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numerous friends as likely to make a valuable member of our community. His disposition and manners were frank, his education sound, his mercantile qualifications of a superior order, and his respect for the forms of godliness was strikingly manifest, long after he had lost its power and ceased to be under that moral restraint which was once habitual to him. One of the original Burra Burra proprietors, the securing that special survey was in no small degree due to Mr Stocks's activity and influence. He amassed considerable wealth through that successful venture, and, withdrawing from his commercial pursuits in
Adelaide, assumed the superintendence of this wonderful mine for a considerable period, where his admirable management, in which liberality, good nature, and business tact were blended, caused him to be greatly esteemed in the busy neighbourhood of Kooringa. The large and sudden accumulation of property, however, proved a snare, and the deceased unhappily fell into habits of intemperance, which beclouded the latter portion of his life, and, undermining a fine natural constitution, "brought down his strength in his journey and shortened his days." It is consolatory, however, to know that in his last moments he was able to express contrition, and his sorrowing friends have hope in his death.
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