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Adelaide Streets early History - Newspaper Reports and Other Information

Compiled by Reg Butler, (Hahndorf Historian) and extracted from his unpublished computer files.

Angas Street

Frearson's Weekly 17/12/1881 p 713  -  During the holidays, my attention was arrested by seeing a number of youngsters coming up Angas-street loaded with cakes and confectionery. It seemed strange to me they had gone there to procure them, instead of visiting some of the large and attractive shops in Rundle-street to make purchases. One of the youngsters, however, enlightened me on what seemed mysterious. ‘At Stevens,.’ said he, ‘I can get more for my money than anywhere else, and mother always buys her fancy bread and biscuits there.’

Frearson's Weekly 5/11/1881 p 616  -  A fire broke out in a detached building near the premises of Mr WJ Grasby, of Angas-street, on 28 October, whereby abou £700 worth of property was consumed. The loss was only partly covered by insurance.

Frearson's Weekly 20/1/1883 p 792  -  The Angas-street Dispensary, which has just been opened by Mr E Runge, in close proximity to such well-known medicos as Dr Gardner and O’Connor, and opposite the well-known establishment of Dr Astles, is quite a credit to the neighbourhood. The windows and other portions of the interior make a large display of mirrors; the two counter cases and a side case for the reception of patent medicines are neat specimens of cabinet work, the wood used being hewn pine, maple, and cedar, the case last mentioned being supported by two elegant pillars of hewn pine. Care and taste have been shown in the carved work. The drawers are of polished mahogany. Costly jars and other evidences of lavish expenditure will be found in the window and other conspicuous places within the establishment. Mr Runge is likely to win the confidence and patronage of the public in his new enterprise, his extended experience as a dispenser being known to most of the citizens.

Carrington Street

Frearson's Weekly 16/6/1883 p 296  -  Mr Henry Shaw, so long and favourably known as foreman of plumber, gasfitters etc at the establishment of Mr HL Vosz, has at length determined to start business on his own account. His establishment will be found at Nelson-place, off Carrington-street.

Currie Street

Raikes Currie MP for Northants. m Hon Laura Sophia Wodehouse, daughter of the 2nd Baron Kimberley, of Kimberley House, Wymondham, Norfolk. The Wodehouse family went into the Royal Navy, the Church, Parliament and the diplomatic service. R Currie’s brother-in-law, Edward Wodehouse, was an Admiral; he bought land in the Hundred of Myponga. Raikes Currie’s fourth son, Philip, became the 1st Baron Currie; diplomat in Russia, Turkey, Rome. Made special missions for the Foreign Office. Currie’s father-in-law, the 2nd Baron Kimberley was in Parliament and Lord-Lieutenant for Norfolk. Currie’s nephew by marriage, John, 3d Baron Kimberley, Colonial Secretary in the 1870s, gave his name to the Kimberleys in WA and Kimberley in South Africa. The Currie family were bankers Messrs Currie & Co, 29 Cornhill, London. Bankers to the SA Church Society of 7 John St, Adelphi, London. Currie was one of the Committee. R Currie’s son, Bertram Wodehouse Currie, headed the family bank and was a trustee and director of the SA Company.

DIVETT, Edward Esquire MP Eaton Square, Middlesex; Bertram Wodehouse CURRIE Esquire Cornhill, London, Middlesex; Charles ROBERTS Esquire Mincing Lane, London, Middlesex, Trustees and Directors for the SA Company in Britain. Power of attorney to William GILES Esquire Adelaide, to manage the Company’s SA affairs 18/8/1854. Divett, landed proprietor and MP for Exeter, died 26/7/1864, Bystock House, Colaton, Raleigh, Devon, of diseased bladder, aged 66. John Divett of Bovey Tracey present at the death.

TODD, James Ruddell wine merchant 33 Portland Place, Marylebone, died 4/12/1852 of disease of the stomach and kidneys, aged 65. Foundation trustee. Buried in All Souls Cemetery, Kensall Green, Kensington, Middlesex 11/12/1852. At this stage, John FUSSELL, one of the two surviving directors, was in ‘a very inform state of bodily health, by reason of paralysis and was unable to execute any of the duties of a trustee of the said Company’. Meeting of 9/12/1852 removed Fussell from office, and appoited Bertram Wodehouse CURRIE Esquire Cornhill, Middlesex, and Charles ROBERTS Esqire Mincing Lane, Middlesex, to replace the two above trustees. They acted with the surviving foundation trustee, Edward DIVETT. John FUSSELL iron manufacturer 15 Chapel St, Park Lane, died 24/3/1853 paralysis from effusion on the brain for 11 months, aged 70. Richard Boswell BEDDOME of solicitors Beddome & Weir 27 Nicholas Lane, London, witnessed the declaration for the SA Lands Office 13/4/1853. The London Manager of the SA Company at this time was Andrew MILLER of 4 New Broad St, London. The trustees were also Directors of the SA Company.

SA Gazette 11/10/1845 p58  -  John Gallienne, a sort of indescribable personage, miserably attired, half-English, half-French, author, poet, teacher of languages, and conductor of an establishment in Currie-street, for the education of the junior branches of both sexes, was charged with being drunk in the public streets, and incapable of taking care of himself; this being the third offence, and there appearing a balance due to the Court in the shape of fines inflicted on the two former occasions, the Commissioner administered a little wholesome, but still rather unpalatable correction, by consigning him to the care of Governor Ashton for the space of two days.

SA Gazette 1/11/1845 p70  -  It is reported that the New Club have purchased the Acre and premises in Currie-street, known as the Police Commissioner’s Office, and that a large and substantial building will be forthwith erected. [The Club House of Hindley St about to move quarters)

SA Gazette 27/6/1846 p98  -  Mr Marshall, of Currie-street, besides following his ordinary business of cabinetmaking and joinery, is a sort of general machinist, constructing moulds for machinery, and repairing and manufacturing musical instruments. At present, he has far advanced towards completion of an eight stopped organ withpedals, which we may yet expect to hear swelling the notes of praise in some colonial cathedral. Mr Marshall is also manufacturing forge bellows. The cost of these imported is £9, and they require an expenditure of about £2, to put them in working order; from the small quantity of leather connecting the boards, they do not expand sufficient to produce the adequate blast; besides, the valves generally in use are not adapted to this climate, owing to the warping and contraction of the timber. Mr Marshall’s bellows, which obviate these defects, and are confessedly much superior to those imported, may be had at the same price as the imported article, namely £9.

SA Gazette 9/10/1847 p169  -  It is deserving of notice that Mr Cain of Currie-street has at length succeeded in establishing a Cloth Manufactory, which is now in full working order. Mr C is using wool, the growth of the province, and the texture of the article produced is equal to any of a similar description made at home. It is light, and well adapted for the use of the colonies.

SA Gazette 4/12/1847 p205  -  About fifty Scottish and a few English gentlemen dined together on Tuesday [30/11/1847], at Mr Stuart’s Tavern, Currie-street, to celebrate the day of St Andrew. Edward Stirling Esq JP was in the chair, and Dr WARK in the vice-chair. The former was supported by the Advocate-General , Mr Cumming (President of the St Andrew’s Society), Messrs Frew and McLaren, and the latter by Messrs Sutherland, Murray and Donaldson. The dinner, which it comprised each delicacy of the North, excluded no dish which Englishmen love. Scarcely was the haggis removed, before the pudding, wreathed in blue flames, supplied its place. The whole was well got up, and does much credit to the purveyor.

Frearson’s Weekly 19/2/1881 p 25  -  J Howard, of Currie St stand, has a splendid lot of roomy spring drays, with good horses and careful drivers. If there were more like him, we shouldn’t have the complainings now so common about the breakages of furniture during removal by careless carriers.

Frearson's Weekly 16/4/1881 p152  -  One of the finest Horse Bazaars in South Australia is now rapidly approaching completion in Currie Street, Adelaide. Mr S Barnard is the proprietor.

Frearson’s Weekly 10/9/1881 p 490  -  At a recent investigation relative to the death of an infant belonging to a person named Ward, in Currie St, it was found at ten people were living in two rooms. This state of things is a disgrace to our boasted modern civilisation.

Frearson's Weekly 5/11/1881 p 618  -  WG Holt is a cabinet-maker, And widely known as an undertaker; His work in the city few can beat, And his address is at Currie-street.

Frearson's Weekly 18/2/1882 p 25  -  Some of the best vans in Adelaide are owned by W Aslin, carrier and coach proprietor, of Currie-street and Flinders-street East. Those who are desirous of speedy transit for their goods to any part of the colony should employ him, they will then be gratified in seeing egery article safely landed at its destination without breakage or injury.

Flinders Street

SA Gazette 29/5/1847 p92  -  The proprietor of Town Acre 234 is ready to lease the whole or part of it on Building leases for 7, 14, or 21 years. This Acre is situated in Flinders-street, between the Public Offices and the Barracks, has a frontage on the eastern side in Freeman-street, and a third frontage on the West in a private street. A plan of the proposed allotments may be seen on applying to B Ross, Exchange Rooms, and full particulars on application, personally, or by letter to J Brown, Exchange Rooms, or before 10am, at his private residence, Sturt-street.  Adelaide 29th May 1847.

Frearson’s Weekly 10/8/1878 p179  -  Barlow Bros coach and carriage factory has been taken by the enterprising yougn men the Messrs Barlow Bros, whose abilty in the trimming and painting line is too well known to require comment. The building is situated in Flinders St, near St Paul’s Church, and adds materially to the business-like appearance of the locality. The proprietors have spared neither tiem nor money in making their possession what it should be (both internally and externally), and we are informed, propose to turn out a very superior class of work in all the various branches of their trade.

Frearson’s Weekly 21/9/1878 p234  -  The Port was situated a mile further up the stream, nearer to Adelaide, and only ships of small tonnage could obtain access on account of the bar of sand, now deepened and removed; the larger vessels discharged their cargoes at Holdfast Bay, a misnomer by the bye, for an open roadstead where vessels primarily anchored three or four miles from the coast, but would drag their anchors half the distance in shore. Let me conjure up Holdfast Bay as it then was in 1838.

The good ship Rajasthan in which I arrived, and the sister ship Pestongee Bomanjee, were then at anchor; the latter bringing out the kind-hearted amilable Governor Gawler, the hero of a hundred fights, but who, by his complaisance, soon won the hearts of whites and blacks - the latter delighting to call him Cockatoo Governor, on account of the plume of white feathers he wore in his cocked hat; and plenty tucker did that governor allow them for the taking away of their hunting grounds. Many hundreds of the sable race lined the beach in puris naturabilus, being attracted by the innumerable carcasses of sheep that lay there, and which sheep had come to their death through drinking salt water; for on their arrival from the sister colonies, they were pitched over the ships’ side to sink or swim as they best might. Numbers of the Adelaide, Murray and Encounter Bay tribes had gathered together like human vultures and were busy skinning the carcasses, with the now evidences of civilisation, pieces of glass bottles.

We new chums were quartered in marquees and tents near the sea shore, [disturbed] by the noise of the natives’ corroberies and their unearthly yelling. How weird their figures lookes, as shown by the light of the fires, previous to the deadly battle that took place next day; many of them were speared, several mortally wounded; - there were no troopers then to interfere. Those dying were taken to the sea beach, where the lubras nursed them, attempting to revive them by filling their mouths with sea water and squirting it over their spear wounds. … The framed houses of wood brought by the early colonists from England, already fitted together and ready to put up, were thrown over the ship’s side, as the sheep had been, and tided to what is now called Pattawolonga Creek. …

How well do I remember my first walk to Adelaide from Glenelg. There was then no house at the Bay, and but one house between Glenelg and the infant settlement of Adelaide, occupied by Dr Everard; not a speck of green sward to be seen, … tufts of kangaroo grass, bearing a nutritious seed, sparsely covered the arid ground, from whence innumerable quail arose a foot or two apart. My companion, Major O’Halloran, an accurate shot, soon bagged a dozen brace or so, which afterwards were converted into most palatable pies. Parrots of diversified and gorgeous hues, wattle-birds, magpies, and bronzed-wing pigeon flitted from tree to tree, while now and then two or three kangaroos would come bounding by, stare a moment in astonishment, and then off and away again. But oh! the intolerable myriads of flies - black, green and blue - biting, buzzing, worrying, and stinging … while the mosquitoes seemed to possess stings as large as stocking-needles, and spotted and marked a new chum instantaneously …

Thus generations pass away;  ‘Tis renovation, then decay;  ‘Tis childhood, then old age.

Like figures in a magic glass,  In quick succession on we pass,  Act our brief part, and then, alas!

We’re swept from off the stage. J Bond Phipson.

Frearson’s Weekly 8/11/1879 p322  -  Captain Sweet, who enjoys a high reputation for outdoor photography, has recently erected suitable premises in Flinders-street, near Victoria Square. Every department of a photographic business will now be conducted by Captain Sweet, and we are sure his splendid views of interiors, which were recently exhibited, and are now at the Sydney Exhibition with his other fine specimens, and reputation, will secure a large patronage amongst lovers of fine arts and the general public.

Frearson’s Weekly 29/11/1879 p360  -  Flinders St and Mary of Morphett Vale.  Sailors’ superstitions.

Frearson's Weekly 30/4/1881 p184  -  Frederick Wilkie, a tailor, tried to kill himself by cutting his throat, at his house in Flinders St, on 27 April. He was married.

Frearson's Weekly 12/4/1884 p115  -  The inhabitants of that portion of Flinders-street which lies between the London Inn and Divett-place made a most pathetic complaint … some few months ago, to the Mayor, Aldermen, and Councillors of the City, respecting a tree of the ficus species, which abuts obtrusively into the road, stretching its luxuriant branches far beyond the limits of the pavement, while at the same time the downward growth of its foliage frequently occasions inconvenience to persons of over the average height, especially those who wear tall hats, by suddenly, and without warning, depriving them of their headgear, which sort of accidents, especially during windy weather, afford a fruitful source of merriment to sundry little boys … who have not as yet been brought under the subjecting influences of the Minister of Education.

But … the general complaint … was in respect of the tree in question obscuring altogether the view of the town clock. … Everybody likes to compare their household time with that of Todd’s big chimer. Well, unfortunately, that monster beauty of a ficus was supposed to belong to Brother Silas, because it was growing just between his palatial residence and the great Baptist Chapel, of which he is known to be the especially bright and shining light …

It now transpires … that Mr Thomas Worsnop never placed the petition before the Mayor and his Council at all, but just sat down and answered the complaint himself, and that in the negative. He said the Council had duly considered the matter, and that they had arrived at the conclusion that to lop off any of the offending branches would mean the spoiling of the tree, which was a real beauty. …

What do you think the petitioners are talking of doing now? They are actually getting a fresh memorial drawn up … asking … that the Post-office steeple and its clock be moved a little further away to the northward, which will just answer their purpose as well.

Franklin Street

Frearson’s Weekly 8/1/1881 p692  -  A fire broke out on the premises of Mr Stephens baker of Franklin St, on the night of Wednesday 6/1/1881, and destroyed several tenements. The loss of parties interested is computed at £500.

Frearson's Weekly 8/10/1881 p553  -  Roborine is the name of a new non-alcoholic tonic just introduced by Messrs Crowder & Co, the well-known aerated water and cordial makers of Adelaide. It is an agreeable non-intoxicating stimulant, and as such is needed during our hot summers, it will be certain to command an extensive sale. It may be here remarked that Messrs Crowder & Co secured first order of merit for their aerated waters at the late Adelaide Exhibition; and were specially commended by the judges for their Hop Tonic Bitters.

Mt Barker Courier 2/7/1886  -  Cr John Rounsevell says the members of the Adelaide Corporation are ‘knowingly countenancing Eliza-street as a public brothel’. To be fined £10 and ostracised.

Gouger Street

Frearson’s Weekly 7/9/1878 p214  -  Inspector Shakespeare has been doing good service for the citizens since his installation in bringing to justice those harbourers of vice and sin which within the past few years have so materially added to the immorality of our fair city. … Now, Mr Inspector, for fear you should have nothing much to do for the coming week, just allow me to direct your attention to a plague spot situated in a little out-of-the-way street to the rear of the Central Market and several respectable houses in Moont-street. There will be but little if any trouble in finding it out, as females in a half-clad condition, and the constant appearing of cabs, etc, are things occurring both day and night; and at times their drunken voices may be heard in the main street. These events are common - more especially on holidays and in the summer months. Respectable females and children are afraid to leave their homes by the back entrance for fear of coming into contact with these characters of vice and misery or hearing language unfit for human ears. The landlord and tenants in this particular instance are very fit subjects for the Inspector’s notice.

Frearson's Weekly 17/2/1883 p 25  -  On 15th February, Amelia Williams, a noted brothel-keeper, of Gouger-street, was fined £10 and costs; a request from Mr CC Kingston, her counsel, for suspension of payment to allow of an appeal being sternly refused.

Grenfell Street

1845* - SA Gazette 20/12/1845 p98  -  Dr Kent’s enlarged medical practice having rendered alsmot imperative the relinquishment of extra-professional pursuits, he has leased his removal and unmodelled flour mill established in Grenfell-street, now rapidly approaching a state of completion, to Mr Paxton. Mr R Cooke will personally undertake the management of this important concern; and we believe it will be generally admitted that extensive mechanical capabilities and valuable business connections could not be placed under more able direction.

1846* - SA Gazette 28/2/1846 p30  -  Messrs Cooke and Paxton’s flour mill - The main shaft of the engine of this splendid steam-mill, which unfortunately broke a few days ago, (thanks to the liberality of the present local management of the SA Company), has been at once supplied by a spare shaft which the Company had provided for their own mill at Park Farm. The flour mills of the colony are in full work; and they have all too much to do to fear each other’s rivalry.

SA Gazette 30/10/1847. p180  -  For sale The pile of buildings, known as Bryant & Co, in Grenfell St; land 120 feet by 210 feet, surrounded by a substantial wall, within which are the sheds, residences, offices and stores, erected at a cost over £10,000, and comprehending all the facilities of a first-rate mercantile establishment. It is let at the very low lump sum of £600 for the remaining term, which is about 2 years. JB Neales.

Lot 13 - 210 feet to Freeman-street, by depth of 85 feet, abutting on the Military Barracks. This lot will be re-divided, and sold at per foot for the unoccupied portion; and the residence of the Regimental Surgeon, late the Flinders Hotel, put up separately. To explain further particulars, a plan of this very valuable property will be produced. JB Neales.

SA Gazette 20/11/1847 p193.  -  On Wednesday evening, the Congregationalists of Freeman-street Chapel held a public meeting in celebration of the tenth anniversary of the commencement of Mr Stow’s official labours in the colony, and the seventh of the establishment of public worship in the present building. … The attendance was very numerous. … The report exhibited a debt of £1,400 as having been due from the chapel only twelve months since, and which, in that short interval, had tapered into a trifle of £170. The lapse of a few hours sufficed to furnish means for cancelling the remnant. Thus a congregation not over large, and not over wealthy, has, within a very few years, divested itself of a clog amounting to £3,000, and, within the space of one year, of nearly half that amount, besides defraying its ordinary expenses, and contributing to the formation of other congregations and the building of other places of worship.

The SA Chronicle 30/4/1853 p459  -  A destructive fire occurred in Grenfell-street, Adelaide, on 30th November [1852], by which a number of houses in that street were destroyed, described as ‘the whole of the mass of buildings standing in one block extending from Freeman-street to the Commercial Inn, and including the corn stores of Messrs Monteith and Barry, and of Mr Simsey, and the warehouses in the occupation of Messrs Disher and Milne, Messrs Formby and Mr Robin’. The buildings on the opposite side of the street part of the extensive premises in the occupation of Messrs AL Elder & Co, ignited more than once, but with great exertions they were saved. The loss was roughly estimated at £10,000.

Frearson’s Weekly 31/8/1879 p206  -  Early in 1877, a young man named Myles Cavanagh left his home at Woodside with the intention of visiting Adelaide. He was last seen in Grenfell-street, at about 11 o’clock on the evening of 2 January 1877, since which time no trace of him can be discovered. We believe that no active measures for the discovery of his whereabouts were taken until early in this year … The police … instituted enquiries and after the most diligent search came to the conclusion that he had most probably met with an untimely end. … The police have done all they can in the matter, and no doubt will keep on the alert. We believe nothing can be elicited to justify the supposition that the missing man left the colony on his own account. He was in comfortable circumstances, and had a sum of money (about £300) upon his person when last heard of; and we also undersand that abou £500 has since been placed to his credit in Adelaide. His own people cannot advance any reason for his disappearance, nor can the police. It cannot be possible that in a city so comparatively small as Adelaide that the mystery should remain unravelled. Every means must be used, and neither time nor money spared to ascertain the fate of the missing man.

Frearson’s Weekly 15/11/1879 p337  -  Virginia Tobacco Factory, Grenfell St, history.

Frearson’s Weekly 5/2/1881 p756  -  Mr RWE Henning MP has just joined the well-known firm of Messrs Aldridge & Bruce, auctioneers and valuators, and the business will in future be carried on under the title and style of Henning, Bruce & Aldridge. The new firm have taken the premises in Grenfell St recently vacated by the SA Carrying Company, and are making such alterations as the nature of their large sales by auction render imperitive. Mr Henning has, we learn, been long connected with the pastoral and squatting interests of the colony, hence his experience being thoroughly practical will prove invaluable to those who become clients of the firm.

Frearson's Weekly 7/4/1881 p137  -  The fast youth who serves in a fruiterer’s shop at the East End Market is strongly advised to show a little civility to ladies who purchase fruit at his master’s establishment. Some ladies may not be as unprotected as he at times supposes, and his cheek and impudence may lead to a good booting from their husbands.

Frearson's Weekly 16/4/1881 p152  -  Messrs Hanton & Dalton are about to erect an extensive showroom and storehouse at the Eastern Market. Messrs Huckson & Co are the contractors, Mr T Evans Junr, the architect, and the building is to cost £2,700.

Frearson's Weekly 23/4/1881 p168  -  The Mutual Assurance Society of Victoria have just purchased property in Grenfell Street for £10,200.

Frearson's Weekly 30/4/1881 p184  -  A correspondent informs us that larrikinism is on the increase in the vicinity of the City Market and surrounding thoroughfares. Last Saturday evening, between the hours of 8 and 9, a band of about 40 larrikins, varying in age from seven to ten years, held carnival in the locality mentioned, and as the majority were in a state of intoxication and fighting, the shouting and imprecations used were highly offensive to ears polite. Respectable females passing along the streets were insulted, and for fully an hour a scene of indescribable confusion ensued. Later on, the stillness of midnight was broken by the uproarous mirth of bacchanalians of an old growth, and slumber of quiet households disturbed. In neither case did the police interfere, and larrikins and inebriates, emboldened by a clear course and the absence of the provincial bobby, are likely to continue amusements as congenial to their tastes.

Frearson's Weekly 7/5/1881 p201  -  The intelligence that Messrs W McCulloch & Co, the well-known general carriers, insurance and shipping agents etc, have established a branch of their business in Adelaide will be heard with universal satisfaction, inasmuch as thereby a long-felt want will be supplied. The appearance in our streets of their handsome parcel vans is a novelty, and we must say we have never seen more elegant or commodious vehicles engaged in similar work. The head office of the new Parcels Express is in Grenfell-street, near Freeman-street, but instructions left in the various order boxes in the city and suburbs will be equally well attended to. Mressrs McCulloch & Co have not inaptly styled the Pickford & Co of Australia, and by their means parcels can be forwarded with great expedition, not only to all parts of the colonies, but to Europe and America. Mr JF Ferguson is the managing representative of the firm in South Australia.

Frearson's Weekly 11/6/1881 p280  -  In consequence of the coolness of the weather, ice cream is less in demand than hot coffee in Grenfell-street.

Frearson's Weekly 14/1/1882 p 775  -  For wines and spirits you should go, And buy of Rounsevell & Co; All kinds have they, light, dark, or sweet, Bouquet and flavour quite complete; Address your orders, Grenfell-street.

Frearson's Weekly 7/10/1882 p 552  -  Friends and patrons are respectfully informed that we have removed to new premises in Grenfell-street, nearly opposite the Sturt Hotel. The increased facilities afforded in our new premises will enable us to give increased satisfaction to our customers, wheo we take this opportunity of thanking for their liberal support.

Frearson's Weekly 5/1/1884 p 677  -  The people of Adelaide may well be proud of the fact that theirs is one of the most beautifully laid out cities in the colonies. Its advantages may be fully appreciated now that the streets are becoming more crowded, and the number of fine buildings is so rapidly increasing. Here and there, small places are being pulled down, and substantial offices and warehouses erected. King William-street, two chains wide, is beginning to look imposing, and Grenfell and Currie Streets, which are a chain and a half wide, are fast being improved by buildings which soon attract the attention of visitors on account of the good width of the streets.

The handsome building erected for JC Genders & Co … is situated at the corner of Grenfell-street and Hindmarsh-square West, and immediately opposite the publishing office of this newspaper. It covers the whole of the allotment obtained by the firm on a long lease … It is one of the best positions for a wholesale business now available in the city, and is a most convenient site for a warehouse, as it has Pulteney-street and Hindmarsh-square on the east, Twin-street on the west, and a right-of-way at the rear or north side. The building consists of a basement and four storeys. At present, there are six shops and two offices on the ground floor for letting, but when the original plans are carried out, there will be four more offices. …

The style of the building is Italianate. The walls are of Glen Osmond stone, with cement dressings and ornaments. The whole is put up in a substantial manner, the foundation walls being about six feet thick. Messrs Codd & Rogers are the contractors, and Messrs Cumming & Davies, of Currie-street, the architects.

Amongst the latest and most notable additions to our city architecture, is one stately pile situated at the corner of Grenfell and Freeman-streets, which, as viewed from Rundle-street, looking up Gawler-place, is both conspicuous and attractive. This is the very substantial and elegant building erected for Messrs Haslam Brothers and Wilson, wholesale drapers and Manchester warehousemen. There is, we may mention, a right of way at the back of the premises, communicating with Freeman-street. The building is of four storeys and a basement, the whole being roomy and commodious, amply sufficing for at least the present necessities of the firm. the partnership is composed of Messrs James Wilson, WIlliam Haslam and John C Haslam - all of whom are well and favourably known by the community. The building is in every way a credit to Messrs Evans & Evans, the architects who planned it. The contractors for its erection were Messrs Wye and Warburton, and the entire cost of the building was in the aggregate £3,000.

Observer 4/9/1915 p47d Old Grenfell St

Grote Street

Frearson's Weekly 19/11/1881 p 650  -  There’s a snug little spot well known in Grote-street, Where oft in the day some old cronies meet, To partake of good liquor; the best here they sell, There’s fine quarters for all at Crocker’s Hotel.

Halifax Street

SA Gazette 20/11/1847 p193.  -  We understand that the repairs of this Church are in progress, and that an important improvement has been determined upon, namely, the removal from the eastern window of the frightful red-faced ogre who has so long squinted upon the congregation, and which some persons were bold enough to designate St John. A report is in circulation that the place of the deposed saint is to be filled by an enormous crucifix, accompanied by an IHS painted on its arms. We hope that this is not correct, as such a thing is at the best but of doubtful orthodoxy, and it is certainly not very wise to introduce symbols which many conscientious Protestants think smack a little more of Puseyism than is necessary.

Hindley Street

Charles Hindley  -  MP for Ashton-under-Lyne in Lancs. A thriving cotton town on the Tame River, on the border of Lancs and Cheshire. In the 10 years before SA was founded, the town’s cotton mills increased from 30 to 70 - gingham, muslin, calico. Some 20 coal mines on the outskirts, which employed 1,000 men. Market Town. Sent a MP to Westminster after the 1832 Reform Act. A large bog for cutting turf.

