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Mr. w. T. Mortiock ADELAIDE AND VICINITY 491 acquire pastoral experience, and worked with this view on his father's station, Yudnapinnie, in the Port Augusta District. Reared on a station, and inured to the conditions of pastoral lift- from his early days, Mr. Mortiock became a valuable assistant to his father, after whose death he increased the pastoral properties possessed by the Mortiock family. An idea of the size of the territory which he now controls can be obtained when it is stated that Yudnapinnie, Mount Arden, and Eurobluff Stations together represent 1,600 square miles ; Coffin Bay, 200 square miles ; Angoritchna, 100 square miles ; Yalluna and Strawberry Hill, 13,000 acres; Martindale Hall, 10,000 acres; and Ratavale (purchased in 1897), 26,000 acres. Such an array of figures as the foregoing implies the outlay of a large amount of capital on the part of Mr. Mortiock, and the work of superintending operations over such an immense area necessarily makes his life a particularly busy one. He, however, managed to find time for public duties as a parliamentarian when he was elected for Elinders, on April 25, 1896. In the House Mr. Mortiock acquitted himself very creditably, his intimate knowledge of the country being of great value in legislative matters connected with pastoral affairs. Mr. Mortiock is a true sportsman, and there is hardly a racing club of any importance in the Province with which he is not in some way associated. Of the Port Augusta Racing Club he is a leading member, and figures on the list of office-bearers as patron. Mr. Mortiock has in every way worthily upheld his father's reputation, both on the stations and in the halls of legislation ; and, as an important figure in the great pastoral industry, he ranks among the representative men of the Province. Mr. Edward William Hawker, M.A. MR. EDWARD WILLIAM HAWKER comes of a good old English flunily. His grandfather was an Admiral in the English navy, and his father, the late Hon. G. C. Hawker, M.A., M.P., was one of the worthiest pioneer settlers of South Australia. Mr. E. W. Hawker was the eldest son, and he was born on January 14, 1850, on his father's estate at Dungaree. He attended St. Peter's College, Adelaide, for some years, and then proceeded to Harrow, and afterwards to Cambridge University. After a successful college course he took the degrees of B.A. and LL.B. After being admitted to the Inner Temple in 1873, he returned to South Australia, and in 1878 he began to practise as a barrister in Adelaide, In 1884 he was returned for his native district of Stanley to the House of Assembly. On May 28, 1889, Mr. E. W. Hawker resigned his seat in order to proceed to England. He applied himself heartily once more to academic studies, and in 1890, at Cambridge, he took the degrees of Master of Laws and Master of Arts. He principally, however, devoted himself to mineralogical and metallurgical study in the laboratories of Germany. In 1892 he returned to South Australia, and since that time has energetically interested himself in mining matters in this Province. He holds the position of Lecturer on Mining at the School of Mines in Adelaide. At the general election of 1893 Mr. Hawker again offered himself to the suffrages of the Stanley electors, and was returned to the Assembly, of which he continued a member for three years. GG2