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WHO IS WHO IN AUSTRALASIA.
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X>ASOOW f Sail of (Bt. Hon. Sir David Boyle), G.C.M.G., Baron Boyle, Viscount Kelburne, Baron Fairlie, Governor of Ntew Zealand 1892-7; 6. May 81, 1838, s. of Patrick Boyle, and 2nd cousin once removed of 6th Earl, succeeded aa 7th Earl in 1800. Capt. B.N. retired. Served in the White Sea during the Crimean War, and in the China War 1867. m. 1878 Dorothea, d. of Sir Edward Hunter-Blair, tth Bart. Ad- dress — Kelburne, Fairlie, Ayrshire.

G&A8GOW, Tbomu William, D.S.O., Lieut. 18th A.L.H. Regt, Oympie, Queens- land; b. 1878. Decorated for service with Q'land troops in 8. African campaign 1899- 1900.

GLASGOW, William Thompson, Secre- tary and Inspector of the Customs Depart- ment of New Zealand since 1892; b. st Rajkote, Province of Gujerat, India, Nov. 24, 1842, and ed. at a private school in the North of Ireland. He was first appointed to the New Zealand Customs service in 1861, and has filled various offices, m. 1st 1898 Marian, <L of Thomas Younger, North Shields, England, 2nd 1902 May, o of J. O. Thom- son, Auckland. Address— I Boulcott Ter- rac e, Wellin gton, NJ5.

OT. Aga TsT T, Son. Thomas, Senator for Queensland in the first Federal Parlt. 1901-8 ; b. Market Hill, Co. Armagh, Ireland, 1844. Arrived in Q'land 1884. Associated with Miners' Union movement at Ipswich. Was sometime M.L.A. for Bundanba, Burke, and Bundaberg, and first Labour member elected to the Q'land Parlt Member of Federal C ouncil of A'asfe 1899.

«nnr t Boa. Patrick sfclfahon, M.P. for Angas (S.A.), barrister-at-law ; b. Gort, Co. Galway, Ireland, Aug. 25, 1865, ed. Tri- nity ColL Dublin (B.A., Honours in Logic, LL.B.; a medallist for oratory in the Iaw Studento' Debating Soo. for Ireland 1880). Arrived in Aust. in 1880. Was for about ten years leader writer to the Kapunda Herald, and contributed to other papers. M.H.A. for Light 1887-9, elected for N. Adelaide 1895 (the first representative returned in Aust. under adult suffrage), and again in 1897. Took a prominent part in the movement for Austn. federal union, was member of the Convention which framed the Commonwealth Constitution 1897-8, and was elected a repre- sentative of S.A. in the first Federal Parlt. 1901 and for Angas in Dec. 1908 and 1908. He was State Attorney-General in the Solomon Ministry 1899. Is a recognised Australian authority on constitutional questions, and was elected in 1908 a member of The Ame- rican Acad, of Political and Social Science. Has published numerous pamphlets and lec- tures, including The Irish State Trials 1844 and 1880, The Manifesto of the S.A. Land Nationalisation Soc. 1884, The Case Against s 8tate Bank 1889, A Review of the Biver Murray Question 1891, Great Britain and its Colonies — the Obstacles to Imperial Fede- ration 1892, The Working of Federation 1902, Imperial Union and Fiscal Reciprocity 1904, and Lectures on Shakspearean and general literary subjects. He was representative of South Australia on, and Chairman of, the Interstate Committee appointed to draft the Murray Waters BUI 1907, and the sgreement between the States of New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia. He also pre- pared as one of the Counsel for South Aus- tralia a statement in two volumes of the Laws and Facte on the question of the Rights of the States to the River Murray, ikcreottoiw— Hunting and tennis. Address— 96 King William Street, Adelaide.

OOS, Bt. Bow. Plaid Plows**, D.D., Bishop of Melbourne 1887-1901, and after- wards Assistant Bishop to Bishop of Dur- ham; 6. 1882. Address— 5 Ridgway Place, Wimbledon, 8.W.

GOLDING, Annie (Miss), a pioneer in the cause of womanhood suffrage, President of the Woman's Progressive Association of New South Wales; b. Tambarooka, 1868, and •*. of Joseph Golding, of Shrule, Galway, Ire- land. Before the suffrage movement in the colony assumed practical shape she advocated the cause in the Press under various pen names, and from the beginning of the agita- tion, in conjunction with her sister, Miss Belle Golding, became prominent in the movement, occupying the position of Coun- cillor and Vice-President of the Womanhood Suffrage League. She established the Woman's Progressive Association (non-sectarian and non-party), through whose influence mainly due to her efforts valuable reforms in the cause of women have been accomplished. Address — Inverness, Annandale St., Annan- dale, Sydney.

OOXA8MXTX, Bt, Btv. Fradettiok, D.D , first Bishop of Bunbury since July 1904 ; b. London, 1858, s. of Frederick William Gold- smith and Dorothy, d. of Benjamin and Doro-