Place Names of South Australia - W
Watervale - Wellington
- Watervale
- Watherston, Lake
- Watraba
- Watson Gap
- Wattle Flat
- Wattle Range
- Wattleville
- Watts Gully
- Waukaringa
- Wauraltee
- Way, Hundred of
- Wayville
- Waverley
- Weaner Flat
- Weaver Lagoon
- Weavers
- Webling Point
- Wedge, Mount
- Wedge Island
- Weedna Springs
- Weeroona
- Weetulta
- Welland
- Wellington
Watervale
Nomenclature
A descriptive name taken from a creek of the same name which flows into the River Wakefield.
General Notes
For details of the original subdivider, David Davies, see applications nod. 7162 and 19948 in the General Registry Office. After he had sold two allotments in 1851 the mortgagees exercised their power of sale, the purchaser being Joshua Gurr who eventually disposed of the remaining allotments - see preface to these notes and Register, 17 April 1852, page 4a,
6 July 1918, page 10d.
The Register of 13 January 1851, page 3c says:
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Arrived at the village of Watervale, very prettily situated; two public houses; mobs of drunken bullock drivers; large gardens; and cottages generally covered with bark, a favourite covering in the north.
22 October 1856, page 2f,
Observer,
25 October 1856, page 3e.
Also see South Australia - Sport - Boxing.
The plight of local Aborigines is reported in the Observer,
4 September 1858, page 4g (supp.).
Also see South Australia - Aboriginal Australians.
A show is reported in the Register,
20 September 1858, page 3f.
Register,
8 March 1871, page 6f and
26 March 1875, page 6a,
Observer,
24 March 1877, page 6f,
27 February 1897, page 21b.
Also see South Australia - Agricultural, Floricultural & Horticultural Shows .
A stock exhibition is reported in the Farm & Garden,
14 October 1858, page 68.
The village is described in the Register,
10 December 1861, page 3a,
30 May 1866, page 3a,
29 October 1903, page 8a,
Parliamentary Paper
66/1886,
Chronicle,
8 October 1892, page 13b.
The insanitary condition of the town is the cause for complaint in the Advertiser,
13 July 1885, page 7c.
Photographs are in the Observer,
18 December 1909, page 5,
29 January 1927, page 32.
Education Department records show the school opening in 1853.
The opening of a schoolroom in the village is reported in the Register,
27 May 1859, page 3f and
2 June 1859, page 3e.
An address presented to Mr J.S. Cole is reported in the Register,
21 July 1860, page 3h and
a letter from him from the "Stanley Grammar School" appears on
26 October 1877, page 6f. Also see
Observer,
1 June 1907, page 46a,
21 October 1916, page 35a (obit),
2 December 1916, page 22c.
Reminiscences of "The Old Stanley Grammar School" are in the Chronicle,
27 November 1930, page 49,
Advertiser,
12 and 26 February 1934, pages 16i and 10h,
12 March 1934, page 16h; also see
The Mail,
31 October 1936, page 18b.
A photograph is in the Chronicle,
22 February 1934, page 33.
The first Great Northern Steeplechase is reported in the Advertiser,
26 and 31 August 1859, pages 3c and 3a.
Also see South Australia - Sport - Horse Racing.
The opening of the telegraph is reported in the Register,
9 February 1866, page 2d.
Also see South Australia - Communications - Telegraphic.
Information on the Bible Christian Church is in the Register,
27 July 1866, page 3e, 25 August 1866, page 3e.
A lengthy report on a "Bushranging Affair" in the district is in the Register,
27 June 1868, page 2g; also see
30 June 1868, page 2g.
A ploughing match is reported in the Chronicle,
8 September 1866, page 3b,
Register,
25 September 1868, page 3c.
Also see South Australia - Industries - Rural, Primary and Secondary - Ploughing Matches.
An account of the Governor's visit is in the Register,
21 April 1869, page 3e.
Also see South Australia - Governors and Ancillary Matters.
The laying of the foundation stone of the Bible Christian Church is recorded on 25 August 1866, page 3e.
A local sports day is reported in the Register,
31 May 1880 (supp.), page 1f and
a rifle match on
24 September 1880, page 6c,
Observer,
23 October 1880, page 705a,
17 November 1883, page 19b.
Also see South Australia - Sport - Rifle Shooting.
A meeting to form a Young Men's Christian Association is reported in the Register,
5 October 1882, page 5d (see Adelaide - Clubs, Societies and Associations - Young Men's Christian Association) and
a branch of the National Reform League on 13 January 1883, page 6a.
"The Sanitary State of Watervale" is in the Chronicle,
20 June 1885, page 21f.
Local vineyards are described in the Register,
16 March 1895, page 5h; also see
5 March 1898, page 4f and
Advertiser,
29 March 1898, page 6g,
Chronicle,
6 May 1899, page 42c;
"A Vintage Feast" is in the Register on
5 May 1911, page 3e.
Also see South Australia - Industries - Rural, Primary and Secondary - Viticulture.
Information on a playground is in the Register,
23 May 1907, page 7f.
Also see Adelaide - Entertainment and the Arts - Miscellany - Playgrounds.
A bushfire is reported in the Register on
15 February 1907, page 6e and
13 January 1911, page 5f.
Also see South Australia - Natural Disasters - Bushfires.
The laying of the foundation stone of the Institute is reported in the Observer,
8 May 1915, page 49c.
Biographical details of Harold Croft are in the Register,
12 April 1906, page 6d.
The golden wedding of Mr & Mrs C.A. Sobels is reported in the Observer,
10 November 1917, page 29b.
Biographical details of Mr & Mrs C.A. Sobels are in the Register,
13 April 1920, page 6h.
A photograph of a golf course is in the Chronicle,
31 May 1934, page 38,
of a football team on
12 September 1935, page 37.
Watervale - Obituaries
An obituary of John Coles, a member of E.J. Eyre's exploration party to Western Australia, is in the Register,
27 April 1886, page 5c.
An obituary of William Field is in the Observer,
1 December 1906, page 38c,
of William Seabury on 30 March 1907, page 37c,
of Henry S. Bleechmore on 25 June 1927, page 48a.
An obituary of Mrs Harriet Chandler is in the Register,
11 December 1917, page 6f,
of C.A. Sobels on 28 September 1923, page 8h,
of Mrs J.S.C. Cole on 2 October 1928, page 11e.