SA Gazette 6/11/1847 p145  -  Report on how Charles Hindley, in the House of Commons, asked the Under-Secretary for the Colonies, Mr Hawes, if the Colonial Parliament intended to sanction SAs grant of state aid to religion. ‘All HM Government knew of the matter was that an act of the Legislative Assembly had been passed such as the Hon Gentleman had mentioned, and that the money spent came out of the funds of the colony. In the meantime, the Government were not called upon to take any steps in the matter

Charles Hindley’s 4th son, Godfrey, of Inver Villa, Hammersmith m 25/4/1850 St Peter’s Hammersmith, Middlesex, to Martha Louisa, only daughter of Stephen Salter, of Elvar Cottage, Hammersmith.

4/12/1852 Bought Section 672 Hundred of Noarlunga, as a member of the Dukinfield Lodge, Ashton under Lyne, Lancs, £80. He must have moved to Portland House, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancs, before shifting to London, to Dartmouth House, Dartmouth St, Westminster, where he died 1/12/1857. In his will, he left Section 672 to his daughter Hannah, wife of Henry Woods, for life, and then to her children in equal shares. Mrs Woods died before her father, Charles Hindley. Her only other child, Caroline, died as an infant. William Woods Junr inherited the land. He was an executor of his grandfather’s will. The other executors, including a Charles Frederic Hindley, declined to act as executors. The firm of H & F Rymill solicitors dealt with the Section for many years for William Woods. When William Woods married, he settled the land on his wife for life, then to his children in equal shares.

12/6/1932 William Woods died. He provided that his executors should receive £200 each if they carried out their duties for over a year. If they refused to act and were beneficiaries, they would lose their inheritance as well. His son, Henry Charles Wood, and perhaps his sons-in-law, Henry Allan Appleton and Eustace Alpin Marshall, were trustees, along with the widow.

27/10/1936 Emma Agnes Woods widow of William Wood landowner and JP Warnford Park, Warnford, near Droxford, Hants, died, of arteriosclerosis, aged 81.

18/3/1937 RPA The Executors. Value £240. Title to them.

The Times 2/12/1857  -  We regret to announce the death of Mr C Hindley, MP for Ashton-under-Lyne. Mr Hindley was elected for Ashton in 1835, and contested the borough unsuccessfully in 1832. He died at home, Dartmouth House, St James Park, London. He has represented the constituency continuously for 22 years. Aged 61.

5/12/ 10b, 7/12 5f, 8/12 7e, 9/12 12e, 10/12 10c, 14/12 4f

1,081 electors. 12/12/1857 Ashton elections The Right Hon Thomas Milner Gibson elected. Lead never faltered, ‘although Mr Mason’s friends struggled hard to the last, and succeeded in securing nearly every vote from the publicans and beersellers on the register’. At the close of the poll, Mr Gibson’s friends had a surplus of 80 pledged voters unpolled, who would have come forward had there been pressing occasion for their votes, but whose private interests rendered it otherwise undesirable they should poll. 522 to 390, with a majority of 132. Mr Booth Mason (of Leamington), brother to the Mayor of Ashton, was the Conservative candidate. Mr Gibson the Liberal candidate’s supporters met at the Commercial Hotel, ‘at the invitation of a powerful and influential party’. Mr Gibson only recently taken an interest in the electorate.

6/1/1835 5f

Hindley Street Numbering.

Public Works Committee 25/2/1884 100/131  -  Your committee directed the Town Clerk to invite tenders for fixing the plates to be used in numbering the houses in the City.

Public Works Committee 21/4/1884 219/201  -  Mr Cumming wrote to your committee suggesting a plan for the numbering of the houses in the City, the receipt of which the Town Clerk was directed to acknowledge with thanks. Your Committee also received several letters protesting against the re-numbering of business premises.

Your Committee recommend that the numbering of houses be held in abeyance until next September, and notices to that effect be given to the public in the daily papers and Government Gazette.

Public Works Committee 3/11/1884 510/457  -  Your committee requested the Sub-Committee, consisting of Alderman Hagedorn and Kither, and Councillors Green, Marshall and Mildred, appointed to report as to the numbering of houses in the City, to take the matter into their earliest consideration.

City Council proceedings 2/2/1885 Orders p 81  -  Pursuant to Section 108 of The Municipal Corporations Act 1880, the Council of the Corporation of the City of Adelaide hereby assign, for the time being, to the houses situated in the streets named in the schedule hereunder written, the numbers placed opposite the reference to such houses resectively, and as more particularly set forth in the Register of Street Numbers deposited in the Office of the City Surveyor, Town Hall, Adelaide; and the Council hereby further order that the occupiers of the respective houses referred to shall, within 14 days after notice, affix the numbers so respectively assigned to such houses as referred to:

Hill-street (both sides), Strangways-terrace to Barton-terrace

Barton-terrace (south and west sides), Lefevre-terrace to Mills-terrace.

Public Works Committee 20/4/1885 153/163  -  Your Committee directed proceedings to be taken against Mr C Murphy of Barton-terrace, for failing to comply with a notice served to affix an assigned number to his premises.

Public Works Committee 1/6/1885 192/204  -  Your Committee directed the City Surveyor in numbering North Tce to commence from King William St, using the letters E & W and number towards East and West Tces respectively.

City Council meeting 22/3/1886 Orders of the Day p 105.  -  Hindley St (both sides) between King William St and Morphett St.

City Council meeting 17/10/1887 p 298.  -  Motion That tenders be invited for the supply of 5,000 plates for the completion of the numbering of premises in the city. Passed.

Another renumbering in 1920. Hindley St No 72.

Hindley St History in Chronological Order - from various sources.

1841*

Adelaide Independent 2/9/1841 p20  -  The Surveyor-General has consented to act as Colonial Engineer … the survey being so much reduced that he can spare time to act … and … the small item of £572 is created to gratify the public with the dignified title of Royal Engineer over the mud in Hindley-street and the ditch round the Park Land. A Country Settler. p20.

Adelaide Independent 9/9/1841 p20  -  Gigantic Vegetables - We have just seen a turnip grown in Carrington-street, in this city, which entirely divested of the stalk, weighs 43lbs, and measures in circumference six feet. In the garden from which it was taken, remains some yet larger. This enormous bulb is exhibited in the window of Mr Stacey, of Hindley-street. p22.

Adelaide Examiner 2/12/1841  -  Timothy Short - on the hillocks of Hindley St, which it is hoped will soon be made level to the meanest understanding.

In hill and valley Hindley St doth revel,  E’er since the Town Surveyor took the level.  The level has been taken, it is true,  But where the dickens is it taken to?

Chamberlain’s Corner mentioned. It appears to be one of the Morphett St corners. Government work gang at work trying to level Hindley St.

Charles Platts Library advertisement.

Adelaide Examiner 16/12/1841  -  29/12/1841 Auction Room (opp Leigh St), Hindley St. N Hailes’ creditors to meet. Auctioneer Simon Fairlie had taken over these premises by Jan 1842.

3/11/1841 William Dawson and John Shadgett saddlers Hindley St broke up their partnership.

Adelaide Examiner 23/12/1841  -  24/12/1841 and 27/12/1841 sale at Variety House, Hindley St. Proprietor G Dawson leaving for New Zealand.

13/12/1841 Phoebe Malin, wife of Mr Malin baker Hindley St died.

W Paxton chemist Apothecaries Hall, Hindley St.

Total Abstinence Society held its second annual tea meeting in N Hailes’ Auction Room, Hindley St 1/1/1842.

Adelaide Examiner 30/12/1841  -  City Engraving and Printing Offices, opp Royal Oak Hotel, Hindley St.

Adelaide Examiner Office one door from the corner of Hindley and Morphett Sts.

Robert Craigie had a drapery shop in Hindley St.

1842*

Adelaide Examiner 10/2/1842  -  The proprietor of London House, Hindley St, was about to leave for England. Selling his drapery stock.

J Finie’s Oyster Rooms, Hindley St, advert. Oyster shells sold to lime burners.

Adelaide Examiner 17/2/1842

Adelaide Examiner 3/3/1842  -  I Nonmus announced that he had bought Haile’s Auction rooms in Hindley St (opp Leigh St) and was about to move there. He was holding sales there from c 3/3/42.

Bootmaker William Crabb about to open for business, in the shop lately run by H Blyth, opposite Hunter & Hamilton’s. Crabb was manager at TC Bray’s store.

Daniel Nicholson’s wine store in Hindley St.

Resident Magistrate’s Court 1/3/1842  -  Michael Thornton, one of ‘the finest pisantry in the world’, was charged with drunkenness and indecent conduct in Hindley St, and also with assaulting the police constable who took him into custody. The latter charges were dropped, and prisoner acknowledged having partaken so freely of the crathur that, although he sailed along very comfortably for a time, he could not avoid coming to an anchor on the spot where the policeman found him. It appeared, he was a labourer on the Government Works, and when found, he had £29/10/- in his possession! The present being his first offence, he was fined in the lowest penalty - 5s; and by way of expressing his gratitude, saluted the Magistrate with a hearty ‘Long life to your Worship’. His better half was in attendance as Michael’s advocate, and evinced great interest in the proceedings.

Thomas Smith spirit dealer; Hindley St. 1842.

Adelaide Examiner 24/3/1842  -  Supreme Court 21/3/1842 Alexander Johnson charged with passing forged Bank of SA pound notes. Bought a drink from Lachlan Robertson, landlord of the Volunteer Hotel. Got 19/6 change from a £ note for 2 glasses of rum. Offered people in Auld’s brewery 22/- for a sovereign, as he was going to New Zealand. Second G left out in the spelling of GF Angas. Evidence of James Furnace the Pieman. Thomas Smith the Spirit Dealer. Edward Johnson, a shop boy at Murray & Greig’s. Daniel Nicholson & Co, Rosina St. Some publicans marked the notes.

Forgery note advertisment 17/3/1842.

Adelaide Examiner 31/3/1842  -   G Griffin watch maker, to London House, next to Platts’ library. He advertised for a pony and cart with harness as he began the business. Griffin sold glass eyes for placing on stuffed animals. (7/9/1842).

Advert for the Tasmanian Hotel. Many adverts for plays. The landlord, Mr Arabin, was keen on theatricals.

Adelaide Examiner 5/5/1842  -  JW Henry opened a coffee house in connection with the Victoria Hotel, opposite the Club House.

H Willoughby, corn factor and greengrocer, Hindley St. He featured seed grown by Chandler, who won the Horticultural Prize several years in a row at the Show.

WH Phillips offering sea water damaged goods from the ships Blanche and Fortitude for sale at his Hindley St store.

Resident Magistrate’s Court 3/5/1842  -  Tom and Jerry and Bob Logic or Life in Adelaide

_ Ormsby Esquire, _ Jones Esquire, and _ Hill Esquire were charged with being drunk, disorderly and riotous in the streets of Adelaide, on Monday night, or early on Tuesday morning [2-3/5/1842]; with breaking windows, and an assault. Mr Bouch of Hindley St stated that about 2 o’clock in the morning, he was alarmed by the breaking of some panes of glass in his windows. He immediately got up and opened his door, when he saw Mr Jones, Mr Hill and Mr Ormsby proceeding in the direction of the Tasmanian Hotel; he followed them thither, when a great deal of disturbance commenced.  Were the defendents drunk? Mr Bouch - they were perfectly drunk. … It required two policemen to take Mr Ormsby, he was so violent; and he struck me on the shoulder with his hand. …  Mr Lazarus then preferred … that about 2 o’clock in the morning, he was awakened by a violent knocking at his shutters and the breaking of glass in his shop window … Mr Hill was rolling against the shutters in a beastly state of intoxication. Mr Jones and Mr Ormsby were near him, swearing and fighting. … ‘I shall now bring forward my evidence to corroborate my statements: - five and twenty witnesses and five shutters, the latter covered with blood.’  How do you know it was their blood? Mr Lazarus - I know it was gentlemen’s blood by the colour of it. …   His Worship asked if the defendents wished to bring forward any witnesses on their side; - but none being called, they were fined 5s each for being drunk; - 10s for the assault on Mr Bouch; - and to pay £5 for the damages to Mr Lazarus.

Adelaide Examiner 5/5/1842  -  Adelaide Examiner to become a job search centre.

Blyth Brothers advertisement.

Letter about James Hawker and a Mr Newenham-appointment as surveyors.

Adelaide Examiner 23/6/1842  -  Royal Admiral advertisement.

Adelaide Examiner 7/7/1842  -  John Carruthers; Royal Oak, Hindley St.

Adelaide Examiner 21/7/1842  -  RM Lowe’s advertisement.

JG Malin gave up his bakery next to the Royal Admiral to open his Wright St flour mill.  Edward Matthews took over his master’s bakery.

Adelaide Examiner 21/7/1842  -  Daniel Nicholson wine shop Hindley St.

James Hill intended to open a butcher shop on the corner of Hindley and Morphett St, in premises formerly used by Mr Hawker. Hill kept his Kermode St shop.

Adelaide Examiner 18/8/1842  -  Hindley St merchant HW Phillips erecting the West Tce flour mill. SC Kingston designed the mill.

JB Neales appointed Government Auctioneer and resumed his former name JB Neales, after being Neales Bentham for some time. One of his 1st auctions was of bankrupt James Ilbery’s stock, including a bay horse once the property of a runaway convict. The herd was running at the Government Farm.

Adelaide Examiner 25/8/1842  -  CS Penny advertisement for Hindley St store.

Adelaide Examiner 1/9/1842  -  George White gave up business as a Hindley St tailor to W Pearce of Rundle St. White to stay on as foreman and cutter. White had trouble with his creditors. WG Lambert appointed trade assignee.

Michael Featherstone had an advert that he was about to give up as a Hindley St trader.

CS Penny a Hindley St trader. ‘Such is the prosperity and commercial importance of Pt Adelaide under Governor Grey’s administration, that two Customs House officers had nothing to do but to saw wood all last week, whilst the Collector (RR Torrens) and Harry Watson stood by and looked on’.

Adelaide Examiner 7/9/1842  -  W Smith saddler Hindley St had sold his business to John Colton, his foreman for nearly 3 year.

Joseph Ind began advertising fresh vegetables which he had grown opposite the Club Hotel, Hotel, Hindley St.

Adelaide Examiner 14/9/1842  -  Patrick Auld advertising the Volunteer Hotel.

Adelaide Examiner 21/9/1842  -  Mr Anslow ornithologist Hindley St agent for the Adelaide Examiner.

George White’s former employees, J Hill, Hornsby, Pope & Co set up as tailors next to Mr Phillips merchant.

Adelaide Examiner 21/9/1842  -  PB Coglin willing to barter cattle for timber. Nearly opp the Royal Admiral Hotel.

PLatt’s Library also sold cheroots, as well as books.

Adelaide Examiner 24/9/1842  -  22/9/1842 George Stevenson and Isaac Nonmus had to resign from the Adelaide City Council because they were insolvent.

Working man ‘My old masters Borrow & Goodiar, - that was a place to work when furst I comed to the colony, work fair hours, kind joking men, no complaint if you didn’t desarve it, and Saturday night’s always your money, put your papers in and there was your money always ready - poor men, they have their troubles now, and this Governor of ours is serving them shameful …’

Adelaide Examiner 28/9/1842

1843*

Adelaide Examiner 28/1/1843  -  We observe that our fellow citizens, Messrs Stacy, Shepperd and Macgeorge have determined not to wait for the Corporation to mend the path before their warehouses, but have paved it with brick or flags at their own expense. The cost of this will not be very great and if every tradesman along Hindley St were to do the same thing, it would be a practical illustration that the voluntary principle is more powerful and useful than the compulsory one of rates.

Adelaide Examiner 11/2/1843  -  Robert Craigie’s advert for wine sold in Hindley St.

Adelaide Examiner office Hindley St. George Dehane proprietor. The paper seems to be in Morphett St, but address often given as Hindley St.

Local Court 10/2/1843  -  Mrs Elizabeth Forbes, having taken sundry glasses of alcohol, and expended in giving way to a vicious propensity, that money which ought to have been spent in bread for her starving and neglected young family - was brought up on a charge of intoxication, and of smashing tumblers at the Victoria Hotel, Hindley St - Fined 5s and to pay for the tumblers.

Adelaide Examiner 15/2/1843  -  Hindley St Brewery, next to the Royal Admiral Hotel. Brewer Andrew Birrell.

Adelaide Examiner 18/2/1843  -  JB Neales’ Corn Market. Meeting at the Auction Mart Tavern, Hindley St.

Adelaide Examiner 25/3/1843  -  Mr Kingdom, late clerk civil side, Resident Magistrate’s Court, EC Gwynne Esquire, solicitor and Mr Edwards Law Stationer have been summoned to appear at the ensuing Quarter Sessions, to answer a charge of assaulting, battering and putting in bodily fear two bum-bailiffs employed by Mr Jos Bouch Hindley St.

It appears that Mr Bouch holds a mortgage to a small amount on Mr Kingdom’s house, which does not come due for eight or nine months. Mr B hearing that Mr Kingdom intended to go to Singapore, by some unaccountable delusion imagined himself justified in taking possession of his house and all it contained viet armis; he procured two stout fellows and in Mr Kingdom’s absence put them into possession of his premises to hold for him. When Mr Kingdom returned, he found them taking their meal in one of his rooms and on enquiring what business they had there, he was informed of what Mr Bouch had done. Mr Kingdom immediately took a brace of loaded pistols from his case and threatened to shoot the fellows unless they immediately departed, which they did at once. Mr Gwynne and Mr Edwards happened to call just at the time and though they did not interfere in the matter, their names have been included as accessories. These are the particulars of the case on which the charge is founded.

Adelaide Examiner 8/4/1843  -  Civis of Islington 6/4/1843.

As the time of the year is now fast coming on when the Torrens will be impassable below the Frome Bridge, it is necessary that some provision should be made by which carts and foot passengers should be enabled to get into town from Hindmarsh and the Port without going all round in that direction. It must be also evident to persons residing at the eastern end of Hindley St, that property and business in that part of the city has been much injured from all the traffic and communication being thus diverted to the other end of the town, and indeed it seems as if there were a combination a conspiracy to that effect amongst certain parties, that the old bridge should not be repaired and that the thoroughfare through the western end of the town, by Morphett and Hindley Sts to Hindmarsh, North Adelaide and the Port should be kept shut while all the business is removing to Rundle St. and around the South Australian Company’s Buildings. It has appeared to me that this pretty little piece of quiet contrivance has been going on entirely unperceived by the tradesmen at the west end of the city, their favourite paper, The Register (the property of the Company’s agents) being naturally silent on the matter …

I think the best plan would be for any one of the storekeepers at the west end, who had a room large enough for the purpose, to give notice that a meeting will be held on a certain day, to take the matter into consideration and ascertain how large a sum could be raised by voluntary subscription … towards the expense of … either for getting the old bridge repaired or the erection of one nearer Hindmarsh.

Adelaide Examiner 15/4/1843  -  Directly the signal is given, … it is arranged that all up Hindley St, the shops shall be closed in an instant and the shop keepers and their assistants shall issue forth armed suo modo and form into a body in Light Square. The history of David and Goliath, of the seige of Jerusalem by Titus … having proved that no better fighting men exist than the Hebrew nation and this member of it … shall be called to take command and that the headquarters shall be established at the Theatre … A reinforcement of troops is expected to arrive from Willunga under the Curë Hewitt …

The sides of the Theatre will be converted into hospital wards for the reception of the wounded …

This threatened outbreak of popular rebellion, against the Government of Captain Grey, fills every Government man, the soldiers of the 96th, and the mounted police with fear and astonishment. The principal object of the insurgents seems to be to secure the Governor, Private Secretary Captain Butler, and Colonial Secretary and Chaplain, and Advocate-General, and after skinning them alive in Light Square, to stick their heads upon poles around the Monument. If they should be able to overcome the 96th and the mounted police, and make prisoners of them, it is determined to force them, with all the officials they can catch, and the proprietors and editors of the obnoxious newspapers into Trinity Church, which will be filled up and surrounded with faggots, and set fire to… St John’s Church shall be destroyed, and that OG and Mr Farrell shall be gibbeted over the ruins.

Captain Henry Nixon of North Tce died at the time of these rumours and he had a military funeral in the West Tce Cemetery.

Adelaide Examiner 29/4/1843  -  We are glad to find that our old and respected Colonist Mr Bulpitt has removed from Rosina St (the rag fair of Adelaide) to one of the most conspicuous situations in Hindley St (next door to the Volunteer), where his extensive, varied and choice selections of goods will be exhibited to a much greater advantage than they have hitherto been. … Under the dreadful convulsions that have tested the commercial nerves of our strongest traders, our friend Mr Bulpitt has occasionally reeled, but we are glad to find him firmer on his legs than most of the tottering tradesmen in the town.

We are glad to find that this long desired object (the repairs of the old bridge) is at length to be commenced, a meeting having been held at the Tasmanian Hotel some few days ago, by some of our spirited Colonists, residing at the West end of the Town. £60 raised. Mr Jones builder Waymouth St to do the repairs.

We observe that several of the inhabitants in Hindley St have commenced paving the footpaths before their doors, the comfort of this will be fully appreciated during the ensuing winter. We hope that others will follow this praiseworthy example.

Adelaide Examiner 6/5/1843  -  Advertisements for the bankruptcies of Robert Thomas and Murray, Greig & Co, of Hindley St.

At the Old Bridge meeting in the Tasmanian Hotel, Messrs Chamberlain, Edwards, Bouch, Birdseye, Ford and Chritchell should solicit subs for repairs and within a few days they collected the sum of £105/5/-. Messrs Bouch, Edwards, Chamberlain organised to approach the Governor for permission to repair the bridge and to ask at the same time for the use of the Government Quarry, ‘It appears that the deputation was well received by HE who promised every assistance to forward their wishes. We understand the work will be commenced on Monday next.

Adelaide Examiner 6/5/1843  -  Henry Downer announced that he had removed from Rosina St to Hindley St next to Mr Phillips.

WWG Nicholls removed to Hindley St West next to Mr Blyth’s.

Adelaide Examiner 27/5/1843  -  W Pybus set up an iron foundry in addition to his brass foundry in Hindley St.

Ad for WWG Nicholls water carrier Hindley St - cartage fees.

Adelaide Examiner 3/6/1843  -  ‘Going, going, a slippery Knight of the hammer has been crying for some time past, but last Lord’s day … Mr Isaac Nonmus, Auctioneer, late Snob, Methodist, Oddfellow, Insolvent, uncertificated bankrupt and licensed rogue and swindler, of Hindley St, Adelaide, was not to be found in his pew at Gawler Place Chapel, nor yet worshipping in his own house, but performing Divine Service on board the bolters’ clipper, yclept the Dorset, devoutly praying for his numerous creditors on shore whom he had so piously diddled, and for all those who, peradventure, might persecute or slander him and speak all manner of evil of him falsely …

So adroitly did this converted Israelite manage to make his exit, that he was living with Mr Solomon, the owner of the Dorset, for a week previous to his decamping, and was even in treaty with that gentleman for the leasing of one of his houses at the moment he was clandestinely arranging with Captain Walsh at the Port to bolt. Nor was this all. In order to put the Sheriff and his runners off scent, he entered his name in the Vixen’s clearance papers for the Swan, and actually transferred himeself from the one vessel to the other. …

His Auction room, however, was soon besieged by a host of his confiding friends who had not only lent him money but trusted him with goods; but he was too cunning an Isaac to leave much behind him, having sold off nearly everything without reserve as he told the buyers … His Clerk, Mr Dickens, is on the spot in order to furnish his employer’s victims with account sales … but he has no orders to pay their balances. …

One man now walks the streets whom, prior to his insolvency, Nonmus fleeced of two hundred sheep; nor is he the only one he has reduced to beggary. So late as last week, he sold off a gentleman’s goods in North Adelaide, to enable him to visit a neighbouring Colony … Nonmus pocketed the proceeds with which he himself went, leaving nothing … but his auctioneer’s piecrust promise to settle with him last Monday morning. …

Well, the rogue has gone. … Loud and deep were the lamentations at his sudden and unexpected departure, Mr Newenham the Sheriff sorrowing most of all because he should see his face no more. … We ought not to omit to add that not the least cowardly act in this fugitive bankrupt’s disreputable career is, that he has left his wife and four children without their natural protector and without any visible means of support.

A rumour that JB Neales was to sell Nonmus’s auctioneer’s licence by auction and Benjamin Da Costa was about to sell Nonmus’s real estate lease by auction at Messrs Lambert & Son. Wife and 5 children lived in Currie St. A trustee of the Gawler Place Chapel, an Oddfellow (from whose fellow members he borrowed much money)

He wrote to the captain of the Vixen saying that he had to be put off the Vixen because he believed it was a dangerous vessel ‘It would be madness in me to proceed farther, while I have the means within my reach of escaping a watery grave, when the vessel is making 14’’ of water in one hour while lying at anchor.

1844*

1845*

SA Gazette 27/9/1845 p51  -  Gas lighting - It will be needless to dwell on the conveniences attending gas-lighting in our city. There is talent enough to conduct it; the expense is less than oil lamps; and I know that many of our fellow colonists are desirous of having it introduced. The expense of laying down pipes in Hindley-street, I am told from good authority, will not be nearly so much as has been anticipated; an expense, indeed, which would repay itself, in my humble estimation, in about three years. … The ability of the colonial gas manufacturers to produce a brillian light may be seen at Brooke’s in Hindley-street. The subject is one of fair speculation, great importance, and scientific advancement. A Subscriber.

SA Gazette 25/10/1845 p66  -  Mr Gray, the Manager here of the Bank [of Australasia], has retired from the establishment … Mr Macdermott is expected to succeed Mr Gray, whose place is, in the meantime, filled by Mr Falconer, the Deputy Inspector for the colonies. It is said that the Bank is in treaty for the splendid premises in Hindley-street, lately erected by Mr Robert Sanders. The situation is an admirable one; and Mr Sanders can quickly erect another fine store.

SA Gazette 25/10/1845 p66  -  An exceedingly clever and correct likeness of Governor Grey has recently been modelled in wax by Mrs Walker, whose skill in that department of the fine arts is so well known to most of our readers. We have just seen some beautiful casts of the model on sale at Mr Platts’s Library, at the very moderate price of 7s 6d each. Many persons will, no doubt, avail themselves of the opportunity now afforded of procuring the means of personal rembrance of their respected Governor.

SA Gazette 1/11/1845 p70  -  The large store adjoining the Club House Hotel in Hindley-street, is about to be converted into two spacious and elegant shops, workmen being now engaged in the requisite alterations.

SA Gazette 8/11/1845 p74  -  This morning, about 3 o’clock, a fire was discovered proceeding from the cellar of the Auction Mart Tavern, Hindley-street, kept by Mr Payne. On the alarm being given, a number of the neighbours immediately lent their assistance, and prevented the further progress of the destructive element. The police and military were also quickly in attendance, and shortly afterwards the fire engines from the Bank and Police-barracks arrived, when the fire was soon subdued. We are not able to state how it originated, or what is the extent of the damage, but we believe it is not very serious.

SA Gazette 6/12/1845 p91  -  William Bennett, of the Robert Burns, Hindley-street, pleaded guilty to the information of Inspector Litchfield, for retailing one-half gill of gin, not being duly licensed, and in mitigation stated, that he was not aware of the consequences, and ignorant of the Licensed Victuallers’ Act, having recently arrived from Van Diemen’s Land; that if he should be fortunate enough to obtain a transfer of the licence, his object would be to conduct the house properly. Fined £10, the lowest penalty. …

Inspector Litchfield observed that a regular system was going on, attended with serious consequences, by parties taking public houses, holding them for a short period, and then disposing of them for a valuable consideration, the police being prevented knowing their characters, as the system was almost exclusively confined to parties arriving from the other colonies.

