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 surgeon, its members for the first two years of the society's existence. He was also a director of the Catholic Building Society. By his unassuming ways and charitable acts. Dr. Gunson endeared himself to a large number of the poor, and numbers of good deeds which he has done to alleviate distress are only known to recipients of his bounty. When any public charity required assistance, he was always to the fore, and his acts of benevolence and kindness will be long remembered. For a considerable time Dr. Gunson had been in failing health, suffering principally from heart disease. He was constantly visited by all the leading medical men of Adelaide, who in his case were unable to effect a cure. He left a widow and three sons.

Richard James Turner, S.M., RRIVED in South Australia in the "Sophia Moffatt," Capt Woodward, in 1850, and at once took charge of the Victoria Mill in Grenfell-street for Mr. W. R. S. Cooke, with an arrangement for a partnership, which was not carried out owing to Mr. Cooke's death in 1852. He then went to the goldfields at Forest Creek, Victoria; joined the late Walter Duffield in 1854; appointed first Mayor of Gawler in 1857, and was elected, and served in that capacity during the three following years. After the dissolution of the partnership by effluxion of time, was associated with the late E. R. Mitford (Pasquin), Sir Wm. Morgan, Daniel Harrold and others, in the discovery of the celebrated copper mines at Moonta, and in the litigation which resulted in the vesting of that splendid property in other hands. In February, 1858, he was appointed a J.P., and on January 1, 1862, a special Magistrate, and acted as locum temens for the late Henry Dundas Murray, S.M., during that gentleman's absence from Gawler on a visit to Europe. On March 1, 1864, took permanent charge of the district, which he presided