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 1882, Commissioner. The South Australian Police Force will bear favourable comparison with that of any other part of Her Majesty's dominions, and there is little doubt that its present efficiency is mainly due to the energy and ability displayed by its representative head. Since taking office the Commissioner has made many important reforms, all being for the public weal; and the citizens of Adelaide, as well as the colony at large, may be congratulated in possessing in him a most active and zealous advocate for the maintenance of law and order. Many criminals who thought to pursue their nefarious calling in our midst have been promptly brought to justice, and the celerity with which the machinery of the law has been set in motion has doubtless had a deterring effect on their associates.

Dr. Ulrich Hübbe, HO has rendered great services to this colony in connection with the Real Property Act, is a native of Hamburg. He was but a youth when the French, under Napoleon, attacked the town and gave it over to pillage, but even yet he retains lively recollections of this episode. He has spent the greater part of his life in South Australia, and at the present time, having completely lost his sight, is almost wholly dependent for his incoming on his son. This is not as it should be, and Dr. Hübbe deserves better treatment at the hands of our colonists. Though the working of the Beal Property Act is now universally known, few of those most benefitted thereby have the slightest idea of the prominent part which Dr. Hübbe played in its construction. He it was who explained to Sir R. R. Torrens the form of certificates of title and encumbrances in force in the Hanseatic towns of his native land; and Sir Robert was so much pleased with the