South Australia : its history, productions, and natural resources . Large quan-tities of ore were shipped from the Burra and other mines, andthere was an immense amount of speculation in new mineral dis-coveries, most of which proved to be worthless. The fifth Governor, Sir Henry Edward Fox Young, assumedthe reins of Government on the 2nd August, 1848. His adventwas unaccompanied by any labored formality or display. He rodeup from Port Adelaide to Government House, escorted by twomounted policemen. In the Imperial Act of 1834, founding the colony, there was aprovision to the effect that when t
South Australia : its history, productions, and natural resources . Large quan-tities of ore were shipped from the Burra and other mines, andthere was an immense amount of speculation in new mineral dis-coveries, most of which proved to be worthless. The fifth Governor, Sir Henry Edward Fox Young, assumedthe reins of Government on the 2nd August, 1848. His adventwas unaccompanied by any labored formality or display. He rodeup from Port Adelaide to Government House, escorted by twomounted policemen. In the Imperial Act of 1834, founding the colony, there was aprovision to the effect that when the inhabitants numbered50,000 they should have a constitution. That number was ex-jceeded before Sir Henry Young had been long in the colony, andthe Home Parliament passed an Act abolishing the nominee Legis-lative Council, and establishing one to consist of twenty-four mem-bers, of whom eight were to be nominee and sixteen elected mem-bers. Half the nominees were officials. The colony was dividedinto sixteen electoral districts, each returning one ITS HISTORY AND RESOURCES. 23 Radical principles prevailed; but the one question on which theelections hinged \yas that of State aid to religion. The electionscaused an amount of excitement never witnessed in political mattersin tlie colony in these latter days, and three-fourths of the success-ful candidates were in favor of the purely voluntary system. TheAdvocate-General, Mr. Smillie, resigned before the elections wereover, and Mr. Eichard Davies Hanson, who about twenty yearslater became Chief Justice, was appointed in his stead, but stipu-lated that he should vote against the Government on this question,and did so. In the first session of the new Council, a Bill for therenewal of the grants-in-aid was rejected on its first reading. Forseveral years afterwards the question was contested at casual elec-tions to fill vacancies in the Chamber, and then the defeated partyyielded to the inevitable, and it was accepted as the
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