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 charities, such as the Melbourne Hospital, the Benevolent and Orphan Asylums, and others. He was an advocate for reducing the hours of labour, and contributed to the adoption of the eight hours system. Mr. Smith died in 1878.

Smith, Joseph Henry, is the eldest son of the late Joseph Valentine Smith, of Walsall, co. Stafford, and was born on August 13th, 1843. He had large experience of railway management in England, and when it was decided to place the control of the South Australian State railways in non-political hands, he was selected as the first chairman of the newly constituted Railway Board of Commissioners. Mr. Smith married on Oct. 22nd, 1869, Lydia, daughter of R. Christian, of Barrow, Rutland.

Smith, Hon. Louis Lawrence, M.L.A., L.S.A. (Lond.), is the son of the late E. T. Smith, one of the most remarkable entrepreneurs of recent times and formerly lessee of Cremorne and Her Majesty's Theatre. He was born in London in 1830, and educated at St. Saviour's Grammar School and at the Ecole de Médecine at Paris, where in 1848 he had some exciting adventures during the revolution which deposed Louis Philippe. Subsequently Mr. Smith studied medicine in London, where he won honours at the Westminster Hospital, and having taken his diploma and practised for a while in London, emigrated to Victoria, where, after a brief experience on the goldfields, he settled down to practice in Melbourne. In 1859 he was asked to stand for the Assembly for South Bourke in the Liberal interest, and having consented, was returned and several times re-elected. Incensed by some remarks from one of the Ministry of the day which he regarded as personally insulting, Mr. Smith boxed his assailant's ears, and immediately resigning his seat, was promptly re-elected, despite his breach of the decorum of Parliament. Having opposed the Darling grant, he was defeated for South Bourke, and became member for Richmond, where he experienced a like fate through his hostility to Mr. Francis's scheme for reforming Parliament on the lines of the Norwegian Constitution. In May 1877 he was elected for Richmond at the head of the poll as an adherent of the Government. More recently he has represented Mornington, for which he was re-elected in April 1892. Mr. Smith has been prominent for many years past as a supporter of the turf and a promoter of exhibitions, and has devoted a large amount of time and attention to the exploitation of the trade in colonial wines. From July 1881 to March 1883 Mr. Smith was a member of the Ministry, but without portfolio.

Smith, Captain M. S., formerly Superintendent of Land Police, Western Australia, served in the 44th Foot from June 6th, 1854, till June 22nd, 1867. He was engaged in the Crimea from Christmas Day, 1854, till the withdrawal of the troops in 1856, including the attack on the cemetery and the siege of Sebastopol (medal and clasp and Turkish medal), and in the China war of 1860, including the action at Sinho and the attack and capture of the Taku. He was appointed Superintendent of Police in Western Australia, and retained the post till his death, on April 18th, 1887.

Smith, Hon. Robert Burdett, C.M.G., M.L.C., was born in Sydney in 1842; was admitted a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales in 1863, and practises in Sydney. He was at one time president of the Australian Patriotic Association, and was secretary to the committee of the Captain Cook Memorial Fund. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly for the Hastings and Macleay electorates from 1870 to 1889, when he was nominated to the Legislative Council. Mr. Smith was a Commissioner for New South Wales at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition in 1886, and was Executive Commissioner for that colony at the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition of 1888. In 1890 he was created C.M.G.

Smith, Robert Murray, C.M.G., M.A., sometime Agent-General for Victoria, is the son of the late Alexander Smith, of Liverpool, and was born in 1831. He was educated at Repton School and at Oriel College, Oxford, of which he became scholar, but relinquished the further prosecution of a university course, owing to family reasons rendering it desirable for him to go into commerce. In 1883, however, the University conferred on him the honorary degree of M.A. Having emigrated to Victoria in 1854, he took 423