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 took an opportunity of expressing their appreciation of his services. He was to have been banquetted at Port Lincoln, on May 28, 1884, but the invitation to the festival reached him just before he died. Mr. Mortlock was a native of Melbourne, England, where he was born in 1820. He was a man of liberal views, and regarded as a very useful member of the South Australian Parliament.

David Lindsay, HE youngest son of the late Capt. Jno. Lindsay; born at Goolwa, June 20, 1856; educated at a public school, and by the late Rev. Jno. Hotham; entered the Government service in 1873, and went to the Northern Territory as junior surveyor in 1878, where he surveyed and reported upon the Mount Wells tin mines, and acted as senior-surveyor and supervisor of works during Mr. McMinn's absence. Explored the Mary River, and, by his observations of its overflow, proved that this was the stream which Stuart was following to the north coast in his memorable journey across the continent. After carefully examining the country between Palmerston and Pine Creek, Mr. Lindsay proposed a route for the railway, quite distinct from that surveyed in 1878, which, although longer by about fifteen miles, would touch the best agricultural land, and go close to all the known gold and tin discoveries; added to this, as the line would be on the watershed it would cost much less, the estimate being between £5,000 to £6,000 per mile. This route has since been surveyed and adopted. Li May, 1882, Mr. Lindsay resigned his position in the service, and devoted his time to private business; but at the desire of the S. A. Government he, in 1883, undertook for them the exploration of Arnheim's Land, a journey of 1,916 miles, which, though successful, was full of remarkable incidents and hairbreadth escapes. Mr. Lindsay acted with much intrepidity and skill,