1846*

SA Gazette 3/1/1846 p3  -  The Wesleyan Society in SA was formed in the year 1838; when a chapel was erected in Hindley-street (the foundation stone of which was laid by Mrs Edward Stephens) at a cost of £370; in which the members continued to meet, until the Rev’d W Longbottom, having been shipwrecked with his family, near Cape Bernoulli, on his way from Madrass to Swan River, arrived in Adelaide, and in compliance with the earnest intreaties of the people, remained as their pastor; upon which the chapel in Gawler-place was speedily built, at a cost of £2,500. Since that time, the Wesleyans have continued to extend their operations. They next erected a chapel in North Adelaide, at a cost of £200; then one at Franklin-street, at about the same cost; then one at Bowden …’ Mrs S Payne of Hindley-street gave the land at Payneham for the Primitive Methodists to erect a chapel in 1846.

SA Gazette 10/1/1846 p4B  -  Messrs C & FJ Beck, we observe, have now taken possession of their new stores at the corner of King William-street and Hindley-street, recently purchased by them rom Messrs S Stocks & Co.

SA Gazette 4/4/1846 p49  -  The SA Register and the Adelaide Observer about to shift from Old Waterloo House, to ‘a long lease of those well-situated and commodious premises, in Hindley-street, so long known as Messrs Murray, Greig & Co. The Bank of Australasia to take over the Register site. Apparently, A & A Jaffrey in New Waterloo House, opposite the Register.

Star Inn - corner of Rosina St. Edward Harris begs leave to inform his friends and the public, that he has removed from his old house, the Grey’s Inn Tavern, to the above premises, where he trusts he shall continue to deserve their custom, by supplying everything of the best quality. Good stabling and other accommodation. In another advertisement close by, the inn appears to have been called the Ship Inn.

The friends and customers of the Bank of Australasia will be pleased to learn that the business of that establishment is about to be conducted in those central and commodious premises known as Old Waterloo House, in Hindley-street, and which, together with the adjoining premises, occupied by Mr Brooke, will form a handsome, roomy, and well-situated Banking-house. Immediate possession having been conceded, the removal from North-terrace may be expected to take place in a few days.

SA Gazette 9/5/1846 p70  -  In celebration of the marriage of H Metcalfe Esquire, the great stockholder and salesman, the butchers of the province were regaled on Thursday evening, at Payne’s Auction Mart Tavern, Hindley-street.

SA Gazette 30/5/1846 p82  -  Supreme Court 26/5/1846 Stephens v Flett & Linklater This was an action for trespass. Mr Gwynne opened the case. The land was 82’ by 95’, on Town Acrre 78, situate on the corner of Hindley and King William-streets, and lay between Mr Woodforde’s house and Mr Beck’s store. A portion of the land in dispute was sold by the trustees of the sequestered estate of Messrs Murray, Greig & Co, on 18/3/1845 to Mr Michael Featherstone, who demised it to the plaintiff for a term of 21 years from 24/6/1845. The residue of the 82’, namely 30’, was purchased by the defendants. On plaintiff’s portion, a shop and other outbuildings of which he took possession in June last, and carried on his business as printer and publisher of the Observer newspaper. In September, he put up a fence dividing the portion which he held from the portion purchased by the defendants. After it was put up, he discovered that it was not placed on the proper line of boundary, and had it removed so as to leave defendants exactly 30’. This fence remained for several weeks, during which time it was respected by the defendants as the proper boundary; but afterwards, instead of cutting their coat according to their cloth, they cut their cloth according to their coat. They contracted for a building two feet larger than their own land would hold, and determining to build it at all risks, his (Mr Gwynne’s) client getting up one fine morning, sees men with pickaxes and spades clearing away his fence and building on his land. … The gable end of the defendents’ store was erected and still stood on the land which the plaintiff claimed as his own property.

George Strickland Kingston, architect and surveyor - Land was valuable in Hindley-street; it was letting at from £1 to 30s per foot, perhaps in some places for more. The situation in question was one of the very best in Hindley-street.

After a long, but to the public, totally uninteresting trial, the ground in dispute being only 2’, the jury found a verdict for the defendants.

SA Gazette 11/7/1846 p105  -  Burnett Nathan respectfully informs the inhabitants of Adelaide and the surrounding district, that he will open on Monday next, The Navarino House, Hindley-street (late in the occupation of Mr Joseph), in the Drapery, General Clothing and Outfitting Business

John Kain, a labourer, was charged with driving a wheelbarrow on the footpath in Hindley-street, and refusing to remove the same when requested by the police. Fined 5s.

SA Gazette 1/8/1846 p117  -  We are informed that the whole of the shares of the proposed Gas Company have been taken. Hindley-street, it is expected, will be fully illuminated within the next three months.s

SA Gazette 15/8/1846 p126  -  On Saturday evening, … in Hindley-street, … a member of the Bacchanalian order … was amusing the spectators by an exploit not often witnessed. After some preliminary evolutions, he plunged into the muddy element taking several dives to the bottom where he rose to the surface and commenced striking out literally swimming to a considerable distance, rolling over the shallow parts, and again striking out where the mud was of sufficient depth to float on when he again disappeared, and upon coming to view would have continued swimming to the end of the street, had not the police prevented a further exhibition by delicately conveying him to a scrape at the station-house, and to be further cleansed by his Worship on the Monday.

SA Gazette 26/9/1846 p151  -  The splendid mutton which has for some time, at Mr Martin’s shop in Hindley-street, been attracting the attention (and pleasing the palates) of the inhabitants of Adelaide, is from the estate of Joseph Gilbert Esquire, Barossa. We are informed by Mr Hamilton, the superintendent of Mr Gilbert’s establishment, that the wethers average nearly 95lbs. We saw several on Tuesday which were about 100lbs - two which considerably exceeded that weight, and gave each upwards of 20lb of tallow. So much for the natural pastures of South Australia.

SA Gazette 12/12/1846 p195  -  The value of town property is rapidly advancing - no less than 26 Burra Shares, the market value of which is at least £2,500, having been given for the Club-house in Hindley-street - was not worth a third of that sum two years ago.

1847*

SA Gazette 2/1/1847 p2  -  Henry Martin took over his brother Thomas Martin’s butcher business 1/1/1847.

SA Gazette 9/1/1847 p7  -  Friday 8 January - William Paine alias the Conjuror, who has before figured in the criminal court, was brought on suspicion of stealing one silk pocket handkerchief, value 6s 6d, from the shop of RF Macgeorge, linen draper, Hindley-street, about seven o’clock the previous evening. It appeared, the prisoner resorted to the very stale trick of looking at some goods, when he contrived hey presto, to convey the handkerchief from the counter to his own pocket; but being noticed, he immediately reproduced it, and offered to pay the value thereof. When taken into custody by the police, he earnestly implored s… to forgive, appearing to dread being again compelled to be on visiting terms with Governor Ashton. Committed for trial.

Monday 8 March 1847 - A handkerchief was identified by the son of the prosecutor as being the one stolen by prisoner, who was found guilty, and sentenced to six months’ imprisonment.

SA Gazette 23/1/1847 p14  -  We learn that Mr Joseph Stilling, having recently purchased the large store in Hindley-street belonging to John Baker Esquire has now removed his establishment to these commodious premises.

SA Gazette 23/1/1847 p14  -  An exhibition is to be opened during the week of the Agricultural and Horticultural Show for the exhibition of paintings and drawings by our SA artists - professional and amateur. HE the Governor has kindly granted the use of the Council Room, and a Committee has been formed to make the preliminary arrangements - of which official notice will be given in our next. In the meantime, Mr Gill, the artist, will receive at his rooms in Leigh-street, such paintings as are desired to be exhibited; and we mention this circumstance at once, under the impression that an early transmission of finished paintings will greatly facilitate the labours of the Committee.

SA Gazette 30/1/1847 p18  -  Mr Chamberlain, of Hindley-street, has on sale lead pumps made entirely from Colonial lead, which he will guarantee to draw from a depth of forty feet if required. He has also in the course of manufacture brass hydraulic pumps, for wells of 150 feet. We have seen the lead pumps, and consider them superior, in weight of metal and appearance, to the pumps imported from England.

SA Gazette 30/1/1847 p18  -  The North Montacute Mine, belonging to the Victoria Mining Company, is the only gold mine yet discovered in the province. The capital stock consists of 3,500 shares. The company have continued to open the ground for the last ten months with a small party (varying from 2 to 5 men), and have now between 2 and 3 tons of auriferous earth, taken from the lode ready to be operated on. The small quantity already cleaned up has yielded about one pound and a half of pure gold, which has been sold the the jewellers in Hindley-street …

SA Gazette 27/2/1847 p39  -  SA Savings Bank - The stated Annual Meeting of the General Board of Management will be holden at Payne’s Hotel, Hindley-street, upon Monday next, the 1st proximo, at 12o’clock, noon, for the purposes stated in the Rules and Regulations of the Institution. J Wotherspoon Sec.

SA Gazette 17/4/1847 p67  -  On Monday night last, the foundry in Leigh St, belonging to Mr Pybus, was totally destroyed by fire, together with all the valuable casts, moulds etc in progress. Mr Pybus, we regret to hear, was not insured; and will, in consequence, be a sufferer to the extent of several hundred pounds.

SA Gazette 21/8/1847 p140  -  On MOnday evening, a meeting was held at the Eagle Tavern, for the purpose of forming a Mechanics Instittue. Mr EW Andrews was called to the chair, and Mr McHugh acted as Secretary. The Chairman observed that the meeting was not one of the kind called go up, as might be seen from the fact that no promoters had attended with prepared resolutions, and that no person had even been fixed on till that moment to preside. It was a spontaneous effort of the working classes to promote an object most important to themselves; and he should be glad to hear the remarks of all who had propositions to bring forward.

SA Gazette 16/10/1847 p173  -  The premises of a Mrs Patterson, situate at the western side of Hindley-street, was totally destroyed by fire, on the morning of Thursday. Great praise is due to the police corps for their exertions in getting the fire under before it could extend to any of the adjacent buildings.

SA Gazette 6/11/1847 p185  -  Yesterday, Guy Faux made his appearance in Hindley-street, accompanied by a very numerous escort.

SA Gazette 13/11/1847 p189.  -  On Wednesday evening, an entertainment was given at the Club House to Captain Kirsopp, by the friends of that officer and others desirous to celebrate the commencement of steam communication with the eastern colonies of Australia. Above forty gentlemen attended. … A dinner was provided by Mr Dale, and in his very best manner. The wines were unexceptionable, in great variety, and every arrangement was made to do honour to the occasion. Messrs Ewen, Mitchell, Yems, Harward and Hornabrook contributed their vocal powers, and throughout the evening executed in first rate style numerous glees appropriate to the toasts. …

Captain Kirsopp, on returning thanks for the kind reception given to him on the occasion, expressed his opinion, that in the contemplated communication with England by steamships, although the eastern route might probably be first tried, the direct western route would be that ultimately adopted. Captain Kirsopp said he had every reason to be satisfied with the encouragement the Juno had met with from the merchants and mine owners of South Australia in her first trip …

1849*

Government Gazette 13/9/1849  -  The Elgin with female orphans, having arrived, applicants desirous of availing themselves of their services, are requested to attend, in person, or by proxy, at the office of the Secretary, Native School, on and after Friday next the 14th instant. It is recommended that the orphans be removed immediately after the agreements have been made. M Moorhouse, Secretary to the Board. .

Clark’s Buildings Hindley St 19/9/1849

Sir, By direction of the Committee of the Adelaide Benevolent and Strangers’ Society, whe have the honour to lay before Your Excellency, as Patron of the Institution, a brief statement of its operations since its formation in March last year up to the present time. …

… the Committee have been enabled … to assist 40 families, including upwards of 130 individuals; many of whom, after having - by the timely aid thus afforded them - surmounted their temporary difficulties, are now in a position to maintain themselves in comfort by their own industry.

The relief afforded in each case has been but trifling, seldom more than ten shillings at a time, more frequently not exceeding five or six shillings, and in four cases only amounting to two poounds each. In two of the latter cases, aid was granted to enable the applicants - miners who arrived in the Colony penniless - to proceed to the Burra Burra for the purpose of seeking employment, which they immediately succeeded in obtaining. These men have promised to return the money, for the benefit of others, as soon as they are in a position to do so. And in another instance, a young man, who, from want of employment and owing to the protracted illness and subsequent death of his wife, was reduced to a state of great destitution, has since obtained a situation and has been enabled to refund the money advanced to him.

Most of the cases relieved have been amongst newly-arrived immigrants, manyh of whom, having exhausted their small means in procuring necessaries in England for their passage to the colony, landed on its shores without funds to maintain themselves, until enabled by their own exertions, to provide for their subsistence.

The insufficiency of housing accommodation has been, and is, severely felt by such persons, and much distress is occasioned by their inability in many instances, to pay the exhorbitant weekly rents demanded for the most humble shelter. In several such cases, the Commitee have furnished the means of paying rent for a short period, and this assistance, in connection with that afforded by the Local Government - through the medium of the Destitute Board - in the shape of rations, has enabled many deserving but indigent persons to surmount the unexpected and unavoidable difficulties attending their first arrival in a strange land.

OK Richardson President; William MacGuire, Hon Sec.

The Commissioners who administered Adelaide had their offices in Clarke’s Buildings, Hindley St. Road Board Commissioners also met there.

JT Bagot had his solicitor’s office there from early 1851.

1850*

Observer 7/12/1850 Supp p4 col e  -  Town Acre 58 - The Town Acre in Hindley-st (West) sold on Tuesday [3/12/1850] by Messrs Samson, Wicksteed & Co, in optional allotments, realised within a trifle of £1,800. The highest price per foot frontage, 100’ deep, was £7 10s; and the lowest £2 17s 6d for frontages to a private street intersecting the Acre, with a depth of 90’. Thus is the last unoccupied Acre in Hindley-street disposed of.

1878*

Frearson’s Weekly 16/2/1878 p2  -  The Black Bull Hotel, once the hotel of Adelaide, is to be rebuilt at a cost of £5,000. Operations are to commence at once.

Frearson’s Weekly 27/7/1878 p162  -  Mr Creswick’s King Lear was expected to be his best Shakespearean representation, and very few who saw the London actor have now a different opinion. As this tragedy is the highest effort and the most affecting of all the Swan of Avon’s creations, so from Mr Creswick’s standpoint, his portraiture of the loving old king is, we believe, the finest the English stage can now produce. …

On leaving the stalls the other night, after the performance, we met two old London playgoers, one of whom told us that he would not repeat his visit to see the present star of the Theatre Royal personate King Lear, ffor the impression on him was too intense and realistic … Lear was represented by Mr Creswick like a monument of Titanic grandeur … The English actor was at his best in the final scene, where Lear enters with his youngest daughter, Cordelia, dead in his arms; where the poor, infirm, despised old man is in the lowest depths of misery …

It will be new to some of our readers to state that about 60 years of 70 years ago, Shakespeare’s King Lear was prohibited by the then Royal Family from being played on the English stage, the title character bore too strong a resemblance to the condition of the reigning monarch; but on the death of George III, on 29 January 1820, the injunction was removed, and Edmund Kean brought it with great splendour at the Drury Lane Theatre …

Frearson’s Weekly 10/8/1878 p179  -  Death has got among the booksellers. John Howell, the well-known proprietor of Howell’s Corner, has passed away. He was a man who made many friends, and had enemies; - some of whom in no small degree accelerated his death. SOme time ago, when the late Mr CGE Platts become insolvent, Mr Howell, well knowing the value of the position, succeeded in obtaining a lease of the place, and at once announced the fact of his commencing business at Platts’ Corner. Another man, who had purchased the stock, demurred to Mr Howell’s using the words Platts’ Corner, and commenced a suit in Equity against the poor old man, which suit not only cost him some hundreds of pounds but also a few years of his life, which otherwise would have been spent in peace. This he himself assured me …

Frearson’s Weekly 14/9/1878 p227  -  We refer to the moral danger of attending the theatre. … We scarcely know that there is more danger in going to a theatre than in walking down Hindley St of an evening. But touching the morality inside the Theatre, we remember an effort which was made to keep the establishment select. A few months ago, we were in the stalls, and sat near a handsome young girl … One of the officers came and requested her to quit her seat. We learnt from inquiries that she was a soiled dove.

If a Minster of a church wanted to take his wife and daughters to the Town Hall to hear Handel’s Messiah, would he stay to enquire if any of the chorus girls were loose? Verily, many public performers are more sinned against than sinning.

Frearson’s Weekly 19/10/1878 p270  -  The colonists were wonderfully sensitive respecting the fertility of the soil. If any vegetable of ordinary growth and appearance was produced in any garden, the happy grower … called on his fellow-countrymen to come and listen to a lecture on the horticultural production. … A strawberry, a peach, an apricot, and above all, a watermelon, elicited when exhibited rapturous applause … At last, some ears of wheat were displayed in Hindley St, and the fact made patent that this cereal could be produced from the virgin soil of the young colony.

Frearson’s Weekly 9/11/1878 p290  -  We are happy to see that the following prominent firms have received prizes at the Paris Exhibition

Messrs AM Bickford & Sons chemists, of Hindley St., silver medal for liqueurs.

Frearson’s Weekly 21/12/1878 p342  -  Dungey, Winwood & Wood, successors to George Phillips 84 Hindley St.

1879*

Frearson’s Weekly 12/4/1879 p67  -  The new Theatre Royal, Hindley-street, built for Mr Edgar Chapman, was opened in March 1878, under the lesseeship of Mr James Allison. The architect of the building is Mr GR Johnson of Melbourne, and he has designed one of the handsomest theatres in the Australian colonies, the auditorium being fitted up with every regard to comfort and in an elegant manner.

Frearson’s Weekly 26/4/1879 p83 3/5/1879 p91.  -  Wybert Reeve noted Theatre Royal actor Woman in white.

Frearson’s Weekly 24/5/1879 p114  -  Until recently, all iron bridges had to be imported from England, but now, on account of the introduction of the most modern machinery, a number of firms can turn out this class of iron work equal to the imported, and at a much less price. The most extensive of these works in this city is Mr J Hooker’s boiler, girder, and general iron works in Hindley-st. Mr Hooker has n0opw in hand a large bow-girder bridge 76’ long by 26’ wide, including footway; it is intended for the Burra Creek, and will cost about £800. Another bridge of five spans is also in hand, this is intended for the Redhill crossing of the Broughton, and is 24’ wide; the entire cost of the iron work flooring and piles of this girder bridge will be about £700. Besides these large pieces of work there are immense number of other large jobs in hand, such as boilers etc. Mr Hooker is continually introducing new machinery and the latest added - an automatic arrangement for placing sheet-iron ready for punching. The notorious Boddington Row is now partly demolished, Mr Hooker having purchased the property, and the brick from which are now used for a better purpose viz - a new plate-heating oven.

Frearson's Weekly 28/6/1879 p154  -  Mr Adcock, mattress manufacturer, of Hindley-st, has invented and patented a very useful machine for untwisting and carding horse hair. The little piece of machinery is a useful addition to the trade and is calculated to do as much work in an hour as a boy would do in a day. We wish the enterprising patentee all success.

Frearson’s Weekly 12/7/1879 p170  -  Actor George Rignold biography. Also picture.

Frearson’s Weekly 8/11/1879 p322  -  Chaff, chaff, chaff. Messrs Miller & Son, of Goodwood and Waymouth St, are offering good sound chaff and other horsefeed at extremely reasonable rates.

Mr James Hooker, of Hindley St, is sending to the Sydney Exhibition a view of the large flanging machine which was designed and made by him. The m achine is the only one of its size and power in the colony, and the view is intended to illustrate the fact that although Belgium is the only country exhibiting a similar machine at the great Show, SA can turn out a machine equally powerful and well made.

Messrs T Futcher & Co have removed from Gilbert-place to No 130 Hindley St, well known as Graves’s premises.

Frearson’s Weekly 29/11/1879 p358  -  Messrs Harrold Bros, the well-known shipping agents of this city, have notified their intention of laying on the fine SS Glenelg as a passenger and trader between this port and those of Tasmania and NSW. We wish the projectors of these facilities for the public benefit every success.

Frearson’s Weekly 20/12/1879 p394  -  Last Friday evening, a complimentary dinner was tendered by the employes of the firm of Messrs Fraser & Hughes to those gentlemen to commemorate the opening of their new premises in Leigh-st. Abou 60 sat down to a splendid repast supplied by Host Waldie, of the Shakespeare Hotel, to which ample justice was done, and all passed off in a most humourous and pleasing mmanner. The chair was occupied by Mr Geo Spence, and the vice-chair by Mr C Saunders. … It is gratifying to note the harmonious relationship existing between Messrs Fraser and Hughes and their employes, and we hope it may come within our province to record many reunions of a like character in the future.

1880*

Frearson’s Weekly 24/4/1880 p122  -  Those of our readers who remember the late Professor Hall, photographer, Hindley St, will regret to notice the death of his widow, which took place last Wednesday. The deceased lady was in her 61st year.

Frearson’s Weekly 29/5/1880 p182  -  JR Toogood, Oriental Hairdressing Saloon and Cigar Divan. Extensive experience in London, combined with an affable manner.

Citizens who remember the Hole in the Wall, in Hindley St, years ago, will be pleased to know that its genial proprietor, R Jury, tailor, has just opened new premises in Leigh-st. Mr Jury has always maintained a high character for first-class work, and we trust will continue to ensure large patronage and support.

Mt Barker Courier 5/11/1880  -  Businessmen from the adjacent colonies have recently arrived, and invested capital gained elsewhere in ur city, whilst shops closed for months in consequence of the rents being too high, are now open, and all in full swing. The erection of the magnificent Bank of Adelaide evidently initiated a healthy rivalry among other banking companies, who were equally desirous to have premises worthy the establishments they represented. I hear the ES & AC Bank - which by the way is now carried on in the same tenement formerly used by the Bank of Adelaide - is to have new premises erected on the site it formerly occupied, the Bank of Australasia is being furbished up, and ere long King William-street will be indeed the street of streets in archetectural beauty. The old Exchange has been renovated, and now forms an extensive Auction Mart, with a number of excellent offices. Communication with all the suburbs by tramway is almost complete, the several lines are well patronised by the public … After business hours, or about 5.00pm, every car is crowded with clerks, shopwomen, and labourers, going home from work, inside and outside are crammed, usually so much so that it is a wonder more accidents do not occur …

Saturday 23 October was a busy day for the Hindmarsh Tramway Company, that being the occasion of starting their new venture. HE the Governor, Directors, and a large proportion of MPs, JPs, one or two mayers and Councillors, with other invited guests, took part in the inaugural ceremonial. The terminus at the city end is in Hindley-street, which though a narrow thoroughfare is not more so than that of Rundle-street in which up to the present few accidents have occurred, notwithstanding the immense traffic.

Pioneer Coffee Palace, Hindley St advertisement.

Raven Factory Hindley St advertisement.

Frearson’s Weekly 11/12/1880 p628  -  A Chinaman who was attacked by larrikins in Hindley St on 4/12/1880, stabbed a man named Curnow in the affray.

Frearson’s Weekly 25/12/1880 p664  -  JR Toogood hairdresser, opp Theatre Royal.

Mt Barker Courier 31/12/1880  -  Pioneer Coffee Palace Company advertisement.

1881*

Frearson’s Weekly 1/1/1881 p682  -  Samuel Berliner’s pawn shop 135 Hindley St.

Frearson’s Weekly 8/1/1881 p692  -  We are glad to see Host Klauer, of the White Hart Hotel, Hindley St, in his usual place again. He has taken a well earned trip to the old country, and has returned greatly benefited in health.

Frearson’s Weekly 22/2/1881 p724  -  A fire took place on the premises of Mrs Vincent and Messrs Dungey, Ralph & Co, Hindley St, near Victoria St, on the night of Wednesday 19/2/1881. A great deal of property was burnt.

Frearson’s Weekly 19/2/1881 p 24  -  Messrs Hanton & Dalton, the well-known jam manufacturers and fruiterers, of Hindley St and East End market, have forwarded us samples of their jams, jellies and preserves, the same having been put up at their manufactory at Fullarton. Judging not merely from appearance but tests as to quality, we have no hesitation in saying that the articles submitted to us are unequalled, and only require to be known to be in universal request. Hitherto, james and jellies made in the colony have not been in repute, or received the patronage to which they were entitled. … With competent workmen and soil capable of producing every kind of fruit, we see no reason why SA should not hold its own against all other countries in jams and preserves. As pioneers in their particular line Messrs Hanton & Dalton deserve credit and they will ere long, if we mistake not, achieve great success.

Frearson’s Weekly 19/2/1881 p 25  -  A mother who had been out visiting the other evening was on her return astonished to find the house so quiet, and thought her two children were out in the street at play. On entering a private apartment, to her surprise she discovered them just completing the task of licking out a pot of jelly. They took the licking she gave them without a murmur, and even refused to promise they would not commit the same offence again. No wonder! Poor things! they had tasted the first pot of Hanton and Dalton’s jellies.

Frearson's Weekly 21/5/1881 p232  -  Tramcar accidents are in Adelaide happily few in number, even in Rundle and Hindley Streets, along which two of our principal tramways are laid, travelling is seldom attended with any mishaps. We therefore regret the more to record the sad fatality which occurred to a man called Rickets, on the Hindmarsh tramline, near Morphett Street, on Thursday, 19 May. Rickets was, it seems, riding on the front platform, and fell off at the place mentioned, when the wheels of the car instantly passed over his head. Death was instantaneous. The poor fellow, who was in his 27th year, leaves a wife and family at Thebarton, of which place he had been long a resident.

Mt Barker Courier 10/6/1881  -  There is now being exhibited at the Black Bull, Hindley St, a giant of the bovine race, a monster ox, which was bred at the Parises Court Station, Gippsland, Victoria; and which has been exhibited all over NSW and Vic, and it is intended to be shown in Europe after a trip through this colony. It is a dark red beast with white along the bak and in other parts, a cross between Hereford and Durham., It … is 5 years old, and weighs 33.5 cwt, but could be made much heavier if fattened, which, however, would be inadvisable for a travelling beast’.

Frearson's Weekly 27/8/1881 p458  -  Hooker’s Buildings, at the corner of Hindley-street and Morphett-street, where two years ago the whole acre was covered with a lot of wretched old shanties, embracing hot beds of immorality and vice. By good fortune, the whole acre eventually dropped into the present landlord’s hand, and the first thing he did was to pull the whole collection of rubbish clean down, and to put up a substantial building at a considerable cost. The buildings comprise thirteen spacious shops, each with six good rooms, five with large cellars; the rooms are lofty and make excellent dwellings, besides a good shop, fit for any business. There is a good back way, macadamised road, called Hooker Street. Nine of the shops and dwellings are let to good tenants of thorough business habits viz Messrs Genders & Co, harness manufacturers, Mr S McCombie, shoemaker, and others. At the corner there is a large and commodious temperance hotel, named the Lion Temperance Hotel, containing 21 rooms and other conveniences for carrying on the business of a temperance hotel, and we are happy to say it is so much appreciated by the general public that it was crammed before it had been open many days. Mrs Henry is the present proprietress, and we think bids fair to reap a handsome return. The establishment supplies the public with a want that has long been felt in Adelaide. Altogether the erections are a fine block of substantial buildings, and an ornament to the west end of the town. We must congratulate Mr James Hooker, the spirited proprietor, for his pluck and energy, and for the successful remodelling of the once despised Morphett-street corner; and the sooner the Government get the overway bridge at Morphett-street the better.

