sional career. Elected Honarary Life mem- ber of Melbourne Liedertafel la 1898.
F*"-! James Boyne, Under Secretary, Department of Justice, etc., Queensland; b. Stirlingshire, Scot, in July 1851, and ar- rived in Brisbane with his parents in 1858, ed. at the Normal School, and Collegiate School of Dr. Bigge. Entered the Queens- land Government service in 1886, in the Education Department, in which he remain- ed until Dec. 1884, when he was commis- sioned to visit the public Orphanages throughout the State with a view to place them on an efficient administrative footing. In 1885 he was appointed Official Trustee and Principal Receiver In Insolvency, and eight years later Curator of Intestate Es- tates and Curator of Insanity, and he has since discharged the combined duties. In November 1906, in addition to his other offices he was appointed Under Secretary for Justice. Selected by the State Government to represent Qland at the Conference of Experts held at Melbourne in June 1907 on Bankruptcy and Company Law. Author of ThB Manual of Official Trustee and Curator." Recreations— Tennis, riding. Ad- dress— "Ivanhoe," Enoggera, Brisbane. »*"-, ttndaay Bernard, Director of the National Gallery and Art Schools Melbourne since 1892; 6. at Liverpool, December 28, 1869, a. of Lindsay Hall, Liverpool, ei. Kensington Gram. Sen. London and Chelten- ham OoiL Studied art at South Kensington Museum Schs., and Antwerp and Munich Academies, and settled In London in 1881. Ex- hibited portraits and subject pictures in the Royal Acad, and British Artists' Institute, was an original member of the New English Art dob, and made drawings and Illustra- tions for the Graphic, Illustrated London News, Black and White, OasseU's, and other publications. Arrived in Aust in 1892. m. 1894, Blsinore Mary, 2nd d. of the late Charles Shuter, P.M., of Melb., who died in 1901. 4ddreff— National Gallery, Melbourne. XAU, Bobcat, P.L.8., O.M.Z.S., one of the best known Australian naturalists; 5. at Lai Lai, Victoria, in 1808, and ed. at the Scotch College, Melbourne. Author of The Use/el Bird* of Southern Australia (illustrated), A Key to the Bird* of Aus- tralia, Glimpses of Australian Bird Life, and other works on natural history, and Joint author of Nature Studies in Australia. In 1897 he visited Kerguelen Island as naturalist to the Consul for Norway and Sweden. During 1908 he journeyed along; the whole length of the Lena River in Si- beria, arriving at the Arctic Ocean in mid- summer, and the ornithological results of this expedition were recorded in the Ibis. He was appointed Curator of the Tasmanian Museum and Botanical Gardens at Hobart la September 1907. ZAXA-JOnS, Son. William, Minister for Railways and Public Worka in the Do- minion of New Zealand. He acted as Pre- mier of the Colony in 1906 upon the death of the Rt Hon. R. J. Seddon, and until the return of Sir Joseph Ward from England, and again in 1907 while Sir Joseph Ward was attending the Imperial Conference fa London. TTaT.T.llffOra, Samuel, General Manager of the Colonial establishment of the Union Bank of Australia Ltd. BAM, B. Burnett, M.D., Commissioner of Public Health Queensland since 1900, and Chairman of the Central Board of Health; b. Ballarat, 1865, a. of Hon. David Ham, of Vic, ed. Wesley Coll, Univ. of Melb., and Guy's Hospital London, M.D., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., D.P.H., Fellow of Royal Sanitary Inst of Great Britain. Chairman of Qland Bd. of Examiners in sanitary science for Sa- nitary Institute of Great Britain. Author of A Handbook of Sanitary Law (8rd edition), and has contributed extensively to Journals and magazines on literary, medical* and sanitary science subjects. Addr es s T reasury Buildings, Brisbane. SAM, Son. OomaUna Jo*, senior partner in O. J. ft T. Ham, auctioneers, finance, Mad and estate agents, Melbourne (business es- tablished in 1866); 6. 1837, y. a. of Rev. John Ham, Baptist minister. Arrived ia Melb. in 1842. Entered the City Council in 1870 for Latrobe Ward, Alderman 1879, Mayor of Melb. 1881-2, and as Senior Alder- man was elected Acting Lord Mayor during the absence of Sir Malcolm McEacharn in 1904. Was M.L.C. for Melbourne Province continuously 1882-1904, when he retired. Minister without portfolio In Monro Govt, 1890, member of the Royal Commission on Education Act 1881, and closely identified with the establishment of the Working Men's College, which was inaugurated durinc his mayoralty, and served on the Council of
