sentences:  He was the seventh Superintendent of Auckland Province from 1869 to 1873.He was a cabinet minister, and held the positions of Attorney-General (August 1862) in the Domett Ministry, Postmaster-General and Secretary for Crown Lands (1863–1864) in the Whitaker–Fox Ministry, and Colonial Treasurer (1872) in the third Stafford Ministry.Gillies joined the practise of his father John Gillies and John Hyde Harris in July 1857.