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THE COMING COLONY.

Surrey stock, and his father, who died very recently, was formerly one of the representatives of that county in the House of Commons. Sir James is a sturdy Conservative of the best sort, and acts as a brake on the wheel of Western Australian go­-aheadism with a straightforwardness and steadiness which stamp him as a true Englishman as well as an invaluable colonist.