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 552 ADELAIDE AND VICINITY Mr.R.stuckey Right Hon. Sir S. J. Way, Bart. Mr. Stiickey was largely interested in commercial matters in the Province, and early invested in the copper-minino- industry. He was for many years a director of the Wallaroo and Moonta Copper Mines, of the Hamley Mine, and of the South Australian Mining Association (better known as the Burra Burra Mine), and continued in those positions until his death. At one time he held a proprietary interest in the Adelaide Advertiser. He was a trustee of the Port Land Company, and was one of its founders; and was also a trustee of the Cottage Homes, North Adelaide. A prominent man in religious circles, Mr. Stuckey was, during all his local history, associated with the Congregational denomination in Adelaide. He was identified with the first Congregational Church on North Terrace, afterwards with the late Rev. T. Q. Stow's Church in Freeman Street, and more recently with the Stow Memorial Church, of which he was a deacon, and also treasurer, at the time of his death. He was frequently selected as trustee by the various Congregational Churches throughout the Province. Mr. Stuckey died on Monday, September 6, 1897, at the ripe age of 85 years; and thus ended a life which had in every way been well spent. Professor John William Salmond, M A., LL.B. NORTH .SHIELDS, England, was the birthplace of Profe.ssor .Salmond, in the year 1862. In his boyhood he went to New Zealand, and received his general education at the University of that Colony, obtaining his degree of Master of xArts in 1882. Up to this time he had made no special study of law; but he now proceeded to England to obtain a legal training and qualify for practising at the Bar. Entering at University College, London, he devoted himself earnestly and exclusively to the study of law, under the direction of the highly qualified instructors of that famous academy of learning, with such success that he obtained his degree of Batchelor of Laws in 1887. Thus qualified, he returned to New Zealand, where he was admitted to the Bar; and for the next 10 years practised his profession with success in the Island Colony. During this part of his career he published two legal works, " Essays in Jurisprudence and Legal History," and " p-inst Principles of Jurisprudence," which attracted attention in legal circles, and were generally recognised as able expositions of the subjects of which they treated. Haxing thus gained a reputation for high legal knowledge, which spread beyond the confines of New Zealand, Mr. Salmond was, in 1897, appointed Professor of Law in the University of Adelaide, the post he now holds; and his work in this new sphere has been highly appreciated from the beginning. The Adelaide University confers degrees in law (LL.B.), which are recognised, ad eundem, beyond the boarders of South Australia; and it also grants certificates of admission to the Bar of this State, the Elxamining Board consisting of its own Prof(ssors, acting with outside examiners of high legal standing. It will be thus seen that in imparting instruction to students of law, Professor Salmond fulfils most responsible academic duties. It may be added that he is a frequent contributor to the '• Law Quarterly Review," a standard English legal publication.