, Oxford, where his cousin, Thomas Vowler Short, afterwards Bishop of Sodor and Man and of St. Asaph, was tutor. He graduated B.A. in 1823 as first class in classics, M.A. in 1826, and remained at Oxford in the capacity of a private tutor, being ordained deacon in 1826 and priest the next year, when he undertook duty as curate of Culham, near Abingdon. Two years later he resigned the curacy, on being appointed tutor and lecturer of his college, Mr. Gladstone being amongst his pupils. In 1833 he was appointed public examiner in the Classical Schools, and in the next year Sub-censor of Christ Church. In June 1835 he was presented by his college to the vicarage of Ravensthorpe, Northamptonshire, and on Dec. 10th he married Miss Millicent Phillips, of Hints Hall, Staffordshire. In 1845 Mr. Short was appointed Bampton Lecturer at his old university; and in 1847, when the sees of Melbourne, Adelaide and Newcastle (N.S.W.) were established and endowed through the liberality of Lady Burdett-Coutts, he was offered by the Archbishop of Canterbury the choice of the two latter bishoprics, and after due consideration selected Adelaide, being consecrated in Westminster Abbey along with Bishops (Melbourne) and Tyrrell (Newcastle). The Bishop reached Port Adelaide on Dec. 28th, 1847, this being the eleventh anniversary of the founding of the colony of South Australia. Dr. Hall, first Archdeacon of Adelaide, and afterwards Bishop of Brisbane, and the Rev. J. P. Wilson, afterwards first head master of St. Peter's Collegiate School, Adelaide, accompanied him. Bishop Short was warmly welcomed by Governor, but soon found himself face to face with the difficulties of an organisation more completely voluntary than he had been led to anticipate. The  415