Watervale - Wellington
W
Place Names
Watherston, Lake
Nomenclature
West of Lyndhurst, discovered by two pastoralists, Messrs Bunn and Watherston (sometimes spelt Weatherstone), who held a pastoral lease near Mount Coffin from 1858. Alfred P. Burtt, Corporal of Police, mentions that while out looking for Babbage in 1858 he steered for some water discovered by Messrs Bunn and Watherston in July 1856. It would appear from known facts that the lake should be named 'Watherstone'. Pastoral lease no. 575 of 14 October 1858 recites the name of 'John Weatherstone' throughout the document but he clearly signed it 'John Watherstone'. Also see under Place Names - Leigh Creek where Messrs Bunn and Weatherstone are shown as occupying a run near Leigh Creek in 1857 and selling it in 1859. In a letter to the SA Archivist in 1939 J.D. Somerville of the SA Museum said:
- In Pastoral Pioneers Vol 2 John Weatherstone is referred to... I think the spelling should be "Watherston''... Alex Watherston was appointed to take charge at Poonindie.'
Mr Somerville went on to say that in a box of Poonindie Mission papers there was a bill with a printed heading 'Debtor to John Watherston, North Hotel, dealer in wine and spirits'. The bill was dated 1866 and was endorsed 'Received payment, John Watherstone' (sic).
To further confuse the issue the following appears in the Register, 27 April 1887, page 5 - available evidence suggests that there were two men with similar names for it would appear to be impossible for "Mr Watherston" to discover the lake in 1856 and at the same time manage the Poonindie Mission:
- He arrived by the ship Hooghy in 1839 in charge of the first imported bull sent out for the South Australian Company. He was one of the first to cross the Murray. He was manager of the Point McLeay and Albert Runs for the company. From 1852 to 1858 he was in charge of the Poonindie Mission Station and afterwards overseer of the Port Lincoln Roads Board...
General Notes
A dinner to Alexander Watherstone at Port Lincoln is reported in the Observer,
12 May 1866, page 3d.
An obituary is in the Register,
27 April 1887, page 5c,
13 May 1887, page 5b.
Watervale - Wellington
W
Place Names
Watraba
Nomenclature
Aboriginal for 'a plain'.
General Notes
The school opened in 1931 and closed in 1942.
Watervale - Wellington
W
Place Names
Watson Gap
Nomenclature
In the Hundred of Goolwa, probably honours Rev. John Watson who obtained the Land Grant of section 2289 on 11 September 1851.
General Notes
Information on Rev J. Watson is in the Register,
24 January 1855, page 2f,
Observer,
3 March 1855, page 5h,
Register,
6 June 1856, page 3d,
16 February 1859, page 3d,
7 January 1864, page 2g,
Register,
8 March 1921, page 6c.
Under the heading "Church Sites" the Register of 19 September 1855, page 2b has an editorial concerning Rev John Watson, of Port Elliot, in respect of a dispute over land granted for a Church of England at Goolwa.
Watervale - Wellington
W
Place Names
Wattle Flat
A photograph of the celebration of the golden wedding of Mr & Mrs Charles Symonds is in the Chronicle,22 July 1937, page 34.
Watervale - Wellington
W
Place Names
Wattle Range
An obituary of John Cameron is in the Register,15 February 1922, page 6h.
Watervale - Wellington
W
Place Names
Wattleville
Near Glen Osmond; its vineyard is described in the Chronicle,15 February 1862, page 1e (supp.).
Also see South Australia - Industries - Rural, Primary and Secondary - Viticulture.
Watervale - Wellington
W
Place Names
Watts Gully
Nomenclature
According to the Register of 23 May 1885 at page 7c the co-discoverer of gold in the area with James Watts was Gustav de Boursier.
General Notes
Also see South Australia - Mining - Gold.
The field is described in the Register,
20 June 1885, pages 5e-7d,
9 July 1885, page 4h; also see
4 January 1886, page 7a.
Information on James Watts appears on
14 September 1896, page 3b.
A sketch of the diggings is in the Pictorial Australian in
June 1885, page 109.
- James Watt was a first class practical miner with an almost intuitive knowledge of where to sink for gold. He met with an accident and had to have his leg amputated...
"Heroine of Early Gold Rush", information on Mrs Anna Maria Watts, is in The Mail,
1 July 1933, page 7a.
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Watts Gully, near Mount Crawford, was opened up early in 1885 when a large number of men, who were doing nothing elsewhere, hastened to the field. Within a short time 200 of them had congregated and "two stores and three blacksmiths were in full swing?. Mr James Watts, the discoverer, secured a couple of reef claims and asserted that he had perfect faith in its wealth and predicted that more gold would be taken out of the gullies in the neighbourhood than could be imagined.
In her reminiscences the widow of the finder, Mrs Anna Maria Watts, recalled that he first found a 22 ounce nugget ?but 50 ounces was all he and his mates ever got out of the diggings":
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There were 500 people on the field then. Sailors, soldiers, miners, blacks and Salvation Army men were there. And the noise they made - singing, dancing, cursing and laughing all in one breath... But on the whole they were decent men and we never suffered hurt or insult from them. We started a bit of a church over the hill there and I used to sing in it. But the gold went and the people went.
Mrs Watts stayed on with her crippled husband and five children. Like others on the field they lived in a tent and when the crowd thinned out she felt the need for a home, so she built a hut with her own hands, working every day for months. To keep the family going she went out washing, walked seven miles into Gumeracha, washed 27 dozen items for four shillings and walked back home. To augment her income she cut down gum trees and split them into posts and for 150 of them she received one pound. Her husband died in 1922 and with the aid of her eldest son she kept her home at Watts Gully and her interviewer concluded with the comment that:
- An elderly white horse draws her to Gumeracha when she goes out; her little garden with its blur of morning glories keeps her busy and the sounds of the picks rising and falling after gold in the valley below keeps her happy. Watts? Gully may be coming good again.
W
Place Names
Waukaringa
Nomenclature
An Aboriginal name taken from George Hiles' sheep run (leases nod. 171-72) of the 1860s.
Also see Place Names - Hiles Lagoon.
General Notes
Also see South Australia - Mining - Gold.
The goldfields are described in the Register,
11 August 1873, page 6d,
5 March 1874, page 7b,
Chronicle,
24 and 31 January 1874, pages 13e and 6e,
Advertiser,
3 October 1874, page 3d,
Register,
17 August 1875, page 5d,
Advertiser,
10 January 1876, page 5b,
14 July 1877, page 6c,
Register,
16 August 1884, page 6e,
16 October 1884, page 7g,
28 May 1891, page 7e,
19 April 1894, page 7f,
7 May 1894, page 6b,
Express,
15 July 1890, page 3f.
"Strike at Waukaringa" is in the Observer,
8 April 1876, page 4e,
6 May 1876, page 8c; also see
Express,
8 and 14 March 1890, pages 4b and 3d.
