The Very Reverend Monsignor James Paul, Vicar-General of the Roman Catholic diocese of Auckland, has been identified with the church in the Auckland district for over forty years, and is justly revered by his own congregation and respected by all numbers of the community. He resides at Onehunga.

Mr. James Park (page 653) died on the 16th of November, 1901.

Mr. Thomas Morrin 's valuable stallion St. Leger, referred to at page 660, died at the stud farm, Wellington Park, on the 22nd of October, 1901. He had been ill for a month, and a postmortem examination showed that he had been suffering from acute inflammation.

Mr. James Edward Wilson. See page 666.

Hanna, photo.
Mr. J. E. Wilson.

Mr. Charles William Stephens. See page 668.

Mr. C. W. Stephens.

The Rev. George Buttle, one of the pioneer Wesleyan missionaries of New Zealand, was born at Snaith, Yorkshire, England, in 1810. As a young man he offered himself as a Wesleyan missionary, and having been ordained, married and came out to the Bay of Islands in the year 1846 in the mission brig “Triton.” He was for twenty-one years at Waipa. On Mrs. Buttle's death in 1858 he retired from active work and went to England with his family. Five years later he returned to the Colony and purchased a farm at Otahuhu, where he resided for a number of years, and died on the 10th of July, 1874, leaving seven sons and one daughter.

Mr. William Inglis Conradi, County Clerk, Raglan. See page 718.

Botteley, photo.
Mr. W. I. Conradi.

Mr. Henry James Greenslade, J.P., was born at Auckland in 1867, but upon the proclamation of the Thames as a goldfield, his parents proceeded to that town, where Mr. Greenslade resided continuously until early in 1900, when he purchased the well-known estate of “Glengariff,” in the Waikato. He was educated at the Thames, and was for nineteen years connected with the Thames “Star.” Commencing as an errand boy in the office, he subsequently served his apprenticeship as a compositor; then he was appointed the “Star's” special mining reporter; and was afterwards its editor and manager for seven years. He was also the correspondent for the Auckland “Star” and the “Australian Mining Standard” (Sydney), besides being a contributor to the “British Australasian” (London). He discharged his page 1022 duties with such conspicuous ability that, in 1898, he was elected Mayor of Thames by a majority of forty votes, and had the honour of being the youngest Mayor in New Zealand. In the following year he was again returned as Mayor by a majority of 257 votes; but the same year he unsuccessfully contested the Thames seat for the House of Representatives against the Hon. James McGowan, Minister of Mines. Mr. Greenslade was connected with almost every local body at the Thames, and was Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Thames High School, the Public Library Committee, the Cemetery Trustees, and a member of the Harbour Board, the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, the Hospital Trustees, etc. He was also the first President of the Thames Branch of the New Zealand Natives' Association; always actively interested himself in everything pertaining to the welfare of the town, and is well and popularly known throughout the Auckland province. Mr. Greenslade takes a prominent part in all outdoor sports and amusements, and was President of the Thames Rugby Union, the Native Rose Football Club, and the St. Albans and other cricket clubs, besides having been a steward of the Thames Jockey Club for several years. In May, 1896, he was appointed to the Commission of the Peace, and two years later was married to a daughter of the late Thomas Penk, of Manchester, England, and has two sons. When leaving the Thames Mr. Greenslade resigned the editorship of the Thames “Star, the Mayoralty, and other public positions, and was presented by the citizens with an illuminated address in recognition of his great services to the town and the goldfield generally; while Mrs Greenslade was the recipient of a handsome a bum containing photographs of a number of the residents of the town. Since settling in the Waikato, Mr. Greenslade has taken a keen and active interest in public affairs, and is a member of the Executive of the Liberal Federation, chairman of the Ohaupo school committee, chairman of the Ohaupo branch of the Waikato Farmers' Club, president of the Paterangi Rifle Club, and vice-president of the Te Awamutu branch of the Fruit-growers' Association, the Waipa Rugby Union, and numerous football cricket and athletic clubs. In 1896 Mr. and Mrs Greenslade made a twelvemonth's tour of the United States of America, Great Britain, and Ireland, and the Continent of Europe.

Mr. Alfred Shepherd, Proprietor of the Talisman Hotel, at Katikati, was one of the original holders of the Talisman Mine, and still has large interests in the Karangakake goldfield. He is referred to at page 929.

The Rev. Father Brodie, formerly of Puhoi, is now stationed at Waihi.

“Fencourt,” Miss Gibbons' Residence.
See page763.

Terrace of Sulphur, Whakarewarewa.