South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections.
My return to London introduced me to a wider range of society.
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.
I had seen Adelaide the dearest and the cheapest place to live in.
My brothers went to the parish school, one of the best in the county.
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.