A history of mining in the district is in the Register,
15 December 1881, page 5g; also see
22 December 1881, page 5a,
21, 22, 24 and 29 June 1882, pages 7c, 1e (supp.), 6f and 6b, Observer,
23 August 1884, page 33,
Register,
29 February 1888, page 5h.
Information on the hospital is in the Register on
18 August 1894, page 5b,
Observer,
25 August 1894, page 30a,
Express,
1 March 1895, page 2d and
the town is described in the Register,
16 June 1904, page 8g:
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This township almost justifies the local policeman in arresting it for "having no visible means of support".
16, 20 and 21 December 1875, pages 5c, 5g and 5f; also see Register,
5 March 1874, page 7b.
Its school opened in 1886 and closed in 1944. A "Hoisting the Flag" ceremony is reported in the Chronicle,
18 May 1901, page 36e.
"Lockout at Waukaringa" is in the Chronicle,
15 and 22 March 1890, pages 19c and 5f-19g.
A trial of Molesworth's ore-reducing machine is reported in the Register,
18, 20, 21 and 23 March 1891, pages 6f, 7e, 4f and 6e; also see
27 July 1891, page 5g.
A horse race meeting is reported in the Express,
2 June 1891, page 4b,
a sports day on
8 September 1891, page 4a.
A horse race meeting is reported on
30 March 1927, page 13d.
Also see South Australia - Sport - Horse Racing.
A correspondent talks of the "Neglect of Waukaringa" in the Advertiser, 22 April 1892, page 7d:
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The schoolmaster's residence is a tin shanty, 8 by 10, to live and sleep in... The police station - two rooms and a kitchen; the said kitchen being used as a courthouse... There is what the Government calls a hospital, not fit to stable a horse. It is not windtight or watertight.
22 April 1893, page 6e.
"The Waukaringa Murder" is in the Chronicle,
18 August 1894, page 4e.
A proposed hospital is discussed in the Register,
18 August 1894, page 5b.
"Hardships of Prospectors" is in the Advertiser,
17 September 1895, page 6e.
Information on a diamond find in the area is in the Register,
21 March 1902, page 4g.
Also see South Australia - Mining - Diamonds.
An Anglican Sunday School fete is reported in the Chronicle,
16 April 1904, page 14b.
Photographs of donkey races are in the Chronicle,
18 May 1933, page 36,
of a horse race meeting on page 38.
Also see South Australia - Sport - Horse Racing.
A History of Waukaringa
Introduction
In July 1873, while tending a flock of sheep on the Waukaringa Run held by Mr George Hiles, a shepherd named Watson discovered some quartz bearing stone on what was to become known as the Waukaringa Reef; following crushing at a battery near Stirling North it yielded "very encouraging results." A few months later, some seven kilometres from this site, gold was found in the same reef and by the close of the year the field resembled a race-course with white flags in rows extending the whole length of the reef from east to west.
In August 1874 the Alma Gold Mining Co was formed; it erected a stamping battery of ten heads in a gully where water was plentiful; however, in time it was realised that the gold produced was not covering working expenses. "This, together with the mining depression occasioned the collapse of the Northern Territory bubble", caused mining in the district to be discontinued. In 1879 the Victorian Gold Mining Co commenced working on the field and, in 1881, it amalgamated with the Alma company.
Official records show that up to 31 March 1890 it was estimated that over £142,000 was spent on the Alma and Victoria mine for a return of a little less than £92,000 in gold production.
To Waukaringa and Back
In 1875 a special reporter for an Adelaide newspaper journeyed to the goldfield and has left us with an evocative account of his travels - The Waukaringa property lies about 230 miles in a direction slightly east of north from Adelaide from which it is a long two day's journey. The coach leaves the Burra on Tuesdays after the arrival of the first train. Passing out from the Burra on to the plains leading towards Mount Bryan it is strange to notice how the undaunted "cockatoo" [farmer] has advanced into what was but recently deemed an utterly unsuitable country... The line of farms continues unbroken to Gottlieb's Well [Parnggi Well since 1918], the Mr McCulloch's home-station is passed.
At Willogoleech [sic] or Hallett, as it is now called, the road to the Areas branches away to the west. The next township reached is Yarcowie, in the vicinity of which are seen some very extensive farms. Here there is a mill, a neatly built public house and store. Then comes Tarcowie, some three miles beyond, beyond which the farms come to an end. About here also the surveyed line for the new North-Eastern Railway... strikes off to the west to avoid some hills...
As far as Gottlieb's Well the country consists of undulating plains fairly grassed, with belts of sheaoaks and low eucalyptus at intervals; but after this point is reached these plains are left behind, and after passing through some five miles or so of scrubby ranges the coach stops for the remainder of the night at Parnaroo, purchased by the Hon. T. Elder, who has made many improvements. There was a fine stone woolshed, large windmill for pumping water from a well, a good stone house and other buildings. A comfortable eating-house is erected close to the road for the accommodation of the mail passengers, where a hot supper and a bed may be obtained. The journey recommences at five in the morning, giving the weary traveller as a rule, just sufficient time to decide how well he could have slept if he had only a chance...
About half-past nine or ten the large eating-house at Paratoo looms in sight, conveying an agreeable suggestiveness of breakfast... The plains still continue hemmed in by high, barren hills, which have a hard unpicturesque appearance. The principal features of the country are sand, scrub, stones and "dead marines", with all of which the market here is fully stocked. Flies are lively, ants plentiful and active, and dust moving off briskly, but supplies of each of these commodities are more than equal to demands... A local characteristic now compels attention, namely, the artistic manner in which the miles, and indeed the half and quarter miles, are marked by the empty receptacles of choice, but departed spirits of every sort and size. The impromptu of a poetical passenger,
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With bottles white and bottles blacked,
With bottle whole and bottles cracked,
With bottles narrow, bottles wide,
The road is lined on either side.
