Rev. Henry H. Lawry, Supernumerary Wesleyan minister and formerly missionary among the Waikato and Ngapuhi tribes, was born at Parramatta, New South Wales, in 1821, and is the son of the late Rev. Walter Lawry, who was born in Cornwall, England in the year 1793, and came of a yeoman family. He was appointed by the British Wesleyan Conference in 1817 as the second Wesleyan missionary for Australasia, and arrived in Sydney in May 1818. He shortly afterwards married into the Hassall family, of the original pioneer missionaries. In 1822 the Rev. Walter Lawry was appointed by the British Wesleyan missionary committee to open a mission in Tongatabu, now known as Tonga, but was recalled to Sydney shortly afterwards, and returned to England in 1824 where he occupied several important positions in English circuits connected with the Wesleyan page 232 Conference, for 19 years. In 1843, he was again sent out to Occania as general superintendent of the New Zealand Wesleyan mission and visitor of those in the Friendly Islands and Fiji. After eleven years' service he retired from the more active duties of the mission, at the formation of the Australian Wesleyan Methodist Conference. Shortly afterwards he returned to the scenes of his early labours in N. S. Wales, and died at Parramatta in 1859. Rev. H. H. Lawry was educated at the old Kingswood School near Bristol—an educational institute founded for the children of Wesleyan ministers—where he remained six years. He left school in 1836 and was apprenticed to the printing business, which in after life proved most valuable to him. He accompanied his father and family to Auckland, New Zealand in 1843, and in the following year joined the mission in connection with which he spent 20 years in Maori work and visiting pioneer settlers. In the year 1845 he was associated with the Rev. Mr. Buddle in establishing the Wesleyan native institution for training native teachers at Grafton Road and Three Kings, and he was intimately connected with same until 1849, when the late Rev. Alexander Reid replaced him. At the commencement of the Maori war in 1864, the mission stations were broken up, and he retired from active duty. From 1864 to 1879 he was engaged in assisting the ministers of the Auckland circuit, and in that sphere, his matured experience and labours proved most beneficial to his Church. From 1879 to 1891, he was employed by the New Zealand Government, by request of Sir George Grey, to act as interpreter in connection with the Native Land Court. In 1866, he became secretary of the Auckland auxiliary branch of the British and Foreign Bible Society, which office he still retains, and in 1892 he was elected a Life-Governor of the parent society in recognition of his past services. The reverend gentleman also edited and carried through the press a Maori service book; and likewise assisted the late Archdeacon Maunsell in carrying his revised edition of the Maori Bible through the press. It was Dr. Maunsell's intention to make this work a standard classic of the Maori language.