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The history of the City of Burnside, a local government area in the metropolitan area of Adelaide, spans three centuries. Prior to European settlement Burnside was inhabited by the Kaurna people , who lived around the creeks of the River Torrens during the winter and in the Adelaide Hills during the summer.
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 ...
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 ]
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 ...
Glynde is a suburb of Adelaide in the City of Norwood Payneham St Peters. It was laid out in 1856 by Edward Castres Gwynne, whose father had been the rector of the Sussex village of Glynde; he also named the adjacent suburb of Firle. He owned a large estate near the village, where he had an orangery covering eight acres. The Duke of Edinburgh ...
[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.
During the commercial property boom of the 1980s the State Bank of South Australia was the fastest growing bank in Australia – but in 1991, the bank collapsed and Labor Premier John Bannon announced that, due to bad debts, the bank would have to be rescued by the taxpayers – subsequently, the bank's book debt rose to $3 billion. A Royal ...