In about nineteen miles Tetulpa [sic] is reached... There is a fine well worked by a windmill, and also an attempt at a garden; but when once again fairly on the way, the monotonous saltbush and sterile hills are the prevailing scenery... At length over a wide plain the white tents and iron roofs of Waukaringa appear dotting the base of a low bare range. About ten miles through thick choking dust and the battery of the Alma Company is reached. The tents and huts of the miners are seen for miles scattered here and there down the line of the principal reef, whilst blows of quartz and piles of slate and mullock are also on view, showing that a considerable amount of prospecting work has already been done...
At present there are over a hundred people on the ground, including some 20 women and children, and there is every possibility of that number being greatly increased within the next twelve months. A number of the workings are just now suspended... In the Alma the work is being pushed briskly... The Balaklava people are also hard at work and several of the less known claims are being carefully prospected...
The spirituous wants of the community are provided for by what does duty for an inn - a galvanised iron erection near the Inkerman claims, bearing the name of Mr Mitchell, the publican of Terowie, over the door; but the place is actually kept by another person... This institution is found to be a great convenience by the thorough-going drinking men - of whom there are unfortunately too many in the vicinity - who are thus able to "knock down their cheques" in the most approved and orthodox manner without the necessity of travelling 50 or 60 miles to perform their bacchanalian devotions... Near the Alma battery is a small general store, which is well stocked with local requisites at reasonable prices...
A start was made for Adelaide on Thursday at 6 o'clock... The dust on the Paratoo Plain was all ready to order. It having travelled its allotted course before an easterly wind on the former occasion was now as persistently and conscientiously travelling back from a north-westerly direction... The marked difference in the country to the north and south of Goyder's line of southern rainfall is very striking to a stranger... The Burra was reached at half-past ten on Friday morning, the distance having been accomplished in excellent time by Messrs Jackson and Co's coach...
The Town of Waukaringa
The government town of Waukaringa was proclaimed on 1 November 1888 and, by 1894, had a population of about 250; a roving reporter claimed that it had the largest crop of babies in proportion to its population he had ever seen; it boasted of a post office, telegraph station, state school, a twelve-bed hospital, two stores, a hotel, a Democratic Club where drinks were supplied to members, two butchers, a Wesleyan Church and a policeman.
During this period a resident of the town poured out the grievances of its citizens - "In Waukaringa you have only to see the neglect of the Government. First there is our school, with an attendance of 75 children, only big enough for 40, both sexes mixed up together; it is simply disgraceful. Then the schoolmaster's residence is a tin shanty, 8 by 10 [feet], to live and sleep in. The school building is without a fence, but perhaps the Government think it does not matter, as the children only belong to working men.
"Then there is the policeman - two rooms and a kitchen, the said kitchen being used as the courthouse. The front is to the east and there is no verandah. The place is simply an oven on a hot day. There is what the Government calls a hospital, not fit to stable a horse in. It is not windtight or watertight, and by the look of the place has been in use several generations...[The hospital premises were transferred from Teetulpa where it was established in 1886; as from the time of transfer a doctor was at the field whereas previously the Government paid £12/12/0 per visit for a doctor to visit from Peterborough.
"Again, some time ago a water trust was formed to get pure water, The Government asked £50 per annum for the mudholes then in Waukaringa... Now let us see the state [of them] - Cox's dam was made by the Government but they forgot to finish it, for it never held any water from the day it was made... No, 2 mudhole, called a tank, the Government had in use nine years and never once cleaned it... At last to save fever breaking out, our mine manager and his men are working day and night cleaning No. 2 mudhole, called a tank, Sunday included, but they get no beer, because they are forbidden to drink beer on a Sunday in this Christian country. The men have taken 40 tons of filth out of this tank..."
By 1905 both the mineral wealth and the town had declined and were being kept alive by station hands, prospectors and drovers "in a dreary sort of suspended animation." Indeed, it was said the town almost justified the local policeman in arresting it for having no visible means of support. Its arrest, however, was effected by another agency, namely, the total cessation of mining operations - "A most weird look of decay is visible everywhere. Chimneys of all shapes amply confirm that the town consisted at one time of 600 to 700 inhabitants. Three huge chimney stacks, a handsome stone house for the manager, and the large dump heaps everywhere mark the site of the once rich and famous Alma and Victoria Mine...
"Waukaringa residents still live in hopes of this rich shoot, or vein, being again found to the salvation of those who still remain... Mr John Davey, an old theatrical identity, and later a well-known coach driver, keeps the local hostelry... The government maintain a police station here... It is hard to justify such expenditure, as the ordinary layman would conclude that a trooper's time would be wasted in such a small community. The post and telegraph office is a small galvanised iron and weather board structure which does not add to the beauties of the street in which it is in. I was informed that the telegraph facilities were about to be replaced by a telephone... Mr J.E. Holliday keeps a store and boarding house. A butcher's shop and a few private dwelling houses, all of iron, make up the rest of the settlement, though unsightly ruins in every direction attest the fact that the place is in a dying condition."
The school that opened in 1886 closed in 1944 while the town itself was declared to exist on 8 July 1982.
Hardships of Prospectors
In 1895 Mr Charles Lee Webb, who described himself as "an old resident of Waukaringa", incensed at some of the machinations of the Government, took up his pen - The State Advances Bill to assist farmers has passed the Assembly, and I trust may be the means of keeping poor and deserving farmers clear of land sharks, but what about the poor prospectors?.. They seem to be outside the pale of humanity, and therefore unworthy of a thought. But permit me to say there is many a noble heart that beats under the ragged coat of a prospector.
There are only five men at Johnson's Rush, and their earnings for two weeks... amounted to 1 dwt., valued at 3s 10d [38 cents], not quite 9d [8 cents] per man to exist on, not live. Then there is Lovely Gully, which has ten men, one woman, and her little daughter, aged about 12 years. The woman's husband is away shearing to earn a few pounds to take them away. They are Germans and the mother and child are working as diggers on the field, trying to exist till the husband and father comes to take them away. The earnings of the twelve [is] on the average 1s 11d [19 cents]per head per week. That such things should exist in a Christian country is a disgrace to humanity. Every one of these men is personally known to me. I have worked with them, starved with them, and it was only illness that compelled me to leave them. They are all good, hard-working fellows, and no slave in a Southern plantation ever worked the hours or as hard simply to obtain the means to exist.
Perhaps some will say why do these men not leave if they cannot earn a living. The reply is, there are hundreds of men travelling the country seeking for work and not being able to get it. Then what could these poor fellows do. Shoeless and their clothes in rags, who would employ them... Some two and a half years ago Parliament voted #500 for prospecting purposes for Waukaringa but only about #80 of the money was spent. The balance perhaps went to swell the Treasury...
