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OR, COLONISTS—PAST AND PRESENT.
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Capt. Thos. Anthony,

A WELL-KNOWN mining manager, and a native of Hayle, Cornwall, where he was born in May, 1830. In 1862 he came to South Australia under a five years' engagement with the Blinman Company to manage their mines in the north. On the termination of this period, having had to contend with much hardship, he went to Yorke's Peninsula and took charge of the Kurilla Mine, remaining there until the mine was stopped, when he went to the Yelta, and afterwards to the Wallaroo Mines. He intimately returned to Kurilla, where he carried on work uninterruptedly for ten years, in spite of the great depression prevailing in the copper market. He was held in high esteem by all classes, and well beloved by his men, to whom his conduct was more like that of a brother than a master. Capt. Anthony possessed a keen sense of humour, and great resource and experience. He was a Justice of Peace for the Province, and a member of the Wallaroo Board of Advice. He died at Kurilla, in the present year.


David Gall,

PRINTER, is a native of Woodbridge, Suffolk, where he was apprenticed. After working for three years in London, he came to Adelaide in 1850, and continued at his trade. Li 1855 he joined Messrs. Hussey & Shawyer, and eventually the business fell into his hands. In 1867 Mr. Grail propounded the question and reply:—"What shall we do with our boys? Encourage local industries, so as to give them profitable employment." He started a monthly journal. The Cornet^ which was the first South Australian paper to advocate a protective policy. Its principles met with much ridicule and opposition from the Press of that day, but ere its discontinuance in 1881 a marked change had come over