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 Captain w. H. Morish ADELAIDE AND VICINITY 487 active business pursuits, coming to Adelaide to live. His home, " Bucklands, is situated at Plympton, and is beautiful both in approaches and appointments. After a career in the colonies in which many events have been crowded, Captain Morish is now reaping the reward of the days of toil. He is a sturdy-framed and strong- minded man. On all the mining fields he has been associated with he has borne a name for integrity and uprightness. He is distinguished by warmth of heart, and has earned general respect and goodwill. Mr. Theodore Hack MR. THEODORE HACK is a native of PLchunga, South Australia, and was born in 1840. He attended the popular and successful educational establishment of Mr. J. L. Young, Adelaide, and upon leaving that academy, spent some six years on the sheep station in the South-East owned by his father, the late Mr. J. B. Hack. In 1863 Mr. Hack entered the Customs Department of the Civil Service, and was for some time Boarding Officer at the Semaphore. Then he became Assistant Tide Surveyor, Sub-Collector of Customs, and Harbormaster at VVillunga. He was connected with the Customs for five years, after which he was transferred to the Public Works Department as Corresponding Clerk in the Engineer-in-Chiefs office. He filled his varied duties in these .several positions with gratifying success, and in 1869 was appointed Public Works Storekeeper and Customs Agent, a position which he held until 1874, when he retired from the Government service. In September, 1874, he became managing partner in the newly-established firm of Robin & Hack, large timber merchants at Port Adelaide. The business thrived until 1885, when a devastating fire in the timber yards during a period of serious financial depression, brought it to the ground. Mr. Hack then started business as a valuator and general commission agent, as well as an architect. He still pursues these occupations. After leaving the Government service, Mr. Hack began to take .some part in public matters. In Port Adelaide he was for some years a Councillor ; and for two years he occupied the Mayoral chair. Subsequently he became a member of the Semaphore Council, and was the first Mayor of that Municipality. For 10 years he was a member of the Central Road Board, as representative of the corporations and district councils ; and he has long been a member of committee of the Chamber of Manufactures. When, prior to the historical P'ederation Convention held in Sydney in 1 89 1, a conference of Australian commercial magnates was held in Melbourne to discuss a commercial basis of federation between the colonies, Mr. Hack was chosen as one of the five delegates from the .South Australian Chamber of Manufactures. He offered himself to the electors of Gumeracha for the House of Assembly in 1890, and was returned; but failed at the general elections of 1893, owing to the splitting of votes among candidates of similar views. Whilst a member of Parliament he was Chairman of the Select Committee appointed to enquire into the advisability of constructing a light railway across the Murray Flats to connect with the intercolonial line at Monarto.