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  Council of Alberton and Queenstown. He may also be considered the originator of the Volunteer movement, since, on the declaration of war with Russia in 1854, he immediately posted a placard calling the people to arms, organised a public meeting, and drew up the resolutions for forming a Volunteer Corps. In consequence of these prompt measures, three companies were formed at Port Adelaide, and continued even when the colonial forces were disbanded. Mr. Page was an officer of volunteers until 1867, when he applied to be placed on the "Retired List." He is a member of the Lodge Adelaide 341 of Freemasons, S C., and in 1861 was Deputy Provincial Grand Master of the Scotch Constitution, with the late John Hart as Provincial Grand Master. He is also one of the oldest members of the Victorian Lodge of Oddfellows, M.U. Olive cultivation has long found in him a strong advocate, and he personally, during the planting season of 1871, distributed throughout this colony upwards of 100,000 plants and trees, with a view to give this industry an impetus.

J. C. Hansen, HO died on May 16, 1885, at Jardelund, in Schleswig-Holstein, was born at Osterby, in the same Duchy, in 1815, and arrived in South Australia about the year 1848. He was for several years engaged in the work of tuition, but ultimately removed to Unley, where he was known as a musical instructor of some note. He was a highly cultured man, and particularly excelled in the more abstruse departments of geometry, algebra, and fluxional analysis. He left this colony for his native land in 1877, but there are many of his old friends yet living who greatly respected him, not only for his talents, but for his sterling worth.