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 and commenced business on his own account. He was a successful merchant, ultimately retired, and turned his attention to politics. He represented East Torrens in the first Parliament (July, 1851), and held office in several successive Ministries. He voted against the first reading of the Bill to legalize State Aid to Religion, in August, 1851, and was instrumental in bringing about many excellent measures. He was a member of the Central Road Board in 1852, but resigned towards the close of the same year. He left for New Zealand in 1864, where he is now located. He is connected with the Legislative Council of that colony, and was recently Acting-Governor of the province.

F. W. Andrews, AXIDERMIST, was about sixty years of age at the time of his death, which occurred on the 19th October, 1884, near Mount Jagged, Willunga. He is supposed to have lost his life by falling into a waterhole whilst suffering from the effects of sunstroke. He was engaged as a collector for over thirty years in this colony, having been "inducted" to that office by Mr. Waterhouse, late Curator of the Adelaide Museum. For a considerable time he was stationed at Port Lincoln, and afterwards accompanied the late Mr. Lewis on his expedition to Lake Eyre, where he made discoveries of two species of birds new to science, besides gathering a large and valuable collection of the fauna of that locality. When Mr. S. White projected his unfortunate expedition to Cape York and New Guinea, he secured Mr. Andrews' services, and he obtained an immense collection of rare and valuable specimens of natural history, which, upon Mr. White's decease, were placed in charge of the Curator of the South Australian Museum. Although at first Mr. Andrews had but slight knowledge of natural history, he, during the thirty years of