ADELAIDE AND VICINITY 685 GENERAL INDEX HISTORICAL Aboriginal Inhabitants — Characteristics of ... ... >2 Extermination of ... ... 16 First interview between blacks and whites ... ... ... 32 Food and fears of ... ... '4 Generally peaceable .. ... 01 Language of ... ... ... ^3 Quarrelsome... ... ... '03 Kites and customs of ... ... 15 Romance of ... •■ 14 Shipwrecked people killed by ... 103 Signs and codes of ... ... 13 Spirit world, their notion of ... 15 Abundant harvest ... ... 127 Adelaide — Appointment of city commissioners for 1 17 Bank- First, established in ... ... 56 Second, established in... ... 69 Beginnings of North ... ... 75 Bridge erected connecting KingWilliam Street with North ... ... 1 20 Depressed ... ... ... 209 Description of, in 1 86 1 ... ... 137 Development in .. ... 167 Drainage of — Schemes discussed ... 141. 170 System of deep, adopted and des- cribed ... ... ... 1S4 Electric light.instatled in ... 209 First buildings erected in ... 43 First newspaper published in ... 44 Improvements in ... ... 117 In the nineties ... ... 210 Land values in ... ... 1S2 Markets of ... ... ... 167 Morphett Street overway bridge opened ,.. . . ... l6g New city bridge opeiud .. ... 160 Park lands fenced in and planteil ... 120 Population of ... (Appendix H) 617 Rotunda erected on bnnks of Torrens 186 Streets lighted by gas ... ... 141 Suburbs of ... ... .. 211 Torrens lake opened ... .. 1S6 Tramway construction in .. 185 Administrators of Government — FinnLss, Hon. B. T. ... ... 114 Hamley, Lieut. -Col. I'. G. ... 150 Hanson, Sir R. D. ... . ... 157 Stephen, Mr. G. M. ... ... 50 Way, Right Hon. Sir S. I., l?Art 1S7, 20S Agricultural areas opened up and result 152 Agricultural, pastoral, mineral, and viti- cultural prospects ... ... 213 Agriculture, beginnings of .. ... 48 Appendix — A — Mayors, aldermen, and councillors of the Corporation of Adelaide ... 610 B — Population of the Province and of Adelaide ... ... 617 C — -Annual assessed value of property in Corporation of Adelaide ... 618 D— Statistics of South Australia for Quinquennial periods, 1S36-1900 6rg E — Australian Commonwealth Act as assented to by the late (j)iieen Victoria ... ... ... 621 F — Members and Officers of First Commonwealtli Parliament ... 641 G - Editorial Note ... ... 649 ! 1 — Notes on the Constitution of South 651 Australia Assessments, Annual, Corporation of Adelaide ... (Appendix C) 618 Australian Connnonwealth Act as assented to ... (Appendix E) 621 B Bailey's Garden ... ... 75 Biographical notices of representative men ... ... ... 225 Botanic Gardens started ... ... 119 Breakwater constructed at- Port Elliot ... ... ... 112 Victor Harbor ... ... 188 Building Act passed ... ... 183 Bullion Act passed ... ... no Baker, Senator Sir R. C, K.C.M.G. Notes on the Constitution of South Australia, by ... (Appendix H) 651 c Capital of Province — Nomenclature of streets in ... 42 Public meeting to consider site of ... 38 Site chosen for ... ... 34 Surveying site of ... ... 40 Captain Barker's tragic death ... 11 C.nptain C. Sturt— Appointed — Colonial Secretary ... ... 109 Surveyor-General ... ... 63 Conducts a party with cattle from New South Wales ... ... 56 Death of ... ... .-.. 109 Captain C. Sturt ( cotitinutd) — Discovers— Cooper Creek ... ... 102 River Murray, and traces it to Lake Alexandrina ... 8 Early explorations ... ... 7 Granted an annuity ... ... 109 Captain Flinders' narrative ... 3 Captain Frome — Appointed Surveyor-General ... 64 Leads exploring party to Lake Torrens loi Chinese, poll tax on ... ... 132 Christening of McLaren Wharf ... 76 Churches in early days ... ... 57 Colonel C. J. Napier offered first (Jover- nor.ship ... ... ... 25 Colonel W. Light- Appointed first .Surveyor-General ... 21 Arrival of ... ... ... 29 Career of ... ... ... 3° Death and burial of ... ... 49 Explorations of ... ... 3' Instructions to ... ... 30 Monument to memory of .. 49 Resignation of ... ... 48 Troubles of . . . . . ... 47 Colonial Land and Emigration Board appointed ... ... ... 77 Colonisation — Experimental period in ... ... 18 Failure in Western Australia of Mr. Wakefield's proposed scheme i^f 19 In Western Australia ... ... 19 Mr. E. G. Wakefield associated with 18 Of Australia ... ... ... 2 Society in England, formation of ... 20 Wakefield's scheme of ... ... 18 Colonising Commissioners — Appoint a Resident Commissioner ... 26 Appointment of — First Board ... ... 22 .Second Board ... ... 22 Disbandment of ... •• 77 i Obtain Letters Patent for establishing Province ... ... 25 Commonwealth Parliament, members of
first ... (Appendix F) 641
Conference — Colonial, held in London ... 193 First held ... ... ... 108 Intercolonial ... ... 137 Ci>nstitution Act — Amending .Xct passed pr.ividing for Reform of Legislative Council ... 190 T T 2
