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 Co8 ADELAIDH AND VICINITY Arthur Wellington Ware, C.M.G. THK late Mr. C. J. Ware arrived in South Australia in the early days. For some years he carried on a brewery business at Kooringa, and owned a large station property east of the Burra, named World's Knd. He came to Adelaide in 1S69 as proprietor of the Exchange Hotel in Hindley Street. Mr. Ware died two years later, and Mrs. Ware continued active association with the house right up to the time of her death in April, 1898. Of the Exchange Hotel and its historical associations much might be written, carrying the reader back to the days when it was no infrequent sight to see several yoke of oxen bogged in Hindley Street. Those were times before macadamised roads were in vogue. Arthur Wellington Ware was born at Burra, South Australia, on February 25, 1861, and received his education at M r. Young's school and Whinham College. After a period spent in the Government Locomotive Works and as an employe of Messrs. Harrold Brothers, he and his brother, the late Mr. T. L. Ware, founded the Torrenside Brewery, which, from a small beginning, grew to a large affair, and quite recently was amalgamated with three other breweries, under the name of the Walkerville Co-Operative Brewing hammer & Co., Photo Company. Mr. Ware carries on a large stud and agricultural farm at "Craiglee," Manoora, in connection with his brothers, George J. and Charles B. Ware. Mr. Ware has enjoyed several years' experience of municipal life. Entering the City Council in 1891, he served for two years as Councillor for Gawler Ward and three years as Alderman. In 1898 he was chosen Mayor, being re-elected in 1899 and 1900. During the visit of H.R. H. the Duke of Cornwall and York to Australia, in connection with the opening in Melbourne of the Federal Parliament of the Commonweilth, the chief magistrates <jf the capital cities of the various States were included in the list of honors conferred in celebration of the event, Mr Ware being made a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George.