Rev. James Lyall,
BORN in 1827, at Edinburgh, Scotland. Studied at the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, and at the Divinity Hall, United Presbyterian Church, in the latter city. Engaged for about ten years in mission work in Edinburgh. Arrived in South Australia in 1857, where he took charge of the Presbyterian Church in Gouger-street, and afterwards in Flinders-street, in 1875. He is still the minister of that church, and, notwithstanding his advanced age, active in mind and body. In June, 1884, Mr. Lyall, who had acted as Hon. Clerical Secretary to the Adelaide City Mission for a number of years, resigned that office, in consequence of "heavy domestic affliction, and the paramount duties of his pastorate and Presbytery," requiring his constant attention.
Dr. Benj. F. Frankis,
A NATIVE of Bristol, where his father held a leading position as a solicitor. Studied medicine in London, filling his course at St. Bartholomew's Hospital; took his degrees, and was for some time connected with the Infirmary of his native town. Removed to the neighborhood of Surrey, but finding his health failing, he obtained an appointment as surgeon of the ship "Spartan," carrying emigrants to New Zealand. The climate of the Australias appearing to agree with his health, he returned to England to secure a second appointment as ship's surgeon, and this was effected on the "William Hyde," bound for Adelaide and Sydney. On arrival in 1852, after a short trial of the goldfields, he finally settled in Adelaide, at the south end of King William-street, where he soon established a large and lucrative practice, and remained many years, gaining the warm affection of his
