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 (East Lothian) in 1845, being the youngest son of James Watterston, of Balgone Barns. The family, after spending a year in Gottland, in the Baltic Sea, went to Australia, arriving in April 1853. After acting as clerk in an attorney's office in Melbourne, Mr. Watterston removed to Queensland in May 1860, and in October of the same year, commenced his connection with the press. He learned reporting on the Ipswich Herald (afterwards the Queensland Times) under Mr. Hall, who set him in the way of studying shorthand. From Ipswich he went to Brisbane in 1865, to undertake parliamentary reporting. He was several years in the gallery for the Brisbane Courier and next on the Guardian, from which paper, in June 1869, he obtained promotion to the parliamentary staff of the Argus, Melbourne, returning to Victoria after nine years' absence. Mr. Watterston executed various special commissions for the Argus, being sent to the United States in 1876, for six months, in connection with the Philadelphia Exhibition. He went to England in 1879, to report on the movements of the Berry-Pearson embassy. Mr. Watterston was appointed chief of the Argus reporting staff in 1881, and four years later, on the editorship of the Australasian becoming vacant, he had that position given to him, the Australasian being a weekly literary, sporting and agricultural journal, started by the proprietors of the Argus in 1864.

Way, Arthur S., M.A., son of the Rev. William Way, was born at Dorking, in Surrey, in 1847, and educated at Kingswood School,and Queen's College, Taunton. He graduated at the London University in 1870; and took his M.A. degree in 1873. He was Classical Lecturer at Queen's College, Taunton, from 1873 to 1875, when he was appointed vice-headmaster of Kingswood School He was elected to the headmastership of Wesley College, Melbourne, in 1881, and arrived in Victoria in February of the following year. Mr. Way published, "The Odes of Horace, literally translated in Metre" in 1875; "The Odyssey of Homer done into English Verse" (by Avia), in 1880; and in 1885 appeared the first part of his "Homer's Iliad in English Verse" (Books 1 to 6), followed by Books 7 to 11 in 1886, and Books 12 and 13 in 1888.

Way, His Honour the Hon. Samuel James, Chief Justice and Lieut.-Governor of South Australia, is the son of the late Rev. James Way, a Bible Christian minister, who emigrated to South Australia in 1850, and became general superintendent of the Bible Christian societies of Australia. The Chief Justice was born at Portsmouth in April 1836, and, after a private education at Shebbear and Maidstone, joined his father in South Australia in March 1853. He was admitted to the Colonial Bar in March 1861, and quickly took up a leading position in his profession, being made Q.C. in Sept. 1871. Mr. Way was elected a member of the Board of Education in Feb. 1874, and in November of the same year a member of the council of the University of Adelaide. Vice-Chancellor in succession to Bishop in 1876, and Chancellor in 1883. It was not till 1875 that Mr. Way participated actively in politics, and in February of that year he was returned to the Legislative Assembly for the Sturt district. In June 1875 he occupied the post of Attorney-General in the Ministry, but resigned it in March 1871 on being appointed to succeed the late Sir  as Chief Justice of South Australia. Mr. Way has, it is understood, on no less than three occasions declined the honour of knighthood and has discharged the duties of administrator of the government in the temporary absence of governors, and in the interregna between the departure of one governor and the arrival of his successor, nearly a dozen times; and it was therefore only a fitting compliment which was conferred on him in 1890, when he was appointed the first Lieutenant-Governor of the colony.

Waylen, Alfred Robert, M.D., J.P. Colonial Surgeon, Western Australia, is a native of that colony, and qualified as M.R.C.S. Eng., L.S.A. Lond., and L.Mid.R.C.S. Eng. in 1856. He entered the colonial service in April 1859 as medical officer Swan District, and was for sixteen years in the Imperial medical service in charge of the Guildford convict depot and out-stations. He was appointed colonial surgeon in August 1873, medical officer of Perth prison in 1876, and is also president of the Medical Board and of the Central Board of Health. Dr. Waylen, who is an M.D. of Melbourne and a 496