The boiler works of Mr James Hooker … were started about seven years ago, and have been daily increasing in magnitude, and now stands second to none in South Australia, his ponderous and wonderful machinery consisting of hydraulic riveters, flanging, puncvhing, shearing, bending and straightening machines, with rack tables complete, and steam hammer, enable him to turn out work as good if not better than any imported article. During the short time of seven years, a tremendous quantity of boilers, girders, and bridges of excellent workmanship have been turned out, and we had the pleasure of inspecting two large boilers just completed for the Alma and Victoria Gold Mining Company, also the lighthouse ironwork for Corney Point, and a network of girders for the Railway Department, all of which reflect credit on the energetic proprietor, as at the present time there are 58 hands busily engaged in the yard.

Frearson's Weekly 22/10/1881 p585  -  Captain William McLean, the genial commander of the SS Victorian, … for many years … in the employ of the Adelaide Steamship Company …, in the prime of life, was sticken down in an instant …

On the night of Wednesday 19 October, accompanied by two friends, he attended the Theatre Royal to witness the performance, when he was taken ill, was removed to Tattersall’s Club Hotel, where he became unconscious, and shortly after died. … The cause of death was the bursting of a blood vessel in the brain.

Captain McLean was highly esteemed by all who knew him, and few captains in our intercolonial steamers have ever made more friends than he. He was most assiduous in caring for the welfare of passengers, and always particular in observing their comfort before his own … A gold medal and walking stick … were presented to him with an address from the passengers of the Victorian at a public dinner in Adelaide, as a testimony of their appreciation of his heroism and skilful seamanship during a severe gale between Melbourne and Adelaide. The walking stick was made of Northern Territory cabbage-tree, polished and silver mounted …

Frearson's Weekly 5/11/1881 p 618  -  When life looks dull, and friends are few, Go take a draught of Roderick Dhu; I mean no chieftain known to fame, But the old whisky by that name. Although ‘tis strong, ‘tis always pure, And sold in Hindley-street by Hewer.

Frearson's Weekly 26/11/1881 p 664  -  On Saturday last, a mourning carriage with two frightened horses dashed up Hindley-street from near Mr A Gay’s furniture warehouse, and on nearing Mr Afford’s came into collision with a vehicle at his door. The terrified animals, with their burthen attached, then proceeded on their headlong course, and much damage might have been done but for police constable 139, who ran and grasped the reins of the restive horses, and othwithstanding their struggles for mastery, succeeded in bringing them to a standstill near the theatre. This plucky act was witnessed by a number of persons, who by unmistakeable signes showed their approval of such brave conduct.

The interest excited in the coming elections is likely to be very great. As will be seen by our advertising columns, Mr A Klauer, host of the White Hart Hotel, Hindley-street, intends to stand as Councillor for Gawler Ward, and Mr F Hagedorn JP, of Hindley-street, well-known as an energetic Alderman in the past, is again in the field to contest the City. Mr James Hooker, boiler-maker, of Hindley-street, is also about to contest Gawler Ward.

Klauer won from Hooker 293 to 292. F Hagedorn 1,609 votes 2nd on the rank for Alderman. Hon WC Buik came 1st 1,794.

Frearson's Weekly 3/12/1881 p 680  -  A fire of a suspicious and mysterious character, occurred on the premises on which the Catholic Record newspaper was printed in Hindley-street, on Friday morning, 2 December. The whole of the type and a portion of the machinery was destroyed. The place was well insured, and a policy of £1,500 covers the stock, which was said to be worth that amount.

Frearson's Weekly 17/12/1881 p 713  -  As Christmas time approaches, good housewives will be making preparation for it, by procuring necessaries for manufacturing cakes suitable to the season, and laying out no end of money in ingredients. A more rational and less expensive way would be to patronise Mrs H Vincent, of Hindley-street, as she has always cakes on hand to suit every class of customers. When there is a crush in town on the holidays, country visitors will do well to remember that in consequence of Mrs Vincent’s premises being recently altered, she now has first-class large and well ventilated rooms in which coolness and comfort will be found on the hottest days.

1882*

Frearson's Weekly 7/1/1882 p 761  -  What a splendid refresher is coffee or te, For quenching of thirst wherever you be! But the place to procure the best that I know Is the house of T Evans and there you should go; In the street that’s called Hindley his Palace is found, Unequalled for comfort the whole country round.

Frearson's Weekly 11/3/1882 p74  -  One of the most important events, I may say the event of the week, is the removal of that eminent tonsorial professor, JR Toogood, from 31 Hindley-street, to Beaconsfield Buildings, where he has opened a Gentlemen’s Toilet Club and Cigar Divan. It is a certainty that Mr Toogood’s success is assured in this new venture, and I should stronglyh advise those who have not visited him to call and test his skill, for then they will admit there’s none surpass him.

Frearson's Weekly 9/12/1882 p696  -  A short time since attention was called in the City Council to some dilapidated buildings at the West-End of the town, and it was intimated that no steps could be taken towards compelling the owners to remove them, but as Mr Hagedorn asserted that they were used for immoral purposes, something can surely be done to prevent their being so occupied. These are not by any means the only dilapidated buildings which are a disgrace to the city, and we believe the law should be a little more elastic in cases where the owners of property persist in screwing out an income from premises which should long since have been pulled down.

Rents throughout the city are exceptionally high compared with the neighbouring colonies, and consequently poor people are in many cases forced to live in hovels which are certainly not fit for human habitation. There is nothing whatever to justify the exhorbitant prices charged for the smaller class of dwelling house, and we are not surprised at the success which attended many of the suburban land sales in consequence. Landlords should be satisfied with a fair percentage on their investments in buildings, and should be compelled to keep their premises in good and substantial repair. Such buildings as those mentioned above should be at once removed, and immediate steps should be taken to eradicate these rookeries from our fast-increasing and beautiful city.

1883*

Frearson's Weekly 28/4/1883 p185  -  Messrs Geyer & Co’s premises in Hindley-street, which, taking together the cellarage, offices, and laboratory, represent some 24 compartments. This business was originated by Mr Robert Lowe, an English chemist, in the old dispensary, adjoining the present site, about the year 1840; and was subsequently purchased by Mr William Geyer, who had, for many years (during the palmy days of Dr Bayer), been doing the largest and most successful dispensing trade in the Colony, when he found it necessary to obtain and reconstruct the present premises. Shortly after the plans were completed, he accepted as a partner the late Mr W Main Senr, who, however, died in 1871. From the early days of this business up to the present time, the proprietary have experienced numerous changes … The dispensary is large and commodious, being well fitted up with polished cedar throughout. The numerous glass cases, marble slabs, and superb mirror, adding to the general effect. … Adjoining this is the office, being the sanctum sanctorum of Mr Grundy, which is a model of neatness and comfort … In this department, he has a telephone communicating outside the city with one of the faculty, who dispenses here. Leading from this is a flight of steps into the cellarage, which, for intricate and ingenious arrangement is not unlike a large rabbit warren.

Frearson's Weekly 9/6/1883 p276  -  The Temperance Hotel and Boarding-house at the corner of Morphett and Hindley-streets has been taken over by Mr WH Anderson, whose advertisement appears in another column.

1884 --->*

Frearson's Weekly 5/1/1884 p677  -  Mr Joseph C Genders, now living in Tasmania, is a Birmingham man. He arrived in the colony in 1848, and after following various pursuits, he started business as a saddlers’ ironmonger, in about the year 1863, in Coromandel-place, off Grenfell-street; but finding, after a few years, that his warehouse was not large enough, Mr Genders removed to the premises in Hindley-street, which in former years had been in the possession of Mr Macgeorge, the largest wholesale draper of the day; afterwards by the proprietors of the Advertiser newspaper. Messrs Genders & Co’s business has, however, for some years outgrown the accommodation of these premises, and the have had to obtain additional room close by. … The partners are Messrs Edmund Fischer and Charles J Genders …

The Observer 6/12/1913 p41

Mr William Wainwright was a watchmaker and jeweller, and had the first shop of its kind in Hindley-street, opposite the Black Bull Hotel. The shop was of pise, and thatched with river reeds, but was superior to all its fellows through the unique distinction of having glass windows and mirrors to heighten the display of jeweller’s goods. After having resided in Hindley-street for several years, the family removed to the Reedbeds, but after two years they returned to Hindley-street. Gave up watchmaking for farming because of ill health. Knew Dr Whistler, the founder of Unley, well.

Hindley Street

31 January 1838 Royal Oak 208 TA 57 William JOULE 1st publican. Closed 1920. m 7/4/1838 Adelaide, Sarah Ball, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Ball, who emigrated 1837 Lady Emma.

1838 Princes Berkeley 58 TA 49 James Chittleborough Senr 1st publican. He opened in Buffalo Row 25/9/1837, then shifted to Hindley St. 1st known as Buffalo’s Head.

1838 Grazier TA 74 H THOMAS only publican - existed only in 1838. Likely to be the hotel before the 1st Victoria Hotel. W Williams had a stock business on the site before he became a publican.

15 March 1838 Royal Admiral TA 72 Charles Calton 1st publican. 1st known as the Commercial Hotel.

By Sep 1838 Tam O’Shanter Tavern TA ??? A Tam O’Shanter Land Company associated with the hotel. John McGlashan Secretary (He was likely to have been the landlord). He was in partnership with a Charles Forbes by Jan 1839. Both men came out on the Tam O’Shanter in 1837, as blacksmiths engaged to John White. Likely to have become partners in a public business in Hindley St. Did they open the hotel on the site of their smithy???

Dec 1838 Clubhouse TA 74 William Williams 1st publican. Opened as the Victoria in Dec 1838.

23 March 1839 Clarendon TA 56. Hugh McDONALD 1st publican. Closed 1920.

23 March 1839 Exchange 6 TA 47 Samuel Payne 1st publican. 1st known as the Australian Arms. The Ware Family hotel. Hotel closed c17/3/1921.

8/2/1881 RPA Hon Henry Ayers. Value £7,000. Title to Ayers.

23 March 1839 John Renwick TA unknown existed only in that year. Thomas Welbourne, a John Renwick passenger, was the landlord.

6 April 1839 Adelaide TA 71 Opened as the Tasmanian. John Wheland publican. Closed 1921.

March 1840 Princes Victoria 94 TA 51 William Williams 1st publican. Opened as the Victoria in March 1840.

Dec 1840 White Hart TA 77 GR THOMPSON 1st publican. Closed 1927.

1844 Hindley St Brewery TA unknown. Andrew Birrell 1st and only publican. Existed only in that year.

1845 Builders Arms TA 72. George Doran publican. Closed 1849.

June 1845 Rio International 111 TA 73 Robert CLELAND 1st publican. 1st known as the Star Hotel. Most name changes of all Hindley St hotels. Only since 1972. Also tremendous numbers of publicans throughout its history.

1846 Eagle 44 TA 49 George Doran 1st publican. Closed 1878.

March 1846 Century 160 TA 54. William Williams 1st publican. Known first as City Bridge Hotel.

1847 Royal TA 75 M JOSHUA 1st publican. Closed 1920.

Dec 1847 Castle Inn 162 TA 55. William HILL 1st publican. Closed 1966.

1850 London Home TA unknown C COUSINS. Existed only in that year.

1850 Mafeking Hero TA 68 Opened as the Phoenix. R HALL publican. Closed 1909.

June 1850 Australian Arms TA 75. James Stapleton Crabb publican. Closed 1858.

May 1851 Tattersalls 17 TA 78 Frederick FISHER/FRAHER 1st publican. 1st known as the Blenheim Hotel.

1855 Foundry TA 60. W HODGES 1st publican. Closed 1921. Existed 1840-1846 as Adelaide Brewery Hotel John Auld publican.

1859 West End TA unknown E DALTON only publican. Existed only in that year.

1867 Duke of Edinburgh TA unknown. E MAY 1st publican. Closed 1886.

1868 Theatre Royal TA 48 Samuel LAZAR 1st publican. Closed 1916.

Hotel Details.

31 January 1838 Royal Oak 208 TA 57 William JOULE 1st publican. Closed 1920. m 7/4/1838 Adelaide, Sarah Ball, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Ball, who emigrated 1837 Lady Emma.

24/1/1838 To Daniel Schreyvogel gentleman Adelaide £50. He sub-divided the eastern moiety

Application 13226 - lots 8, 9 facing Hindley St in the eastern moiety. The Royal Oak Inn.

13/8/1839 To John Yabsley Wakeham builder Adelaide £40.

31/8/1839 To Samuel Elkington Boord gentleman Adelaide £120.

22/12/1840 To Alexander Frederick Boord gentleman Adelaide £700. He borrowed money from John Benjamin Graham Esquire Prospect House, near Adelaide, to build the Royal Oak Inn. Land put in trust so that if AF Boord became insolvent, Samuel Elkington Boord merchant would pay off the debt and control the estate.

21/8/1852 SE Board took over control.JB Graham now of Clapham, Surrey, England.

24/8/1852 To Hugh Bawden licensed victualler Adelaide £550.

24/1/1853 To Nicholas Hendy miner Adelaide, 5 year lease at £3/10/- a week rent.

4/5/1869 To John Primrose brewer Adelaide, 5 year lease at £156 a year.

5/5/1869 To William Tilley Cook licensed victualler Adelaide, underlease at £156 a year for the rest of Primrose’s term.

8/12/1873 To James Thomson Syme and Frederick Samuel Sison brewers Pirie St, Adelaide £1,000.

7/1/1874 RPA Syme & Sison Value £1,000.

1838 Princes Berkeley 58 TA 49 James Chittleborough Senr 1st publican. He opened in Buffalo Row 25/9/1837, then shifted to Hindley St. 1st known as Buffalo’s Head.

23/12/1837 Land grant Samuel Smith Esquire Halifax, Yorks, England £9/9/-. Mary, his wife.

4/1/1855 To Samuel Laycock banker Bradford and John Rawson gentleman Bradford, Yorks, England, land in trust to sell at their discretion by auction or private contract. Local attorney SA, Lavington Glyde commission agent Adelaide.

Application 20598 - the western quarter facing Hindley St against TA 50.

28/2/1848 Samuel Smith, Esquire of Horton, Bradford, Yorks, to Alexander Malcolm publican Hindley St 21 year lease, at £26 pa for the first 7 years, £39 the next seven, last 7 at £52 pa. The Black Bull Inn.

4/1/1855 Samuel Smith and Mary his wife gave permission to Samuel Laycock banker Bradford and John Rawson gentleman Bradford permission to sell the property by auction or private contract. Local attorney Lavington Glyde

3/12/1864 Smith Esquire Field House Bradford to Alexander Hay Esquire Adelaide £2,175.

5/12/1864 To Thomas Waterhouse Esquire Adelaide £2,200.

5/6/1885 RPA TG Waterhouse, of parts beyond the sea (Agent Alexander Hay). Value £12,000. Title to Waterhouse.

1838 Grazier TA 74 H THOMAS only publican - existed only in 1838. Likely to be the hotel before the 1st Victoria Hotel. W Williams had a stock business on the site before he became a publican.

15 March 1838 Royal Admiral TA 72 Charles Calton 1st publican. 1st known as the Commercial Hotel.

TOWN ACRE 72 - Hindley St. Sheet 70.

Application 27332 - the whole TA

23/12/1837 Land grant Richard Monins Esquire Walmer, Kent, England Land Order 277.

9/10/1848 Richard Monins died. Property to his executor, Rowley Lascelles barrister Inner Temple London, upon trust to sell. Lascelles lived at Caermarthen, then shifted to Pencraig, Co Cardigan, Wales.

26/12/1854 George Henry Fox appointed local attorney to look after land, with power to sell.

24/4/1855 To William Paxton Esquire Adelaide £5,500.

30/7/1877 To Charles Banbury valuator Adelaide, 60 year lease, at £500 per year for the 1st 10 years, then £600 for the next 10, then £650 a year for the next 20 years, then £750 a year for the remainder of the term, expiring in 1937. Had to erect a building worth £10,000 during the 1st 10 years.

5/5/1883 Charles Banbury died. Left all his real estate not otherwise disposed of to his wife Elizabeth Hannah Banbury widow Angas St, and Frederick James Blades brewer Adelaide, upon trust to sell. These two people also appointed executors.

21/12/1883 The unexpired term of the lease assigned back to William Paxton.

1/9/1893 William Paxton died in England. No property to be sold until two years after his death. Two trustees died. Alfred William Paxton d 19/9/1898; Harry Kent Paxton d 22/11/1920. Robert Charles Paxton still lived. Harry Lockett Ayers the local trustee and attorney. The Westminster Bank did the legal work in England.

1/8/1919 To the SA Brewing Company, 5 year lease. Lease renewed once.

7/4/1924 SA Public Trustee appointed trustee for William Paxton’s properties in SA.

2/2/1925 To Walter Ellis estate agent Currie St, Adelaide £17,000.

19/3/1925 RPA Ellis. Value £177,000. Title to City Investment Ltd, of Currie St, for whom Ellis held the land in trust. Tenant Alfred John Lemon of Hindley St on part of the site; the rest of the land unoccupied pending building alterations.

By Sep 1838 Tam O’Shanter Tavern TA ??? A Tam O’Shanter Land Company associated with the hotel. John McGlashan Secretary (He was likely to have been the landlord). He was in partnership with a Charles Forbes by Jan 1839. Both men came out on the Tam O’Shanter in 1837, as blacksmiths engaged to John White. Likely to have become partners in a public business in Hindley St. Did they open the hotel on the site of their smithy???

Dec 1838 Clubhouse TA 74 William Williams 1st publican. Opened as the Victoria in Dec 1838.

23/12/1837 Land grant John Barton Hack Esquire Adelaide £8/2/-.

He sub-divided the TA.

THE EASTERN MOIETY

Application 18273 - the eastern moiety of the TA

24/5/1838 To William Williams storekeeper Adelaide 10/-.

29/8/1839 William Williams hotelkeeper Adelaide and Jane, his wife, to the SA Club (JH Fisher Esquire, John Morphett Esquire Adelaide, William Light Esquire Thebarton), ‘together with a dwelling house … and built lately used as an inn or hotel containing a cellar, hall and four rooms on the ground floor and a long room and three bedrooms on the first floor … and also the stone building attached to the said dwellinghouse containing on the ground floor a kitchen and a long room intended to be divided into four the upper part intended for five bedrooms being unfinished, and a billiards room finished with stone and having a buck floor, also the stable building for 19 horses built with broad paling with the small store and dwelling house attached and the water closet and also the well in the yard and the windlass and rope thereto … ‘ Edward Catchlove carpenter and builder had erected these premises, the Club House Hotel, for £500.

14/6/1851 William Henry Clark brewer Halifax St to Frederick Hansborough Dutton Esquire East Tce, Adelaide £10,000. Conveyance of Club House Hotel, shops and other premises

2/7/1877 FH Dutton, formerly of Adelaide, but now of The Oriental Club, Hanover Square, London to John Stuart Sanders grocer Hindley St £5,000.

23/7/1880 To the SA Coffee Taverns Co Ltd, 6 year lease at £16 clear a year, of No 80 Hindley St’consisting of a shop and two rooms on the ground floor and four rooms on the first floor adjoining on the east side the premises at present under lease to the company and known as the Pioneer Coffee Tavern, together with the use of a store, wash house and closet in the yard at the rear of the said shop and premises’. Company directors William Christie Buik, Joseph John Green, Theophilus Skilton Carey.

12/10/1880 RPA JS Sanders grocer Adelaide. Value £20,000. Many mortgages throughout the history of this land.

23 March 1839 Clarendon TA 56. Hugh McDONALD 1st publican. Closed 1920.

TOWN ACRE 56 - Hindley St. Sheet 80.

Application 14523 - the whole TA

23/12/1837 Land grant Robert Thomas printer Adelaide £12/2/-.

12/7/1842 Trust formed, so that 3 fifths of rents to go to Robert Thomas in his lifetime. The remainder to go to daughters Mary and Helen Thomas until their father died. After he died, the whole rents of the estate to be divided equally amongst all the children of Robert Thomas. If any should die, that share to be redistributed equally. If all children should die, the profits to go to the children of Mrs Thomas’s brother, and the property to be sold by public auction or private contract. Money from her property in Southampton to be divided equally amongst her daughters.

19/1/1864 Mary Thomas widow Clarendon Hotel, Hindley St mortgaged the property to William Peacock, George Young, and James Munro Linklater for £500.

Mary Thomas died.

7/9/1875 RPA Robert George Thomas architect Adelaide, William Kyffin Thomas newspaper proprietor Adelaide. Value £3,000. Mortgage still to pay off.

23 March 1839 Exchange 6 TA 47 Samuel Payne 1st publican. 1st known as the Australian Arms.

TOWN ACRE 47 - Hindley St. Sheet 78.

23/12/1837 Land grant Samuel Payne gentleman Downton, nr Salisbury, Wilts, England Land Order 240.

31/7/1845 JB Neales leased portion of the Acre - corner of King William St. Lease re-negotiated every 10 years.

28/6/1847 To William Henry Clarke, lease of the Auction Mart Tavern (run by George Coppin) & Lowe’s chemist shop.

10/6/1856, Arthur Payne, as heir at law, mortgaged the TA to Hon Henry Ayers, several times.

27/1/1861 Arthur Payne to Hon Henry Ayers Esquire Adelaide £12,500, the whole TA, while the land was still under mortgage. Payne now of Noarlunga. Henry Ayers sub-divided the TA.

MOST OF THE EASTERN MOIETY

Application 7504 - strip from Hindley St along King William St to Gresham St; shops, auction rooms, bank offices. Right of way between JB Neales’ property and the Exchange Hotel in Hindley St.

26/11/1861 Hon Henry Ayers to JB Neales £9,900.

Shops leased out to Platts, GT Bean, Townsend, Botting & Kay, Bank of Adelaide

7/6/1866 RPA JB Neales. Value £14,000.

GRO Research note. LTO site on 1/7/1858.

Until early 1858, the GRO was in the Supreme Court Building (now the Adelaide Magistrates Court), in Victoria Square. In Feb 1858, the acting Registrar-General suggested that the Colonial Architect design a new LTO to house the department for the new land act. The Chief Secretary wanted the office out of the Supreme Court Building ‘The Supreme Court Building should be primarily devoted to purposes connected with the administration of justice’. RR Torrens decided to rent premises from JB Neale, where the Union Bank had been until recentuly (a large ground floor room and two upper storey rooms) in the Exchange Building. £250 a year for 6 months, taking over the Union Bank lease, which still had 18 months to run. In late 1857, the Union Bank had moved to new premises in Pirie St. In 1859, the Births, Deaths and Marriages were in the Supreme Court building. The LTO was in Gresham St. The Observer 11/5/1889 p 38 mentioned that the Exchange Building was the site where the new Commercial Bank was being built. In 1928, the Bank added two storeys to the 1889 building. Gresham Chambers immediately south of Gresham Place facing King William St, and the Exchange Building was immediately south of Gresham Chambers. SA Gazette 14/11/1859, the LTO moved into the new offices King William St, opposite the GPO.

Application 18406 - The Exchange Hotel; main building.

Henry Ayers had gained the property in 1861.

8/2/1881 RPA Hon Henry Ayers. Value £7,000. Title to Ayers.

23 March 1839 John Renwick TA unknown existed only in that year. Thomas Welbourne, a John Renwick passenger, was the landlord.

6 April 1839 Adelaide TA 71 Opened as the Tasmanian. John Wheland publican. Closed 1921.

TOWN ACRE 71 - Hindley St/Morphett St. Sheet 70.

23/12/1837 Land grant Charles George Everard late of Tysoe St, London, but now of Adelaide Land Order 255. He sub-divided the TA.

2/9/1875 To William Everard Esquire Adelaide, in trust for Eliza Ann, wife of Ralph Everard Lucy Esquire Modbury, to her own use for life. The whole TA.

13/3/1876 CG Everard died. He left his piano and the furnishings of his private bedroom to his daughter Eliza Ann Lucy.

20/9/1890 Mrs Lucy gave permission for adjacent tenants to use a right of way going across the TA east from Morphett St. She mortgaged the land, and also sub-divided it for various leases.

March 1840 Princes Victoria 94 TA 51 William Williams 1st publican. Opened as the Victoria in March 1840.

TOWN ACRE 51 - Hindley St. Sheet 79.

23/12/1837 Land grant Robert Thomas printer Adelaide £10/10/-.

11/1/1838 To the SA Company, mortgage for £500 at 10%, R Thomas went bankrupt.

26/8/1840 To Osmond Gilles Esquire Hindley St, Adelaide & Edward Stephens Esquire North Tce, Adelaide, in trust, with power to sell.

The trustees sub-divided the land into quarters - strips running down to Hindley St. When was Victoria St named - probably in the 1850s, after the hotel?

THE MIDDLE QUARTER IN THE WESTERN MOIETY

Application 18675 - the middle quarter facing Hindley St in the western moiety - the Victoria Hotel.

28/9/1839 To William Williams publican Adelaide £350

25/9/1847 Williams now of Walkerville publican to Joseph Addison Esquire Reedbeds £1,700, the Victoria Hotel and stables, now in the charge of Thomas Hornsby and Samuel Cobbyn respectively.

17/5/1875 To Henry Foote licensed victualler Adelaide, 21 year lease at £325 a year. For 25 years, Edward Armand Wright was the attorney for Joseph Addison, who must have left SA befor this time. EA Wright left SA in 1879. His successor in the land agent business was his former clerk Charles Lyons.

3/8/1881 Joseph Addison, of parts beyond the sea to Mrs Emily Taylor Hindley St, Adelaide £5,900 in a complicated agreement.

4/8/1881 RPA Joseph Addison, of parts beyond the sea. Value £5,900. A discrepency here between the two dates of RPA and sale. Perhaps no more than registration?

Dec 1840 White Hart TA 77 GR THOMPSON 1st publican. Closed 1927.

TOWN ACRE 77 - Hindley St. Sheet 71.

23/12/1837 Land grant Osmond Gilles Esquire Adelaide Land Order 148. There are conflicting records of who actually had the land grant.

7/6/1838 To Thomas Lipson Royal Navy Captain Currie St, Adelaide 10/-. He sub-divided the TA. There must have been some other financial arrangement between Gilles and Lipson, which was not mentioned.

THE WESTERN MOIETY

13/7/1838 To Joseph Barrow Montefiore merchant George St, Mansion House, London, England £150. Jacob Montefiore had an equal share in the property.

6/11/1849 William Pennell Official Assignee and Alexander Wilson Creditors’ Assignee appointed to manage the bankrup estate of the Montefiore Brothers. This land placed under a family trust, which the creditors could not touch.

Application 27192 - lot facing Hindley St east of Peel St and against the eastern boundary of the western moiety

25/3/1912 To the SA Brewing Company, 15 year lease. Underleases to George Washington Gray and the Greater Wondergraph Company Ltd. George Washingto Gray died 8/1/1920. His widow assigned the lease to Frederick Bird White. 21/2/1922 Lease assigned to Gertrude Georgina Chalk.

24/6/1922 To Henry Matthews merchant High St, Unley Park £15,000.

4/8/1923 RPA Matthews. Value £15,000. Title to him.

Dec 1841 Adelaide Brewery TA 60 Publican John Auld. Closed 1846.

TOWN ACRE 60 - Hindley St. Sheet 80.

Application 29240 - the whole TA

23/12/1837 Land grant William Henry Gray gentleman late of Sanderstead Surrey, England, but now of Adelaide £11/11/-.

