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 H. J. Smith RRIVED in the colony as a boy with his father, the late Mr. Matthew Smith, Commissioner of Insolvency. Engaged in pastoral pursuits near Port Lincoln, but not being successful, abandoned this on receiving appointment of Returning Officer for the Electoral District of Flinders in July, 1861. On December 22, 1864, was appointed Stipendiary Magistrate of the province, serving successfully in that capacity at Port Lincoln, Port Augusta, Mount Remarkable, and Narracoorte. Remained at the last-mentioned town for a long period, where he was much esteemed as an upright and painstaking magistrate, while his genial temperament and pleasant manners made him universally popular. For some time prior to his death, in December, 1884, Mr. Smith had been wholly incapacitated for the discharge of his magisterial duties. He made many friends and few enemies, and was much regretted in the district in which he had so long resided. He was in the sixty-third year of his age when he died.

Lewis W. Gilles, WELL-KNOWN pioneer colonist; died at Woodley House, Glen Osmond, Jan. 2, 1884, aged 84. He came to Tasmania in 1822, with Messrs. Home, Leake, and others, and married the only daughter of the late Mr. Benjamin Home. To Messrs. Home and Gilles is due the credit of being the. first to introduce the Merino sheep into the Island. Mr. Gilles carried on farming, but success did not attend him in that calling, and he accepted the managership of the Tamar Bank in Launceston, holding the position until the arrival of the projectors of the Union Bank, when an amalgamation took place, and the Tamar was merged into the Union Bank of Australia, the deceased gentleman being still manager. Afterwards he, in conjunction with other affluent men,