Sources
Register, 11 August 1873, page 6d, 3 October 1874, page 3d, 17 August 1875, page 5d, 15 December 1881, page 5g, 16, 20 and 21 December 1875, pages 5c, 5g and 5f, 22 April 1892, page 7d, 16 June 1904, page 8g, Advertiser, 17 September 1895, page 6e.
Watervale - Wellington
W
Place Names
Wauraltee
Nomenclature
Aboriginal for 'bandicoot island'. The Wauraltee (now Wardang) Island was taken up under pastoral lease no.14B by G.A. Anstey in 1851.
General Notes
The school opened in 1879 and closed in 1946;
see Register, 26 February 1879, page 6a for a report of a meeting held to discuss the need for a local school; also see
Observer,
15 February 1879, page 19e,
1 March 1879, page 6f,
12 April 1879, page 6b.
The opening of the Institute is reported in the Observer,
13 December 1884, page 16c.
The settlement is described in the Register,
27 June 1907, page 7c.
- A little hamlet comprising a handsome red-roofed Wesleyan Church, a strongly built Institute, a weatherboard public school, a general store and some private houses...
A photograph of coursing dogs and their owners is in the Chronicle,
20 August 1910, page 30.
Also see South Australia - Sport - Horse Racing.
An obituary of Robert Newbold is in the Observer,
4 March 1916, page 39a;
also see 1 April 1916, page 32e,
of James B. Williss on 1 December 1923, page 39a.
An obituary of B.W. Newbold is in the Register,
10 August 1920, page 4h.
Watervale - Wellington
W
Place Names
Waverley
Nomenclature
A subdivision of section 963 and part section 934, Hundred of Adelaide by Walter B.T. Andrews and James Miller Anderson in 1880; now included in Crafers and Upper Sturt. It was said that:
- Its altitude... ensures a remarkably cool climate... which combined with the glorious views of hill, dale and ocean obtainable from every part... must make it the most charming of summer resorts.
The name occurs in Surrey, England and probably derives from the Old English waver - 'brushwood'; Mr Andrews was born in London, portion of which is in Surrey.
General Notes
A bushfire which threatened the town is reported in the Register,
30 January 1883, page 7a (see South Australia - Natural Disasters - Bushfires) and
a boundary dispute on
19 December 1892, page 3h (supp.).
Watervale - Wellington
W
Place Names
Way, Hundred of
Nomenclature
Sir Samuel J. Way, Chief Justice (1876-1916). He was born in Hampshire on 11 April 1836, and arrived in Adelaide on 6 March 1853. He became very interested in law and immediately began to study. At the age of twenty-five he had passed all his examinations and was admitted to the Bar. In his very first year he more than proved his ability as a lawyer, for the way in which he handled the dispute called "The Moonta Mining Case'' brought young Samuel Way into great prominence. In 1875 he was prevailed upon to contest the District of Sturt seat in the House of Assembly. He was successful and became Attorney-General. Then, in the following year at the age of forty, he was appointed Chief Justice for South Australia.
General Notes
Also see South Australia - Crime, Law and Punishment - Law - Judges and Magistrates.
A school of this name opened in 1886 and closed in 1906.
Biographical details of Samuel Way are in the Farmers Weekly Messenger,
13 April 1877, page 2b,
Register,
5 June 1899, page 6d,
Chronicle,
10 January 1891, page 5b (appointed Lt-Governor),
The Herald,
24 January 1903, page 6a.
"The Marriage of the Chief Justice" is in the Express,
12 April 1898, page 3e.
Lady Way's obituary is in the Express,
15 May 1914, page 6c.
An article on his life and times is in the Weekly Herald, 3 August 1901, page 5a which says, inter alia:
- You have the self-estimation of a Napoleon Bonaparte; with the soul of his valet. Conceit carries men a long way and it has carried you farther than most...
11 October 1906, page 4h.
An obituary is in the Register,
10 and 15 January 1916, pages 5a and 9d; also see
The Mail,
29 August 1936, page 4.
Photographs of his funeral are in the Observer,
15 January 1916, page 27.
The unveiling of a memorial statue is reported in the Observer,
22 November 1924, page 45b.
Watervale - Wellington
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Place Names
Wayville
Nomenclature
Reverend James Way, the father of Sir Samuel J. Way, conducted 'Way College' in the district.
General Notes
The arrival of Messrs Way and Rowe, Bible Christian missionaries, is reported in the Register,
5 February 1851, page 4a.
The death of Rev J. Way and an obituary are reported in the Register,
15 and 18 August 1884, pages 5b and 6h;
also see Advertiser,
18 November 1885, page 4e.
"Rev James Way's Centenary" is in the Register,
18 and 20 June 1904, pages 6g and 6e,
Observer,
25 June 1904, page 38.
Information on Way College is in the Express,
18 November 1885, page 7a-d,
Chronicle,
21 November 1885, page 6f,
Register,
5, 8, 9 and 28 February 1887, pages 5h, 7b, 7a and 6e,
2 February 1892, page 6b,
Chronicle,
9 March 1889, page 8c,
21 November 1891, page 13c.
Also see Observer,
30 January 1892, page 30c,
6 February 1892, page 35a,
5 March 1892, pages 30b-34c,
7 January 1893, page 26d,
1 and 8 April 1893, pages 29a-d and 39a,
27 May 1893, page 43b,
15 July 1893, page 30b,
30 June 1894, page 12e,
28 December 1895, page 45a,
26 March 1898, page 20e,
24 December 1898, page 53a,
24 June 1899, page 14e,
Register,
23 January 1892, page 5a,
2 February 1892, page 6b,
Express,
2 and 29 February 1892, pages 3g and 3d,
Chronicle,
7 April 1894, page 21f,
Express,
19 September 1900, page 4d.
"Influence of Way College" is in The Mail,
18 August 1928, page 3c.
A sketch of the dining room at the college is in the Pictorial Australian in
October 1893, page 157; also see
August 1894, page 124.
The closure of the college is commented upon in the Register,
1 May 1903, page 6g.
Information on the college's headmaster, W.G. Torr, is in the Register,
18 September 1891, page 5h,
Observer,
19 September 1891, page 32e,
3 October 1891, page 30d,
on a college mentor, Mrs M.J. Shierlaw on
22 February 1913, page 41a.
Photographs are in The Critic,
3 February 1904, pages 4 and 5.
Information on an Institute is in the Register,
1 August 1904, page 3g,
Its opening is reported in the Register,
on 16 December 1904, page 6h.
