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 been very fully chronicled in the London press; and very justly so. For though I differ from Mr. Froude in conceding to Dalley a foremost place among the small band of really great public men of the Antipodes, I cordially recognise that his career was a very brilliant and a very honourable one. I cannot, simply because of his dramatic way of exhibiting his undoubtedly genuine Imperial feeling, rank him with the "nation-builders" of our new world. But he was a bright and most accomplished man, with a real taste for literature and the fine arts; a faithful and loyal subject of our Sovereign Queen; and a true and loving son of Australia, where he was universally popular with all classes in the community. Printed by T. and A., Printers to Her Majesty,

at the Edithburgh University Press.