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 340 ADELAIDP: and vicinity Hon. a. Tennam head of cattle on this large area of country. After ten years of varied fortune, Mr. Tennant relinquished this run, also another which he had taken up at Lake Eyre. More recently he established the Yardea Station (450 square miles), towards the Western Australian border. At present he owns Willipa, Moolooloo, and Yardea, which have an ao-gregate area of 1,430 square miles; besides a large tract at Middle Back, Port Augusta West. He possesses also considerable freehold property in the city and suburbs of Adelaide, and 13,000 acres on the Wakefield River, six miles from Riverton. He holds other large commercial interests ; and has been a Director of the Adelaide Steamship Company since its formation. He is also a Director of the China Traders Company. He has been a Justice of the Peace for a long period, and has been for many years a Mason under the Grand Constitution. From 1881 to 1887 he was a member of the House of Assembly for the Flinders District, which includes Port Augusta, Port Lincoln, and the country down to Orroroo. Mr. Tennant was a member of the Pastoral Commission which sat during 1897-8, and the result of his hard-won experience was of great service to the Hoard in their deliberations as to the best means for furthering the pastoral industry in South Australia. In November, 1898, he was elected by a substantial majority as a representative of the Northern District in the Legislative Council. The late Dr. Allan Campbell A SPLENDID colonist, an able legislator, and a noble philanthropist was lost to South Australia when Dr. Allan Campbell died on October 30, 1898. It is not too much to say that the news of his death spread a painful sensation throughout the whole community, for his was one of the most honored names in the Province. Throughout his career in South Australia, his life was one of unsparing activity, devoted in the main to the public weal. Allan Campbell was born in the Barony Parish of Gla.sgow in 1836, and his early youth was passed at Cathcart, a village about four miles south of that city. His elementary education was imparted in the parish school of his birthplace, and in the closing years of his education he devoted himself to the higher branches of study, especially mathematics and physical science. His first aim was to qualify himself for the architectural profession ; but, his health failing, he abandoned this pursuit. Some years afterwards he applied himself vigorously to the study of medicine ; and in 1867 he became a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, Pxlinburgh, also of the F"aculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow. His first medical appointment was at a London hospital ; but to escape the rigors of a cold climate he decided to emigrate to the colonies. Having relations in South Australia, he came to this Province in 1869, and at once entered into the practice of his profession, in conjunction with Dr. H. Wheeler, then a well-known member of the local medical fraternity. Dr. Campbell remained in active practice right up to the day of his death. Early in his residence here he became identified with the Society of Arts, and remained an active supporter of that institution for over 25 years. He early interested