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1856: Government telegraph line Adelaide–Port Adelaide installed by Charles Todd; 1856: Steam railway between Adelaide and Port Adelaide opened. 1856: South Australian Society of Arts formed. 1857: Adelaide Botanic Gardens opens at today's site in the Park Lands off North Terrace with George William Francis as the first director. Railway ...
Playford's South Australia: Essays on the History of South Australia, 1933–1968. Association of Professional Historians. ISBN 0-646-29092-4. Simpson, ER (1993). Beaumont House the land and its people. Hyde Park Press, Richmond, Adelaide. ISBN 978-0-9592458-2-0. Warburton, E (1981). The Paddocks Beneath: A History of Burnside from the ...
They were expected to carry out a promise of working for wages until they had saved enough to buy land of their own and employ others, a process taking at least 3 or 4 years. Land sales were encouraged by granting one acre (4,000 m 2) of town land in Adelaide for every 80 acres (32 ha) of rural land sold (later altered to 134-acre country ...
Front page of Vol 1, No 2 (3 June 1837) of the South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register. The Register was conceived by Robert Thomas , a law stationer, who had purchased for his family 134 acres (54 ha) of land in the proposed South Australian province after being impressed by the ideas of Edward Gibbon Wakefield . [ 2 ]
[1] [3] The bill of 1853 was rejected by the British government, [4] and a new bill was drafted in 1855, providing for two purely elective houses. That received the royal assent in 1856. [5] Finniss was elected as one of the representatives for the city of Adelaide and became the first premier and Chief Secretary of South Australia. There were ...
W. A. Hughes was a son of Robert Hughes, a merchant of Liverpool, England and Mrs. Hughes (c. 1776 – 30 January 1867).He emigrated to South Australia aboard Delhi, arriving in December 1839, [1] and built a residence at Brougham Place, North Adelaide.
The History of South Australia: From Its Foundation to the Year of Its Jubilee: Volume I.]. A Project Gutenberg of Australia eBook (posted 2013). With much material gathered by George Fife Angas used as the basis of this history. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Gouger, Robert (1898). Hodder, Edwin (ed.).
1856: Government telegraph line and steam railway between Adelaide and Port Adelaide opened. 1856: South Australia becomes one of the first places in the world to enact the Secret Ballot. 1857: Adelaide Botanic Garden opened at today's site in the Parklands at the corner of North and East Terraces. 1858: Melbourne-Adelaide telegraph line opened.