History of the City of Adelaide: From the Foundation of the Province of South Australia in 1836, to the End of the Municipal Year 1877Spine title: Worsnop's history of Adelaide Includes index. |
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Acre Aldermen amount appointed arrival Bank Bill bridge building Captain City Council City of Adelaide Colonel Light colonists colony Commissioner Committee Corporation of Adelaide Councillors Daly debt Duke of Edinburgh election erected Excellency Sir Excellency the Governor Excellency's expenditure expressed feet funds Gawler gentlemen Glandfield Glenelg Government House Governor Hindmarsh H. R. Fuller honor House of Assembly improvements interest J. H. Fisher James Hurtle Fisher John Barton Hack John McDouall Stuart John Morphett KING WILLIAM STREET King William-street labor Legislative Council Majesty Majesty's Mayor and Corporation Mayor of Adelaide meeting ment Messrs Municipal Park Lands Parliament passed persons police Port Adelaide present Prince proceedings proposed Province of South Purchaser purpose railway rates received revenue Royal Highness RUNDLE STREET S. A. Company Sir James Fergusson South Australia streets Stuart tion Torrens Town Clerk Town Hall vote waterworks Worship the Mayor
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Page 260 - Aid the dawning tongue and pen; Aid it, hopes of honest men; Aid it, paper — aid it type, — Aid it, for the hour is ripe, And our earnest must not slacken Into play; Men of thought and men of action, Clear the way!
Page 398 - I was never sanguine on any point but one, and that was the eligibility of the site of Adelaide; in that I was always confident.
Page 300 - I thank you for the most enthusiastic manner in which you have responded to the toast of my health.
Page 9 - You will make the streets of ample width, and arrange them with reference to the convenience of the inhabitants, and the beauty and salubrity of the town; and you will make the necessary reserves for squares, public walks and quays.
Page 410 - That it is the opinion of this meeting that the site at present selected for the chief town of the colony, being at a considerable distance from navigable waters, is not such as they were led to expect would be chosen.
Page 386 - Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor...
Page 318 - TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY...
Page 122 - An Act to amend an Act for regulating the Sale of Waste Land belonging to the Crown in the Australian Colonies...
Page 408 - Howiclc belongs the honour of having been the first to give practical operation to the principle of selling the colonial lands at the disposal of the Crown, and of employing the proceeds of the sale in conveying voluntary emigrants to the colonies.
Page 413 - England contemplated as essential, — a central point in the province, in the neighbourhood of a safe and improvable harbour, abundance of fresh water on the spot, and of good land and pasturage in its vicinity, with a probable easy communication with the Murray, Lake Alexandrina, and the most fertile part of New South Wales, without fear of any injury to the principles of the colony, from too near an approach to the confines of the convict settlement.