14 ANNIVEESART ADDRESS. 



as one of the pioneers in the great undertaking of opening up a 

 vast territory, a great portion of which is now in the occupation 

 and government of the sister Colony, Victoria, but was for a long 

 time part of New South "Wales. Mr. Hovell was born, I believe, 

 about 1785, and Mr. Hume on 18th June, 1797. The former, 

 therefore, was fully 90 years of age, and may be considered in 

 our records, in relation to the late Alexander Berry, as the twin 

 nonagenarian of our Society. Mr. Hume died in April, 1873. 



Commodore G-ooDENOTiaH, E.N. 



It is impossible to name the late Commodore Groodenough, 

 who joined us shortly after his arrival, without calling to mind 

 the deep feelings which stirred the whole community when the 

 first news of his death accompanied the arrival of his body for 

 interment. 



In the short intercourse with him with which some of us were 

 honored, we could not but learn to appreciate the sterling ex- 

 cellencies of his disposition and the disinterestedness of his 

 character, amply illustrated as these have been by the facts 

 related of his death in the discharge of his voluntary efforts as a 

 christian man to conciliate the savages by whom he was treacher- 

 ously slain. 



His merits have been honorably acknowledged by the 

 Sovereign and Country whom he served with success during a 

 period of two-and- thirty years. In May, 1844, he entered the 

 Navy, became captain in May, 1863, and after a distinguished 

 career was decorated with the insignia of C.B. and C.M.Gr. 



It may seem a work of supererogation in me to venture now 

 on any further tribute to his memory ; but as he rendered good 

 service to this Colony, especially in relation to the annexation of 

 Piji, in which he took a prominent part, we seem to have lost one 

 of our best public friends, and such he was in more senses than 

 one. 



He now rests in peace between two youthful seamen, each 

 eighteen years of age,belonging to H.M.S. " Pearl" under his com- 



