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 MrW.PAuid ADELAIDE AND VICINITY 391 manner, his life has since been of a less excitino- tenor. After the early struggles to secure a good class of wine, the proprietors of the xineyard had every reason to be satisfied with their production. They obtained a ready market for it, and won prizes in wine in quarters where a high standard of excellence is re(]uired, such as at Paris, Vienna, and Bordeaux. The Auldana wines have taken numerous prizes, also, in Australian competitions. In recent years Mr. Auld has relinquished the vineyard, and with his sons, Messrs. W. G. and E. P. Auld, under the name of W. P. Auld & Sons, jnirchases the product of various South Australian vineyards, and prepares it for the market. Mr. Auld was for many years a member of the Burnside District Council, and in 1896 was elected President of the South Australian branch of the Australian Vignerons' Association, having previously been President of the Adelaide branch. His son, Mr. W. G. Auld, is also a Past-President of the society. P'or many years Mr. Auld was on the committee of the Royal Agricultural and Horticultural .Society, for which he has acted as Judge at nearly all the shows. He is regarded as a prominent wine expert, and in i(S88 was selected by the local Government to adjudicate on .South Australian wines at the Melbourne Exhibition. He has had an extended association with the Adelaide Hunt Club, and has also been identified with amateur theatricals for charitable pur[)oses. Mr. William Barlow, LL.D. IN the history of the University of Adelaide the name of Dr. Barlow will ever find a prominent and honored place. He was born at Dublin, Ireland, in 1834, and was a son of Mr. Peter Barlow, a learned Queen's Counsellor, practising at the Irish Bar. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, in 1850. He had a bright career at the University, even among the many brilliant scholars of his own country. In November, 1854, he took a senior moderatorship in luhics and Logic, and passed for the B.A. degree, N which was duly conferred upon him on Shrove Tuesday in 1855. He took the LL.D. degree in 1884. While at the University he gained some distinction in oratory. He entered the Trinity College Historical .Society, and in 1856 became Auditor, or chief executive officer, and obtained the gold medal for oratory. Dr. Barlow was called to the Irish Bar in Hilary Term, 1858, and thenceforward for some years practised his profession in his native i.sland. In 1870 he chose South Australia as a suitable field for his energy and learning. He was admitted to the South Australian Bar in that year, and practised alone until 1873, when he joined .Sir Richard Baker (now K.C.M.C}. and President of the Legislative Council) in partnership. Dr. Barlow has not confined him.self wholly to law. His principal public services have been conferred on the University. The University was estal)lished in 1874, and in December of the same year he was elected Registrar— an office which he filled until 1882, acting also for some time as Clerk of the Senate. When he relinquished the Registrarshi]), Dr. Barlow was elected to the Council, of which he remains a member. Upon the death of Mr. Hartley, the talented Inspector-General of Schools and father of the present excellent State education system of South Australia, Dr. Barlow, in 1896, was elected Vice-Chancellor of the University. He continues in that dignified office. He has been for years a prominent member of the Church of F^ngland, and is Chancellor of the Diocese of Adelaide and member of the Synod and Standing; Committee.