Port Adelaide - North Parade
Parliamentary Paper 17/1854 has information on the "piling" of North
Parade.
A letter regarding "North Parade as a Wharf" is in the Register,
6 March 1866, page 3b,
1 and 17 September 1856, pages 2e and 2h.
A fire is reported in the Observer,
14 and 28 November 1857, pages 5a-1g (supp.) and 3b. Also see
5 June 1858, page 4h,
11 September 1858, page 4f,
Register,
6 September 1858, page 3e.
A petition from Henry Simpson concerning his leases from the government, including portion of North Parade, is in Parliamentary Paper 109/1871.
Parliamentary Paper 130/1875 has a petition for handing over North
Parade to the Port Adelaide Corporation - also see remarks on the "North Parade
Question" in the Register on
8, 15 and 16 March 1871, pages 6b, 3f and 5c,
7 July 1871, pages 4f and 6c,
6 and 12 October 1871, pages 5e and 3f,
27 February 1872, page 5b,
13 April 1872, page 5b,
Express,
18 December 1872, page 2f,
Observer,
13 January 1872, page 7b,
2 March 1872, page 8c,
13 April 1872, page 7f,
21 December 1872, page 18d,
Register,
6 July 1876, page 4f,
Advertiser,
7 July 1876, page 4d.
"Sly grogging" on North Parade is reported in the Register,
23 October 1884, page 4h.