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 and was mayor in 1861. His principal municipal work was in connection with the sewerage of the metropolis. In 1860 he was returned to the Legislative Assembly for Paddington, which included the constituency of Redfern, which, when subdivided and constituted a separate electorate, he represented down to the date of his death, with the exception of a short interval, during which he sat in the Legislative Council. Mr. Sutherland was Minister of Public Works on no less than five occasions—viz., in the and  Administrations from Oct. 1868 to Dec. 1870, in the  Ministry from May 1872 to Feb. 1875, in that of Mr. from Dec. 1877 to Dec. 1878, and in the fourth Parkes Government from Jan. 1887 to Jan. 1889. He died on June 23rd, 1889.

Suttor, Hon. Francis Bathurst, M.L.A., son of the late William Henry Suttor of Bathurst, by his wife Charlotte Augusta Anne (Francis), was born at Bathurst in 1839, and educated at the King's School, Parramatta. He was returned to the Assembly for the city of Bathurst in 1875, and sat till 1889, when, on accepting office in the Government, he was defeated and nominated to the Legislative Council in February of that year. Mr. Suttor was Minister of Justice and Public Instruction in the second and third Parkes Administrations, from March to August 1877, and from Dec. 1878 to April 1880, and held the offices of Minister of Justice, Minister of Education, Postmaster-General and Acting Secretary for Mines successively in the latter Government till Jan. 1883. From Feb. 1886 to Jan. 1887 he was Postmaster-General in the Ministry, and Minister of Public Instruction from Jan. to March 1889 in the Dibbs Government. Mr. Suttor, who married in 1863 the only daughter of Thomas J. Hawkins, of Walmer, resigned his seat in the Legislative Council in 1891, and was again returned to the Assembly for Bathurst at the General Election in that year. In October following he accepted the post of Minister of Education in the second Dibbs Government, and during the absence of Sir George Dibbs in England in 1892 was acting Colonial Secretary in addition.

Suttor, Hon. William Henry, M.L.C., late Vice-President of the Executive Council, New South Wales, is the eldest son of the late William Henry Suttor, of Bathurst, N.S.W., by his marriage with Charlotte Augusta Anne (Francis), and was born at Brucedale, near Bathurst, on Nov. 14th, 1834. He was educated under Dr. Woolls at Parramatta, and was returned to the Legislative Assembly for East Macquarie, which had previously been represented by his father and uncle, in Jan. 1875. He was re-elected in 1877, and was Minister of Mines in the Administration from December of that year till Dec. 1878. He was nominated to the Upper House in 1880, and on the return to power of Sir in May 1889 accepted a seat in the Ministry as Vice-President of the Executive Council, and representative of the Government in the Legislative Council. This post he held till the defeat of the Ministry in Oct 1891. Mr. Suttor was appointed one of the representatives of New South Wales at the Federation Convention held in Sydney in March 1891. Mr. Suttor, who is captain of the Bathurst Reserve Rifle Company, was married at Kelso, near Bathurst, on March 20th, 1862, to Adelaide Agnes Nanietta, daughter of Major Bowler, of the 80th Regiment. He is author of "Australian Stories Retold and Sketches of Country Life" (Whalan, Bathurst, 1887).

Swainson, Hon. William, was born in Lancaster, and was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple. In 1841 he was nominated by Lord John Russell Attorney-General of New Zealand, previously to the introduction of responsible government; and sailed for that colony in company with Chief Justice. During the voyage out the two devoted themselves to preparing an "outline of a legal system adapted to the condition of an infant colony," and within six months of Mr. Swainson's arrival he passed many measures for the better governance of the country, including ordinances to establish a supreme court and county courts, for the constitution of juries, for regulating the practice of petty sessions, for establishing municipalities, for promoting religion, for regulating postage, for registration of deeds concerning real property, for facilitating the transfer of real property, to render certain marriages 450