6/9/1896 WH Gray died. Under the terms of his will, trustees were appointed to maintain his considerable real estate holdings.

5/2/1957 RPA Gray Estate Trustees. Trustees at the time were Leonard William Walter company director Walkerville and Dudley Halley Pickering accountant Executor Trustee and Agency Company, 22 Grenfell St, Adelaide. No value stated. The remaining part of the Gray Estate placed under the RPA.

1842 Hindley St Brewery TA 72. Andrew Birrell 1st publican. Became the Robert Burns Inn 1845. Then Builders’ Arms 1847-1849.

Next to the Royal Admiral Hotel on TA 72 in the western moiety. The brewery must have incorporated a hotel.

1845 Builders Arms TA 72. George Doran publican. Closed 1849. The hotel developed from Birrell’s brewery on the same site.

TOWN ACRE 72 - Hindley St. Sheet 70.

Application 27332 - the whole TA

23/12/1837 Land grant Richard Monins Esquire Walmer, Kent, England Land Order 277.

9/10/1848 Richard Monins died. Property to his executor, Rowley Lascelles barrister Inner Temple London, upon trust to sell. Lascelles lived at Caermarthen, then shifted to Pencraig, Co Cardigan, Wales.

26/12/1854 George Henry Fox appointed local attorney to look after land, with power to sell.

24/4/1855 To William Paxton Esquire Adelaide £5,500.

30/7/1877 To Charles Banbury valuator Adelaide, 60 year lease, at £500 per year for the 1st 10 years, then £600 for the next 10, then £650 a year for the next 20 years, then £750 a year for the remainder of the term, expiring in 1937. Had to erect a building worth £10,000 during the 1st 10 years.

5/5/1883 Charles Banbury died. Left all his real estate not otherwise disposed of to his wife Elizabeth Hannah Banbury widow Angas St, and Frederick James Blades brewer Adelaide, upon trust to sell. These two people also appointed executors.

21/12/1883 The unexpired term of the lease assigned back to William Paxton.

1/9/1893 William Paxton died in England. No property to be sold until two years after his death. Two trustees died. Alfred William Paxton d 19/9/1898; Harry Kent Paxton d 22/11/1920. Robert Charles Paxton still lived. Harry Lockett Ayers the local trustee and attorney. The Westminster Bank did the legal work in England.

1/8/1919 To the SA Brewing Company, 5 year lease. Lease renewed once.

7/4/1924 SA Public Trustee appointed trustee for William Paxton’s properties in SA.

2/2/1925 To Walter Ellis estate agent Currie St, Adelaide £17,000.

19/3/1925 RPA Ellis. Value £177,000. Title to City Investment Ltd, of Currie St, for whom Ellis held the land in trust. Tenant Alfred John Lemon of Hindley St on part of the site; the rest of the land unoccupied pending building alterations.

June 1845 Rio International 111 TA 73 Robert CLELAND 1st publican. 1st known as the Star Hotel.

TOWN ACRE 73 - Hindley St. Sheet 70.

21/12/1837 Land grant Robert Cock auctioneer Adelaide £8/18/-.

Robert Cock sub-divided the land. The private road called Rosina St.

THE WESTERN MOIETY

Lot B - a good deal of the western moiety (see map - centred mostly in the southern half)

31/5/1842 To Thomas Shepherd merchant Adelaide £210.

8/3/1845 To Joseph Bouch merchant Adelaide £395. He must have built the hotel. He had stables on the land to the west.

8/4/1850 To Thomas Ottaway licensed victualler Adelaide £1,560.

30/9/1853 To William Williams auctioneer Adelaide, 10 year lease at £4 a week (several lots in Rosina St and Hindley St) Sar Inn stable yard against the TA boundary with TA 72. Did Thomas Ottaway establish the inn on the land he bought from Bouch??

17/9/1856 To Apollo Harrison Gouge licensed victualler Hindley St, 7 year lease at £6 a week for the Star Inn and adjacent cottages and yards.

‘Within 3 years from the commencement of the said term make or cause to be made at his own expense the repairs and additions fence off the yards to the cottages in the said yard … with a good substantial wooden fence and build new water closets for the use of the said inn or public house and thoroughly repair the kitchen of such inn, and also will put a new cross beam and supports to the front upper room of the said inn and put two new windows into the front of the said inn and enlarge the concert room on the first floor of the said innk and will paint the woodwork of the said inn throughout, all such repairs and amendments to be made in a good proper and workmanlike manner …’

20/7/1867 Thomas Ottaway died. Trustees William Pope gentleman and John Christopher commission agent Adelaide. They had to work to get the property out of mortgage to Henry Ayers of £550 at 12%, still on the place after Ottaway died. William Pope took the place of Walter Henry Parker solicitor Adelaide, who died.

13/9/1880 To William Chambers and James Blades brewers, trading as Chambers & Blades, Adelaide £4,000.

8/8/1892 RPA Chambers & Blades. Value £3,346. Weekly tenant HLF Isenberg landlord Galatea Hotel, Hindley St. He had let underleases to some of the properties.

1846 Eagle 44 TA 49 George Doran 1st publican. Closed 1878.

TOWN ACRE 49 - Hindley St. Sheet 78.

23/12/1837 Land grant Samuel Smith Esquire Halifax, Yorks, England £9/9/-. Mary, his wife.

4/1/1855 To Samuel Laycock banker Bradford and John Rawson gentleman Bradford, Yorks, England, land in trust to sell at their discretion by auction or private contract. Local attorney SA, Lavington Glyde commission agent Adelaide.

Application 22346 - eastern corner of Hindley and Bank Sts.

26/6/1863 To Alexander McKenzie gentleman Adelaide £1,375.

10/2/1865 To Donald McKenzie sheep farmer Tapaulin Murray River NSW £2,400 mortgage. A McKenzie now licenses victualler.

16/2/1872 Donald McKenzie died. His executors, William Cocks, Anglican priest Wentworth and William Crozier squatter Moothrie.

26/12/1872 To Alexander McKenzie licensed victualler Adelaide, through bequest.

10/1/1873 To John Crampton Esquire Adelaide £5,000.

9/2/1878 Crampton to Edgar Chapman gentleman Adelaide £6,510.

11/9/1886 E Chapman died North Adelaide, formerly a sheep farmer. in his will, he left all in the house to his widow Frances Rachel Chapman. She to get £500 a year, as long as she lives or until she remarries. Executors WK Simms and Arthur Chapman.

3/6/1889 Charles Edgar Chapman accountant Adelaide appointed executor in the place of WK Simms.

3/9/1901 RPA The Chapman trustees. Value £16,650, for pts TAs 48, 49. Title to the Chapman trustees, as joint tenants. Tenant ? Rooney, pt 49.

March 1846 Century 160 TA 54. William Williams 1st publican. Known first as City Bridge Hotel.

TOWN ACRE 54 - Hindley St. Sheet 79.

Application 27266 - the whole TA.

23/12/1837 Land grant Charles Crippen tea broker merchant New St, Bishopsgate, London, Middlesex, England Land Order 200. He married twice. One daughter by the 1st marriage and two by the 2nd.

3/11/1845 Charles Crippen died. Wife Ellen Crippen. Daughters, Mary Ann, Ellen and Alice Ann Crippen to have equal third share in the property. Mrs Crippen to have the income from rents to support herself and her daughters until they were 21 and she died. Ellen Crippen and Charles Hope the two executors.

7/9/1848 Ellen Crippen, nee Hunt (father Michael Hunt) remarried to John Moss gentleman widower of Market Place, Newbury, Berks. St George’s Camberwell. A Charles Newbery was one of the witnesses.

9/6/1859 Charles Crippen Senr died.

1/5/1862 Elizabeth Crippen died.

31/12/1862 Ellen Moss, formerly Crippen, died, of chronic hepatitis, aged 51, at Speenhamland, Speen, Berks. Husband John Moss, schoolmaster.

9/10/1865 Executor Charles Hope transferred TA to three girls as tenants in common.

9/10/1865 Marriage settlement for daughter Mary Ann Crippen and William Thomas Boden. They married 23/11/1867 St Nicholas Parish Church, Ringmore, Devon. Mary Ann Boden, nee Crippen died 8/4/1870, aged 36, of consumption. She had given birth to a daughter Julia Maud Mary Boden 23/10/1868 and who died 8/12/1869. William Thomas Boden d 16/10/1876. The interest in this third went to WT Boden’s two children, Frances Susie Boden and William Reginald Boden, by his second marriage with Mary Barker Boden, nee Mansfield. After WT Boden died, his second wife remarried to Sanford Cole Johnson. She died 25/6/1918. He died 27/7/1905.

2/2/1866 Marriage settlement for daughter Ellen and Frederick Augustus Winkley civil service St Michael Stockwell. The marriage took place on 3/2/1866, St Peter’s Pimlico. Ellen was living at Lupus St at the time of her marriage. Ellen Winkley died 9/1/1908 Eastbury, Lambourn, Berks and Wilts, breast cancer, aged 60. Daughter Sybil Winckley. FA Winkley died 13/4/1913, retired insurance clerk in the Admiralty Office, heart disease, Bournemouth, aged 69.

10/4/1866 Marriage settlement for daughter Alice Ann Crippen and Thomas Stephens Newbery. She had a third interest in the TA. Married 12/4/1866 St Giles Camberwell. He was an insurance clerk, of Glengall Grove, Old Kent Road.. She was still at Glengall Grove, as well. Perhaps she had not left home. Alice Newbery died 8/12/1901 295 High road, Lee, London, of acute rheumatism, aged 56. Son-in-law, Mark Barrand of Kingston-on-thames.

10/7/1924 RPA Teams of trustees for each of the third shares. Three titles to be issued. Tenants were SA Brewing Co ()verway Hotel), E Booth sign ad co painter, decorator, advertising agent; and EF Gryst chemist from 146-158 Hindley St. E Booth had an advertising hoarding on vacant land and there was a cottage let to Strong as a weekly tenant in Morphett St. Value £13,130. Robert Moore Steele public accountant Cavendish Chambers 33 Grenfell St, Adelaide had the job of doing the legal work in SA and then selling the properties by auction or private contract.

Frederica Augusta Louisa Winkley spinster of 3 Thurlow Tce, Hampstead, London, gave much family data on 28/10/1925. The land finally passed under the provisions of the Act during 1926.

1847 Royal TA 75 M JOSHUA 1st publican. Closed 1920.

TOWN ACRE 75 - Hindley St. Sheet 71.

23/12/1837 Land grant Charles Berkeley Esquire Adelaide £8/18/-.

6/9/1838 To John Walker merchant Adelaide £ - no registered conveyance. John Walker sub-divided the land

THE EASTERN MOIETY

Application 6820 - eastern moiety of the TA

John Walker became a bankrupt to the Bank of SA. His assignees (Edward Stephens Esquire, William Robert Smith Cooke merchant, Edward William Andrews merchant, all of Adelaide) sold the eastern moiety

24/12/1842 To the SA Company £2,000, comprising brick house, with yard, gardens, out buildings, together with warehouse and outhouses.

1/1/1846 To Edward Stephens Esquire Adelaide £2,000.

19/9/1849 To Emanuel Solomon auctioneer Adelaide £2,000.

30/10/1850 To Judah Moss Solomon and Isaac Solomon auctioneers Adelaide, 7 year lease at £300 a year. City Auction Mart.

17/2/1852 Lease of the Royal Hotel to John Chanter for 7 years at £106 a year.

8/2/1853 To Banjamin Archer Kent Doctor of Medicine King William St, Adelaide £4,800, including the City Auction Mart, and the Royal Hotel, kept by John Chanter.

16/10/1865 RPA Henry Ayers gentleman Adelaide & Walter Capper Gracechurch St, London, executors of the late BA Kent. Value £4,500. Title to the occupiers, Isaac Solomon and Maurice Solomon auctioneers.

Dec 1847 Castle Inn 162 TA 55. William HILL 1st publican. Closed 1966.

TOWN ACRE 55 - Hindley St. Sheet 79.

Application 24216 - corner of Hindley and Morphett Sts.

23/12/1837 Land grant Cornelius Birdseye, gentleman, late of Buttersland St, New North Road, Middlesex, but now of Adelaide Land Order 82s.

1880 Cornelius Birdseye died.

20/6/1901 RPA Emma Birdseye, widow of Cornelius Birdseye, Northwood Station Road, Hendon, Middlesex, England. Value £9,500.

Tenants at the time of the RAP application - Ah Tong, Ah Wing, See Shing Young, Charles Bone, Albert Prior, Wing Soon, See Goon, Mrs Catherine Cashman, Miss Mary McEnhill. A Register St is mentioned in the vicinity, where a Mrs Rosa Podesta Gatti lived.

1850 London Home TA unknown C COUSINS. Existed only in that year.

1850 Mafeking Hero TA 68 Opened as the Phoenix. R HALL publican. Closed 1909.

TOWN ACRE 68 - Hindley St. Sheet 69.

23/12/1837 Land grant Basil Sladden labourer Adelaide £7/7/-.

26/1/1848 To Peter Imlay Esquire Twofold Bay NSW 10/-. Money changed hands some time before, but the sum not mentioned. Sladden now yeoman of Lake Alexandrina.

29/1/1848 William James gentleman Adelaide appointed local attorney. P Imlay lived in Adelaide for a short time during this year.

17/4/1848 To John Hart Esquire Adelaide £525

28/4/1848 To Edward Stephens Esquire Adelaide £600. He sub-divided the TA. Application 11455 for TA 119 mentions that the private road through the TA had the twin names of Clarendon or Elizabeth St in 1871.

Application 21775 - Thistle Hotel. East corner of Clarendon and Hindley St.

22/11/1850 Edward Stephens to Gottfried Kuhnel cabinet maker Adelaide £175

13/8/1851 To Robert Hall licensed victualler £430

13/11/1852 To William Henry Clark brewer Adelaide £700

1/1/1853 To Samuel Walter Humble gentleman Adelaide £500

26/1/1856 To John chambers gentleman Adelaide £500.

28/2/1890 RPA Frederick James Blades brewer, William Chambers brewer Adelaide, John Formby shipping agent Pt Adelaide, executors of John Chambers. Value £18,230, with lots of other land in Adelaide, Hilton and elsewhere.

June 1850 Australian Arms TA 75. James Stapleton Crabb publican. Closed 1858.

TOWN ACRE 75 - Hindley St. Sheet 71.

23/12/1837 Land grant Charles Berkeley Esquire Adelaide £8/18/-.

6/9/1838 To John Walker merchant Adelaide £ - no registered conveyance. John Walker sub-divided the land

THE EASTERN MOIETY

Application 6820 - eastern moiety of the TA

John Walker became a bankrupt to the Bank of SA. His assignees (Edward Stephens Esquire, William Robert Smith Cooke merchant, Edward William Andrews merchant, all of Adelaide) sold the eastern moiety

24/12/1842 To the SA Company £2,000, comprising brick house, with yard, gardens, out buildings, together with warehouse and outhouses.

1/1/1846 To Edward Stephens Esquire Adelaide £2,000.

19/9/1849 To Emanuel Solomon auctioneer Adelaide £2,000.

30/10/1850 To Judah Moss Solomon and Isaac Solomon auctioneers Adelaide, 7 year lease at £300 a year. City Auction Mart.

17/2/1852 Lease of the Royal Hotel to John Chanter for 7 years at £106 a year.

8/2/1853 To Banjamin Archer Kent Doctor of Medicine King William St, Adelaide £4,800, including the City Auction Mart, and the Royal Hotel, kept by John Chanter.

16/10/1865 RPA Henry Ayers gentleman Adelaide & Walter Capper Gracechurch St, London, executors of the late BA Kent. Value £4,500. Title to the occupiers, Isaac Solomon and Maurice Solomon auctioneers.

May 1851 Tattersalls 17 TA 78 Frederick FISHER/FRAHER 1st publican. 1st known as the Blenheim Hotel.

TOWN ACRE 78 - Hindley St/King William St. Sheet 71.

23/12/1837 Land grant Boyle Travers Finniss Esquire Stephens Place, Adelaide Land Order 81. He sub-divided the TA.

THE BLOCK FACING HINDLEY ST - the Blenheim Hotel.

2/2/1849 To William Gilbert Esquire Poulton, near Marlborough, Wilts, England £2,405, for pts 77, 78. Now the Blenheim Hotel. Somehow, Joseph Gilbert got back a good deal of his money out on mortgage.

10/5/1873 To John Hart & Charles Hawkes Todd Hart Esquires Glanville Hall, Le Fevre Peninsula £8,105.

23/5/1877 To David Mundy Esquire Campbelltown £11,600.

1855 Foundry TA 60. W HODGES 1st publican. Closed 1921. Existed 1840-1846 as Adelaide Brewery Hotel John Auld publican.

TOWN ACRE 60 - Hindley St. Sheet 80.

Application 29240 - the whole TA

23/12/1837 Land grant William Henry Gray gentleman late of Sanderstead Surrey, England, but now of Adelaide £11/11/-.

6/9/1896 WH Gray died. Under the terms of his will, trustees were appointed to maintain his considerable real estate holdings.

5/2/1957 RPA Gray Estate Trustees. Trustees at the time were Leonard William Walter company director Walkerville and Dudley Halley Pickering accountant Executor Trustee and Agency Company, 22 Grenfell St, Adelaide. No value stated. The remaining part of the Gray Estate placed under the RPA.

1859 West End TA 66 E DALTON only publican. Existed only in that year.

TOWN ACRE 66 - Hindley St. Sheet 69.

Application 22918 - the whole TA

10/9/1839 Land grant William Glegg Gover Esquire Eaton Square, Middlesex £8/10/-.

? To GM Waterhouse. Sale deed appears to be missing.

31/8/1858 Lease to Emma Dalton widow Adelaide, for 10 years at £50 a year.

28/9/1858 Underlease to Thomas Ottaway licensed victualler Adelaide for 10 years at £30 a year. this is the hotel on the corner of Hindley St and bounded by the right of way on two sides.

4/6/1859 WH Clarke took over the hotel on a 14 year lease, and paid John Haimes £750 for a half share in the brewery ‘includes purchse money of one half of plant in brewery and 2 horses 1 dray and 1 cart, casks, utensils etc.

22/12/1859 Underlease The rest of the TA to John Haimes gentleman sale of brewery £750, together with all houses, tenements, erections and buildings then standing, for ten years at £50 a year. William Henry Clark was the brewer. He paid another

5/4/1861 Underlease from John Haimes to Apollos Harrison Gouge contractor Adelaide and William Knox Simms brewer Adelaide, for 10 years at £260 a year. The West End brewery.

18/7/1868 GM Waterhouse, formerly of Highercombe, but now of parts beyond the sea, to WK Simms & Edgar Chapman brewers £1,000.

1/1/1878 Chapman to Simms, his interest in the TA.

14/3/1888 WK Simms to SA Brewing Co £20,000.

30/5/1895 RPA SA Brewing Co. Value £15,000.

1867 Duke of Edinburgh TA unknown. E MAY 1st publican. Closed 1886.

Is this the West End Hotel??

1868 Theatre Royal TA 48 Samuel LAZAR 1st publican. Closed 1916.

TOWN ACRE 48 - Hindley St. Sheet 78.

23/12/1837 Land grant SA Company £9/9/-. The Company sub-divided the TA.

MIDDLE QUARTER IN THE EASTERN MOIETY

Application 16011 - facing Hindley St.

29/9/1846 To Thomas Shepherd draper Adelaide £500.

7/3/1858 Thomas Shepherd, then of 12 Minto St,
Edinburgh, Scotland, died, appointing William Panton cloth merchant Edinburgh, John Hood watchmaker Cupar, Alexander Hood watchmaker Dumfernline, Alexander Elder merchant Fenchurch Buildings, London, his sole executors and only intromitters … also to be tutors and curators to his children. Emily Dundas Murray Shepherd, Henry Metcalf Shepherd, Thomas Alexander Shepherd, Arthur Shepherd, Mary Shepherd. His father, Thomas Shepherd, living in Cupar, Fife, an annuity of £100. Legacy to sister Jane, wife of Alexander Hood, legacy to sister Isabella, wife of John Hood. William
Bakewell and Randolph Isham Stow appointed the Adelaide attorneys. The trustees sold the land through their attorneys.

23/1/1865 To Alexander Hay Esquire Adelaide £4,500. ‘Shop, warehouse and premises occupied by Messrs P Cumming and Sons’.

6/5/1865 Lease to Peter Cumming draper Adelaide, of 7 years at £200 ≠ rates and taxes and keep the buildings in good repair.

2/11/1865 Lease of a small strip on eastern boundary to William Barnet 5 years at £3/10/- per week. Paint the exterior 3 coats of paint in the 2nd and 4th year.

23/11/1867 To John Temple Sagar merchant Thebarton £6,300.

25/11/1867 Partnership of JT Sagar, Samuel Lazar gentleman Adelaide, Jochim Matthias Wendt jeweller Adelaide company ‘That the said partners shall forthwith erect a theatre and hotel and other buildings appertaining thereto on the said piece of land … to be called The Theatre Royal and that the business of the said partnership shall be carried on under the name or style of the Theatre Royal Company.

That each partner shall contribute equally to the erection and maintenance of such Theatre and other buildings as aforesaid when and as the same shall be required. Each partner to pay £1,800 into the Bank of Adelaide. Must meet at least once a month to discuss the business. Appoint a manager for the theatre, hotel and other buildings as aforesaid. The manager to employ, but had to get permission from partners for employment longer than 3 months. The publican’s licence may be taken out in the name of the manager. If any partner dies, the executor may take up his share or arrange for the other partners to take on the share in equal amounts.

5/4/1869 To George James licensed victualler Adelaide £2,500.

29/9/1874 James to Henry Robert Fuller gentleman Adelaide £1,080.

28/3/1877 HR Fuller to Edgar Chapman £6,300.

14/6/1877 RPA E Chapman brewer Adelaide. Value £10,500. Complicated dealings with mortgages etc.

Hindmarsh Square

Frearson's Weekly 30/9/1882 p 537  -  The Rev’d FW Cox has been presented with £500 and a silver salver, on the completion of the twenty-fifth year of his ministry at Hindmarsh-square Congregational Church.

Frearson's Weekly 2/6/1883 p 264  -  The manufactory of Messrs T Barlow & Sons … situated in Hindmarsh-square east side … presents quite an imposing appearance when viewed from any position to the westward, and seems to give an air of importance to the square, which the latter would not otherwise possess … The walls are of 18” solid brickwork up to the first storey, and above that 14”; 350,000 Hindmarsh bricks being used in construction. The foundations are of concrete, with two feet of stonework under the damp course. The front of the building is … of dark Burnside stone, pointed between the cement dressings. … But the main feature of the building is the lantern light, affording equal light throughout. On each side of the compartment just underneath it are racks for holding dry timber. They are now full, and we may state that there is not such another stock of cedar in the city. … The architect is Mr W Barlow, under whose personal supervision all the arrangements we have described have been carried out.

King William Street

Chronicle 16/6/1877 p5  -  We hear that the dilapidated buildings at the corner of King William St and North Tce are at length likely to give place to something more worthy of the position, as the property, we believe, is changing hands at £8,500. There are evidently some who have faith in the future prosperity of Adelaide.

Frearson’s Weekly 16/2/1878 p2  -  Messrs Good, Toms & Co transferred their business to the new buildings No 92 King William St, today.

Frearson’s Weekly 23/2/1878 p6  -  Land in King William St South was sold last week at an advance of £10/10/- per foot on the amount paid for it about six months ago.

The Supreme Court will be ventilated in accordance with a plan proposed by Mr Clark [who prepared a report into Adelaide’s water supply at the same time]. It would also be as well if somebody would instruct somebody to prepare a plan for the drainage of the same building, other than allowing its refuse to flow into the public street.

Frearson’s Weekly 11/5/1878 p82  -  The Adelaide Town Hall and Eagle Chambers is the admiration of all visitors to Adelaide. The former belongs to the Corporation, and the latter is leased by Henry Scott Esquire, and others. The assembly room of the Town Hall occupies the whole of the first floor of the building, and is the largest in the city. The organ purchased by subscription raised by the Philharmonic Society, and supplemented by the Corporation is a fine instrument and the largest of its kind in SA. The Corporation offices etc are on the ground floor, and there is also another fine assembly room on the right hand portion called the Exchange Room. Most of the offices in the Eagle Chamber are occupied by the Engineer-in-Chief and Public Works Dept on account of there not being room in the Public Buildings.

Frearson’s Weekly 22/6/1878 p123  -  Everything has been delightful through the main street all the week. A stranger walking through King William St after sunset would seriously begin to think himself in some gold-digging country, what with the various holes, lanterns, heaps of earth etc. We have several times blessed all connected with the tramway for this state of affairs, although we know they have done their best to make things better. The rain has pelted down pell mell for hours together, and not a conveyance of any kind procurable to get home - drunk or sober.

Frearson’s Weekly 6/7/1878 p138  -  Country persons or citizens wishing to see a sight never to be forgotten should just take a walk of a Friday evening down King William St and stand say five minutes before the shop of Mr Evans, the butcher. The exhibition of rabbits, hares, mutton, beef, pork, sausages, fowl etc is something to be remembered for a lifetime. The latest novelty exhibited by our knight of the cleaver is the prize ox, weighing 1,521 lbs.

Mr J Reed has secured the well-known Imperial Hotel, King William St … It has been thoroughly renovated from the pantry to the bar internally, and has a fresh and lively appearance externally. Mr Reed informs us that it is his intention to make the premises what they have long wanted to be viz, respectable and accommodating …

Frearson’s Weekly 10/8/1878 p179  -  The AMP Building is situated in King William St, Adelaide, and does the greatest amount of life assurance on the mutual principle in the colony. … µr Joseph Herring is the Resident Secretary.

Frearson’s Weekly 17/8/1878 p187  -  That SA has shown the other colonies how to do it in many ways has been amply illustrated in the past. The Trans-Continental Telegraph Line was but a beginning of the public works that are now bringing this colony so prominently before the rest of the world. The Pt Augusta and Government Gums Railway, the Northern Railways, the Victor Harbor Breakwater and many such works of equal magnitude, constructed and in course of construction, cannot fail to have a substantial and beneficial effect. The enterprise shown by the Government in these matters has been ablyh seconded by private enterprise. The Glenelg Railway is a very good illustration of this. The many fine private buildings etc erectec in Adelaide is another illustration … It is but a year or so ago that we used to hear a good deal of talk about a proposed tramway from Norwood and Kensington into Adelaide, and no that proposal is a fact - the regular passing of the tram being part of the daily life of our principal streets. The elegant cars and the fine substantial horses used by the Tramway Company are well depicted … A ride to any of the eastern suburbs may now be undertaken without any fear of accient or inconvenience,, and we are sure the tram will be largely patronised during the summer for this purpose. Adelaide leads the other cities with tranways, and these cars are the first of the kind introduced into Australia, but the other colonies will not be far behind us now that the introduction has been so successful.

Frearson’s Weekly 14/12/1878 p330  -  There is a nuisance existing adjoining the National Bank and at the entrance to the right-of-way leading to a butcher’s and other shops in King William-street, which we are surprised has not been abated years ago. It consists of several loose and old pieces of iron thrown over the gutter for the purpose, we presume, of forming a culvert, but which, to all intents and purposes, act as a constant annoyance to passers-by. Only one day during this week, we saw several individuals half frightened out of their senses through the noise made by traps running across these irons, and the wonder is that complaints have not been made regarding the noisy nuisance before.

