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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 144, 12 May 1900, Page 3

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ITq ' the course of an article ' the "Sydney Catholic Press gives the following ' iisb of self-made Australian colonists : — '" Sir George Dibbs and Mr lorn JDibbs, general manager of fche ! Commercial Bank, left school'W 13. - How ' have they succeeded ? They will tell you, if you inquire, and their life stories would surely interest our 3»ung Inon. Sir Julian Salomons wdrked as a boy in a 'little shop in Sydney. "Sir Charles Lilley* late Chief Justice of Queensland, 'was 'dncej a com mo » soldier?. 'The' late Sk Hi \ Parkes was 'a labourer, the Bightf ETon: Gdoijge ' fteid %fb" school "a'fc' ttie : age 1 of 1 14. J feenry Cofc'eland, the new; Agent-'CfeiJeral/v^o^lfe"*! bef6re ihd mast when l he -was a 'boy. '"'John Faii-fax, who founded the "Sydnfey ~ 'Mornifag Herald, ' was ' a poor compositor in Sy d ney ; . E x.- Attorney-General • worked in '«, coal mine. 'MV 'Justice Real, of Queensland," was ' s a joVixney -| nian carpenter in the' railway workshops in' lpswich. 'Sir J. d'Slfatinessey! was a''drayma'n in Victoria." 'We' uli^ht'Etdd 1 to this a',4isfc of equally distinguished men' in- New -Zealand, who hav9 rfean to euainetice from douapara- 1 tively speaking 'hutoble positions. The late Sir Julius Vogel was a rep'orfcei^on a country .newspaper, the ' Bight HonJ E. • J. ~'Seddon "was 'a "mechanical! j engineer, ' the ' preSsnt 'Poatmaster- 1 Grineral was a telegraphist, the Hon. John '^McKenzie a station ' njanager; the present Chief Justice of New Zealand adou'ntr'y schoolmaster, add the Public' Trustee mider.'' „