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

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.

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

I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export.

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

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.