at the first conference on Australasian federation. In 1893 he introduced into the ministry's electoral bill an amendment conferring the vote upon women, a reform which he had always actively supported. It was passed into law on the eve of the general election. In 1905 he was chosen master of the Leathersellers' Company in London, but was unable to leave New Zealand to take the office. In 1906, the year of the New Zealand exhibition, he became first mayor of Greater Christchurch. On 25 Oct. he fell ill, and on 25 June 1907 he died at Park Terrace, Christchurch, and was buried in the family vault in Hororata cemetery.
He married in 1861 Rose Anne (d. 1900), daughter of William Dryden, of Hull. By her he had issue three sons and one daughter.
[Mennell's Dict. of Australasian Biog.; Gisborne's New Zealand Rulers and Statesmen, 1897 (with portrait); Rusden's Hist. of New Zealand; Reeves' The Long White Cloud; speeches and obituary notices in New Zealand Times, Auckland Star, Canterbury Times, 3 July 1907 (portrait).]
HALLÉ [formerly Norman-Neruda], WILMA MARIA FRANCISCA, Lady Hallé (1839–1911), violinist, was third child and second daughter of Josef Neruda (1807–75), organist of the cathedral of Brünn, Moravia, where she was born on 21 March 1839. Almost in infancy Wilma began to play the violin. Her teacher was Leopold Jansa. At the age of seven she played one of Bach's sonatas at Vienna, and her fine rendering excited general astonishment. A tour through North Germany with her family followed. On 30 April 1849 she appeared at the Princess's Theatre, London, and on 11 June played a concerto of De Bériot at the Philharmonic concerts. Other tours through Europe spread her fame. In 1864 she made most successful appearances at Paris, and there she married in the same year Ludwig Norman, a Swedish musician, taking the surname of Norman-Neruda. She returned to London in 1869, appeared at the Philharmonic concerts, and remained till Christmas, leading the quartets at the Monday popular concerts. The favour accorded her brought her back to London] every winter. She was specially distinguished as a quartet-leader. In 1876 Prince Alfred, afterwards duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, joined with Earls Dudley and Hardwicke in presenting her with the celebrated Stradivanus violin that had belonged to Ernst. In 1886 she was left a widow. On 26 July 1888 she married her second husband. Sir Charles Hallé [q. v. Suppl. I], with whom she had long been professionally associated. After his death in 1895 King Edward VII, then Prince of Wales, became president of an influential committee which was formed to raise a fund for her benefit. As a result, the title-deeds of a palace at Asolo were presented to Lady Hallé. After the death on 11 Sept. 1898 of her only son (by her first husband) in a mountaineering accident in the Dolomites, Lady Halle settled at Berlin as a teacher, re-visiting England every year and being formally appointed in 1901 violinist to Queen Alexandra. On 25 Jan. 1908 she played at the concert in London in memory of Joachim, who was one of her frequent associates. She died at Berlin from inflammation of the lungs on 15 April 1911. Effective technique, superb bowing, an indefinable touch of genius in her interpretations gave her a unique place among violinists; her tone scarcely yielded in fulness to the greatest male performers.
[The Times, 17 April 1911; Strad, May 1911; Musical Standard, 29 March 1902 (portrait); Grove's Dict. of Music, arts. Neruda, Stradivari, and Violin, and the Appendix; A. Ehrlich, Berühmter Geiger (Engl. edit, with portrait); personal reminiscences from 1872.]
HALLIDAY, Sir FREDERICK JAMES (1806–1901), first lieutenant-governor of Bengal, son of Thomas Halliday of Ewell, Surrey, was born there on Christmas
Day 1806. A younger brother. General John Gustavus (b. 1822), long served on the Mysore commission. Halliday entered Rugby in 1814, and completed his education at the East India College, Haileybury, 1823-4. He was appointed to the Bengal civil service and arrived in Calcutta on 8 June 1825. Halliday first served as junior assistant to the company's agent in the Saugor division, and assistant registrar of the Sadar (supreme) court. He was joint magistrate and deputy collector in Bundelkhund and afterwards in Noakhali and Balu (1831-5); from Feb. 1835 magistrate and collector at Dacca, and next at Cuttack; and from April 1836 secretary to the board of revenue. In May 1838 he was appointed judicial and revenue secretary in Bengal, and, in addition, from March 1840 to 1843 he was junior secretary to the government of India both in the same and in the legislative departments. In 1849 he was made secretary in the home department by Lord Dalhousie, who held a high opinion of him and was distressed when, in July 1852, after twenty-seven years' uninterrupted service,
