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 its formation with energy, gathering a great deal of information, and making valuable diagrams and models, illustrating the manner in which the work could be carried out successfully. In philanthropic movements he was ready with sympathizing heart and hand to afford relief and assistance. Several years since, owing to an internal complaint, Mr. Goode retired from business, leaving it to be conducted by his sons, Messrs. Thomas and Edward Goode. Even then his active mind could not rest, for he was invariably engaged either in directing farming operations or making improvements in his residence and grounds near Goolwa. He was one of the trustees of the Wesleyan Church, and a liberal supporter of its funds. He died at Goolwa, October 26, 1882, aged 66. Mr. Goode was the brother of Messrs. M. & C. H. Goode, merchants, of Adelaide.

Frederick Simeon Carus Driffield, IXTH son of the late Rev. C. G. T. Driffield, Vicar of Prescot, Lancashire; born 1825, came out to South Australia in the "Posthumous" in 1849, in partnership with his brother and James H. Parr, with whom, soon after their arrival, he built a flour mill near Woodside; went to the Victorian diggings in 1851, returning in 1853; became Secretary of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society in 1856, which he held for nearly ten years, during which time he started, and brought to a very successful issue, the West Adelaide Building Society; was the manager of the Adelaide Lloyd's, afterwards the Adelaide Insurance Company for eight or ten years, giving it up in 1872, when he became the Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce. Married a daughter of the late Joseph McMinn, by whom he has one daughter and six sons.