Notable South Australians/H. J. Smith
H. J. Smith
ARRIVED 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.