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 confirmed the nomination by issuing a Commission to him to act as such, and represent the colony in India. Seldom had the capabilities and resources of South Australia been so well placed before the world as at this exhibition. Much time and careful thought had been devoted by him to our natural resources, and to the industries which could be encouraged and extended by trade between Australia and the East^ especially the rearing and breeding of horses for India, with the advantages of Port Darwin as a depôt and shipping port for the future trade of Australasia and the Eastern world. Mr. Scott has, during the last two years, imported camels from India, suitable for work on stations and for survey and railway construction purposes. These animals are rapidly coming into use by surveyors who may require to enter upon new country to peg out runs for stock in our Northern Territory, and for the conveyance of station stores to those places in the interior of the country which from difficulty of access would be practically useless without the aid of these animals, which subsist upon mallee, saltbush, and other food which horses would starve upon. The services of Mr. H. J. Scott are now being utilized by the Royal Commission for South Australia for the coming Colonial and Indian Exhibition in London, in 1886.

James Brook,
 * F the legal firm of Messrs. Way & Brook, died on August 24, 1872, at Unley Park. At the time of his decease he was in the vigour of life; of genial and courteous disposition, sterling integrity, and of marked ability in his profession. He was born in Edinburgh, Jan. 12, 1840, where his father, who possessed considerable scientific attainments and literary ability, was a supervisor in the Inland Revenue Service. He was educated principally at the Bristol Gram-