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Lady Galway performed the official cere-
mony in connection with the opening of
the new soldiers' hut at Henley Beach on
Saturday afternoon. On Tuesday His Ex-
cellency the Governor (Sir Henry Galway)
will inspect Roseworthy College.
The arrangements of the Prime Minister
(Mr. Hughes) for his departure for Eng
and are now almost complete. He will
leave for Sydney by boat on Saturday
next, and after a few days in the New
South Wales capital will return to Mel
bourne, and will travel overland to Ade
laide to join the R.M.S. Osterley. The
members of the Federal Cabinet have pre
sented Mr. and Mrs. Hughes with a hand
some suit case each. The presentation
was made on Saturday by the Minister for
External Affairs (Mr. Mahon), who is the
only Minister who was a member of the
first Watson Labour Ministry.
The Attorney-General (Hon. J. H.
Vaughan), who has been spending a holi
day in Tasmania, will return to Adelaide
on Tuesday.
The Hon. Staniforth Smith (Adminis-
trator of New Guinea) has decided to
enlist in the A.I.F. as a private. He left
for Western Australia for that purpose
by the steamer Indarra on Saturday
afternoon. Chatting with a reporter just
before the steamer sailed, Mr. Smith said
— 'I enlisted in the Commonwealth force
for home defence at Port Moresby as soon
as war broke out. With others at Port
Moresby, I volunteered for service in any
part of the world, but was informed that
it was very necessary to defend our wire-
less stations against raids, and that we
could best serve the Empire by remaining
where we were. When the German war-
ships in the Pacific were destroyed, the
necessity for defence of our station at
Papua was removed, and I obtained per-
mission from the Minister to enlist as a
private in the A.I.F. Although I am 46
years of age, I was only 45 when I joined
the force at the outbreak of war. I have
decided to join as a private, rather than
go into the officers' training camp, and I
asked that I should enlist in Western
Australia, because that was the State
which returned me for the Federal Parlia-
ment at the head of the poll, and at
various other elections for which I stood.
I feel I owe everything to the people of
Western Australia. I have leave of ab-
sence for the duration of the war as Ad-
ministrator of New Guinea, and intend to
go back there if I return safely from the
front.'
Col. Lewis George Madley, I.S.O., V.D.,
formerly Commissioner of Police in South
Australia, died on Saturday at
Warrimilla, Park terrace, Wayville, at
the age of 71 years. The late Col.
Madley was born near Tintern, Monmouth
shire, in 1844. He was educated at St.
Mary's School, Cardiff, and Highbury Col
lege, London. In I865 he proceeded to
Sydney to control the St. James's Model
and Training School in New South Wales.
In 1873 he became head master of the
Grote Street Model School, Adelaide, where
he remained for two and a half years. He
was subsequently appointed principal of
the Training College for Teachers. In
1896 he succeeded the late Mr. W. J.
Peterswald as Commissioner of Police in
this State, in which position he remained
until he resigned on account of ill-health in
1907. Col. Madley was a military enthusi
ast. He identified himself with the volun
teer movement immediately on his arrival
in the State. In 1877 he joined the in
fantry as a private, and in three years
gained rapid promotion to the rank of
major. In 1882 he was made a lieutenant
colonel of the 1st Regiment. On the re
tirement of Col. Owen, Col. Madley was
offered the position of Commandant of the
South Australian forces, which position,
however, he did not accept. He became a
colonel in 1896, and was an honorary aide
de-camp to several State Governors.
Mr. W. J. Sowden will leave Adelaide
to-day by the mail steamer Karmaia for
Melbourue and Sydney. While in the
eastern States he will enquire regarding
the working of Returned Soldiers' Asso
ciations and the methods employed for
providing cheer for soldiers in camp. Mr.
Sowden will also enquire regarding the
feasibility of a scheme which has been
projected with a view to extending the
value of Federal art exhibitions.
By reason of the retirement from the
Head Mastership of St. Peter's College of
Canon Girdlestone, M.A., the enlistment
of Capt. Freeman and Mr. J. H. Hill in
the Australian expeditionary forces, the
absence on leave of Mr. W. M. Hole, Mus.,
Bac., and the resignation of Mr. A. J. K.
