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  of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, Secretary, Cashier, and Accountant of the North District Road Board, and several other subsidiary offices. These he resigned in 1877, after close upon twenty years' service, and now resides in North Adelaide. As one of the surviving quintette of the party who pitched the first tent where Adelaide now stands, and who has "borne the heat and burden of the day," Mr. Mildred deserves more than a passing notice. Few officials in the S. A. Civil Service have held at one time and conducted satisfactorily so many appointments as he. In addition to this, he, with his late wife (daughter of the Rev. Henry Cheetham), was instrumental in raising the first established church and Sunday-school in Port Augusta. In 1881 Mr. Mildred contested an aldermanship for the city, but was beaten by a small majority. In 1882-3-4 he was elected for two years as councillor for Robe Ward. Standing again for alderman, he was defeated a second time. At an advanced age, he possesses more activity than many younger men, and his physique, after an almost continuous residence of forty-nine years, is indicative of the healthy character of our South Australian climate.

Rev. John Watsford. HIS distinguished minister of the Wesleyan Methodist Church was born in New South Wales about the year 1821; entered the ministry in 1843, appointed by the Conference to South Australia in 1862, and arrived here in the same year. He immediately set to work, and evinced great enthusiasm in the training and advancement of the young, and mainly for this object gathered the means of erecting the Lecture Hall attached to the Pirie-street church, Adelaide. He made efforts to found a college for the higher education of colonial youth, but these failed until 1865, when, hearing