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 contributed articles to the Melbourne Age, Australasian, and other journals. He is now resident in Auckland, N.Z.

Suter, Right Rev. Andrew Burn, D.D., sometime Bishop of Nelson, N.Z., is the son of the late Richard Suter, of Castle Hill, Maidenhead, by his marriage with Ann Ruth, daughter of Major-General Burn. His lordship was born in London in 1830, and educated at St. Paul's School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. (Senior Optime) in 1853, M.A. in 1856, and D.D. in 1866. He was ordained deacon in 1855 and consecrated priest in 1856. From 1855 to 1859 he was curate of St. Dunstan's-in-the-West, London, and incumbent of All Saints', Spitalfields, from the latter year till 1866, in August of which year he was consecrated Bishop of Nelson, N.Z., in Canterbury Cathedral. The Bishop married Amelia Damaris, daughter of Rev. Thomas Harrison, of Barham, Kent. In 1889, when Bishop, of Christchurch, who was also Primate of New Zealand, retired, Bishop was elected to the primacy. As, however, there was considerable doubt as to the proper constitution of the electing body, the validity of the election was disputed, and Bishop Suter was nominated by the dissentient party. In the end, however, the claims of Bishop Hadfield were acknowledged. Bishop Suter resigned the see of Nelson in 1891.

Sutherland, Alexander, M.A., was born at Glasgow in 1852 and was educated in Scotland till 1864, when his father's failing health compelled the family to remove to Sydney. There at the age of fifteen he entered the service of the Education Department as a pupil teacher. At the age of nineteen he had by his own studies in the evening prepared for a university course, and in 1871 he joined the Melbourne University. Having obtained an honour degree he was mathematical master to the Scotch College during two years. At the close of 1877 he purchased the school known as Carlton College, of which he is still proprietor. Along with his younger brother (q.v.) he published in 1879 a school history of Australia, which has enjoyed much popularity in the colonies, having attained a sale of about 80,000 copies. Subsequently he wrote by himself a "New Geography" which has been fairly successful as a schoolbook, and which  induced Dr. Geikie to ask the author to  contribute to Macmillan's new geographical series, of which he is the editor. But  Mr. Sutherland's most important work  has been done in other departments. In  1888 he contributed to a work called  "Victoria and its Metropolis," the most  elaborate history of Victoria which has yet been written. In 1889 he published a volume of verse under the title of "Thirty Short Poems." But the bulk of his literary work has been contributed to the Melbourne Review, the Australasian, the Argus, and a number of magazines (generally of short lives) which have striven to nourish on Australian soil. Mr. Sutherland has recently edited Kendall's poems, and has contributed articles on Melbourne and Victoria to the Encyclopædia Britannica. He was for eight years secretary to the Royal Society of Victoria, and has occupied a good deal of his time during the last twelve years in the delivery of popular lectures on scientific and literary subjects.

Sutherland, George, MA., brother of, was born on Oct. 1st, 1855, at Glasgow; arrived in Australia with his parents in 1864; was educated at the Sydney Grammar School and at the Scotch College, Melbourne; proceeded to the Melbourne University, where he gained scholarships and other distinctions and graduated Master of Arts in 1879. After some experience as a teacher he joined the staff of the South Australian Register. Of late years he has turned his attention to inventions, and has taken out patents for photographic processes for making illustrations for daily newspapers, the system being now in use in various parts of Australia. An invention for cheap windmills and one for concentrating the precious metals in poor ores have been the results of his more recent inventive activity. He is author of "Tales of the Goldfields," "Australia; or, England in the South," and of a "Descriptive Geography of Australia." Another brother, William Sutherland, is a mathematician of eminence.

Sutherland, Hon. John, M.L.A., was born near Wick, in Scotland, on Feb. 16th, 1816, and emigrated to New South Wales, arriving in 1838. Having been very successful as a builder, he was elected an alderman of Sydney in 1857, 449