The laying of the foundation stone of the Baptist Church is reported in the Register,
17 September 1894, page 6e; also see
Advertiser,
29 January 1895, page 6a.
The golden wedding of Mr & Mrs W.B. Pepperell is reported in the Register,
30 September 1905, page 7b.
A photograph of residents playing cricket on the Parklands is in the Observer,
2 October 1909, page 29.
Also see South Australia - Sport - Cricket - Miscellany.
"Tom Price's Tree" is in the Register,
8 August 1911, page 4g.
"A Hall for Sale" is in the Register,
6 and 14 March 1912, pages 8f and 4g.
A proposed subway is discussed in the Register,
14 May 1912, page 4h.
Biographical details of Mrs E.M. Rose are in the Register,
18 May 1912, page 13a,
of John Shepherd on 21 November 1914, page 8h.
Biographical details of Jonathan R. Cain are in The Critic,
22 March 1922, page 5,
of Campbell Smith on 18 October 1922, page 5.
Biographical details of Alex M. Durie are in the Observer,
24 September 1927, page 53e,
of William Brooker on 22 December 1928, page 15c.
The laying of the foundation stone of the Anglican Church is reported in the Register,
30 April 1923, page 8f.
A photograph is in the Observer,
5 May 1923, page 29.
Photographs of the Methodist Ladies College are in the Chronicle,
30 March 1933, page 31.
Wayville - Showgrounds
Also see South Australia - Agricultural, Floricultural & Horticultural Shows .
Information on the new Showgrounds is in the Register,
13 May 1911, page 13g,
29 June 1911, page 7e,
14 and 15 September 1911, pages 15b and 12f,
28 September 1911, page 5b,
Observer,
20 May 1911, page 48c,
10 August 1912, page 35b,
Express,
25 April 1912, page 2i,
31 July 1912, page 4d,
26 November 1913, page 1g,
Register,
22 July 1912, page 8f,
5 December 1914, page 12e,
30 March 1916, page 4e.
Photographs are in the Observer,
17 April 1915, page 30,
29 August 1925, page 33.
"The New Showgrounds" is in the Advertiser,
13 September 1923, pages 12g-13a.
The new venue is described in the Observer,
11 April 1925, page 6,
Register on
5 September 1925, page 12.
"Exhibition Hall - White Elephant or - ?" appears on
20 and 28 April 1928, pages 11a and 13b,
10 May 1928, page 6a,
"Sideshows of Other Days" is in the Advertiser,
16 September 1933, page 9c and
the opening of the Ridley Memorial gates on
2 September 1933, page 15h.
Wayville - Obituaries
An obituary of Ernest B. Haslam is in the Register, 16 December 1895, page 5c,
of Alfred Palmer on 18 January 1900, page 5a,
of Philip Dakers in the Observer, 10 June 1899, page 15d,
of W.B. Pepperell on 15 January 1910, page 38a.
An obituary of Philip Dakers is in the Register, 7 June 1899, page 7g,
of Mrs Jane Day is in the Observer, 10 July 1915, page 32b,
of John Stacey on 24 June 1916, page 20a,
of H. Greenslade on 3 February 1917, page 13d,
of R.H. Tapley on 18 January 1919, page 18e,
of R.W.J. Leicester on 2 October 1926, page 36d,
of G.E. Marshall, stone cutter, on 2 October 1926, page 36d,
of Mrs Walter Torode on 15 September 1928, page 50b.
An obituary of Albert Fielding is in the Register, 11 August 1910, page 6f,
of Mrs Jean White on 9 May 1923, page 15d,
of William T. Cornish on 4 January 1926, page 8f,
of R.W.J. Leicester and George E. Machell on 30 September 1926, page 10h.
An obituary of L.F. Fornachon is in the Register, 4 September 1912, page 12h,
of John Shepherd on 10 November 1915, page 6h,
of John Stacey on 17 June 1916, page 4g,
of H.J. Driscoll on 4 September 1916, page 4f,
of W.H. Jenkin on 19 June 1917, page 4f,
of John Bosworth on 28 September 1917, page 4g,
of John Shepherd on 26 April 1918, page 6f,
of R.H. Tapley on 13 January 1919, page 4g,
of J.W. Jarvis on 4 April 1919, page 4g,
of H.C. Hancock on 22 May 1919, page 4g,
of T.W. Fleming on 29 November 1919, page 9f.
An obituary of Lady Way is in the Register, 15 May 1914, page 8a,
of Mrs Margaret Runge on 19 January 1923, page 6f,
of Thomas E. Shanks on 13 July 1925, page 11c,
of A.R.W. Vogt on 16 June 1926, page 11e,
of William Charlick on 28 July 1926, page 13d,
of W.H. Shepherd on 20 May 1927, page 13a,
of Mrs Martha Allnutt on 11 June 1927, page 14a,
of Ernest R. Goode on 24 June 1927, page 11f,
of Rev John G. Miller on 5 September 1927, page 8f,
of William H. Wait on 13 December 1927, page 11c.
An obituary of T.E. Shanks is in the Observer, 18 July 1925, page 44b,
of William H. Jenkin on 2 September 1925, page 8i.
An obituary of Robert Brown is in the Register,9 May 1928, page 13f.
Watervale - Wellington
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Place Names
Weaner Flat
Nomenclature
It was a weaning station when the locality was in pastoral occupation [R. Cockburn].
General Notes
An account of a "Babe Lost in the Bush" is in the Register,
17 January 1872, page 5a.
The Advertiser of 14 April 1874, page 3f reports "A German and English School" being opened by E.S. Schroeder.
A mail robbery is reported in the Observer,
2 May 1874, page 5d; also see
22 August 1874, page 7a.
Also see South Australia - Communications - Mail and Postal.
Watervale - Wellington
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Place Names
Weaver Lagoon
Nomenclature
Alfred Weaver, who took up an occupation licence on 2 July 1846.
General Notes
Mr Weaver's obituary is in the Register,
19 June 1891, page 4h and
reminiscences of his wife on 7 February 1898, page 6d;
for her obituary see 22 May 1899, page 5c.
Watervale - Wellington
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Place Names
Weavers
The school opened as "Hundred of Dalrymple";name changed in 1925 and closed in 1941.
Watervale - Wellington
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Place Names
Webling Point
Nomenclature
Alfred C. Webling, marine surveyor.
