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 Australia; for each of which he is a Justice of the Peace. He remembers the man William Scott, who was allowed the first horse to go after cattle in the colonies by his master -(Captain J. MacArthur, of Camden), and he also had the honour of riding on George Stephenson's first passenger railway, between Stockton and Darlington, before it was opened for public traffic. Mr. Crozier is one of the most useful men in the South Australian Legislature, and has been instrumental in doing much good. In private life he is regarded as possessing many virtues and few faults.

W. J. Peterswald. HIS well-known Commissioner of Police in South Australia was born in Jamaica, in 1830. His father was a West India planter, who, after the slave emancipation, sold out and settled in Edinburgh. Mr. Peterswald was educated at the Edinburgh and Military Academies, in that city. He came to this colony in the ship "Charlotte Jane," Captain Lawrence, in 1853, and he embarked considerable capital in farming pursuits, of which he had had no experience, and in consequence lost all in a few years. Whilst in the country he embodied and commanded the "Munno Para East Rifle Company," 100 strong, and, as drill instructors were scarce, drilled and trained them personally without assistance. They were considered the smartest company of volunteers in those days. He afterwards came to Adelaide, and became clerk-assistant to the House of Assembly, and in 1862, when Inspector Pettinger was murdered, he took his place in the Police Force; resigned in 1866, and became Warden of Gold Fields, which position he occupied until 1874, when he was re-appointed to the Police Force as Inspector and Superintendent. On Mr. Hamilton's retirement in 1881 Mr. Peterswald was appointed Acting-Commissioner, and in