I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen ….

As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland, but eager to develop a pe….

I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of ma….

I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both..

South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections..

My return to London introduced me to a wider range of society..

I look back to a happy childhood..

After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits..

I had seen Adelaide the dearest and the cheapest place to live in..

A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea..

Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive..

Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency ….

The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods..

The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the so….

Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wives and children too young to take with them, but almost all of them returne….

Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner..

Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and - above all - nothing seems impossible..

My brothers went to the parish school, one of the best in the county..

There is nothing so costly to the state as a ruined life.

I think I was well brought up, for my father and mother were of one mind regarding the care of the family..