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 Colonel Lovely ADELAIDE AND VICINITY 473 Colonel Lovely has been a member of the militia forces for over 30 years, and he has largely assisted in popularising and organising the local service. He began his military career as a cadet in the Second South Middlesex Rifle Corps, then under the command of Lord Ranelagh. In this corps he served successively as a private, corporal, sergeant, and color-sergeant, resigning only when he left for Australia. He joined the local Rifle Volunteer Forces in December, 1878, soon after their organisation, and received his commission as Captain therein in 1879. He was able to give appreciated help to the new institution, and, being both popular and efficient, rose rapidly in the service. In 1889, as Lieutenant-Colonel, he raised the 3rd Regiment of Militia, which he commanded until the inauguration of the new Force. He has held the appointment of an honorary Aide-de-camp to four successive Governors, viz. : — Sir William Robinson, the Earl of Kintore, .Sir Fowell Buxton, and to His Excellency Lord Tennyson ; this latter position he; still holds. In 1899 he was ordered back to the active list, and instructed to reorganise the ist Battalion A. R., which, having been accomplished, he was in November, 1900, promoted to the rank of Colonel, and appointed Officer Commanding the Brigade. As a commandant and tactician. Colonel Lovely is well regarded by his brother officers and by the men under him. Mr. James Gordon, S.M. ADELAIDE has been exceedingly fortunate in having been .served by able stipendiary magistrates, and Mr. James Gordon, the present president of the City Police Court, ranks in ability with any of his predecessors in that position. He was born in Glasgow, on October 29, 1856, and was brought to .South Australia when quite an infant. His father, the Rev. James Gordon, was a highly respected Presbyterian minister at Gawler ; and his brother, the Hon. J. H. Gordon, O.C., is the present Attorney-General. Mr. James Gordon attended for some years the school at Gawler conducted by the Rev. Thomas Smellie, and afterwards went to the St. George's School, of which Mr. L. .S. Burton was the headmaster. Like his brother, Mr. Gordon decided to embrace the legal profession, and he was articled to Mr. Bonnar, a Strathalbyn solicitor ; but after a short period his articles were transferred to his brother, Mr. J. H. Gordon, who was already a solicitor. In 1881, Mr. James Gordon was admitted to practice, and opened an office at Port Adelaide. Thence he removed to Port Pirie, where he soon obtained a satisfactory amount of business. F'or eight years he remained at the northern port, during which period he actively interested himself in municipal affairs, and was for one year Mayor of Port Pirie. In April, 1890, he joined the then firm of Gordon, Nesbit, & Bright, with whom he practised for two years. Finally, in June, 1892, he relinquished personal practice to take the post of Stipendiary Magistrate at Port Adelaide, with the charge of the Courts of the Midland District. Upon the death of Mr. Pater, later in the same year, Mr. Gordon took up the more important magisterial duties at the City Police Court of Adelaide, which he still jx^rforms. This was a quick promotion, and justified the trust reposed in him. His office is no sinecure, for upon the Chief Police Magistrate depends, to a considerable extent, the morality of the city. A determined, fearless magistrate in the Lower Courts has probably more influence over the morality of the community than the Chief Justice, or other Supreme Judges. He has summary power, and can instil into the minds of offenders a respect for law, and a fear of its clutches. FF