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 . Towards the end of the year Mr. Stuart left for London, with the view of acting as Executive Commissioner for New South Wales at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition of 1886. Though greatly enfeebled by ill-health, he discharged his duties with success till his death on June 6th in the latter year. He had just previously been created K.C.M.G. Sir Alexander Stuart's widow died on Sept. 16th, 1889.

Stuart, Rev. Donald McNaughton, D.D., son of Alexander Stuart and Janet (McNaughton) his wife, was born in 1819 at the hamlet of Styx Kenmore, Perthshire. In 1837 he started a school at Leven, Perthshire, and two years later entered at St. Andrews University. Having supported Dr. Chalmers for the Lord Rectorship after the disruption, he was expelled, with the majority of the students, for refusing to submit to an admonition from the senators. A Royal Commission shortly afterwards reinstated the extruded students, but Dr. Stuart removed from St. Andrews to New College, Edinburgh, where he was a theological student under Dr. Chalmers. In 1844 he was appointed classical master, and subsequently principal, of a private secondary school at Upton Park, Eton, and in July 1848 was married at Slough, Windsor, to Miss Jessie Robertson. He commenced studying for the ministry in London and completed his curriculum in Edinburgh, being licensed by the Free Presbytery of Kelso to the Presbyterian church of Falstone, North Northumberland, where he remained for ten years. In Jan. 1860 Dr. Stuart arrived in Dunedin to take up the position of minister of Knox Church, which he still retains. He is also chairman of the boys and girls' high schools of Otago, and Chancellor of the University of Otago.

Stuart, Right Hon. Edward Craig, D.D., Bishop of Waiapu, N.Z., is a brother of the late Sir, K.C.M.G., sometime Prime Minister of New South Wales (q.v.). He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he took several honours, becoming B.A. in 1850 and D.D. jure dig, in 1880. From 1850, in which year he was ordained deacon, to 1875 he was a missionary in India under the auspices of the Church Missionary Society, of which society he was secretary at Calcutta from 1859 to 1875. He was consecrated Bishop of Waiapu at Waiapu in Dec. 1877.

Stuart, Hon. Frank, M.L.A., Victoria., was born at Penrith, N.S.W., in 1844. Going to Victoria, he was for fifteen years in the employ of L. Stevenson & Sons, of Melbourne, and then became managing partner in the firm of Lincoln, Stuart & Co. Mr. Stuart, who was president of the Victorian Chamber of Manufactures in 1885-6, was elected to the Assembly for East Melbourne in 1889, and accepted a seat in the Munro Ministry as a member of the Cabinet without portfolio in Nov. 1890. In April 1891 he resigned office.

Stuart, James Martin, H.M., entered the public service of South Australia as stipendiary magistrate at Adelaide in July 1881; was appointed Commissioner of Insolvency in June 1883; and, in addition, stipendiary magistrate at Port Adelaide in May 1887. Having resigned the above posts, he was appointed, in August 1889, Crown Solicitor and Public Prosecutor, in succession to the late Charles Mann, Q.C.

Stuart, John M'Douall, the celebrated explorer, arrived in South Australia in 1839. In 1844 he acquired bush experience by going with Captain Sturt's expedition to the northern parts of the colony as draughtsman. In 1858-9 he commenced a series of explorations in the far north, and discovered a passage between Lake Eyre and Lake Torrens, finding a splendid pastoral territory beyond the desert country which Mr. (afterwards Governor) had failed to penetrate. In the meantime the South Australian Government offered a reward of £2000 to the first man who should traverse the Continent from south to north. In 1860 he resolved to attempt the feat, and accompanied by two men, travelled to within 400 miles of Van Diemen's Gulf on the north coast. Forced to return by the hostility of the natives, he planted the British flag in the centre of the continent on April 22nd, 1860, on a hill which he named Central Mount Stuart. In Jan. 1861 Stuart again started with a party of twelve men, but was again compelled by shortness of provisions to return without accomplishing his object, though this time ho reached within 250 miles of the coast, to which, in the meantime, and Wills, who had 445