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  2. WAY COLLEGE, ADELAIDE, S. A.

    This institution is intended to do honour to the memory of a noble life and to provide a high-class education for the youth of the colony, based upon decidedly Christian, but unsectarian, principles. ...

    Article : 312 words
  3. POUT ADELAIDE IN 1844.

    In 1836 the first ships entered the creek from Gulf St. Vincent, and the immigrants were landed on the east bank, on the site of what is now known as Port Adelaide. It is about seven miles from the metropolis. Our first view represents ...

    Article : 287 words
  4. SOUTH AUSTRALIA'S JUBILEE.

    With this issue we give a facsimile engraving of the original signatures of the Directors of the first South Australian Company, presented to Mr. Angas by the Directors just after the starting of the Company in London of which the Bank of ...

    Article : 96 words
  5. COLONEL GAWLER.

    Colonel Gawler was born in the year 1796, and was educated at the Military College at Great Marlow. He was the only child of Captain Samuel Gawler, of the 73rd Regiment, who led one of the storming parties at the siege of ...

    Article : 210 words
  6. THE EVENING BEFORE PROCLAMATION DAY. THE RELICS.

    It was a felicitous as well as a practical idea that was hit upon when it was decided to hold an Old Colonists' Gathering on December 27th, 1886, just the evening before Proclamation Day. Old Colonists then met and had pleasant talks about ...

    Article : 1,308 words
  7. THE PIONEERS OF 1836.

    Although the early settlers of South Australia were in no sense exiles from their native land, they had many hardships to encounter, besides perils of one kind or another in sufficient measure to cause them a good deal of anxiety. Many of them ...

    Article : 2,445 words
  8. COLONEL LIGHT, FIRST SURVEYOR-GENERAL.

    William Light, the first Surveyor-General of South Australia, and founder of Adelaide City, was born in 1788, and died 5th October, 1839, aged 51 years. On another page of this number will be found particulars of the important part he played in ...

    Article : 126 words
  9. AN EARLY SETTLER.

    Simple indeed, but yet very satisfactory withal were the appliances of the early settlers in Australia. The English people are credited with a tolerably large share of that species of instinct which seems necessary to success in the reclamation ...

    Article : 213 words
  10. A STOCK BUN FORTY YEARS AGO.

    In this instance also our illustration calls for but little in the shape of description, for, if we except the circumstance that marsupials, emus, and other denizens of the wilds were far more plentiful forty years ago than they are to-day, there ...

    Article : 85 words
  11. A BUSHMAN FORTY YEARS AGO.

    This simple sketch hardly requires any explanation. The bushman of 1847 was almost invariably the possessor of a horse and, its needful accoutrements, and was nobody if he had not also a serviceable fowling piece and a trusty canine ...

    Article : 132 words
  12. FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH AND ITS FIRST PASTOR.

    This woodcut is in great measure self descriptive. The church was built in 1837-8, and occupied a prominent site on North-terrace, to the west of Morphett-stredt. The officiating minister was the Rev. T. Q. Stow, the father of ...

    Article : 289 words
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