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 The Advertiser ADELAIDE AND VICINITY 607 in order to take a health trip through ymerica and Europe. He returned to the Province in 1882, and next year was again returned to ParHament for his old constituency, but lack of strength caused him again to resign in March, 1885, for the purpose of taking another sea voyage. Mr. King died in Londc^n, at the early age of 53. Mr. Burden, who retired from the firm in 1893, ^^'so died in England. In politics T/tc .[dvcrtiscr has always wielded a powerful influence. It has ever been on the side ot the people, and has initiated many important legislative movements. The policy it advocates is one of liberalism. The statistics of circulation show that The Advertiser, with its associated journals, reaches every family in the Province, and naturally its courageous and independent treatment of all public c|uestions has much to do with forming popular oi)inion. Many legislators have stepped from The Advertiser office into the arena of active politics, and five gentlemen who have been connected with its staff have held portfolios as Ministers of the Crown ; while others who received their early training there now hold prominent positions on the most influential dailies in the neighboring States. As a medium for the publication of effective advertisements the paper is justly esteemed by commercial men, and a glance at its business columns will prove its complete popularity with this shrewd and far-seeing class of the community. As a newspaper. The Advertiser ranks with the best of the world's dailies, and there is a literary finish about its articles which has won for it a high reputation in journalistic circles. Its progress in all departments has been ra[)id and continuous, and it has always evinced a laudable determination to keep in every respect well abreast f)f the times. More especially has that been the case under the control of the present proprietor, Sir Langdon Bonython, M.H.R. Mr. Charles R. Hodge ''T^HE Registrar of the Adelaide University is the eldest son of the Rev. Charles X Hodge, Congregational minister. Born at Geelong, Victoria, educated at public and private schools, and later under the tuition of the Rev. J. Hotham, he, at the age of 15, became engaged in commercial pursuits. In 1884 he received the appointment of Registrar's clerk, under Mr. J. Walter Tyas, and subsequently was promoted to the position of Deputy Registrar. On the retirement of Mr. Tyas, in 1892, Mr. Hodge was made Registrar. In 1899 he published a guide to the University of Adelaide. For some years he was actively engaged in literary society work, being a member of the I':xecutive Committee of the South Australian Literary Societies' Union. P>locution, essay writing, and debates were the subjects with which he was particularly identified, and he was successful in winning a prize for elocution at the competition in 1885, and a prize for novelette in 1890. He wrote an article on " Literary Competitions," being a review of this branch of the Union's work, for the conference of Literary Societies' Unions held in Melbourne in 1890. In the wider realms of literature he has been a frequent contributor of short stories for the daily press, under the noni de plume of U-no. "Olive Temple," which ran through the Jtxpress some years ago, was revised and published last year under the title of " That Codicil," which India and the Co/onies describes as a " thoroughly interesting, highly original, and altogether wholesome story."