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 5IO ADKLAIDH AND VICINITY Mr. n.e. phiiiipson of civilisation. His knowledge of the country, and of the history of its climate, was such that he was prepared for almost every emergency, to the advantage of the (locks and herds under his control. In ICS92 Mr. Phiiiipson removed from the north and t(Jok up his residence at Walkerville, Adelaide. He married, in 1880, Miss Levien, of Sydney, and left a family of three daughters. His retirement was not for long, for on August 18, 1898, he died after si.x months* illness. His funeral was attended by representatives of the principal South .Australian pastoralists, by whom he was much admired for his abilities. Mr. PhiIlip.son is remembered for his almost unicjue, and decidedly beneficial, work in the north ; for in his fight with Nature in a sullen and hostile shape he was victorious. He was for manv vears a justice of the Peace. Mr. Friedrich Eduard Heinrich Wulf Krichauff AMONG the prominent authorities on agricultural matters and on land legislation in the Province, Mr. F. E. H. W. Krichauff takes a leading place. A Teuton by education and birth, he has devoted the best years of his life in South Australia to advancing the cause of agriculture, and is a native of Schleswig, Duchy of Schleswig, where he was born on December 15, 1824. In consequence of the troubles of 1848, he came in that year to South Australia, and first settled in the Bugle Ranges, and there employed himself in cultivating the soil and in generally developing the land he had taken up. In October, 1864, he came to Adelaide, and engaged in business as a land and commission agent, which he carried on until 1893, when he retired. Besides his private work. Mr. Krichauff early began to serve his neighbors as their representative in public oft^c<^s. He became a member of the Macclesfield District Council, and was its chairman for many years ; and he was also engaged in a similar capacity on the Strathalbyn District Council. At the first general election after the granting of responsible government Mr. Krichauff, in 1857, was returned to the new House of Assembly for Mount Barker. His object in going into Parliament was to support Sir R. R. Torrens' Real Property Act. Artesian boring for water was then in its infancy, and Mr. Krichauff visited Honolulu and inspected the bores put down there, as well as, afterwards, those by the United States. On his return he advocated the system for South Australia. PVom 1858 to 1870 he was out of Parliament, but in the latter year he was returned for Onkaparinga, which he represented for 12 years. He resigned in 1882, and visited Europe;, Great Britain, and the United States. In 1884 he was elected to the House of Assembly for the V'ictoria District, and served that electorate for six years. In 1891 he entered the Eegislative Council as member for the Southern District. He retired from the political arena in 1894. Mr. Krichauff was practically the originator of the Forest Department. In 1874 he carried a measure to prevent the introduction of phylloxera, and was one of five Commissioners who enquired into the working of the Real Property Act. On the establishment of the Agricultural Bureau in 1888 he was appointetl a member of the Central Bureau. He has been a member of the Council of Agricultural College since its foundation.