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 many of the best works of the old masters, taking part also at intervals with the most famed of our visitors in the musical world, such as Remenyi and others.

Linly Norman. HIS eminent musician and composer arrived in Adelaide in 1856 with the English Opera Company as musical director. He was a pupil of Sir Geo. Smart, and subsequently enrolled in the Royal Academy. Leaving with honors he passed a second course under Mendelssohn, whose first six books of "Lieder ohne Worte" one of his surviving pupils, now here, heard him during repeated sittings in one day recite from memory without omission of a single phrase. He left Adelaide, but returned in 1861, and remained five years. He was a peculiarly gifted instructor, extremely quiet in his teaching attitude, and those who studied under him yet testify how completely a lesson was imbibed in merely witnessing his performances, and catching his appropriate remarks and suggestions. This gifted son of genius removed to Tasmania, where a brief illness in October 1869 bereft our southern hemisphere of one of the most enlightened,, unobtrusive and cultivated artists.

Oliver Rankin IED in Adelaide, December 15, 1880, aged 57. A native of Londonderry, Ireland; settled in South Australia in 1848. He was a member of the City Council for upwards of six years, a Director of the Equitable Insurance Company; connected with the Friendly Societies, and took great interest in the welfare of the working classes.