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 re-elected to this office in 1864, and again in 1866, retiring from that office in December 1868. In 1881 he again entered the City Council, being elected to fill the office of Alderman on December 2 of that year. This office he held until December 1883, when he was elected Mayor of the City, and was re-elected Mayor in the following December for a second year of office. During the time he has been connected with the City Council, the Town Hall has been erected, the sewerage of the city has been effected, the water supply vastly improved, and the rates on the two last greatly reduced, the Park Lands have been planted and wonderfully improved, 4ind the city has become a model of cleanliness and beauty. Of affable manners and kindly disposition, Mr. Bundey commands the esteem of a large section of the community.

John Gardiner, HO was for many years secretary of the Mount Gambler Institute, was a man who had passed through the most varied experiences. He was in the 9th Royal Lancers for a long time, and subsequently in the German Legion. Served fifteen years in India in the Punjaub, at Chillianwallah, and Sobraon, and received for services rendered numerous decorations. He was an able taxidermist. At the time of his death, which took place at Mount Gambler on June 28, 1869, he was in his 49th year of age.

Charles Tanner. MONG the celebrated characters who have from time to time resided in this colony, few have attracted more attention, or are still better remembered than the far-famed "whip" Charles—or as he used to be familiarly styled, "Charley" Tanner. His father was the proprietor of a line of coaches running between London and Peckham Eye, so that