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 cantatas, and other concerted pieces. His extreme modesty led to a tendency in him to depreciate his own attainments, and thus deprived the musical world of many of the fruits of his genius. He arrived in South Australia in 1849, and was induced to invest the savings of years in farming, in which, as he was unsuccessful, he sold out, and established himself in Adelaide as a music teacher. By his active exertions he created a taste for music. He was for several years leader of the Adelaide Choral Society, one of the originators of the Liedertafel, and always ready to assist any undertaking having for its object the cultivation of an art in which he pre-eminently excelled. As a composer he was probably unequalled here, and his "Song of Australia," which took the prize given by the Committee of the Gawler Institute, is likely to live long as a national air. Herr Linger died in Adelaide, February 16, 1862, aged 52 years.

Capt. James Croker Ferguson, J.P., NE of the most expert riflemen in the colony; arrived in Adelaide in 1848, with a commission from H. M. Government as Landing Waiter of Customs in South Australia. In consequence of deaths or removals from the Service during the time of the exodus to the Victorian gold fields he rose rapidly, and in 1855 attained the position of Assistant Landing Surveyor, an appointment within one step of that which he now holds, viz.. Landing Surveyor and Deputy Collector of Customs. Old residents at Nuriootpa, Angas Park, and Tanunda well remember the raids made by him on the illicit distilleries once so numerous in those districts, and the seizures of stills, etc., for which he received the thanks of the Government. Captain Ferguson's services as a volunteer officer date back to the Crimean War, when the scare in this colony was at its height, and he was