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amongst members, prated about it to messengers, and whenever he met his bete noir in a lobby or a committee-room he rated him, and threatened all sorts of exposure. H e even went so far as to express an intention of tabling a motion in the Council on the subject. T h e annoyance at length became so persistent and petulant, that Finn determined upon seeing it out with Fawkner at thefirstfavourable opportunity. This occurred, for when they met one day at the intersection of Victoria Parade and Nicholson Street, Finn, before the other had time to say something nasty, thus accosted him: " L o o k here, m y ancient friend, 'Old Capricornus,' I was anxious to meet you away from all Parliamentary precincts for fear of committing a breach of privilege upon the individual n o w known as the 'Honourable Johnny.' I have simply to say to you that the next time I hear any more of your goings on about me, I shall get an upholsterer to manufacture an effigy of you. This I shall get done with a pair of horns sprouting from the head, and the n a m e branded on the breast, in true Port Arthur style; and I'll have it hung from that tree (pointing to one of which the trunk still remains (1888), and all the fast Irishmen in Melbourne dancing about it. I never made you a promise before that I did not keep ; and so sure as you are Johnny Fawkner, the son of his father (you know what I mean by that), I'll keep this. So au revoir." Fawkner passed on without a word, and the shadow of the dreaded simulacrum kept him tongue-tied for more than four years — a marvellous taciturnity for him. At length there came a fierce explosion about 1863, when Fawkner took it into his head that Finn had something to do with the Victorian, a R o m a n Catholic journal then in existence; and there was another newspaper campaign, short and sharp, but doomed to be the last. T h e same year an extraordinary and un-Parliamentary burst-up was near occurring in the Council Chamber. Finn was temporarily promoted to the Assistant Clerkship, and consequently had to take his place wigged and gowned at the table of the House; whilst Fawkner, through his delicacy of health, habitually wore a small velvet cap, which he never doffed during the proceedings. O n thefirstoccasion of Finn's robed appearance in the chambe^ before the President (Sir J. Palmer) took the Chair, Fawkner ambled over to the new comer, and commenced to monodise jeeringly in something sounding like, " Don't w e look well in our wig! Don't we look well in our wig."! Finn turning on him quietly said, "Johnny Capricorn, let m e change m y wig for your nightcap, and we'll be the two champion beauties of the world; but before I do so the nightcap must be fumigated." With that Fawkner danced like a mad dervish about the table, and protested that the m o m e n t the Chair was taken he would report the insult to the President. T h e Honourables Captain Cole and W . Hull interposed their good offices to still the storm so inauspicously brewing, and after m u c h persuasion they prevailed upon Fawkner to be quiet. Fawkner and Finn never after quarrelled, owing most likely to the former's advancing years, and his increase of bodily ailments. T h e political turn assumed by public events had also something to do with it, for Fawkner was n o w an ultra-Conservative, and the other, though since he took office he did not show it, was the reverse of a red-hot Democrat. Fawkner at last ventured one "day to Finn's room, and by the presentation of N o . 2 of his old foolscap newspaper, a book, a photograph, and a paper of buns coaxed the other to forgive and forget, and so they mutually agreed to wipe out all the old scores chalked up as outstanding arrears, to mentally sign a joint acquittance, and ever more, be friends. This compact so singular, all circumstances considered, was faithfully kept, and the depreciatory terms of " Johnny Capricorn " and " Papist N e d d y " were sunk in the waters of oblivion, from the bottom 'of which they never emerged; and " E d m o n d u s " and "John Pascoe" grew into recognized "standing orders," never to be suspended. O n one point, however, Fawkner took his stand, viz., he would have nothing in return for what he bestowed. H e liked to be placing Finn under small obligations, and he was humoured accordingly. T h e only way in which any reciprocation of favours ever occurred was in the case of Fawkner accepting from his beneficiaire photographs of himself and Father Geoghegan, the first R o m a n Catholic Priest in Port Phillip, between w h o m and Fawkner there never was anything approaching an entente cordiale. Destiny or chance had also provided for the transfer of O'Shanassy from the Assembly to the Council, and " Johnny " dropped down to the condition of a Parliamentary