Frearson’s Weekly 8/2/1879 p394  -  It is stated that Mr Hay is in Melbourne arranging to make White’s Rooms the most elegant hall in the colony …

Frearson's Weekly 29/3/1879 p51  -  Compaints continue to be heard on all sides re the lighting of the streets with the kerosene lamps. … If it were not for the gas lamps burning at the various public buildings and hotels, it would be nearly impossible to discover the whereabouts of those patent illuminators placed within the city lamps by the contractors who contracted to light the city. SOme morning we shall be startled by the intelligence that some unfortunate has been burnt to death by the explosion of one of these patent illuminators. On passing up King William St the other evening, we saw no less than three lamps with blackened and broken chimneys with a column of flame destroying the top of the lamp-guard.

Frearson's Weekly 28/6/1879 p154  -  Moseley’s Oyster and Supper Rooms in King William St have been the centre of attraction during the past week, abou 300 lbs of a real Aldermanic turtle having been dispensed in soup to the patrons of these rooms, whose appreciation has been much and sincere.

Frearson's Weekly 19/7/1879 p178  -  As showing the absurdity of the very high prices charged for butcher’s meat in Adelaide, we note that Mr WR Evens, of King William-st, last week received 300 carcasses of sheep which were imported by him from Melbourne. They arrived in good condition and will no doubt well repay Mr Evens for his enterprise. If mutton can be imported from Melbourne and sold at a profit after paying all expenses, it clearly shows that the price paid for the sheep in Adelaide are too high.

Frearson's Weekly 26/7/1879 p186  -  The intense cold of Wednesday and Thursday is attributable in a great measure to the fall of snow that took place at Crafers during that time. Several large snowballs were brought to Adelaide by coach on Thursday morning, and a snowball about 3’ in circumference was on view during the day at the shop of Mr WR Evens.

Frearson's Weekly 30/8/1879 p229  -  Jackman’s Dining Room menu

Frearson’s Weekly 20/9/1879 p250.  -  He has recently appointed a number of tradesmen whom he intends to patronise. Mr J Jackman Senr, of the Golden Boot, King William-st, is one of the favoured ones.

Frearson’s Weekly 18/10/1879 p290  -  Messrs Robert Fry & Co open for the first time today in the shop recently occupied by Mr John Clark, King William St. Mr Fry, who is well-known as being for some time connected with Mr Doolette’s establishment, will no doubt be able to command the support which ability and fair prices are sure to secure.

Frearson’s Weekly 8/11/1879 p322  -  The King’s Head Hotel, in King William St, which has gained the favourable notice of the public whilst under the proprietorship of Mr JA Ellery, has changed hands. Mr WW Crane is now proprietor, and will no doubt maintain the reputation of the hotel for excellence in every branch of the business.

Frearson’s Weekly 20/12/1879 p394  -  The most suitable Christmas and New Year’s present is an assorted case of wines. The cellars of the SA United Vineyard Association, Imperial Chambers, King William-st, under the management of Mr Gwynne, is the best place to make such a purchase.

Frearson’s Weekly 10/1/1880 p428  -  Mr Jackman started business about ten years since in Rundle St, but increasing trade caused him to remove to more extensive premises in King William St, in which he has since continued. About 2 years ago, he went to England, travelling through America - visiting France, Italy, and various other parts of the European continent. On his return, he brought the results of his observations, and adopted those improvements most calculated to benefit the public. The decorations are in the French and Italian style; splendied mirrors … harmonise with the general surroundings. A speciality at this establishment and one of the wants of the city, is a Ladies Dining Room - a comfortable and commodious apartment, which is well situated for privacy. It has an excellent lavatory attached, which will certainly be much appreciated by the fair sex. The establishment employs about 30 hands, chiefly cooks, waiters, and waitresses, and the whole is under the supervision of the proprietor … The catering is in first-class style, and the bill of fare unequalled. Upwards of 20 dishes are daily offered to select from a notification which would satisfy the greatest epicure or gourmand who ever existed … Mr Jackman has a farm and orchard on the Payneham Road, from which fresh fruit, vegetables, pork, butter, eggs, milk, and dairy produce are supplied daily … Mr Jackman is an importer of confectionery, and on our visit, splendid samples from the house of Mr E Roberts, of Camberwell, were exhibited in the window. He has a second establishment in Rundle-street, also well fitted …

Frearson's Weekly 24/1/1880 p464  -  King William St is the most important in Adelaide, and is named after King William IV of England. It runs north and south, is two-and-a-half chains wide, and acknowledged to be the finest street in Australia. It is intersecteced by Victoria Square, round which it runs, and through which a wide and well-made pathway connects it in a straight line. In it are situated most of the leading public offices. The various departments of the Government are at present somewhat scattered in various portions of the town, but when the new Government Offices in Victoria Square are erected, the present unsatisfactory state of things will be done away with. The foundations of these fine buildings are already finished, under the contractorship of Mr Robert Huckson. Besides the Town Hall and Post Office, the towers of which figure so prominently in our engraving, there are a number of other fine buildings in King William St. The Bank of SSA, the National Bank, Bank of Australasia, the E, S & A Chartered Bank, the Bank of Adelaide, the Savings Bank, Bank of NSW, the Commercial Bank, and in fact all the banks of Adelaide, with the exception of the Union, are in King William-st. The News and Weekly offices, Frearson’s Chambers, Eagle Chambers, and Reed’s large hotel, are also prominent, besides which is the new Bank of Adelaide in course of erection, and we believe it is intended to at once commence the erection of new premises for the ES & A Bank. There are also a great many elegant commercial buildings, such as Messrs Faulding & Co’s, Messrs Fowler’s, J Moss’s, and a host of others; the whole making a street of no mean pretensions. The great amount of traffic, and the tramcars running backwards and forwards every ten minutes, make up a picture that cannot fail to interest …

Frearson's Weekly 14/2/1880 p2  -  South Adelaide is going ahead fast just now. Mr J Parker, the chemist, who has for some time occupied a well-fitted shop at the corner of Wright and King William-sts is now moving into more convenient premises, which he has erected specially for the practice of his profession, two doors south of the old premises. The total cost of land and building is a little over £2,000, and Mr Parker has an excellent show for his money.

Mr HM Addison and Mr A Boult, the organist at St Peter’s Cathedral, have amalgamated, and now form the firm of Addison & Boult. They project holding auction sales at regular intervals.

Frearson’s Weekly 29/5/1880 p182  -  One of the oldest and richest fire insurance companies in the world is the Phoenix, the head offices of which are in London, but whose directors have recently established a branch in SA. Claims now dealt with in SA. GW Cotton of Queen’s Chambers the local agent.

Frearson’s Weekly 5/6/1880 p194  -  WJ Oldham resigned as Bank of Adelaide manager at Gawler. To join his father Nathaniel Oldham, to go into partnership as Nathaniel Oldham & Son, in Imperial Chambers. Well-known land and financial agents. Strict business habits and affable manner.

Frearson’s Weekly 12/6/1880 p212  -  Crossing sweepers would prove invaluable individuals in Adelaide just now. The recent rains have given some thoroughfares the aspect of the Slough of Despond … and ladies are I see compelled to trip the light fantastic toe showing their pretty little feet over muddy crossings. Surely the city can support morre than one crossing-sweeper, and the mantle of office has at present fallen on the shoulders of one small urchin, who plies his broom in prime style at the junction of Rundle and King William Sts.

Frearson’s Weekly 14/8/1880 p355  -  Frearson’s Chambers description.

Frearson’s Weekly 30/10/1880 p532  -  Among projected city improvements the erection of new premises for the E, S & A Chartered Bank in King William St holds first place. The former buildings occupied by this company and other firms are now undergoing the process of dismantling, and as far as Frearson’s Chambers, the work of destruction is being continued. On this site, it intended to build a fine bank equal in appearance and size to those which adorn other parts of the metropolis. Meanwhile, the business of the ES & A Bank is carried on in the premises lately vacated by the Bank of Adelaide. The materials which formed the old Bank were sold a few days since by auction and the price realised was £225.

Mt Barker Courier 5/11/1880  -  Businessmen from the adjacent colonies have recently arrived, and invested capital gained elsewhere in ur city, whilst shops closed for months in consequence of the rents being too high, are now open, and all in full swing. The erection of the magnificent Bank of Adelaide evidently initiated a healthy rivalry among other banking companies, who were equally desirous to have premises worthy the establishments they represented. I hear the ES & AC Bank - which by the way is now carried on in the same tenement formerly used by the Bank of Adelaide - is to have new premises erected on the site it formerly occupied, the Bank of Australasia is being furbished up, and ere long King William-street will be indeed the street of streets in archetectural beauty. The old Exchange has been renovated, and now forms an extensive Auction Mart, with a number of excellent offices. Communication with all the suburbs by tramway is almost complete, the several lines are well patronised by the public … After business hours, or about 5.00pm, every car is crowded with clerks, shopwomen, and labourers, going home from work, inside and outside are crammed, usually so much so that it is a wonder more accidents do not occur …

Frearson’s Weekly 6/11/1880 p548  -  The old Exchange has been completely renovated and improved inside and outside, and now forms one of the most important of city business premises. Mr FJ Botting, who has for some years been associated with Mr Townsend, in auctioneering, has just opened a large auction mart there; the occasion of his doing so being inaugurated by a social gathering of his friends and customers.

Frearson’s Weekly 4/12/1880 p612  -  Mrs CB Allen, formerly landlady of the Southern Cross Hotel, and a colonist of 44 years, died on 29/11/1880, at the age of 66.

Frearson’s Weekly 15/1/1881 p708  -  Mr JL Barron, the well-known caterer, has, we are happy to perceive, opened the Original London Chop House opposite the Town Hall, and is now supplying in his usual first-class style, fresh oysters, chops, steaks etc to the public. Those requiring an early breakfast can obtain the same at 6am - a matter of great importance in the summer months, when a person’s appetite is very fastidious in consequence of excessive heat.

The Court-House Cafe and Dining Rooms in King William St South have been recently taken by Mr WE Howard, who, in addition to general improvements, has done much to render the house attractive and comfortable. Being situated adjacent to the Glenelg Railway Station, passengers by train while waiting will find their requirements attended to. Among the specialities of this establishment are a private room for ladies, the daily and weekly papers to read, chess, draughts, dominoes and other games, piano, and a room for chess, cricket, and football clubs. We are certain those who once patronise Mr Howard’s cafe will not fail to do so again, his dinners being of that first-class character, reminding one greatly of similar establishments in the chief cities of England or the Continent.

Frearson’s Weekly 12/3/1881 p71  -  The General Post Office clock was stopped for two days, and caused no end of remarks from people who tried to regulate their watches by it. One youth whose usual time for going to business is 8am didn’t turn up till noon. He said he had set his watch by the GPO clock, hence the delay. His employer wouldn’t believe it, and that young man is now in search of another situation.

Frearson’s Weekly 19/3/1881 p88  -  Those who believe in omens would hardly have considered it a good sign to behold a funeral and a marriage procession almost side by side - yet such was the case in King William Street on Wednesday, 16 March. Truly might the onlooker say - ‘In the midst of life we are in death’.

Frearson's Weekly 16/4/1881 p152  -  Anyone interested in building should spend half an hour in looking over the works now in progress for the ES & AC Bank, adjoining this office. It is evident the contractor, Mr J SHaw, believes in the future of this colony, for the work he is putting into the building will certainly last for eternity. The strength of the material is something wonderful, and the manner in which it is put together would do credit to the builders of this or any other age.

Frearson's Weekly 23/4/1881 p169  -  From Thomas Bastard’s memoirs

That great singer, Madame Anna Bishop, paid a visit to Adelaide, accompanied by Mr George Loder, an accomplished musician. They took apartments at the York Hotel, kept by a Mrs Bray, who conceived such a liking for Madame that in her will she bequeathed her a legacy of £1,000, besides making her other presents. Madame required a local agent, and Mrs Bray, knowing me, recommended me to her. I was accordingly sent for and engaged to make myself generally useful, to sing when required, and to act as money taker at her concerts, and White’s Rooms were fixed upon and engaged by me from the proprietor, Mr George White, on behalf of Madame. The bank authorities allowed me the privilege of taking the engagement at White’s Rooms so long as I did not neglect my duty at the bank, and by such engagements I was brought into the society of all the leading artistes who visited Adelaide. Perhaps it may not be out of place to mention some of their names, viz: - Madame Caley (fellow pupil of Jenny Lind), Richard W Kohler, Miska Hauser (the greatest violinist that ever came to Australia), LInly Norman, Richard WHite, Madame Carandini, Walter SHerwin, Madame Goddard (the premier pianiste), W Montgomery, B Fairclough, and many others.

Frearson's Weekly 14/5/1881 p216  -  Mr Thomas A Abbott, many years Overseer of Works in the Government Architect’s Department, has just entered into business on his own account at Frearson’s Chambers, city. From his practical experience, and thorough knowledge of his profession, there is little doubt his services will be in demand by those who require buildings erected in which architectural beauty is a desideratum.

Frearson's Weekly 21/5/1881 p232  -  One by one the old landmarks are disappearing from our principal streets, but in none is this more noticeable than in King William Street, in which of late many substantial buildings have been erected, adding to the architectural beauty of this portion of the city. The proprietors of this journal, actuated with the existing spirit of improvement, have decided to erect substantial premises on the old ones, the office from which the Illustrated Adelaide News and Weekly were first issued. Demolition is now in progress, and building operations will be commenced as soon as tenders for the work are accepted. The new building will have a somewhat pretentious freestone front, and comprise three storeys, with extensive cellarage. The ground floor will comprise shops, and upper floors offices etc. The proprietors of the new premises are Messrs Frearson Brother and Bonnin.

Frearson's Weekly 28/5/1881 p248  -  One hundred feet of land near Victoria-square was recently sold at £60 per foot.

Frearson's Weekly 1/10/1881 p537  -  Mr Marshall Wood’s statue of the Queen is to be erected in the centre of King William-street, near North Terrace, and almost immediately opposite our office. The work of the pedestal was commenced on Thursday last.

Frearson’s Weekly 10/9/1881 p 490  -  His Worship the Mayor of Adelaide has set the citizens an example worthy of emulation by those who fear the introduction of smallpox in this colony. He has been revaccinated, and I hope he will not suffer the inconvenience a friend of mine once did in Sydney. The gentleman in question was in his 35th year, and advised to be vaccinated. … That night on retiring to rest he became ill, and so continued with slight intermission for nearly a fortnight, during which he required unremitting care from two physicians. Remarkable to state, his head was swollen to double its usual size, and he suffered great pain in both arms.

Frearson's Weekly 11/3/1882 p74  -  The New Adelaide Ham Shop in King William-street, seems the right establishment in the right place, and certainly fills a want in the locality. The external appearance of the window is an index of the good things inside, and those epicures who drop in about meal times will not be disappointed in the fare set before them.

Frearson's Weekly 1/4/1882 p122  -  An Irishman accosted a gentleman in King William-street late at night, with a request for the time. The gentleman suspecting that Pat wished to snatch his watch, gave him a stinging rap on the nose, with the remark, ‘It has just struck one’. ‘Be jabers,’ retorted Pat. ‘I’m glad I didn’t as yer an hour ago.’

Frearson's Weekly 12/8/1882 p 425  -  Now that the new English, Scottish and Australian Chartered Bank is approaching completion, and the scaffolding has been removed, one can form aon opinion of its beauty and proportions. To me, it seems to be of the composite-conglomerated style of architecture. A portion of Melrose Abbey spliced on to a very modern Twickenham Villa, and the whole transplanted into King William-street, is a new conception. The front resembles a private residence, the south side an abbey, and the whole forms a very conspicuous object in street perspective; which, on the whole, with all its incongruity, is not displeasing to the eye. A railing in fron, which I presume will be added, will finish the picture …’

Frearson's Weekly 26/8/1882 p 457  -  The streets of Adelaide are again in an active state of eruption. King William-street looked during the week as if it has experienced a rather severe shock of earthquake. … Take those spots right in the middle of the streets, for instance, where pipes connected with the deep drainage system have been laid down, and that is almost everywhere. The filling in and restoration is wretchedly done, and a disgrace to the doers thereof. … It seemed for all the world as if we were driving along the back of the Great Sea Serpent, … a series of humps and hollows - the humps, I need scarcely remark, being above water, and the hollows beneath …

Frearson's Weekly 23/12/1882 p729  -  Most of the residents of Adelaide and visitors as well, will be glad to know that the ringing aparatus of the Town Hall bells is out of order.

Frearson's Weekly 17/11/1883 p597  -  The citizens who dwell in the southward part of Adelaide are laid under a debt of gratitude to Councillor Parker, at whose instigation the civic authorities are about to erect a lavatory establishment, so soon as, by the aid of the Town Clerk, they can effect a purchase of land near King William-street South suitable for the purpose.

In connectionwith the tar paving process, we may mention that Cr Downs is entitled to very hearty thanks indeed. To his action, it will be due that ere long the eastern footpath of King William-road, from Pennington-terrace to North-terrace, will be thoroughly tar paved.

Frearson's Weekly 19/1/1884 p703  -  Mrs Dehane, who will be remembered as having some years ago, with her husband, the late George Dehane, conducted a printing and stationery business in King William-street, on the site now occupied by Beaconsfield Buildings, returned to the colony by the Torrens on the 7th January. Mrs Dehane, who has been absent nearly 20 years, and will probably remain here for 12 months, is agreeably surprised at the wonderful alterations and improvements which meet her gaze on every hand.

Mt Barker Courier 4/7/1884 p3  -  The citizens of Adelaide, by a majority of 1,092 votes to 544, have decided that the Glenelg train may come up King William St as far as Victoria Square. The poll cost £24/11/8.

Mt Barker Courier 8/8/1884  -  The Commercial Bak have obtained a lease for 100 years, of the premises now occupied by Messrs D & W Murray, in King William St, Adelaide.

Mt Barker Courier 9/1/1885  -  The new Company Bridge, Adelaide, will be built of Aldgate stone and the parapets of Grünthal stone.

Mt Barker Courier 15/1/1886s  -  The Bank of Australasia, Adelaide, which was built in 1850, is being pulled down to make room for a bigger and better building.

Light Square

Frearson's Weekly 10/12/1881 p 695  -  Now that the harvest is in perspective, some farmers will be patching up old machines and trying to put over another season with those which ought to have long since been discarded. Don’t do it! Purchase a new machine, and make a fair start. Time will be saved, and time is moneyl. In case you come to Adelaide to purchase a reaper or mower, we would advise you to g9o to WJ Williams & Co, who have everything to suit the farmer. Their establishment is at Light-square, and they have a large and fine stock.

North Adelaide

SA Gazette 27/12/1845 p102  -  Last evening, the Rev’d Mr Farrell was thrown from his gig while descending the hill in North Adelaide, above Kermode-street, and very severely bruised. He was carried into Mr Heathcote’s residence, bleeding profusely and in a state of total insensibility. Dr Davies promptly attended, and in about an hour after the accident, the Rev’d gentleman was sufficiently recovered to be removed to the parsonage. We are glad to add that the most alarming symptoms have abated, and that no dangerous consequences are now apprehended.

SA Gazette 9/5/1846 p70  -  North Adelaide has long been scurvily treated. The Park Land is covered with cattle, scabby sheep, goats, pigs, and natives, and the northern community is regarded, even by the Post Office, as beyond the bounds of civilisation. Letters are delivered twice a day as far as South-terrace in Adelaide proper - although even once a week might serve. The foot-bridge across the Torrens has long been in a most dangerous state. It is much used by the residents, and very convenient, which may account for it.

SA Gazette 12/9/1846 p142  -  The present Wesleyan Chapel in Kermode-street, North Adelaide, having been badly built in the dear times, about seven years ago, has become rather unsafe during high winds; and as the extremely limited size of the piece of ground on which it stands prevents enlargement, the members and friends of the Wesleyan body have determined immediately to erect a new one on the Centenary Estate, O’Connell-street. The cost is estimated at about £200 or £250, and subscription lists are in circulation. Upwards of £50 has been already subscribed, and it is confidently hoped that the remainder of that amount will be quickly made up. The chapel is to be built without debt.

1847*

SA Gazette 9/1/1847 p6  -  We beg to call the attention of the members and friends of the Church of England to an advertisement in another column, announcing that Divine Service, according to the rites and ceremonies of that Church, will be resumed by the clergymen resident in Adelaide. The Friends’ Meeting-house has been kindly lent for a service on the Wednesday evening in each week, at seven o’clock; but we trust that the members of the Church of England will use every exertion to obtain the erection of an edifice, to be devoted to the service of God, in that part of the city.

SA Gazette 7/1/1847 p133  -  On Monday last, a meeting of the gentlemen interested in the erection of a church at North Adelaide was held at the Trinity school-house, the Rev’d James Farrell, Colonial Chaplain, in the chair, Mr F Wicksteed honorary secretary. It was determined that the most active measures should be immediately taken to raise sufficient funds for the purpose, and a committee of management was appointed. A letter from the Bishop was read by the Rev’d Mr Woodcock, and we believe £100 out of a fund at his disposal has been given in aid of this church, and a similar amount from the Society for the Propogation of the Gospel, in addition to the land on which the church is to be built, which was recently purchased for the Society by Mr George Morphett. The site is an exceedingly beautiful one, near Montefiore and Strangways-terrace. Sixty pounds, collected by the ladies of North Adelaide, have also been contributed, and many very handsome subscriptions have already been received, so that it is probable the building will be forthwith commenced.

SA Gazette 21/8/1847 p140  -  At a meeting of the Committee on Thursday, it was determined that the Church to be erected in North Adelaide should be called Christ Church. The funds subscribed towards the building were stated to be nearly £500. It was the opinion of the Committee that the estimated amount required to complete the building, £1,000, would be obtained by the contribution of the colonists; and it was determined that no portion of the Government grant should be applied for or accepted.

SA Gazette 28/8/1847 p144  -  The dinner of the Albert Lodge, North Adelaide, on Thursday night, was well attended. Mr Wicksteed and Mr Hillier acted respectively as Chairman and Croupier. The Provincial Grand Master and very many members of other lodges were present. The provision was excellent, and all appeared highly pleased.

SA Gazette 30/10/1847 p182  -  The Wesleyan Chapel in North Adelaide was opened on Sunday week; and a tea meeting held on Monday. The collection in aid of the building fund amounted to £63.

SA Gazette 18/12/1847 p214  -  We are glad to see that Mrs Allen is about to open a school for young ladies at North Adelaide. We understand that she purposes , with the assistance of Mr Allen, to lead her pupils through a superior course of reading and study. Such an establishment will much conduce to the improvement of the young generation, and render the loss of an education in England less perceptible. We have amongst us so many men of cultivated minds who cannot find suitable companions among the uninstructed, as to render the increase of establishments of this nature highly desirable.

Frearson's Weekly 9/10/1880 p485  -  Some years ago, the building of organs in this colony wouild have been considered a feat of a remarkable kind, but after inspecting the exceedingly beautiful instrument recently constructed by Mr WG Rendall, organ builder of Stanley St East, North Adelaide, it is clear that work of this character can be as well performed here as in England. Externally, its appearance is such as to command admiration, even from those familiar with the most novel designs, whilst the internal arrangements are all that could be desired by the most fastidious musician. Its tones are full and powerful, it has nine stops and fifty-six notes. We trust those interested will visit Mr Rendall’s establishment and judge of his meritorious work for themselves.

Frearson's Weekly 2/4/1881 p121  -  R MacKenzie, organ builder, of North Adelaide has been committed for trial on a charge of arson on his premises on the night of 24 March.

Frearson's Weekly 7/4/1881 p137  -  One of the streets in North Adelaide is to be named Pandemonium. People cant’ get a wink of sleep there till after midnight, and the music heard has no charms to soothe the savage breast. With six pianos, a big drum, two brass instruments, half a dozen catgut scrapers going at once, and a score of voices trying to bawl the Pinafore choruses, the residents have a lively time.

Frearson's Weekly 30/4/1881 p184  -  Organ-building has in the past hardly been recognised among South Australian industries; indeed, till Mr WG Rendall, of North Adelaide, the talented builder of church and other organs, came so prominently to the front, most instruments of this class were imported. … He is now engaged in building a magnificent two-manual organ for the Congregational Church, North Adelaide, which, when completed, as it will probably be in about eight months, will no only be the largest, but the best in tone, finish, or design in the colony. The case is to be of richly carved cedar, with 60 large metal pipes in front, stencilled, gilded, and arranged in circular sweeps, towers, and flats, and the total weight when fixed will be nearly 10 tons. This noble instrument is estimated to cost £800, but the price is cheap when it is considered how introcate is the workmanship, now numerous the stops, how wonderful the mechanism. It will have 1,186 pipes, five double-action composition pedals, and pneumatic pallets throughout, and the bellows will carry about 1,000 pounds to give the required pressure.

Frearson's Weekly 7/5/1881 p201  -  The Rev’d LG Carter, late pastor of Tynte-street, Baptist Church, was on 5 May presented with addresses, purse of 120 sovereigns, and an album by his congregation and friends. He leaves for England by an early steamer.

Frearson's Weekly 19/11/1881 p 648  -  An old woman, named McNamara, aged 80, was burnt to death whilst in a state of intoxication at a hovel in Stanley-street, North Adelaide. An inquest was held, whereby it appeared that the deceased and her husband were both addicted to drink, and that she had set alight to some articles of apparel, which caused the disaster. Two shillings and sixpence per week was paid as rent for the house, which was in a most filthy condition with rages, tins and lumber. Hovels such as this should not be allowed to be tenanted, and their presence is a disgrace to the community.

Frearson's Weekly 19/11/1881 p 650  -  On nothing in the colony, L James’s tanks can beat! You see them now in many yards, In every public street. Those who have none should visit him, His tanks are all first-class, He shows in them good workmanship. Which few here can surpass.

Louis James, plumber, O’Connell St, North Adelaide.

Frearson's Weekly 3/12/1881 p 680  -  A somewhat desperate affair occurred in Kermode-street, North Adelaide, on Friday morning. Three constables went to a dwelling there to arrest a youth named Frank Smith, who was wanted for some offence. The constables no sooner made known their errand than they were set on by the whole family who used plates and other missiles freely. They not only apprehended the youth, but made prisoners of the father, mother, brother and sister. During the mellee, the constables were severely handled, but showed considerable pluck against such uneven numbers.

Frearson's Weekly 30/6/1883 p329  -  Whinham College history

North Terrace

SA Gazette 30/8/1845 p34  -  DAGUERROTYPE - Mr W Little, North-terrace, who has acquired considerable reputation as an ingenious mathematical and optical instrument maker, has just succeeded in acquiring the above important art. Thus parties who wish to send accurate likenesses to England, will probably be enabled to do so at a very trifling expense.

1846*

SA Gazette 21/3/1846 p41  -  Mass meeting of colonists on Town Acre 16 on Saturday 21/3/1846, at 2pm to protest against the imposition of mineral royalties.

By far the most numerous and respectable meeting of colonists ever assembled in SA has just taken place … As it was known that no room in the colony would be sufficiently capacious to hold the numerous body who would be called together on the occasion, it was resolved to hold the meeting in the open air; and the unoccupied acre at the corner of King William-street and North-terrace, fronting the principal entrance to Government House, was selected. A commodious platform was accordingly erected this forenoon, and at two o’clock, a large body of the most influential and respectable colonists proceeded to the spot. Notwithstanding the numbers, the utmost order and decorum prevailed. … About 1,000 persons were present.

SA Gazette 4/4/1846 p51  -  The metals were reserv’d - the Major knew it - Knew well the fact, yet did not guide us to it.  He was reserved. Victoria! still our Queen,  As when no billow rear’d its head between!  More had we loved thee, and esteemed thee sager,  Hadst thou spared metals, and reserv’d the Major.

