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 . When of age he started on his own account as a grain exporter, and worked with such skill and enterprise in extending his operations and enlarging his connection that he is to-day one of the largest exporters in New Zealand, with agents all over Australia and branch establishments in most of the cities of New Zealand. He has occupied the following positions:— Councillor of the Campbelltown Borough at twenty-one, and mayor five times in subsequent years; many years member of the Bluff Harbour Board, four of them chairman; five years member Invercargill Chamber of Commerce; captain Bluff Naval Artillery Volunteers—this corps Mr. Ward took the first steps to raise during the famous Parihaka trouble. Mr. Ward entered Parliament for Awarua in 1887, and was returned unopposed for the same constituency at the election in 1890. As Postmaster-General in the Government he has introduced some notable reforms.

Ward, His Honour Robert, judge of the Native Land Court, New Zealand, is the eldest son of the Rev. Robert Ward, formerly of Norfolk, England, and afterwards of New Zealand. He was born on Sept. 6th, 1840, and married on March 3rd, 1863, Eleanor, third daughter of John King and Mary Wakefield his wife. He was called to the New Zealand Bar, and practised with success until his appointment as judge of the Native Land Court of New Zealand.

Warton, Charles Nicholas, ex-Attorney-General, Western Australia, eldest son of Charles Warton, a surveyor in London, was born in 1832, and entered at Lincoln's Inn in Nov. 1857, being called to the Bar in June 1861. He married on August 24th, 1864, Agnes, daughter of G. H. Wood, of the 67th Regiment, and entered Parliament in 1880 as member for Bridport, which he represented until the general election in 1885. Mr. Warton, during his parliamentary career, gained an eccentric repute by the persistency with which he enforced the rule which prevented progress being made with bills which would otherwise have been unopposed. In 1886 he was appointed Attorney-General of Western Australia, and a member of the Legislative and Executive Councils. His tenure of office expired under the Constitution Act, in 1890, and he retired on a pension.

Waterhouse, George Marsden, sometime Prime Minister of South Australia and New Zealand, is the son of the late Rev. John Waterhouse, General Superintendent of Wesleyan Missions in Australia and Polynesia. He was born in 1824, and commenced his public career in South Australia, where his father was for some time engaged in the ministry. In 1851 he was elected to the then partially nominated Legislative Council of South Australia for East Torrens, but resigned his seat in June 1854. In 1857 he was elected to the newly constituted Legislative Assembly for his old constituency, but only sat for one session. Mr. Waterhouse was returned to the wholly elective Legislative Council in April 1860, but again retired from Parliament in Dec. 1864. Mr. Waterhouse was Premier and Chief Secretary of South Australia from Oct. 1861 to July 1863. In 1869 he took up his residence in New Zealand, and the next year was nominated to the Legislative Council of that colony. Mr. Waterhouse was a member of the third Ministry from Oct. 30th to Nov. 20th, 1871. In Oct. 1872 he became Premier of New Zealand, this being the only instance in Australasian history of the office of Premier being successively held by the same person in two colonies. In March of the next year, however, he resigned, finding that, with the leadership of the Lower House vested in Mr. (now Sir Julius), he possessed the name rather than the reality of power. Recently Mr. Waterhouse has resided in England.

Waterhouse, George Wilson, son of the Rev. Samuel Waterhouse, was born in Fiji in 1856, his family going to Tasmania in the same year. He was educated at Horton College, Ross, Tasmania, and in 1873 took the Tasmanian Scholarship of £200 per annum. Having matriculated at London University, he entered Christ's College, Cambridge, graduating in 1878 with honours in the Mathematical Tripos as Twenty-fifth Wrangler. He entered at the Inner Temple, and was called to the Bar in 1879. After practising at the Bar in Melbourne and Hobart, he was in 1888 appointed stipendiary magistrate and Commissioner of Bankruptcy and of the Court of Requests for Launceston. Mr. 494