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 at the College School, Castletown, Isle of Man, and at Trinity College, Dublin. He emigrated to New Zealand in 1852, being one of the pioneers of the Canterbury Church of England settlement in that colony. In March 1855 he was elected to the Provincial Council of Canterbury for Akaroa, and in the following Dec. he stood for the New Zealand House of Representatives for Christchurch country district, but was defeated. He again contested the constituency in Oct. 1856, but was again unsuccessful. In May 1858, however, he was elected to the House for Lyttelton, for which he was also returned to the Provincial Council later in the same year. In August 1861 he accepted office in the Fox Ministry as Postmaster-General and Secretary for Crown Lands. Resigning with his chief in August of the next year, he was a few days later reappointed Postmaster-General under Mr. Domett, retiring with his colleagues in Oct. 1863. Early in that year he had been sent to England to negotiate for the establishment of a mail service via Panama, and this he successfully achieved, and on his return in March 1864 was offered his old portfolio of Postmaster-General by the then Premier, Sir Frederick Weld. He, however, declined to re-enter office, and engaged in an agitation for the separation of the North and South islands of New Zealand. Whilst in England as the representative of the Domett Government, he discussed the question of the war expenditure with the Imperial Government, and published a defence of the colony in a letter addressed to Lord Lyttelton, one of the founders of the Canterbury settlement. Mr. Ward became connected with the Lyttelton Times as a part proprietor in July 1856, and was a voluminous and very able contributor to its columns. Shortly after his refusal to join the Weld Government, Mr. Ward was appointed agent in England for the province of Canterbury, and died in London whilst acting in that capacity in 1867. Mr. Ward married on Jan. 13th, 1857, Margaret, seventh daughter of James Townsend, of Christchurch, N.Z.

Ward, Hon. Ebenezer, M.P., was clerk in charge and accountant of the party which accompanied Mr. Finnis in his ill-starred expedition to the Northern Territory in 1864, and has been a member of the Legislative Assembly, with slight intermission, since 1870. He was Minister of Agriculture and Education in the Boucant Ministry from June 1875 to March 1876, and in Mr. Colton's Government from June 1876 to Oct. 1877. Mr. Ward, who carried the Public Instruction Bill, sits for Frome in the Legislative Assembly, and was chosen Chairman of Committees in 1884, but was not re-elected in 1890. In 1889 Mr. Ward received the Queen's permission to bear the title of Honourable within the colony.

Ward, Edward Grant, J.P., Registrar-General and Chairman of Lands' Titles Commissioners, New South Wales, was appointed to his present office in Dec. 1870. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Statistical Society of London.

Ward, Major-General Sir Edward Wolstenholme, K.C.M.G., son of the late Hon. John Petty Ward, of the Bengal Civil Service, by Eleanor, daughter of John Erskine, of York, was born on August 17th, 1823, and entered the Royal Engineers in 1841, becoming captain in 1852, major and lieut.-colonel in 1864, colonel in 1869, and major-general in 1877. He was Master of the Sydney Mint from 1853 to 1869, and of the Melbourne Mint from the latter year till 1876. Sir Edward, who was created C.M.G. in 1874, and K.C.M.G. in 1879, married, in 1857, Annie Sophia, daughter of Hon. Robert Campbell, of Sydney, He died on Feb. 5th, 1890.

Ward, Frederick William, is a native of New Zealand, to which colony his father, the Rev. Robert Ward, emigrated from Norfolk, England. He shared in the suppression of the Maori rebellion, or New Zealand war as it was called, in 1863-5. He was educated for the ministry of the Wesleyan Church, and, shortly after his being admitted to the office, went to New South Wales, where he was for a time associated with William Curnow in the pastorate of the largest Wesleyan Church in Sydney. He, however, resigned the ministry, and became a writer for the Sydney Morning Herald, He subsequently took the editorship of the Echo and the Sydney Mail, the former an evening paper and the latter a weekly journal, connected with the Sydney Morning Herald. In the year 1885 Mr. Ward was offered the position of editor of the Daily Telegraph, a new morning paper established in Sydney. He accepted 492