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Hon. D. M. Charleston ADELAIDE AND VICINITY 3^3 in the Province lecturinfj; on vital questions of political moment. He has been prominently connected with the Homesteads League and Village Settlement efforts. In 1896, owing to his refusal to bind himself to the platform of the Parliamentary Labor Party, he seceded from that body, and went before the electors on an independent ticket. His return illustrated the confidence that he had won from his constituents independent of the demands of his old political organisation. Mr. Charleston is a respected member of the Upper House, and an ornament of the Reform Party. Hon. J. V. O'Loghlin, M.L.C. GUMERACHA was the birthplace of Mr. J. V. O'Loghlin in 1852, his father being an old pioneer settler of the Province. On leaving school Mr. O'Loghlin engaged in farming and grazing pursuits for some time. Abandoning after a while the atmosphere of rustic life, he passed the next seven years with the South Australian Carr)'ing Company, Limited, which at that time had the sole control of the goods traffic on the Government Railways, when he was appointed manager of the firm's Gawler branch, one of the most important outside of the catpital at that time. A change in the policy of the Government with regard to the goods traffic necessitated Mr. O'Loghlin seeking a fresh field of labor, which he found with the firm of W. Duffield & Co. as wheatbuyer ; and when this house amalgamated with the Adelaide Milling Company, his services were retained, and at the time of his election to Parliament, he was manager of the Company's mills at Gladstone. It was whilst engaged in the wheat trade that Mr. O'Loghlin turned his attention to journalism. The Terowie Enterprise was his first venture, whilst at a later period he became editor and managing director of the Southern Cross. In May, 1888, he was returned to the Upper House for the Northern District, which district he has represented ever since. He has closely identified himself with many promotive movements, and on the retirement of the Hon. J. H. Gordon from the Kingston Government on February 15, 1896, Mr. O'Loghlin was a few weeks later chosen to fill the po.st of Chief Secretary, with the leadership of the Legislative Council. He remained in office till the fall of the Ministry on December i, 1899. Mr. O'Loghlin is an "Honorable" for life, Vice-president of the Irish National Federation, a member of the Australian Natives' Association, a trustee of the Savings Bank, and a captain in the Defence F"orce. He has served on several important Royal Commissions and Parliamentary Committees, notably the Barossa Water Commission, Blyth to Gladstone Railway, Queensland Border Railway, and Hospital Select Committees, and the Select Committee on Free Conferences between the two Houses. He was elected a member of the Gladstone Corporation in 1880. In Parliament he has proved himself an effective debater and a man of advanced Liberal views.