THE NEW MEMBERS IN PARLIAMENT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7983, 29 September 1887, Page 2

THE NEW MEMBERS IN PARLIAMENT.

WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEY HAVE DONE. [SPECIALLY. PREPARED FOR THE TARANAKI HERALD.] Te Aro. — Mr. A. A. Stuart Menteath, the new member for Te Aro, has resided in Wellington less than two yoars. Mr. Menteath was originally in the service of the National Bank at Wellington, and was manager at the Reeftou, Kumara, Lyell, Greymoutb, and other branches. In 1880 he went Home to study for the law, and waa called to the bar. Returning to New Zealand in I^B4, he practised aa a lawyer, and had not been in the colony more than a few months when he was elected to represent Inangahua in Parliament, beating the Bitting member, Mr. Reeves, by 19.' Mr. Menteath was soon' after elected Chairman of the Innngahua County Council. When the last Parliament expired he was strongly urged to stand again for Inangahua, but preferred to contest a Wellington seat. Wellington South and Suburbs. — Mr. Charles Beard Izard, the newly-elected memberfor Wellington South and Suburbs, is one of tho best kuown lawyers in Wellington. He is a native of Brighton, Sussex, and was called to the bar in 1857. He came to New Zealand in 1860, and after practising at Auckland for a time, , went into business in Wellington. He retiredfrom practice in 1885. Mr. Izard haß twice contested the Foxton seat, and at the last election was only beaten by one vote. Auckland West. — Mr. David Goldie, elected for Auckland Weßt, was born in Tasmania, in 1845. He served his apprenticeship as a carpenter, and • arrived at Auckland in 1863. In 1874 he was returned as a member for Auckland West in tho Provincial Council, and continued a member of that body until its dissolution by the " Abolition of Provinces" Act. In 1879 he was elected to represent Auckland West in Parliament as a supporter of secular education, beating his opponent, Mr. Peter Dignan, a denominationaliat, by 507 votes. On the dissolution at the end of the session of 1879 he declined to stand again, as his business demanded his attention. Ho has for the last nine years been a member of the Education Board and also a member of the Harbour Bo>ird and Charitable Aid Board. He has been grand master of the Orangemen of the North Island, president of tho New Zealand Order of Good Templars, president of tho New Zoaland Alliance. He is a persistent advocate of retrenchment. Dunedin East. — Mr. Jabih.s Allen, who hnß been returned for Dunedin ilnst, was bom on February 10th, 1855, in Australia, and camo to Now Zealand in 1858. Ha was taken to England iv 1861 to be educated, and was placeod at a private school in 1862, and remained there till 1869, when he was sont to Clifton College, where he remained till 1874. While at Olifcon he gained a.uatural science scholarship or exhibition teoablo for tlireo years at St. John's College, Cambridge. He proceeded to Cambridge in 1877, aud took an honor B.A. degree in 1877, . He left College, and in 1877 returned' at once to Now Zealand. From 1877 to 1883 ho resided in Dunediu. During three years of that time hr reprosuntod the Leiih Ward in $ho City Council. For Beveral years he wfts.it member of, U\q An^wm Qlweh

Synod, and for two years occupied the position oE lay-secretary to the Synod. About 1882 he be^an to take an autive intorest in urinmg and mineralogy, and attended Professor Ulnch's course ot lectures. He went to England in 1883, and continued his studies at the Royal School of Mines, South Kensiogton, where he passed the examination in metallurgy, equal to first in the first class, and received the Bessemer medal. He paßsed tho following year, also first in first class in the geology courso, receiviag the Sir Roderich Murchison medal. He returned to the colony last year. Waitemata. — Mr. Richard Monk may be considered a new member, for he only sac a few weeks at the end 06 the last Parliament. He is one of the oldest resi.dents in the colony, having come to New Zealand with his father when quite a child. He is now fifty-four years of age. His father settled at Hosian^a years before the proclamation of British sovereignty. In 184:0, when about seventeen, Mr. Monk went to California, and then followed the gold hunters to Australia. About 1853, when he was in Melbourne, he picked up the carpentering trade. W hile travelling about he gathered some notions regarding the introduction of machinery in joinery, and established a factory at the corner of Queen and Grey street's, Auckland, which in after years developed into the Union Sash and Door Factory Company. He was tho first man to introduce steam joinery into the colonies, and has always been regarded as tho leading authority on the erection of timber mills and matters affecting the timber industry. In 1881 he stood for Parnell as an anti-Greyite, but was beaten. He was elected to the House ia 1886 to fill the vacancy caused by Mr. Hurst's ,'death, and while contesting that election was the first public man of the colony to emphasise the demand for retrenchment, which in a few months became what Sir R. Stout has called a " perfect roar." He ia a skilled native linguist, aud wili probably have considerable influence over the Maori vote.