Identifier: saustraliaitshis00stow (find matches)
Title: South Australia : its history, productions, and natural resources
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Stow, Jefferson Pickman, 1830-1908
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Publisher: Adelaide : E. Spiller, govt. printer
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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m tree CaptainHindmarsh read his commission as Governor, and proclaimed theestablishment of the colony. There are two railways from Adelaideto this town, which is six miles from the city, and since the open-ing of the first of these lines, the value of land at Glenelg has risen•enormously, and the population greatly. There is a long jetty on-which mails and cargo from the P. & 0. boats are landed, exten-sive swimming baths, a large institute, excellent hotels, mansions,and villas, and well-made streets. The population is 2,724. Between Glenelg and the Port, towns are springing up atHenley Beach and the Grange, and there can be no doubt all the seafrontages will be valuable from LeFevres Peninsula to where theMount Lofty range, sweeping round to the southwards, touchesHoldfast Bay five or six miles from Glenelg. Between that pointand Glenelg is Brighton, a favorite seaside retreat for those whoprefer it to the gayer and more bustling resort of the votaries ofpleasure and fashion.
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ITS METROPOLIS AND CHIEF TOWNS. 81 Eastward of Adelaide are the towns of Kensington and Nor-wood, with a popidation of over 10,000, and forming- an importantcorporation ; beyond, and in all directions, are towns and villages.Just south of the south park lands are Unley, Parkside, and Good-wood, forming a corporation named after the first-mentionedlocality. Leaving the metropolitan neighborhood, I will only mentiona few of the principal towns. Twenty-six miles to the north ofAdelaide is Gawler, which in the old days was termed the key ofthe north, and for years was the terminus of the railway. It hasa population of over 1,800; it is the centre of a large agricul-tural district, and is famous for its flour mills, of which the oldestare owned by Messrs. Duffield & Co., and for its machine factories,of which the principal one, and the most extensive in the colony,is that owned by Messrs. James Martin & Co., whose iron foundryand all the other branches of their establishment well r

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