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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 ]
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 ...
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 ...
William Charles Rigby (March 1834 – 14 July 1913) [1] was born in London.His parents had intended for him the life of a hatter, but he was attracted to bookselling, so was apprenticed to Parker & Sons of London and Oxford, [2] where George Robertson and Samuel Mullen (both became bookshop owners in Melbourne) were fellow workers.
[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 ...
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.).
[3] The founding of The Southern Australian carried the stated support of prominent early colonists, including William Light, Robert Gouger, John Barton Hack, BT Finniss and John Morphett. Although its stated purpose was to provide more balanced news reporting in the infant colony, a second aim was clearly to also give a very critical analysis ...
The South Australian Museum is a natural history museum and research institution in Adelaide, South Australia, founded in 1856 and owned by the Government of South Australia. It occupies a complex of buildings on North Terrace in the cultural precinct of the Adelaide Parklands .