HANSON, SIR RICHARD DAVIES chief justice of South Australia, was born in London on Dec. 6, 18o5. Admitted a solicitor in 1828, he practised for some time in London. In 1838 he went with Lord Durham to Canada as assistant-commissioner of inquiry into crown lands and immi gration. In 184o, on the death of Lord Durham, whose private secretary he had been, he settled in Wellington, New Zealand. He there acted as crown prosecutor, but in 1846 removed to South Australia. In 1851 he was appointed advocate-general of that colony. In 1856 and again from 1857 to 186o he was at torney-general and leader of the government. In 186i he was appointed chief justice of the supreme court of South Australia and was knighted in 1869. He died in Australia on March 4, 1876.