SA Gazette 27/6/1846 p98  -  Last evening, the family of W Giles Esquire, in North Terrace, were alarmed by the cry of fire. The police were soon on the spot, and found it originated in the chimney having taken fire. They succeeded in extinguishing it, but not until it had communicated with the skirting.

SA Gazette 11/7/1846 p106  -  Juvenile party at Government House - On Thursday evening, the Governor gave a ball to the younger South Australians. A very large party of happy little folks, and a few of our fairest younger ladies who cannot now be so classed, assembled on the occasion. The wonders of the Magic lantern; the mazes of the dance, (a good dancing master by the way is wanted) tea and cake in profusion, and a very bounteous supper of which all the young and some of the older partook - occupied the evening; His Excellency being apparently as much pleased at seeing his young guests enjoying themselves as they were delighted by his frank and unceasing attention.

SA Gazette 28/11/1846 p186  -  The opening of the new Oddfellows Hall, erected by Mr Abbott for this flourishing Lodge, took place on Thursday evening. About 120 brethren attended, Dr Nash in the chair. Host Abbott had provided a plentiful entertainment, and the evening, we need scarcely add, was spent with the harmony and decorum which characterises the Order.

SA Gazette 2/1/1847 p2  -  The 10th anniversary of the establishment of the colony was celebrated at Government-house on Tuesday evening last. About 200 ladies and gentlemen attended, and notwithstanding the heat of the weather, contrived to enjoy his Excellency’s hospitality, which, we scarcely say, was on no contracted scale, until after broad day light of the following morning.

SA Gazette 3/7/1847 p111  -  Mr Norman respectfully informs his patients and the public of Adelaide, that he has removed from King William-street to Belle Vue Cottage, North-terrace, adjoining the Old Bank of Australasia, and facing the Frome Bridge Road.

SA Gazette 30/10/1847 p181  -  HE gave a musical party, which was numerously attended, principally, it was remarked, by the older colonists. The music was, upon the whole, excellent, and much superior, we thought to what is generally expected from amateur performances. The supper room was thrown open soon after midnight, and dancing afterwards commenced in the drawing room, and was kept up till an early hour. The Governor’s personal attention to his guests was, as usual, unremitting.

Frearson's Weekly 16/8/1879 p210  -  The best woods for fuel is mallee, peppermint, and blue gum; this is the opinion of a gentleman who has purchased half-a-million tons during the past 25 years. The mallee can now be obtained at a very reasonable rate at Messrs JA Paynter & Co’s yard, at the back of the railway station, North Tce; it is cut into any length required, and being small requires no splitting.

Frearson's Weekly 23/8/1879 p218  -  The Commission appointed to consider the best site for the new Parliament Houses have decided upon the old site adjoining the present structure; Mr Everard’s idea of the site on the alluvial flat of the Torrens where the old sapper’s and miner’s cottage stands being out-voted.

Frearson's Weekly 17/1/1880 p440  -  It is high time the street watering carts extended their operations as far as the Railway Terminus on North-tce, and we are surprised that they have not done so before, as thousands of citizens who go to the station from King William St dailyh are often half choked when the dust begins to gather and blow about. Will the City Council please bear this in mind at their next meeting???

An accident of a somewhat remarkable character occurred to Mr Mills of North Adelaide, at about 6pm on Wednesday evening. As this gentleman, who is a very heavy man, was proceeding by one of the tramcars which ply between this place and the city, one of the rails connected with the top, and which he had grasped to assist him to reach that elevation gave way, and he was precipitated with great violence to the ground - falling on his head and causing blood to flow very freely. He was removed to the nearest hotel - the Gresham - where he received that care and attention which his injuries demanded. On making enquiries this morning, we learned from his medical adviser he is progressing favourably, and that his injuries are not so serious as had at first been expected.

I still vote in favour of tramcars. The other day, in the short journey from North Adelaide to the metropolis, the cab in which I rode having a jibbing horse broke down, and I with other passengers was delayed fully half an hour in consequence. Cabs are well enough when the horses are accustomed to the work and the drivers civil, but nevertheless, henceforth, I intend only to ride in the tramcars.

Frearson's Weekly 24/1/1880 p464  -  Our attention has been directed to the disgraceful state of the urinal in Gresham St, and the folly of erecting such an inconvenient nuisance in a small and crowded thoroughfare, is daily apparent. We should strongly advise the Board of Health, if really desirous of promoting the sanitary welfare of the public, to speedily remove it from the spot it now occupies, and erect something more commodious and useful in a less narrow street.

Frearson's Weekly 2/10/1880 p469  -  G & R Wills description.

Frearson's Weekly 26/3/1881 p105  -  Will our worthy mayor (Mr ET Smith) confer a lasting benefit on the inhabitants of North-terrace, by seeing they get their paths repaired, and the road watered?

What’s Peterswald and his sattelites (sic) about in allowing the flauting exhibition of prostitutes on North-terrace, between the Gresham Hotel and railway station, after dark?

Frearson's Weekly 7/5/1881 p201  -  Mr Gunsler of Melbourne, has bought Trew’s Hotel, North-terrace, and intends to enter into business there. Mr Gunsler’s long connection with the celebrated cafe which bears his name and his celebrity as a caterer, should ensure him many patrons in his new sphere.

Frearson's Weekly 25/6/1881 p312  -  Mr D Bower MP did good work by drawing attention to the disgraceful state of the approaches to the Houses of Parliament during the week, and should action be taken to remedy the evil, we suggest that the whole line of footpaths from Morphett to King William-street also be dealt with, as well as the present attempt of police protection, as it is a lasting disgrace that our very front door should be next to impassable through bad footpaths and roads during the day, and swarmed with drunkards and prostitutes during the night, as is the case.

Frearson's Weekly 8/10/1881 p554  -  The site for the new parliament houses has been considered during the week, and the matter will come before the Legislature at an early date. The Government Domain would be the best spot for them, thus leaving the piece of land at the corner of King William Road elibible for extending thereon of our railway station when required. The present Parliament buildings might be advantageously utilised for the rapidly increasing railway accommodation, and when the Nairne line is established, a want of this will be felt.

Frearson's Weekly 31/12/1881 p 744  -  An old vagrant named Mary Crisp, was found dead in a pool in the Botanic Gardens on 27 December. A bag with a large stone in it was attached to her neck, and an inquest haas been held, and adjourned in order to enable the police to procure further evidence.

Frearson's Weekly 7/10/1882 p 552  -  The new Parliament Houses are to be erected at the corner of North-terrace and King William-street, the spot first decided upon by the Government. The amount to be expended is £150,000 to start with.

Reel:

Frearson's Weekly 17/2/1883 p 25  -  Government House was discovered to be on fire on Monday evening 12 February. The Fire Brigade, assisted by a strong body of Police, succeeded in extinguishing it by 8pm. The estimates of damage done is £700. Plumbers had been at work on the roof during the day, and some act of carelessness on their part is supposed to have occasioned the fire. It is now being suggested that it would be well to insure all Government structures.

Frearson's Weekly 7/4/1883 p 137  -  With regard to the much-debated question of a suitable site for the new Parliament building, … what more noble or advantageous situation couild be obtained than that at present occupied by poor old insignificant Government House. Just give imagination scope, and picture in its place a structure worthy of its destiny and the land you live in … approached at the intersection of King William-street and North-terrace by a circular flight of granite or Kapunda marble steps … In the event of such a course being adopted, the vice-regal residence ought to be removed to one of the many eligible spots on Montefiore Hill, where a building much better fitted to be the abode of Her Majesty’s representative might be erected.

It is also proposed to span the railway by an overway bridge in continuation of Morphett-street. Now this has the disadvantages, firstly, that it will spoil North-terrace, cost a large sum of money, and not be used to an extent which would justify overlooking these items. Secondly, that, as this western end of the town improves, the general voice will clamour for and obtain the removal of such an unsightly structure and obstruction, in which case money will have been needlessly thrown away.

Mt Barker Courier 18/7/1884  -  A collision occurred in North Tce, Adelaide, on Monday last, between a tramcar and a steam roller. The tramcar was the chief sufferer.

Parklands History

1846 --->*

SA Gazette 11/4/1846 p54  -  We would really entreat the attention of the police to the proceedings of the natives on the Park Land, in North Adelaide. Not only is the destruction of the trees proceeding by wholesale, but the inhabitants are nightly disturbed by the horrible howling in their beatly corrobories. Morning and evening both sides of the river are crowded with the savages, armed, to, with spears, and accompanied with troops of half-starved curs, frightening and often insulting every unprotected female they meet. It will be necessary for the inhabitants to take order with these gentry unless decided measures are forthwith adopted by the authorities. The nuisance is now becoming intolerable.

SA Gazette 23/5/1846 p78  -  Now that the Park Lands are beginning to put on their spring livery, they are becoming as usual covered with droves of stray cattle, goats, and scabby sheep, notoriously belonging to persons who have no right ot depasture on these lands at all. It will be worthy of consideration whether, under proper regulations, the Park Lands of North Adelaide, especially, might not be made available to the inhabitants, and a town herd, such as is common to many continental towns, established, where families might have a milk cow or two, taken care of at a small charge per week to the herdsman.

SA Gazette 12/9/1846 p142  -  The safety of persons, particularly of ladies, is seriously endangered by the number of wild cattle allowed to roam at large on the Park between North and South Adelaide. We hope some means will be taken to remove the nuisance.

SA Gazette 16/10/1847 p173  -  Yesterday, a lady and child narrowly escaped serious injury in crossing the Park Lands of North Adelaide, from the furious rush made at them by one of the cattle which are still suffered to run at large in that neighbourhood. The recent Government Order appears to be altogether a dead letter on the other side of the Torrens.

Frearson’s Weekly 7/9/1879 p214  -  We are exceedingly pleased to find that the Corporation are not overanxious in giving the cricketing clubs monopoly of portions of our Park Lands. It is all very well to have one of these kind of grounds in the city, but beyond that we should not care to go. It is no over pleasant to find oneself surrounded with cricket and footballs as soon as you arrive within a few yards of the 9only pleasurable portion of the city; and besides this, it is not everyone who cares for these so-called manly games. Therefore, we strongly object to any further encroachment upon our pleasure grounds, and hope the Council will refuse all further applications from the above quarters.

Frearson's Weekly 17/1/1880 p440  -  A Mr A Ahrenberg has applied to the City Council for permission to bore for coal in the city park lands. Why not try the centre of King William-street or even Victoria-square? Professor Tait has emphatically stated that the geological formation of South Australia precludes the possibility of coal ever being discovered in it. Surely he ought to know, and if he does know - why is Mr Ahrenberg about to bore for black diamonds? No doubt coal will be fouind in the colony some day, and the sooner the better, but I very much doubt that it will be on the park lands, or indeed anywhere Adelaide.

Frearson's Weekly 14/5/1881 p216  -  A young larrikin named Reeves, ahving been caught in the act of breaking trees on the East Parklands, assaulted the apprehending constable, and was brought before Mr Beddome, who fined him £2 and costs for the offence. Had Mr Beddome considered that the punishment in this case would simplyh be felt by the parents, doubtless he would have sent the youthful scapegrace to the cells for a week, on bread and water diet, and a good sound flogging occasionally. Vandalism is on the increase, and it is only by such measures as that proposed that it can be stamped out.

Frearson's Weekly 4/6/1881 p264  -  The City Council intend planting 11,000 additional trees on the Park Lands.

Frearson's Weekly 4/6/1881 p264  -   A correspondent draws attention to the number of larrikins who congregate in the West Terrace Cemetery, on Sunday mornings, during church hours. On Sunday last, there were disgraceful scenes enacted there, in which larrikins of both sexes took a prominent part. The police were conspicuous by their absence. We trust this reminder will induce them to turn their attention in future to the suppression of the nuisance complained of.

Frearson's Weekly 27/8/1881 p457  -  Sir Thomas Elder, who is now in England, has presented the City Council with a rotunda or band stand, to be erected near the projected esplanade by the Torrens Lake.

Frearson's Weekly 24/9/1881 p519   -  Over 4,000 young trout have recently been placed in the waters of the Torrens Lake, and in order to conserve them, no licences to fish in the lake will be issued for at least twelve months.s

Frearson's Weekly 1/10/1881 p536  -  Mrs Anne Wakefield, aged 52, and her daughter aged 18, were taken out dead from the ruins of an old dilapidated hut in the Bugle Ranges, on 26 September. At the inquest, it was shown that the walls had been for some time quite out of perpendicular and that the indications afforded evidence that they had been blowne down during a storm. The occupants of this wretched place were in good circumstances, but preferred to exist in it rather than remove to a more comfortable habitition.

Frearson's Weekly 22/10/1881 p584  -  Up to the present, accidents on the Torrens Lake have not been frequent, but without proper care, we may oft be called on to record mishaps to those who indulge in aquatics there. A sad fate awaited a youth named ER Livingston on Sunday last, by the capsizing of a canoe, when he, being unable to swim, was drowned. He was in his 15th year, and resided at Kermode-st, North Adelaide. Much sympathy is felt for his relatives, as he was an only son. As a mark of esteem in which he was held, his funeral was attended by a large number of boatmen and friends.

Frearson's Weekly 29/10/1881 p 601  -  Last Saturday evening, a lad named Thomas is reported to have been stuck-up near the East Parklands by a man with a revolver. The youngster had to turn out his pockets, but as they contained only valuables such as marbles, tops, or the like, he was allowed to depart unmolested.

Frearson's Weekly 5/11/1881 p 617  -  James Alexander, the Australian Blondin, is to cross the Torrens on a wire this (Saturday) afternoon. He has performed similar perilous feats before, and it is hoped on this occasion he will be successful.

Frearson's Weekly 12/11/1881 p 6332  -  The Australian Blondin successfully crossed the Torrens on a galvanised rope on Saturday last. A large crowd witnessed this sensational performance.

Frearson's Weekly 19/11/1881 p 648  -  A child, the son of a man named Le Lamer, of North Adelaide, whilst playing on the North Park Lands, went into a burning rubbish heap, and was so much injured that he died.

Frearson's Weekly 3/12/1881 p 680  -  Who are the persons in the habit of of depositing the carcasses of dead dogs, cats, and other animals on the banks of the Torrens, and creating a horrible nuisance? If the locality is intended as a resort for citizens, prompt steps should be taken to abate it, as at present the stench is overpowering when the wind sets in from that quarter. … Surely some of those policemen who have so little to occupy their time, except in watching aquatics, would devote some of it to clearing away what is so objectionable. Whilst means are taken to prevent small-pox in one direction, in another inducements are held out for its introduction. The summer is now setting in, and dead animals lying about. If fevers prevail, the cause will be easily determined.

Frearson's Weekly 17/12/1881 p 712  -  George Davis, who shot at and wounded Mr Hoyle on the Park Lands, and was implicated with Patrick McMahon in robbing Mr Sellick, was sentenced at the Supreme Court to nineteen years imprisonment and hard labour, and McMahon to ten years’ hard labour.

Frearson's Weekly 14/1/1882 p 777  -  Two men named severally Ewins and Thompson, having had a quarrel, resorted to the Park Lands to have it out … The fight lasted some hours, and both men were greatly punished. Thompson managed to reach home, but was found dead in bed next morning (Tuesday); his death being the result of injuries he had received in fighting.

Frearson's Weekly 20/1/1883 p 792  -  Wanton mischief was perpetrated by larrikins at the new Zoological Gardens in the Botanic Park Reserve, on the night of Tuesday 16th January, the workmen’s tools being scattered in all directions, two hods broken, and some brickwork destroyed.

Frearson's Weekly 24/3/1883 p 105  -  The City Health Officer has been instructed to furnish a report as to the advisability or otherwise of erecting a shed in the vicinity of the Torrens Lake for the recovery of persons apparently drowned.

It is under contemplation to impose a fee on football clubs for the accommodation they receive on the Park Lands.Cr Downs, ably backed up by Alderman Fox, has succeeded in convincing the City Council that the Torrens should be opened for fishermen with rod and line. Licences will probably be granted shortly for that purpose. Trout are said to be abundant in the Lake.

Frearson's Weekly 7/4/1883 p 138  -  The old baths in King William-road have been pulled down, and the erection of new and more commodious buildings will be commenced forthwith.

Pirie Street

Frearson’s Weekly 7/9/1879 p214  -  We are exceedingly pleased to find that the Corporation are not overanxious in giving the cricketing clubs monopoly of portions of our Park Lands. It is all very well to have one of these kind of grounds in the city, but beyond that we should not care to go. It is no over pleasant to find oneself surrounded with cricket and footballs as soon as you arrive within a few yards of the 9only pleasurable portion of the city; and besides this, it is not everyone who cares for these so-called manly games. Therefore, we strongly object to any further encroachment upon our pleasure grounds, and hope the Council will refuse all further applications from the above quarters.

Frearson's Weekly 17/1/1880 p440  -   A Mr A Ahrenberg has applied to the City Council for permission to bore for coal in the city park lands. Why not try the centre of King William-street or even Victoria-square? Professor Tait has emphatically stated that the geological formation of South Australia precludes the possibility of coal ever being discovered in it. Surely he ought to know, and if he does know - why is Mr Ahrenberg about to bore for black diamonds? No doubt coal will be fouind in the colony some day, and the sooner the better, but I very much doubt that it will be on the park lands, or indeed anywhere Adelaide.

Frearson's Weekly 14/5/1881 p216  -  A young larrikin named Reeves, ahving been caught in the act of breaking trees on the East Parklands, assaulted the apprehending constable, and was brought before Mr Beddome, who fined him £2 and costs for the offence. Had Mr Beddome considered that the punishment in this case would simplyh be felt by the parents, doubtless he would have sent the youthful scapegrace to the cells for a week, on bread and water diet, and a good sound flogging occasionally. Vandalism is on the increase, and it is only by such measures as that proposed that it can be stamped out.

Frearson's Weekly 4/6/1881 p264  -  The City Council intend planting 11,000 additional trees on the Park Lands.

Frearson's Weekly 4/6/1881 p264  -  A correspondent draws attention to the number of larrikins who congregate in the West Terrace Cemetery, on Sunday mornings, during church hours. On Sunday last, there were disgraceful scenes enacted there, in which larrikins of both sexes took a prominent part. The police were conspicuous by their absence. We trust this reminder will induce them to turn their attention in future to the suppression of the nuisance complained of.

Frearson's Weekly 27/8/1881 p457  -  Sir Thomas Elder, who is now in England, has presented the City Council with a rotunda or band stand, to be erected near the projected esplanade by the Torrens Lake.

Frearson's Weekly 24/9/1881 p519  -  Over 4,000 young trout have recently been placed in the waters of the Torrens Lake, and in order to conserve them, no licences to fish in the lake will be issued for at least twelve months.s

Frearson's Weekly 1/10/1881 p536  -  Mrs Anne Wakefield, aged 52, and her daughter aged 18, were taken out dead from the ruins of an old dilapidated hut in the Bugle Ranges, on 26 September. At the inquest, it was shown that the walls had been for some time quite out of perpendicular and that the indications afforded evidence that they had been blowne down during a storm. The occupants of this wretched place were in good circumstances, but preferred to exist in it rather than remove to a more comfortable habitition.

Frearson's Weekly 22/10/1881 p584  -  Up to the present, accidents on the Torrens Lake have not been frequent, but without proper care, we may oft be called on to record mishaps to those who indulge in aquatics there. A sad fate awaited a youth named ER Livingston on Sunday last, by the capsizing of a canoe, when he, being unable to swim, was drowned. He was in his 15th year, and resided at Kermode-st, North Adelaide. Much sympathy is felt for his relatives, as he was an only son. As a mark of esteem in which he was held, his funeral was attended by a large number of boatmen and friends.

Frearson's Weekly 29/10/1881 p 601  -  Last Saturday evening, a lad named Thomas is reported to have been stuck-up near the East Parklands by a man with a revolver. The youngster had to turn out his pockets, but as they contained only valuables such as marbles, tops, or the like, he was allowed to depart unmolested.

Frearson's Weekly 5/11/1881 p 617  -  James Alexander, the Australian Blondin, is to cross the Torrens on a wire this (Saturday) afternoon. He has performed similar perilous feats before, and it is hoped on this occasion he will be successful.

Frearson's Weekly 12/11/1881 p 6332  -  The Australian Blondin successfully crossed the Torrens on a galvanised rope on Saturday last. A large crowd witnessed this sensational performance.

Frearson's Weekly 19/11/1881 p 648  -  A child, the son of a man named Le Lamer, of North Adelaide, whilst playing on the North Park Lands, went into a burning rubbish heap, and was so much injured that he died.

Frearson's Weekly 3/12/1881 p 680  -  Who are the persons in the habit of of depositing the carcasses of dead dogs, cats, and other animals on the banks of the Torrens, and creating a horrible nuisance? If the locality is intended as a resort for citizens, prompt steps should be taken to abate it, as at present the stench is overpowering when the wind sets in from that quarter. … Surely some of those policemen who have so little to occupy their time, except in watching aquatics, would devote some of it to clearing away what is so objectionable. Whilst means are taken to prevent small-pox in one direction, in another inducements are held out for its introduction. The summer is now setting in, and dead animals lying about. If fevers prevail, the cause will be easily determined.

Frearson's Weekly 17/12/1881 p 712  -  George Davis, who shot at and wounded Mr Hoyle on the Park Lands, and was implicated with Patrick McMahon in robbing Mr Sellick, was sentenced at the Supreme Court to nineteen years imprisonment and hard labour, and McMahon to ten years’ hard labour.

Frearson's Weekly 14/1/1882 p 777  -  Two men named severally Ewins and Thompson, having had a quarrel, resorted to the Park Lands to have it out … The fight lasted some hours, and both men were greatly punished. Thompson managed to reach home, but was found dead in bed next morning (Tuesday); his death being the result of injuries he had received in fighting.

Frearson's Weekly 20/1/1883 p 792  -  Wanton mischief was perpetrated by larrikins at the new Zoological Gardens in the Botanic Park Reserve, on the night of Tuesday 16th January, the workmen’s tools being scattered in all directions, two hods broken, and some brickwork destroyed.

Frearson's Weekly 24/3/1883 p 105  -  The City Health Officer has been instructed to furnish a report as to the advisability or otherwise of erecting a shed in the vicinity of the Torrens Lake for the recovery of persons apparently drowned.

It is under contemplation to impose a fee on football clubs for the accommodation they receive on the Park Lands.Cr Downs, ably backed up by Alderman Fox, has succeeded in convincing the City Council that the Torrens should be opened for fishermen with rod and line. Licences will probably be granted shortly for that purpose. Trout are said to be abundant in the Lake.

Frearson's Weekly 7/4/1883 p 138  -  The old baths in King William-road have been pulled down, and the erection of new and more commodious buildings will be commenced forthwith.

Rundle Street

SA Gazette 20/12/1845 p98  -   Last evening, an altercation took place in Rundle-street, between two men named Thompson and Bland, in the course of which, Bland - who had a sickle in his hand - struck Thompson a severe blow on the head with it, thereby severely wounding the man, who is considered in a dangerous state. Bland was immediately taken in charge by police.

SA Gazette 5/9/1846 p138  -  An inquest was held on Monday last, at the Hospital, on the body of John Lane, labourer, in the employ of Mr Rollason, potter, Rundle-street. He fell out of a window of the second floor of Welbourne’s Eating-house, Rundle-street. Verdict - Accidental death, while in a state of intoxication.

SA Gazette 7/11/1846 p174  -  It is with much pain we mention that Mr Jansen (a native of Sweden), well known to the inhabitants of the eastern part of Rundle-street, has become insane through an unfortunate love affair. He is not a very young man, perhaps about thirty-two or thirty-three years of age. On Sunday, he attempted suicide, and has since given prooofs so unequivocal of derangement that the police have felt it necessary to take charge of him, and to place a guard upon his property, which is by no means inconsiderable, and of which there is reason to believe that a pretended friend meditates taking possession. Mr Jansen formerly held a commission in the Swedish navy.

SA Gazette 13/2/1847 p34  -  The two Congregationalist Sabbath schools of Adelaide and Hindmarsh met at the chapel Freeman-street, in the morning [Tuesday 9/2/1847], and proceeded in a line of carriages, consisting of phaetons, gigs, spring carts, German waggons, down to sober bullock drays, so long that by the time the last reached the end of Gawler-place, the first was at the bottom of Rundle-street, thus filling up the entire length between these two points. The stir occasioned by the vehicles, and the irrepressible and shouting joy of the children, roused the wondering neighbourhood. On their arrival at their destination, they were joined by the Makgill school … The schools were entertained for the day at Felixtow, the residence of the Rev’d TQ Stow, their esteemed and excellent pastor.

SA Gazette 30/10/1847. p180  -  The valuable residence and stores, corner of Tavistock and Rundle-streets, lately occupied by J Frew Esquire, and now by Samuel Hart Esquire, consisting of lofty parlours, bed-rooms, offices etc, with detached cottage for servants; let, for the next four months , at the rate of £100 per annum. JB Neales.

Frearson’s Weekly 6/7/1878 p138  -  It is with great pleasure we give this week an engraving of a new church organ imported bby Mr J Witkowski music seller, of Rundle-St. The tones of music produced by this organ is what one seldom hears amongst the unsual run of instrument in these colonies, and to Mr Witkowski belongs the credit of introducing what every person, rich or poor, may obtain at a very reasonable cost. We might state that the organ is incased in a magnificent Spanish mahogany case, possesses ten stops, two key-boards, and pedals with fine tone.

Frearson’s Weekly 8/2/1879 p394  -  We announce the fact of Messrs Baxter & Grivell opening as fish and oyster merchants in the premises 137 Rundle St, where, we are sure, the public taste will be gratified to the fullest extent. We believe, it is the firm’s intention to keep a constant supply of the most seasonable goods, and at the same time charging but reasonable prices. Their establishment is fitted up in the very latest style, having a special private room for ladies, which is a decided boon to the public.

Frearson’s Weekly 15/2/1879 p2  -   Rundle St fire.

Frearson’s Weekly 24/5/1879 p114  -  We sincerely hope that the Corporation will take active steps to have that 20’ of path and roadway reclaimed upon which is erected a most dangerous hoarding in Rundle-st, and situated just at its entrance from King William St. … There would not be so much to complain of were the shop, or whatever it is intended to be, erected on the site, pushed on with all despatch, but such is not the case, as but few men seem to be at work … The large show boot which Mr Shephard had erected above his new premises in King William St, although in no way inconveniencing the public, nor being in any way dangerous, was at once ordered to be removed; and yet this hoarding, which is a nuisance and dangerous to the public at the same time is allowed to remain. Truly the ways of the Corporation officers are peculiar.

Frearson’s Weekly 24/5/1879 p115  -  New Academy of Music description.

Frearson’s Weekly 31/5/1879 p122  -  We are very happy to see the well-known face of Mr PD Prankerd once more amongst us after a long absence in the old country. Mr Prankerd was one of our successful land agents, and retired after many years of the usual ups and downs of colonial life in 1869. Things must seem changed since his last setting foot on SA soil, for there is but very little left of the city was it was when he took his last departure from it. We … remember Mr Prankerd’s name being mentioned by our parents as that of a gentleman and an upright man. We heartily welcome him amongst us and wish him a long life. [He gave a £500 donation to the Adelaide University]

Frearson’s Weekly 14/6/1879 p138  -  This week, we have observed heavy teams of horses and drays back into the gutter unloading tons of stone, which in itself is enough to half stop the traffic of so narrow a street, but, combined with the awful dangerous projection, the evil is an intolerable one, and shall be kept before the public as such by our pen until removed.

