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JOHNS'S NOTABLE AUSTRALIANS AND

way built in Aust by day labour). He was for 14 years a member of the Town Council of Williamstown, represented the ratepayers of WHliamstown on Melbourne Harbour Trust Commission 1890-4, repre- sentative of Williamstown Town Council on Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works 1801-1901, and appointed by Victn. Govt to Board of Public Health June 1890 andbeea Chairman of Bd. on four occasions. He was M.LJL for Williamstown 1894-1900, mem- ber of Parliamentary Standing Gomte. on Hallways 1897-1900, and elected to the Senate in the first Commonwealth Par- liament March 1901. Is a Life Member of the Society of Engineers London. Recreation — Reading. Address — St. Jamei's Park, Hawthorn, Victoria.

■UCtiDBV, mer. Bdward Holdswortb, M.A., Master of Queen's College in the University of Melbourne since 1888, Profes- sor of Theology in the Methodist Church o< A'asia.and ex-President of the Victn. Metho- dist Conference; b. Sheffield, Eng., June 19, 1854, s. of the Rev. James Sugden, Metho- dist minister, ed. Woodhouse Grove Sen., Owens Coll., Manchester and London Univ. (B.A., B.Sc.), M.A. Melb. Has been a member of the Council of Melbourne Univ. since 1900, and Trustee of the Public Li- brary and National Gallery Melb. since 1902. Author of The Comedies of Plautus, trans- lated into English Verse, m. Miss Thomp- son, of Bradford, York*. Recreation— Golf. Add ress — Queen's College, Melbourne.

BWLMAM, John, F.R.I.B.A., P. N. Russell Lecturer in Architecture in the University of Sydney since 1887 ; ft. Greenwich, nr. Lon don, Aug. 29, 1849, «. of John and Martha Sulman, ed. Greenwich Proprietary Sch., ar- ticled to H. R. K%wton, architect, London; Pugin Travelling Student of the Royal Inst, of British Architects 1872. Practised in London 1870-1885, carrying out about 70 churches and as many houses and other buildings; practised in Sydney since 1880. Partner in firm of Sulman & Power, archi tects and consulting engineers, whose princi- pal works are Thomas Walker Convalescent Hospital Sydney, A.M.P. Buildings Melbourne and Brisbane, many branches of A.J.S. and other banks, Mutual Life Assn. of A'asia buildings Sydney, Brisbane, and Adelaide, Sargood's warehouses at Melbourne and Wellington NX, and Stock Exchange Sydney. Has been Vice-Pres. of Architectural Assn. of London and of Inst, of Architects o' N.S.W., Trustee of National Art Gallery of N.S.W. since 1899, Director of Daily Tele- graph Newspaper Co., and 1st Lieut. Para- matta Lancers 1889-94. Has written nume- rous papers and lectures on architecture and applied art. m. 1st, 1875, Sarah Clark Bed- gate; 2nd, 1898, Annie Elizabeth laase- field. Recreations— lAKanUrre, art, travel Address— Mutual Life Buildings, Wynwaxd St, Sydney; and Turramurra..

SUTHERLAND, Sulina Murray Mac-
donald (Miss), Secretary of the Victorian Neglected Children's Aid Society; o. in Pa- rish of Kildonnel, 8utherlandshire, Scotland. Her early life was spent in the Wairarapa district, New Zealand. One of her first acts of philanthropy to bring her notably before the public was "the relief of Alfredton Wool- shed," where a number of surveyors and their men were suffering from typhoid fever. She afterwards founded the Mssterton Hospital. Arrived in Victoria in 1881, appointed Lady Missionary to Scots Church, Collins Street, and there beginning her work among neglect- ed children, founded the Scots Church Ne- glected Children's Aid Society. In 1883 she established the Melbourne Maternity Home, in 1885 founded the Melbourne District Nursing Society and in 1889 was appointed by the Presbytery of Melbourne the first Lady Missionary to the Presbyterian Ohurciies in Victoria. In 1888 she was the first to be appointed in Victoria to receive children under the Neglected Children's Act, part 8. She established the Presbyterian Neglected Children's Aid Society in 1894, and the Vic- torian Neglected Children's Aid Society ia 1895. Address— 68 Latrobe 8t, Melbourne.

8T7TTOB, Hon* Blr Frauds Bftthumt. Knt, President of Legislative Council of New South Wales since June 1908; b. Ba- thurst, Apr. 80, 1889, s. of the late William Henry Suttor and Charlotte Augusta Anne (Francis), ed. King's Sch. Parramatta. Was M.L.A. for his native town 1875-1889, and again 1891-4 and 1898-1900, M.L.C. 1SS9-91 and since 1900; Minister for Justice and Public Instruction in 1877 and 1878-S0, Mi- nister of Justice 1880, Postmaster-General 1880-1, Acting Secretary for Mines 18S1. Minister for Publio Instruction 1881-8, all in Parkes Ministries; Postmaster-General in