Baker, B.A., the council of the school has
been forced to make several changes in
the personnel of the teaching staff. As
previously announced in The Register,
Mr. T. Ainslie Caterer, B.A., has been
appointed acting head master, a position
he has formerly filled to the satisfaction
of the council of governors. Mr. A. G.
Bice, B.A. (Magdalen College, Oxford), an
old St. Peter's boy, will go into residence.
He has gained valuable teaching expe
rience at Sherborne, one of the big Eng
lish public schools. Mr. R. Pavia, B.A.,
Adelaide, who will join the staff as a resi
dent master, has been working at the
Adelaide High School, and he brings with
him high references as a successful
teacher. Mr. W. Sharpe, M.A. (Sydney)
has been appointed a non-resident master.
He had a brilliant university career, and
in his finals he gained first-class honours
in mathematics, Latin, and French. For
seven years he had charge of the highest
mathematical work at Scotch College,
Melbourne, a school which has been singu
larly successful in its public examinations,
and to which success his personal efforts
contributed in a marked degree. Mr. Frank
R. Bennett has also been appointed a resi
dent master. He will resign as first assis
tant at the Burnie School, Tasmania, to
come to South Australia, and will leave
the Education Department there for the
wider service of Australian public school
life with the strongest recommendations.
He passed through the Training College,
Hobart, and completed his final year
with honours. He is a keen and vigorous
athlete, senior cricket representative, and
senior football, and one of the finest ama
teur runners in Tasmania. In all these
sports he has gained considerable experience
in coaching. He has also held a commission
with the Senior Cadets. The council of
the school proposes to appoint a resident
house chaplain, and the announcement of
its choice in this matter will be made
at an early date. When this has been
done the school will start the work of the
new year fully and efficiently staffed.
Mr. A. E. Davey was welcomed by mem
bers of the Adelaide Chamber of Com
merce, at a meeting on Friday, upon his
return to South Australia after visiting
England. The President (Mr. F. W.
Vasey) referred to Mr. Davey as an old
friend and an ex-President whom they
were all pleased to see back. Responding
to the compliment, Mr. Davey remarked
that he had seen many interesting things
and many great people during his stay in
the nerve centre of the Empire. The
feeling of the people of Great Britain
regarding the war was one of gallant opti
mism. The old country was out to win,
and the people of Australia would do
their share to bring that about.
I met Mr. W. Copley, ex-M.P., and
Minister of the Crown, in the street on
Thursday, and I could not help congratu-
lating him on his remarkably hale and
hearty appearance (writes 'Rufus,'
in Saturday's Journal). "Well, I
was 70 years old last birthday," re-
marked the gentleman from Blackrock,
"and I am not likely to forget it, because
it was April 25, Anzac Day." Mr. Arthur
Searcy happened along, and I mentioned
to him that I had been congratulating Mr.
Copley on his youthful appearance. "He
looks a lot younger to-day," observed the
Chairman of the Harbours Board, "than he
did many years ago, when he was sitting
in the stern of the Governor Musgrave off
Streaky Bay, and praying for me to put
him ashore. I will never forget how he
said, in pitiful tones, 'If you put me
ashore, Searcy, I'll give up the Chief Secre-
taryship, and walk home to Orroroo.'"
'That's a fact,' commented Mr. Copley;
'and all our ill luck with the weather
was due to Searcy shooting a porpoise.'
Messs. W. Copley and Arthur Searcy
could have recalled another incident, which
concerned the pulling down of a flag at Go-
vernment House, but that is another story,
as Kipling says. Before we parted we
wished Mr. Searcy 'Many happy returns
of the day,' because it was his birthday,
but he did not tell us how old he was.
The following wills of last week are ex
tracted from the weekly gazette of the
Mercantile Trade Protection Association:—
Probates.— Thomas Brook, Hill Farm, near
Dutton, £16,700; George Octavius Dalby,
Gawler South, £450; David Amos
Ewers, West Adelaide, £1,300;
John Hennessy, Woodville, £3,800;
Rebecca Hynes, Henley Beach,
£2,820: Charles Ebenthaheir Jolly, Stans
bury £700: Stanley William McGargill,
Welland, £530; Walter Purchase, Wirra
bara, £12,605. Letters of Administration.
