Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner.

The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods.

I look back to a happy childhood.

I think I was well brought up, for my father and mother were of one mind regarding the care of the family.

I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.

After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits.

South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections.