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 >3: ADELAIDE AND VICINITY The Producers press, and then Assistant Commissioner to enquire into Canadian Crown lands and immigration matters under Lord Durham. From Canada he proceeded to New Zealand, and in 1846 removed to South Australia. He secured a large professional jjractice in Adelaide, and in 1851 was elected to the first representative Council. Before taking his seat, he was appointed Advocate-General in Sir Henry Young's Elxecutive. a position he held until the inauguration of responsible government. He was described by Loyau as a "profound thinker, a theologian, and a writer of no mean order"; also as "one of the brightest ornaments in his day and generation." It is not necessary to closely follow the chronicles of the various South Australian Parliaments, nor the changes of administration, except so far as they seem to affect material and social development. Many matters that appeared highly important at the time had little or no influence on the structural elements of South Australian progress or of constitutional government. The first Parliament was dissolved on March 1, i860, after levying a poll tax on Chinese and deciding against federation ; and the second Parliament met on April 27 following. The Political Association, in pushing the cause of the working chisses, worked vigorously during the elections ; but the actual position of parties (if such a term may be used) underwent but litde change. Mr. Anthony Forster in 1866 wrote that we might as well look for ink s])ots on the moon as for well-defined parties. It was the want of party organisation that f)roduced Ministerial instability. Mr. R. D. Hanson resigned office as Premier soon after the new Parliament met, and Mr. T. Reynolds formed a Cabinet. In 1 86 1 the former was elevated to the Supreme Court Bench as Chief Justice of the Province; in 1869 he was knighted; and in March, 1875, he died, in his 71st year. Mr. Reynolds brought forward an extremely advanced programme, in which retrenchment was the principal feature. Although his Government was popular, it was comparatively short-lived. Taking office on May 9, i860, he resigned on October 8, 1861, when Mr. G. M. Waterhouse became Premier. Nine days later the latter was compelled to reconstruct, and in its new- form the Ministry conducted affairs until July 4, 1863. In 1869 Mr. Waterhouse took up his residence in New Zealand, and in 1872 became Premier of that colony. The term of office of .Sir Richard MacDonnell terminated on March 4, 1862. P>om the inauguration of Parliamentary Ciovernment he had exhibited considerable tact, and had become as great a favorite as .Sir Henry Young. His name will always remain identified with one of the most interesting and important periods in .South Australian history. X'aledictory addresses were pre.sented to him b- both Houses of Parliament and by various chisses of the inhabitants, while a memorial was drawn up praying Her Majesty to extend his term of service. In his final address to Parliament he instituted an encouraging comparison between the condition of the Province in June, 1855, and in December, 1861. Prom .South Au.stralia he went as Governor to Nova Scotia, and in 1865 to Hongkong. He retired on a pension in 1872, and died in 1881. The new Governor was .Sir Dominick Daly, who arrived at Port Adelaide on March 4, 1862. Governor Daly was an Irishman, and a Roman Catholic; but he never