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 from a very early age "Charley's" experience with horses commenced. He arrived in South Australia in 1840, and made his first essay as a driver on the Port-road; at that time a locality sacred to hills and hollows, and requiring no little skill to avoid a capsize. He was next heard of as manager for Cobb & Co., and used to drive up the crack coach at 9 in the morning from Glenelg. During the visit of the Duke of Edinburgh, Mr. Tanner was appointed one of his coachmen, and had the honour of giving His Royal Highness his first lessons in driving four-in-hand. On the prince leaving the colony he paid "Charley's" expenses to Victoria, where he remained a short time, and then returned to this colony. He next drove a coach between Adelaide and the Port. Mr. Tanner was universally liked, not only for his ability as a coachman, but for his courtesy to passengers. He was for twenty-two years a member of the M. U. Hope Lodge of Oddfellows. Many interesting anecdotes are still floating about respecting this "old identity," which, if true, border almost on the miraculous. He was fifty years of age at the time of his death, which took place in Adelaide on Jan. 10, 1869.

Henry Seymour, J.P., ORN in Ireland, and at an early age devoted himself to the legal profession. He practised for a lengthy period as an equity lawyer in Dublin and Queenstown, and took a high stand in the law courts of those places. He arrived in South Australia in 1840, where, instead of following the law,, he commenced agricultural pursuits at Blakiston, near Mount Barker. After a residence there of seven years, he sold the estate in 1847, and removed to Mosquito Plains; where, and at his runs near Guichen Bay, he became largely interested in pastoral property. Mr. Seymour occupied in the S. E. District an influential position as a magistrate. Though an