Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wives and children too young to take with them, but almost all of them returned to grow grain and produce to send to Victoria.

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

I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both.

My return to London introduced me to a wider range of society.

The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the sound principles on which it was founded.

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.

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