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.

I had seen Adelaide the dearest and the cheapest place to live in.

Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.

My brothers went to the parish school, one of the best in the county.

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

There is nothing so costly to the state as a ruined life

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