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Mr Webling figured in a disagreeable experience which resulted in the name... He was left on a peninsula near to Port Broughton, with a week's supply of food, while the schooner visited other sections of the coast. The vessel grounded in a storm and when it returned, several days overdue, Mr Webloing's food supply had vanished and he was keeping himself alive by catching fish and cockles. The spit of land was therupon named after him.
General Notes
Near Port Broughton.
Biographical details of Alfred C. Webling, marine surveyor, and a portrait are in the Observer,
9 February 1907, page 29,
Register,
13 January 1925, page 8e,
13 January 1926, page 8g,
Observer,
15 January 1927, page 30e.
Watervale - Wellington
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Place Names
Wedge Island
Nomenclature
The largest of the Gambier Isles in Spencer Gulf, named by Matthew Flinders on 24 February 1802 because of its shape.
General Notes
"An Island Artist [Miss Maud Golley]" is in the Observer,
15 September 1906, page 37d.
Also see South Australia - Entertainment and the Arts - Art.
Life on the island is described in the Register,
20 February 1909, page 13b.
"South Australia's Robinson Crusoe" is in The News,
30 May 1932, page 6b.
Watervale - Wellington
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Place Names
Wedge, Mount
Nomenclature
Named in September 1839 by E.J. Eyre on account of its shape.
General Notes
The district is described in the Advertiser,
9 August 1906, page 8e,
Register,
24 August 1906, page 7a.
- The granite outcrop of the mount is responsible for some richer slopes of land and one is not surprised to find the crops more advanced and indicative of higher yields, than among the limestone flats. The Dinnison family have been settled here since 1883 and farm some 30,000 acres... Superphosphate has only been used in two years and no fallowing has been attempted...
The school opened in 1915 and closed in 1970.
The reminiscences of John Bascomb (Bascombe?) are in the Register,
6 August 1924, page 13c.
Also see Place Names - Bascombe Rocks.
An obituary of E.H. Whitehead is in the Observer,
4 July 1925, page 38c,
of Miss Charlotte S. Dinnison on 5 April 1927, page 8g.
Watervale - Wellington
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Place Names
Weedna Springs
The Weedna copper mine was discovered by S.C. Gubbin in 1898; it was situated" 42 miles NE from Leigh Creek and one and a half miles from Weedna Springs" - see Record of the Mines of South Australia (fourth edition), page 146;see Chronicle, 14 October 1899, page 20d for information on the mine and The Associated Copper Trust.
Also see South Australia - Mining - Copper.
Watervale - Wellington
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Place Names
Weeroona
"Pirie Holiday Resort" is in the Observer,28 December 1918, page 12a.
- Up to the present the health resort in the course of construction by the Associated Smelters across the gulf at Rocky Bay has been spoken of as a camp... The camp is just a makeshift arrangement and there is an absence of the ordinary conveniences of life, but at a beach, 18 miles from Port Pirie, the preparations for the holiday makers are on more permanent lines. Water has to be carried from Port Pirie, but two tanks, each with the capacity of 20,000 gallons, will be ample for all needs... The attractions of the resort are felt elsewhere and the company has received an application from a distant organisation to permit 300 visitors to enter the camp at Easter...
The Register of 30 January 1926, page 19d tells of a Broken Hill Associated Smelters employees holiday park "18 miles from Port Pirie".
The gift of the resort, located "two miles beyond Point Lowly", to the Port Pirie council is reported on
23 December 1927, page 10.
A photograph is in the Observer,
31 December 1927, page 57.
The removal of the "rest camp" from Weeroona to Mount Fergusson (sic) is reported in the Register,
13 November 1929, page 20a,
Advertiser,
13 November 1929, page 24a.
A photograph is in the Chronicle,
14 November 1929 page 47.
Watervale - Wellington
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Place Names
Weetulta
Nomenclature
Aboriginal for 'reedy place'.
General Notes
The school opened in 1887 and closed in 1970.
Watervale - Wellington
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Place Names
Welland
Nomenclature
A name imported from Worcestershire and applied to a subdivision of part section 373, Hundred of Yatala by William B. Stuckey, insurance agent of Victoria and Catherine H. Fisher in 1907.
General Notes
"Welland and Floods" is in the Register,
28 September 1923, page 11c.
- The Commissioner of Public Works was waited upon by a deputation representing brickmaking interests around Welland regarding the damage done along the banks of the Torrens by the recent floods.... The brickmakers realised that unless the breaks were mended it would be absolutely impossible to proceed with the manufacture of bricks. The average output of the concerns represented was about 400,000 bricks a year...
Also see South Australia - Natural Disasters - Floods.
A proposed school is discussed in the Express,
16 September 1920, page 1d;
the laying of its foundation stone is reported in the Register,
25 June 1926, page 10h;
it opened in 1927 and became "Allenby Gardens" in 1949; see Register,
5 April 1927, page 13d.
A photograph of its opening is in the Observer,
16 April 1927, page 31,
of a pet show on
14 August 1930, page 33,
of an "Empire demonstration" in the Chronicle,
21 May 1931. Also see South Australia - Miscellany - Empire Day
An obituary of Oliver J. Rogers is in the Register,
5 July 1922, page 6g.
The golden wedding of Rev & Mrs A.W. Wellington is reported in the Register,
25 August 1926, page 13e.
Watervale - Wellington
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Place Names
Wellington
Nomenclature
The town 10 km south-west of Tailem Bend was surveyed in 1840 and named by John Morphett, agent for the 'Secondary Towns Association', after the Duke of Wellington.
Wellington - The Ferry
Information on the police station and ferry is in the South Australian,
23 January 1849, page 1a (supp.).
Also see South Australia - Police.
Information on the ferry is in the Adelaide Times,
13 August 1849, page 3g,
6 March 1850, page 2d and
an editorial in the Register,
29 October 1852 at page 2e; also see
29 November 1852, page 3c and
13 October 1858, page 2f - the latter is an interesting letter headed "Crossing the Murray".
See Parliamentary Paper
161/1857 for a petition against ferry tolls;
information on it is in the Advertiser,
17 December 1859, page 3c.
The ferry is again the subject of an editorial in the Register,
8 December 1859, page 2g; also see
6 December 1861, page 2h ("[its] state... for man or beast [is] disgraceful"),
23 December 1861, page 3b,
4 July 1862, page 3g,
23 and 30 November 1863, pages 3f and 3d,
7, 23 and 31 December 1863, pages 2g-3e, 2e and 3c,
29 January 1864, page 3c,
13 June 1864, page 3d,
4, 13, 16 and 29 July 1864, pages 3f, 2h, 3e-f and 2e,
2 August 1864, page 3d,
20 September 1864, page 2f.
Parliamentary Paper
129/1861 and 89/1864 have petitions for an additional ferry, while
Parliamentary Paper
148/1864 has a report on Murray River crossings.
