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 in the South-east. He remained there three years, and then rejoined the Customs, and was appointed Sub-Collector at Blanchetown, on the opening of that port. He afterwards held a similar position at Morgan, but resigned in 1883 in consequence of ill-health, and returned to Adelaide. From that date till his death, which took place in January, 1885) in his 70th year, he resided at the Semaphore.

Adam Lindsay Gordon. HE sad fate of Hugh Miller, the accomplished scholar and enthusiast in all relating to the mysteries of Nature, did not strike a deeper chord in the hearts of the sons of Scotland, than did to Victorians a few years since the news of the death of that sportsman, littérateur and poet—Adam Lindsay Gordon. Cut off in an instant, rushing as it were without a care to seek the depths of a mystery of which we know so little, he, a bright star in the firmament of Southern literature, disappeared, leaving many a sympathetic soul mourning the extinction of one of its fairest ornaments. He arrived in South Australia in 1853, and entered the mounted police, where he was known as a smart rider. He represented the Victoria District in the Legislature for two sessions. As a politician, however, he was not very effective, and he has not left on record any measures which he was instrumental in passing. It is solely by his poetical efforts that he will be remembered, for it is beyond dispute that Gordon was the poet of the Australias. No bard on these southern shores (not even Henry Kendall) has struck so bold a chord in poesy; none have equalled and few approached the efforts of his genius. Leaving South Australia he located in Victoria, where he followed pastoral pursuits, and notwithstanding the task of breadwinning, found time to write much and well. His best compositions are "The Lady of Pain," "No Name,"