Frearson’s Weekly 12/7/1879 p170  -  Another large shop is also nearing completion, it has a handsome front, but not ornamented to such an extent as those under Mr Rees’s supervision. We believe the new building alluded to is being built for Mr George Stone, the well-known draper of Rundle St.

A novelty in wall decoration is to be seen at the elegant and commodious shop of Mr Kither, butcher, of Rundle-st; the whole of the walls, instead of being dressed with the ordinary plaster, are inlaid with white ornamented tiles, giving a most pleasing appearance, and will, no doubt, be an immense advantage in cleansing the walls over ordinary plaster.

Frearson's Weekly 19/7/1879 p178  -  We believe it is Mr J Jackman’s intention to open a branch of his well-known restaurant in one of those handsome shops erected by Mr W Kither in Rundle-st, and known as Kither’s Buildings.

Frearson’s Weekly 8/11/1879 p322  -  Marshall & Sons, Rundle St, building.

Frearson’s Weekly 29/11/1879 p358  -  Amongst the many novelties displayed in the shop windows for the Christmas season, is mechanical toys, imported by Mr Alex Cunningham, of Rundle St, which for exactness and beauty we have never seen equalled. The whol performance of a real gourmand is gone through with a life-like truthfulness. They are of French manufacture, and we are informed the only four as yet seen out of that country. We should imagine their owner will have but little if any trouble in disposing of them.

Frearson’s Weekly 6/12/1879 p370  -  We are happy to observe that the hoarding at the entrance of Rundle St from King William St, to which we have repeatedly drawn attention, and which has long been a great nuisance to the public, has been removed during the week.

Frearson's Weekly 24/1/1880 p542  -  Mr FW Dancker, architect, … has just entered on the practice of his profession at Gawler Place,, and there is little doubt from the practical knowledge he possesses of building, he will ensure the patronage he so well deserves.

Frearson's Weekly 24/1/1880 p463  -  The SA Company can make money like dirt. So a friend tells me. Well, and why not! they purchased the land for an old song, and kept it until other people made it valuable by building near it, making roads and bridges, and in every way enhancing the value, when it is sold at enormous profits, and the money spent in England. Yes, it’s all fair, business is business, you know, and if they want as much for a quarter of an acre as they paid for one hundred acres, that’s fair too.

Frearson's Weekly 2/10/1880 p468  -  It will be seen by our advertising columns that Mr W Pengelley, of Rundle St has purchased the extensive funeral plant, hearse etc of Mr Julius Eitzen, who has recently retired from business. Whilst wishing Mr Pengelly increased trade, we trust there will be small necessity among our readers to use the really beautiful funeral plant, but if such should be the case, he will without doubt perform by their aid the last obsequies effectively and cheaply.

Willcox & Co drapers Rundle St, Adelaide

Frearson's Weekly 2/10/1880 p469  -  G & R Wills description.

Frearson's Weekly 23/4/1881 p169  -  From Thomas Bastard’s memoirs - That great singer, Madame Anna Bishop, paid a visit to Adelaide, accompanied by Mr George Loder, an accomplished musician. They took apartments at the York Hotel, kept by a Mrs Bray, who conceived such a liking for Madame that in her will she bequeathed her a legacy of £1,000, besides making her other presents.

Frearson's Weekly 21/5/1881 p233  -  Frequently I am asked who has the largest and best stock of ladies’ and gentlemen’s umbrellas in Adelaide, and I have invariably replied Wedler, whose depot is at 123 Rundle-street. Those troubled with a defective memory should take a note of it, lest an unpalatable lesson should be taught them when storms arise and it rains cats, dogs, buckets and pitchforks.

Frearson's Weekly 28/5/1881 p248  -  A military club will shortly be established in premises opposite the York Hotel, Rundle-street, Adelaide.

Frearson's Weekly 28/5/1881 p248  -  Those who have not yet visited Mr Wivell’s Art Gallery in Rundle-street have certainly a treat of no ordinary kind in store, the collection of pictures therein being superior to any hitherto exhibited here. … Two of Mr Johnstone’s latest productions - The Valley of the Goulbourn and A scene on the Murray, are in that well-known artist’s best style, and very effective. Among other attractions are some grand pictures , the property of F Cudmore Esquire, purchased at the Melbourne Exhibition, which have been lent to Mr Wivell to exhibit with his collection.

Frearson's Weekly 11/6/1881 p280  -  Messrs W & RC Kither, the well-known butchers of Adelaide, have just received from the Finnis district a splendid lot of cattle, averaging 2,114 lbs, whilst some weigh 2,380 lbs. They are undoubtedly the finest beasts of the kind which have been lately brought to market, and we may expect that the expectations of our citizens as to prime joints of beef in perspective will shortly be realised.

Messrs T Wilcox & Co, drapers of Rundle-street, have displayed in the windows of their establishment, five magnificent ladies’ costumes, from the Melbourne Exhibition, valued at about £200. They have, we hear, been purchased by a well-known lady of this city. The tasteful manner in which these windows are dressed, reflects great credit on Messrs Wilcox & Co’s assistants, and would bear imitation by many other drapers in Adelaide.

The Civic authorities should look after the somewhat dangerous obstruction to passenger traffic, in the front portion of a prominent draper’s shop in Rundle-street, near the Globe Hotel. If His Worship in passing, should be struck by this artistic piece of workmanship, or some of the Councillors get buried underneath it, there will be no end of talk in the Council about it. As it is, no one seems to care whether it stands or falls.

Frearson's Weekly 2/7/1881 p329  -  The Parisian Restaurant, 6 Rundle St, is another of the evidences of greater civilisation and luxury in South Australia. When nations advance in wealth, their habits and living advance with them; and this is more noticeable in eating and drinking. The proprietor, Monsieur Bestel, is a most efficient caterer; the rooms are comfortably fitted up, capable of dining 300 persons at one time. There is also a smoking room, a room for ladies, and a private room for parties and club dinners. The wines are excellent, and obtained the prize medal awarded to the South Australian Vineyards Association, whilst the chef, Monsieur François Lavoue, skilfully prepares a dinner fit for a prince. …

M. Bestel has secured the contract to supply all the liquors of South Australian growth for use at the Exhibition, coffee ROyale, tea from the finest plantations in India, China, and the exquisite pastry and confections of Mons, Lavoue. The restaurant is ably superintended by M. Bestel, personally assisted by a bevy of charming girls to wait upon loungers at the Exhibition.

Frearson's Weekly 5/11/1881 p 618  -  If you to lunch shold feel inclin’d, and want a restaurant to find, Bestel supplies good things to eat, at number six in Rundle-street.

Cashmore & Co, tailors and outfitters, are working up a splendid trade in Rundle-street. As may be expected, their business is on the cash principle more than of credit. Fancy, tweed suits for 70s, the millennium is certainly at hand …

The weather was stormy, the stars were in perihelion, and it rained cats, dogs and cockroaches. The streets were muddy in spite of the asphalt, and the prospect , even in the street of Rundle, was far from enchanting. Everybody feared the rain, which was terrific, and everybody got wet through or crept under shelter as fast as they could. Armed with one of Wedler’s umbrellas, I withstood the storm, and reached my destination without a drop of the pluvial element touching my clothes. Hereafter, Wedler shall receive my gratitude, and his Rundle-street shop my patronage.

When a young man has had his hair brushed by machinery, he feels as lively as a cocksparrow in the fruit season. Mr J Finucane, of 158 Rundle-street East , has a deal to answer for in this department of hairdressing. He makes some young men look so smart that their very mothers pass them by in the street without recognition.

The season when South Australian fruits are at their best, will soon arrive; and no doubt those who want to secure a prime stock of the ripest wil visit the East-End Market. There they can buy an excellent article from Messrs Penhall, Matthew & CO, wholesale and retail fruiterers and produce merchants.

Frearson's Weekly 19/11/1881 p 650  -  There’s a man down Rundle-street East who is always dy(y)ing and isn’t dead yet. Strange to say, he doesn’t require medical aid at this terrible time. His name is Mullaney, and he’s a dyer, cleaner, hot presser, and bleacher, and is just the person to take silks to if yhou want them changed in colour. My wife’s shawl was dyed by him, and it looks so attractive now that letters are coming to her daily by post to ask the name of the establishment where she purchased it. Thus a shawl worth about 10s 6d has been made to appear valued at two guineas.

Frearson's Weekly 3/12/1881 p 680  -  A resident of Freeman-street, Adelaide, has a mastiff bitch which recently gave birth to 21 pups. The same animal has had fifty pups in three litters. The case is certainly unprecedented in the colonies.

Frearson's Weekly 3/12/1881 p 681  -  When I need good boots, I look out a pair Of the Waukenphast sort, the best you can wear;  They’re all cheap and strong, and colonial made, And are sold at the Port, in a shop on North Parade.  In the city there’s nought can surpass them in style, Gent’s goloshed, 6s 6d - some persons may smile.  When this fact they hear; but if they boot their feet,  They’ll see that the Waukenphast shops none cat beat; And the city address is down Rundle-street.

What an elegant suite! remarked a lady at Kensington, as she entered her friend’s drawing-room on a visit, and seated herself on a soft cushioned chair. ‘Yest,’ was the reply, ‘and it was very cheap. I saw it at P Gay’s, pointed it out to my husband, who was as much delighted as I with it, and wrote me out a cheque for the money there and then.’ ‘I only wish my husband was not so niggardly, then I could have a suite, too. At P Gay’s, Rundle-street, I think you said. Why, it’s the same establishment where our billiard-table came from!’

Frearson's Weekly 10/12/1881 p 695  -  These words may make some melancholy, ‘Coffins all sizes kept on hand;’ But don’t despair, as heretofore be jolly; ‘Coffins all sizes kept on hand.’ You may not want them now, but really, As Death’s no stranger to these lands, Just call, select your size out from Pengelley, For well the trade he understands.

Ever since the days when I tasted ice-cream at Hungerford Market, I have felt a desire to partake of more. Of course. … when summer sets in, as it is now doing, there is nothing can beat ice-cream for cooling and refreshing the system. To get a pure and good article, you needn’t go as far as England now. Only visit St Albert’s establishment, Rundle-street East, and you will find a splendid assortment of splendid ices - none better on this side of the globe.

Frearson's Weekly 18/2/1882 p 25  -  At dinner time you should just drop in And eat of a good square meal; For the noted York Rooms are the spot Where one satisfied can feel.  Fred Wilkinson to meet the times, Gives for sixpence of the best; So go to the York in Rundle-street, And its pleasing viands test.

Frearson's Weekly 18/3/1882 p 88  -  Marshall & Co fire.

Mt Barker Courier 4/8/1882  -  Architects and builders appear to be having a good time in Adelaide. In every direction, large and commodious public and private buildings and business premises are rearing their unfinished forms above the old-time structures which have for so long a period disgraced our metropolitan streets. Among the most noticeable of these new buildings are the milk-white gothic walls of the ES & A Chartered Bank, and the large pile of brickwork which Messrs Marshall & Co are erecting in Rundle St. Land is evidently growing more valuable in Adelaide, and height is superseding breadth in the new elevations which are adorning our public thoroughfares.

During the Mayoralty of Mr ET Smith, many valuable reforms have been carried out, and in the Torrens dam, the fenced squares,, and completion of deep drainage; and various other public benefits, we may see the result of his wisdom and work. Cannot he supplement these good deeds by rendering the city streets less uncomfortable for the traffic of foot passengers, and more easy for the domestic bootblacks, during the watery days of winter?

ET Smith, the Dick Wittington of Adelaide.

Frearson's Weekly 12/8/1882 p 425  -  A lad named Frederick Wittard, about 15 years of age, fell from the top of a three storey building, now being erected at the corner of James Place and Rundle-street, on 5th August. The scalp of his head was torn from front to back, and he also sustained other serious injuries.

Frearson's Weekly 7/7/1883 p 345   -  Mr J Finucane, so long and favourably known as a perfumer and hairdresser in Rundle-street, facing the York Hotel, has now removed to new premises further up the street on the south side. His saloon is such an excellent one that we recommend all who have not seen it to pay a visit. The ladies’ compartment is an excellent boudoir, combining comfort with elegance.

Frearson's Weekly 14/7/1883 p 360  -  A striking improvement has recently been effected in the appearance of Rundle-street West, by the erection of handsome business premises for Messrs RN Gault & Co. It contains a basement floor [with] entrance from Rundle-street, so that it may be let separately. Access is obtained to the upper floor by spacious blackwood stairs, with Huon pine handrails and clear pine balusters. The shop is furnished with handsome counters and fittings, all made of two shades, light wood picked out withebony and cedar mouldings, the whole giving a very rich and pleasing effect. The elevation is carried out to harmonise with Messrs Donaldson, Andrews & Sharland’s new building adjoining … yet at the same time preserves a distinctive charager. The present building represents only a portion of the design for the erection of a large block of building which it is proposed to complete at some future time. The building was designed and carried out by Mr D Garlick, and has been creditably erected by Mr Frank George. Mr HW Trudgen executed the fittings for the shop. The cost of the building is about £4,700. … It is worthy of note that Messrs Gault’s establishment is the only one in Adelaide of which it can be said that the paving in front thereof is of Kapunda marble.

Mt Barker Courier 27/10/1882  -  Mr William Parkin of Glenelg has devoted the rents (amounting to £1,200 per annum) of his property in Rundle-St to charitable purposes in connection with the Congregational body.

Mt Barker Courier 10/11/1882  -  It appears that Messrs Smith & Parker, of Rundle-st, were amongst the number of firms who agreed to close their establishment on Saturday evenings at 7pm. Last Saturday, however, not seeming in a hurry to close, a crowd assembled, and their groans quickly caused the shutters to be put up.

The same night, Mr Stone, whose establishment is in the same street, but who had not pledged himself to 9pm Saturday closing, had his window broken by a stone thrown from the crowd.

Frearson's Weekly 12/1/1884 p 691  -  ‘Fire at the back of the Academy!’ was viciferously shouted by some-one in Rundle-street shortly after 1.30am on the morning of Sunday 6 January. … John Williams, who works on the night shift at the Union Brewery, which is situated immediately behind the ill-fated Academy, was the first to notice the fire, and hear the sound of burning deal.  He awakened the caretaker, George Moore, who was sleeping in one of rooms over the stage on the eastern side. It was lucky he did so, for George Moore would otherwise have been burned to death or suffocated before aid could have been rendered him. As it was, he had difficulty in escaping, which he did, however, by the fire-escape at the west side, after burning the sole of his foot and sustaining a severe fall from the stage into the orchestra. Unfortunately, too, he lost all his clothes and belongings, including £58 in money, the savings of the last two years and more of his life.  At a quarter past 2, the roof commenced to fall in, thereby increasing the liability of the front premises to share in the general destruction. The flames then entered Frahm’s kitchen and refreshment saloon, and there stopped, the shop proper remaining comparatively unharmed. About 3am, the flames were pretty well subdued, Superintendent Moore and his merry men toiling away with unflagging energy and skill throughout, despite an injury to the Superintendent’s arm, sustained through the falling of burning material from aloft. …  Mr Hudson’s whole wardrobe has been consumed, not to mention other valuable properties, the accumulation of years. The ladies of the company, too, have lost all their pretty stage dresses, their jewellery, and stock of Indian curiosities. The origin of the fire is not known with any degree of certainty.

Frearson's Weekly 19/1/1884 p 703  -  It is with feelings of profound regret I notice … that Mr Charles Birks, the well-known and highly influential wholesale and retail draper and importer, has retired from the firm of Charles Birks & Company, the princes of drapers and clothers, from the 9th January, and that Mr Walter Birks, brother of Mr Charles Birks, has associated himself in partnership with other gentlemen.

Observer 13/12/1884 p 1141.  -  JOHN MARTIN’S EXTENSIONS Rebuilding

Mt Barker Courier 19/3/1886  -  A small fire occurred in Messrs Landvogt and Noonan’s shop (drapers), last Monday night.

Mt Barker Courier 20/4/1888  -  Messrs C Birks & Co are about to make large building improvements in Rundle-street.

South Terrace

Frearson's Weekly 7/5/1881 p201  -  Dr Joyce has called for tenders for work in connection with the proposed Adelaide Eye Hospital. We regret to learn that the worthy doctor’s appeal to the public on behalf of so worthy an institution has been unsuccessful, and that he is thus necessitated to carry out his original design himself.

Frearson's Weekly 18/6/1881 p296  -  Good colonial Beer - It has been our pleasure to taste a glass of really excellent ale, brewed at the flourishing establishment of Messrs Chambers & Blades, of the Green Dragon Brewery. We draw all the more attention to this, as it is evidently for the good of the community that the brewing of good, healthy, and palatable ale should be encouraged. Messrs C & B have lately been fortunate in securing a first-class brewer, who has eminently succeeded in producing a light and nutty, though hoppy and aromatic beverage.

Dr Joyce’s endeavours to establish an Eye Infirmary worthy of the colony, are likely to be crowned with success, and there will ere long arise from its foundations in South Australia, a handsome edifice for the treatment of those afflicted with ophthalmic complaints. Tenders have been accepted for the chief portion of the building, and there will be no delay in commencing the work. The total cost of the structure, land on which it stands, necessary furniture etc, is estimated at £10,000, and while saed to reflect that there is a necessity for such an institution, it is, on the other hand, gratifying to know that a gentleman of such extensive experience as Dr Joyce has taken so warm an interest in the matter, and doing so much good. We feel sure it only remains to be understood that patients can receive the treatment their cases require, and be boarded and lodged for the sum of two guineas per week, to ensure Dr Joyce’s establishment the extensive patronage it deserves.

Frearson's Weekly 20/8/1881 p442  -  The Adelaide Eye Infirmary - The foundation-stone of this Institution is to be laid by His Worship the Mayor of Unley (W Townsend MP) today (20 August), at 2.30pm. We congratulate Dr Joyce on his wonderful perseverance, which has enabled him to overcome so many difficulties in his efforts to establish this long-felt want, and shall be glad to hear that the funds are pouring in upon the worthy doctor, so that the whole, instead of part, of the building may be erected at once.

Mt Barker Courier 28/12/1881  -  Rambles in Adelaide - South Tce.

Mt Barker Courier 19/3/1886  -  Mrs Sarah Ann Littleford was run over by the Glenelg train at South Tce, Adelaide, and killed.

Victoria Square

SA Gazette 23/1/1847 p14  -  The plans of the new Court-house in Victoria-square, by Mr Lambeth, have been definitely agreed to by the Government. We hear that ample accommodation for the Press has been made.

Frearson’s Weekly 31/8/1878 p206  -  For 25 years past, this square has been the object of the care and attention of various gardeners, amateur and professional, but it is only within the last few weeks that anything like order or arrangement has been observed. The gardener who now has charge is to be congratulated for the manner in which he has done away with a great number of eyesores, in the shape of stumps, dead trees etc. We sincerely hope that no interference by the Councillors will prevent the good effect which is sure to be the result of the present alterations.

Frearson’s Weekly 4/1/1879 p355  -  In Victoria-square [lies] one of the most nauseous and poisonous effluvias arising from the open watertable between that portion of the square intersected by Wakefield-street, which same is not only planting the germs of fever in the system of those who pass daily backward and forward from the Glenelg trains, but is a disgrace to those whose business it is to see that the watertables are kept pure and fit for the public to pass them without endangering their lives.

Frearson's Weekly 24/9/1881 p519  -  The iron palisading for the city square has just arrived, and the work is to be promptly commenced. The removal of the old and dilapidated fences, and the substituting of iron railings round the enclosures will have an attractive effect, and prove quite a feature in civic history.

Frearson's Weekly 5/11/1881 p 617  -  The question of opening up Victoria-square cropped up in the City Council on Monday last, when it was decided that a poll of the citizens be taken, and counsel’s opinion obtained to enable the Councillors to deal with the subject. It is stated that by the square being opened up, property on the south side will be worth £5 per foot more than now.

Urinals are to be fixed in Victoria, Hindmarsh and Light Squares.

A large quantity of butter has been spoint in the City Market by the marching through of the Salvation Army. The dust kicked up was so suffocating that one lady butter-seller couldn’t get it out of her nostrils for a week. This was too bad, and quite the reverse of that peace which the Army are said to inoculate their members with. So the lady butter-seller complained to the next stall-keeper, and the next stall-keeper passed the intelligence along till there was such a hubbub that it seemed as if the very devil was raised.

Frearson's Weekly 3/12/1881 p 680  -  The City Council, having taken legal opinion as to their right to carry King William-street through Victoria Square, find they have no power to do so. It has been decided, that as a special Act of Parliament will be necessary to give them this power, that the whole question should be referred to the ratepayers.

Frearson's Weekly 17/12/1881 p 713  -  The best screened chaff, the best screened chaff, I know the place to get it; Crushed oats, wheat, bran and pollard too; The address, don’t forget it - Fraser & Co, all these supply. Their store I’d have you mark it. You’d find it in the same old spot Within the Central Market.

Frearson's Weekly 9/12/1882 p697  -  When Nicholas Proctor stood in the dock on Monday last, charged with threatening the life of his wife, Susannah, he interrupted the examination of the complaint so frequently that His Worship got impatient, and called out ’Hold your tongue, Proctor!’ To this, Nicholas instantly rejoined ‘All right, Beddome!’ His Worship was naturally riled at being addressed in such familiar terms by the defendant, and didn’t join in the roar of laughter that burst from the gaping crowd outside the rails, and from barristers and clerks as well. On the contrary, he assumed an air of unusual consequentia, gravity, and he curtly said ‘Remanded until tomorrow; he is not in a fit state to go on with the case.’

Frearson's Weekly 1/12/1883 p618  -  Victoria Square was formally opened for traffic by His Worship the Mayor (HR Fuller Esquire) at 3pm yesterday (Friday) 30 Nof, in the presence of a large concourse of citizens, who cheered lustily on the occasion. He declared the way to be portion of King William-street, and named it accordingly. The carriage of His Worship and several other vehicles then pro forma traversed the new line of streetway and returned over the same; the proceedings were then deemed brought to a conclusion.

Wakefield Street

Frearson’s Weekly 10/8/1878 p179  -  The Christian Brothers, whoever they are, have announced their intention of erecting a convent and its usual appendages in the very heart of our city. I say the heart simply because there is no other portion more central, according to the acknowledged survey of the authorities. That these kind of institutions should be allowed in our midst whilst they are expelled from such nations as Germany etc is no credit to an enlightened English community … I shudder when I think of the unsightly walls that will no doubt surround these so-called beautiful pile of silent buildings. … If a large, lone and secluded pile of rooms, dormitories, closets, back entrance etc, surrounded by an unpenetrable and high wall through which no officer of the law is allowed to pass, then … my humble opinion is that no such institutions can prove a blessing to the colonists in any shape or form, and that the more open we are in the distribution of education to the young, especially females, the better.

Frearson’s Weekly 23/6/1883 p313  -  The City of Adelaide was visited by a heavy thunderstorm on the morning of Wednesday, 20 June, accompanied by rain and strong winds. The force of the storm was felt heavily at Glen Osmond, where a gum tree and a marble headstone, in St Saviour’s Cemetery, were shattered by the electric fluid. A house in Gunson-street, City, was also struck, damage being inflicted on the building and furniture. So much electricity pervaded the air that the telephone bells were ringing almost continuously. No fatal accidents have been reported to us. The storm and rainfall seem to have been general over the adjacent country.

Waymouth Street

Frearson’s Weekly 8/11/1879 p322  -  Chaff, chaff, chaff. Messrs Miller & Son, of Goodwood and Waymouth St, are offering good sound chaff and other horsefeed at extremely reasonable rates.

Frearson's Weekly 4/6/1881 p264  -  Mr Henry Brown, of the firm of Messrs Brown and Thompson, builders, of Waymouth-street, died on 30 May. He was well-known in connection with several extensive building contracts in Adelaide, and highly esteemed by numerous friends. Mr Brown was in his 60th year, and he leaves a wife and large family of sons and daughters.

Frearson's Weekly 25/6/1881 p312  -  Herring’s Monumental Masonry Establishment occupies a prominent situation in Waymouth Street, Adelaide. Entering by the main porch, on either side of which are tastefully-displayed choice statuary, the visitor finds himself in a long avenue, leading directly to the works, the operations of which are conducted at the rear of the buildings. The premises cover a large area, and there are on the average from 25 to 30 skilled workmen employed. Among specialities is a newly-erected machine, worked by steam, and replete with the latest improvements, for cutting huge blocks of marble and stone into slabs, and putting a fine polish on them prior to their coming under the tools of the sculptor. Hitherton, Italian marble has been whollyh used, but Mr Herring having found that Kapunda, Macclesfield and other parts of South Australia can supply marble almost equal in beauty to the imported article, is now largely using it. …  The work turned out at this establishment consists of tombstones, monuments, slate and m arble chimney-pieces etc. The slate used is from the Mintaro and Willunga Quarries, and we are informed that by reason of its fineness it is admirably adapted for school slates, and the manufacture of these will doubtless, ere long, form one of the most important industries of South Australia. …  We have indeed seen nothing finer than the collection of statuary, monumental masonry, and carving in the avenue by which the works are approached. Those most noticeable were the following:- A monument to the wife and son of Thomas Martin, late of Gawler River, comprising a rustic cross and rock work; and a monument to the late James Breen, a somewhat celebrated jockey, who was killed at a hunt whilst riding the horse Trump. The rider and horse are truly lifelike and striking, and the jockey, in the act of falling from the spirited animal, is indeed a triumph of monumental art. … The hands employed in the establishment are from 25 to 30 but the largest contracts which Mr Herring has often to execute, necessitates the engagement of a larger number.

Frearson's Weekly 18/2/1882 p 25  -  At the corner of Waymouth or Morphett-street, It is there boots to suit everyone you’ll meet, And all sorts and sizes for large or small feet. John Canton’s the man who your wants can supply; Boots and shoes at a price no other could vie; Go, visit his shop when you ere wish to buy.

Frearson's Weekly 25/2/1882 p 41  -  Those juvinile clerks in some of the upstairs offices in Waymouth-street, would be better employed after 9am in attending to their employers’ business, instead of throwing orange peel, nutshells, and other rubbish, on the heads of pedestrians in the thoroughfare below.

West Terrace

Frearson’s Weekly 30/10/1880 p532  -  West Tce, though considered one of the most fashionable parts of Adelaide, is unfortunately the resort of larrikins of the worst type. A correspondent states: ‘On Sunday mornings respectable persons who prefer walking in the direction of the Park Lands or Cemetery to visiting a place of worship, are often insulted and annoyed by the insolent remarks of youngsters of both sexes who there do congregate. Stone throwing is prevalent, and it would be well if the police were seen more frequently in this vicinity during church hours, as this can alone prevent the above and similar outrageous acts bening continued’.

Frearson's Weekly 7/4/1883 p 138  -  A remarkable feast took place on Monday 2nd inst, at the West-terrace Cemetery, at a Chinaman’s grave. At the head of the grave, a pig, rice, grapes, and cakes were placed, and all kinds of fireworks were let off at the foot for a period of half an hour, after which the eatables were divided amongst the people. We are given to understand that the feast is an annual one, held in token of respect for some Celestial of consequence.

Wright Street

Frearson's Weekly 7/4/1881 p137  -  Corrie Johnson and a mate are now holding forth in a circus tent, off Wright Street. Some villains have lately cut the ropes and played up larks. Had the tent come down on poor Corrie’s head when he was in the midst of an exhortation, I fancy he’d have used unparliamentary lingo, and there might have been a case of broken heads. Such godly men as Corrie, by virtue of their profession, never indulge in larking, therefore to cut the ropes of their tabernacle is to make the best of it a cruel joke.