Parliamentary Paper
110/1864 carries a report from the ferryman in respect of loss of stock by drowning.
An accident on the ferry is reported in the Express,
4 April 1867, page 3d.
A report on the ferry is in the Register,
1 February 1867, page 3e,
21 April 1869, page 3c.
Parliamentary Paper
127/1875 has a traffic return for the ferry as does
the Register,
15 June 1870, page 5b.
The ferry sunk in 1869 and it was necessary to remove its counterpart from Thompson's Crossing as a replacement, much to the chagrin of "upper" Murray citizens - see Register,
11 January 1869, page 2h.
Photographs are in the Observer,
14 January 1922, page 24.
A petition for a bridge is to be found in Parliamentary Paper 193/1870-71 - "The ferry... is very expensive and unsatisfactory at all times..."; also see
Register,
29 October 1870, page 7a,
12 June 1884, page 7e.
A landslip at the ferry is reported in the Observer,
10 February 1883, page 32a.
A return of ferry traffic is in Parliamentary Paper
70/1869-70 and
Register,
15 June 1870, page 5b,
19 October 1883, page 5g.
A disaster occurred at the ferry in January 1874 and the following telegram was despatched by the ferry-keeper to the authorities in Adelaide:
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Ferry stopped by a great sand slip, stockyard and all fences gone; main post and sheet piles broken and everything in very bad order.
(Register, 12 January 1874, page 5e.)
Wellington - Miscellany
A proposed canal to Strathalbyn is discussed in the Observer,
30 March 1850, page 2c (supp.).
The district is described in the Register,
8 January 1850, page 3c.
Information on the town and local pastoral runs is in the Advertiser,
25 May 1860, page 3a,
Observer,
19 February 1887, page 43a.
A destructive fire is reported in the Register,
4 February 1856, page 3h,
6 February 1856, page 3h,
Observer,
9 February 1856, page 4h.
Also see South Australia - Natural Disasters - Bushfires.
Boat racing is reported in the Chronicle on
30 October 1858, page 4e and
a horse race meeting in the Observer,
19 December 1857, page 4b,
11 December 1858, page 4c,
Chronicle,
4 April 1863, page 3b,
26 March 1864, page 3b,
6 January 1894, page 14f.
Yacht racing is reported upon in the Observer,
15 December 1860, page 3e.
A report on the irrigation of lucerne is reported in the Observer,
9 February 1861, page 4d.
Also see South Australia - Industries - Rural, Primary and Secondary - Irrigation.
The town is described in the Chronicle,
26 May 1860, page 5c,
Register,
5 June 1866, page 2f and
26 September 1867, page 3h,
10 July 1875, page 5c,
10 February 1887, page 6a; the 1867 report also contains an account of a coach trip from Adelaide to Wellington - of the town it was said:
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[It] has long borne the merited repute of being the most disagreeable place of residence that the colony can produce...
11 December 1880, page 1001d and
Register,
11 June 1883, page 6c for a description of a coach trip from Adelaide to Murray Bridge via Wellington and
25 August 1884, page 6e.
A proposed school is discussed in the Register,
22 January 1855, page 3h,
1 February 1855, page 2h,
1 March 1855, page 2h,
27 June 1855, page 3e.
The Wellington School opened in 1861 and closed in 1944;
the Wellington East School opened in 1869 and closed in 1876;
Wellington West School operated from 1871 until 1875.
Register,
26 May 1869, page 2e;
Wellington West School operated from 1871 until 1875.
Examinations are reported in the Express,
19 July 1871, page 3b.
A regatta is reported in the Observer,
18 August 1855, page 3e,
Register,
18 September 1857, page 3e.
Information on local Aborigines is in the Register,
21 January 1859, page 2g,
27 February 1861, page 2h,
17 May 1861, page 3f.
"Natives and Drink" is in the Advertiser,
7 January 1927, page 14h.
Also see South Australia - Aboriginal Australians.
"The Snake Hunter" is in the Observer,
4, 11 and 18 November 1861, pages 2f (supp.), 4g and 4h.
Also see South Australia - Flora and Fauna - Mice, Snakes and Rats.
A horse race meeting is reported in the Register,
25 July 1862, page 3f.
Also see South Australia - Sport - Horse Racing.
Information on a local court is in the Observer,
22 July 1865, page 8d.
Also see South Australia - Crime, Law and Punishment - Law - Local courts.
"Wellington and the Lakes" is in the Register,
26 September 1867, page 3h.
"Wellington is achieving a ""bad pre-eminence"" as a place where persons are frequently getting drowned" - see Register,
29 January 1869, page 2g and
6 February 1869, page 2h.
"Memories of the Early 'Seventies" is in the Register,
12 March 1926, page 13d.
For a description of the road to Meningie in 1871 see Place Names - Meningie.
A swimming match is reported in the Express,
12 January 1872, page 2d.
Also see South Australia - Sport - Swimming and Bathing - Miscellany.
An obituary of a Mr Carter, ferryman, is in the Register,
13 April 1872, page 5c.
A cricket match, Wellington versus Meningie, is reported in the Register,
7 April 1874, page 3f.
Also see South Australia - Sport - Cricket - Miscellany.
Reminiscences of shooting, hunting and fishing are in the Register,
7, 8 and 30 April 1890, pages 7c, 7f and 3g,
2 May 1890, page 3f,
25 February 1891, page 7c,
6 and 28 March 1891, pages 3c and 6g;
also see Place Names - Alexandrina, Lake.
Information on the fishing industry is in the Chronicle,
7 May 1892, page 6d-22d.
Also see Place Names - Murray River - Fishing.
"The Murderer Insane" is in the Chronicle,
1 June 1895, page 8a.
Also see South Australia - Crime, Law and Punishment - Crime - Murders.
"Wellington Lodge" is described in the Register,
20 October 1898, page 6d,
Chronicle,
7 June 1902, page 34a,
Register,
29 October 1903, page 6f.
An obituary of Albert E. Bundey is in the Register,
27 November 1907, page 6h.
The reminiscences of Rev F. Slaney Poole are in the Observer,
27 March 1926, page 52c.
"Willow Trees from St Helena" is in the Advertiser,
26 June 1928, page 15f.
