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 being. The Governor was absent during my visit; and Chief Justice Way was acting as Lieutenant-Governor. It is a position he has often held before: and it is said that if, under the Federal Commonwealth, the provincial governors are chosen from amongst Australian notables (a change which would, in my opinion, be, for many reasons, highly inadvisable), the Right Hon. Sir S. J. Way, with Sir John Forrest in West Australia, and Chief Justice Maddon in Victoria, will be about the first to be offered the position. Which is perhaps the reason why a clause has been inserted in the constitution specially incapacitating judges from holding it.

Of course Adelaide is not South Australia, and one who has a desire to become acquainted with the resources and the people of the colony must not confine himself to its metropolis.

When the colony was established in 1836 it comprised only about one-third of its present territory, viz., the portion lying between the Southern Ocean and the 26th degree of south latitude. But in 1863, the Government of the colony having undertaken to found a new habitation in the northern territory, all that portion of the colony lying due north of the original grant was added to the area, which now comprises upwards of 900,000 square miles. The Northern Territory has never been self-supporting: and in recent times has been rather a hunting-ground for European concessionaires, who looked forward to developing it, if at all, with coloured labour. This process will probably be put a stop to under the Commonwealth. The Australian working-man would rather that his tropical possessions stayed empty for ever, than that they should support an Asiatic population. The original settlement in the South, as has been said, was established on principles eloquently expounded by Mr Edward Gibbon