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 arose amongst the people, and engaged in business on his own account as a surveyor, architect, &c., and acted as clerk to the Kapunda District Council. Mr. Oldham took great interest in the volunteer movement, and organised the well-known Mines Rifle Company, in which he held in succession the position of Captain and Major. He was also an earnest preacher, and, as a Congregationalist minister, did much good. As a Magistrate for several years, and more recently a Freemason, his name was distinguished, and his character, if only for its ingenious versatility and wealth of resource, was worthy of admiration. He died at Kapunda, July 3, 1885, aged 75.

William Herbert Phillipps, ORN in Adelaide, December 3, 1847, and educated at Mr. J. L. Young's and Fellenberg's Commercial school, which he left in his fourteenth year to occupy a place in the office of the late Justice Wearing, the then Crown Solicitor; made rapid progress, and was urged by Mr. Wearing to enter the legal profession, but preferring a a mercantile career, was transferred to the office of Messrs. Stilling & Co., in October 1864, as junior. Ere many years Mr. Phillipps became manager of the extensive shipping and insurance business of that firm. On the founding of Union College he became one of the first students, passed the mathematical examination successfully and was going up for examination in other subjects, when his health gave way from over-study and he was reluctantly compelled to withdraw. Mr. Phillipps married, on December 18, 1877, the second daughter of the Hon. R. A. Tarlton, M.L.C., and in November 1878 resigned his position at Messrs. Stilling & Co., to commence business on his own account as agent for several insurance companies. He gradually extended his mercantile relations,