—Thomas Henry Bowyer, Yankalilla,
£125; Lillian Pearl Cherry, New Parkside,
£270; Thomas Vincent Maloney, Moockra,
£3.300.
At a meeting of the Adelaide Chamber
of Commerce on Friday, Mr. C. T. Mc
Glew forwarded his resignation as repre
sentative of the Port Pirie Chamber on
the council, owing to his enlistment with
the expeditionary forces. Appreciation of
Mr. McGlew's patriotic sacrifice of busi-
ness and family interests to serve his
country was expressed by the President
of the Chamber (Mr. F. W. Vasey). It
was resolved to dispatch a message to that
effect to the gentleman concerned.
Mr. E. E. Cleland, K.C., accompanied by
Mrs. Cleland and two daughters, left Ade
laide by the Melbourne express on Satur
day for the eastern States. Mr. Cleland
expects to be absent about three weeks,
the greater portion of which will be spent
in Tasmania.
The third annual conference of Justices'
Associations will be held in Sydney, com
mencing on January 17. The delegates re
presenting the South Australian Associa-
tion will be the President (Mr. .J. T.
Kevern), Messrs. H. D. Gell, Herbert Solo
man, N. Solomons; W. H. Wadey, and J.
Charles Genders.
Seventy-four years ago to-day (January
10, 1842), Mr. W. Munson Mills, of Syden
ham road, Norwood, enlisted in England
in the 3rd Light Dragoons. In May of
the same year he volunteered to join the
9th Lancers, who were about to proceed
to India, and was accepted. In 1845,
while his regiment was quartered at
Meerut, the Sikhe declared war against
the British, and orders were at once given
for the 9th to leave for the Punjaub. The
regiment, owing to some delay in the re
ceivings of despatches, was not able to
reach Moodkee in time to take part in
resisting the attack made by the Sikhs
on Sir Hugh Gough's forces on December
18, in which battle the British lost 872
killed and wounded, among tbe former
being that great hero of the Afghan wars,
Sir Robert Sale— 'Fighting Bob.' The
9th Lancers therefore remained at So
braon, and on the morning of February
10, at 1 a.m., the regiment was ordered
to march at sunrise and engage the enemy.
The Sikhs, who were strongly entrenched
on the Sutlej, were 25,000 strong. Sir
Hugh Gough, who had 15,000 British
under his command, succeeded, with
feigned attacks on the enemy's centre and
right, in pushing home his assault on their
left, and, after hard fighting, drove the de
fenders into the river, where many
perished. The British lost about 2,500,
and the Sikhs about 8,000. The battle of
Sobraon ended in the total defeat of the
Sikhs, and this concluded the campaign of
the Sutlej. Mr. Mills possesses a wonder
ful memory, and in course of conversation
with a representative of The Register, he
remarked— 'We crossed the River Sutlej
on the 12th, and on the 14th I well re
member that, as I was on outlying picket
duty, the young ruler of the Sikhs, the
Maharajah Dhuleep Singh, came, into our
lines and was taken, to the Commander-
in-Chief. Next day I was one of the
escort that accompanied Sir Henry Har-
dinge, the Governor-General, and Sir
Hugh Gough, the Commander-in-Chief, to
take formal possession of Lahore.' The
9th was then ordered back to Meerut,
where they remained until the second
Sikh war broke out in 1849. Mr. Mills
participated in that campaign also, and
was present at the battles of Chillian
wallah and Gooperat. He was awarded
two medals and two clasps for his service.
In 1852—five years before the outbreak of
the Indian Mutiny—Tpr. Mills, who
had lost the sight of one eye, was in
valided home, and received his discharge
at Maidstone on August 12, 1852. The old
gentleman is, with the exception of Sur
geon-Major Hinton, who will be 103 this
year, the oldest member of the S.A. Corps
of Veterans, and takes the greatest in-
terest in the doings of its members. He
has been unable to leave his home for
some time, but, despite his great age,
nothing pleases him better than to con-
jure up recollections of the past. When
Lord Kitchener was here he inspected the
Corps of Veterans. Catching sight of
Tpr. Mill's medals, we walked over to
the old gentleman, and shaking him
warmly by the hand, remarked "Sobraon!
My word, you old boys are getting scarce."
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