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round in his favour. When Mr. Service was roundly charged with 

 perpetrating a job for the benefit of his friend, his answer was that 

 if it was correctly described as a job, it was certainly perpetrated 

 by both Houses of Parliament almost unanimously, for when the 

 Bill appointing a sixth judge was under consideration, every mem- 

 ber knew that the Attorney-General was the man intended, and on 

 its duly passing he was warmly complimented in the Assembly, 

 and the compliments evoked cheers from all sides. 



During the Service Government there had been another change 

 in Her Majesty's representative. In March, 1884, when the term 

 of the Marquis of Normanby was drawing to a close, news reached 

 Melbourne that the position had been offered to the Marquis of 

 Lome, the son-in-law of Queen Victoria, who had just relinquished 

 the Governor-Generalship of Canada. His popularity there made 

 the report very satisfactory to Victorians, but shortly afterwards it 

 was announced that family reasons precluded him from accepting 

 the offer. The appointment was subsequently conferred on Sir 

 Henry Brougham Loch, G.C.M.G., who arrived in Melbourne on 

 the 15th of July. He was a man with a fine breezy record of adven- 

 ture, had served his country both in the navy and the army, as 

 well as in the diplomatic service. He had been on active service 

 in Turkey, in India and in China. In the latter country he fell 

 into the hands of the enemy and suffered much cruel ill-usage, 

 narrowly escaping with his life. After many stirring scenes he 

 was rewarded with the peaceful position of the Governorship of 

 the Isle of Man, which he held for nearly twenty years, and was 

 then transferred to Victoria. He was certainly the most popular 

 Governor the new Melbourne had known, and, ably assisted by 

 Lady Loch, soon made Government House a genuine centre of 

 social interest and hospitality. The "frigid parsimony" of the 

 Marquis of Normanby had become somewhat of a by- word, and 

 the widespread liberality with which the vice-regal couple opened 

 their doors to purposes of philanthropy, education, or even simple 

 social entertainment, placed them high in public estimation and 

 friendly regard. 



In the closing days of the Service-Berry coalition a cabled 

 message from London was published in the Melbourne papers that 



