(Frontispiece. 
THE HON. ARTHUR RUTLEDGE, K.C. 
Attorney-General of Queensland; M.L.A_ for Maranoa, Born in 1843 in New 
South Wales. Educated for the Bar in N.S.W.; called to the Queensland Bar in 1878. 
Mr. Rutledge represented Enoggera Electorate in 1878, and on the dissolution of Parliament 
in 1883 he was returned for the Kennedy Electorate; on the formation of a new Ministry 
by Mr. (now Sir) S. W. Griffith was appointed Attorney-General. He afterward represented 
Charters Towers for about ten years, from which position he retired in 1893, and in 
1896 was appointed Crown Prosecutor for the Southern District of the Supreme Court. 
In February, 1899, he resigned that position and successfully contested the Maranoa 
He was then appointed Attorney-General by the Dickson Ministry, which 
Electorate. 
He was appointed Queen’s (now King’s) Counsel in 1899. 
position he continues to hold. 
