Advertiser and Chronicle General Printing Offices Advertiser and Chronicle General Printing Offices i(A59940 works by) (Organisation) assertion (a.k.a. The Advertiser and Chronicle Offices; Adelaide Advertiser and Chronicle General)
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1 y separately published work icon The Philosopher; or, Fragments of a Nineteenth Century Drama Robert Caldwell , Adelaide : Robert Caldwell , 1881 Z807992 1881 single work drama
3 1 y separately published work icon Early Experiences of Colonial Life in South Australia John Wrathall Bull , 1878 Adelaide : Advertiser and Chronicle General Printing Offices , 1878 Z903481 1878 single work autobiography

"Bull arrived in Adelaide with his wife and children in 1838. He conducted a business in Hindley Street and had a share in a sheep station four miles north of Adelaide, before moving with his family to settle on a wheat property near Mount Barker. There he invented a mechanical reaper, the credit for which he claims was appropriated by John Ridley. Bull attempts to write a history of the colony from its earliest days until around 1845, basing his narrative on his own experiences, the experience of others 'taken down from their lips', and from sources such as diaries and newspaper articles. His recollections of events in his own life are detailed and lively; they include descriptions of landing in Adelaide in 1838, attending a ball given by Governor Hindmarsh at Government House. witnessing an execution, the burning of Government House, the opening of the town of Gawler, journeying with his family to Mount Barker, and his farming experiences and inspiration for the invention of his reaper. He also includes gossipy reminiscences of acquaintances such as Governors Hindmarsh and Gawler, the Reverends C.B. Howard and T.Q. Stow, Pastor Kavel and the German settlers at Hahndorf, businessman Emanuel Solomon, William Light, Osmond Gilles and other public officials" (Walsh and Hooton 29).

Sources

Walsh, Kay and Joy Hooton. Australian Autobiographical Narratives : An Annotated Bibliography. Canberra : Australian Scholarly Editions Centre, University College, ADFA and National Library of Australia, 1993.

1 y separately published work icon The Australian Year, and Other Poems Robert Caldwell , Adelaide : Robert Caldwell , 1876 Z807157 1876 selected work poetry
1 y separately published work icon A Vision of Toil and Other Poems R. Caldwell , Adelaide : Robert Caldwell , 1875 Z808007 1875 single work poetry
1 y separately published work icon The Dingoes and Other Tales Robert Bruce , Adelaide : Robert Bruce , 1875 Z806703 1875 selected work poetry
2 2 y separately published work icon Prince Enterprise ; Or, Harlequin Ogre and the Kangaroo, Cockatoo, and Possum-too Samuel Lazar , Arthur Diamond , Adelaide : Samuel Lazar , 1874 Z811422 1874 single work musical theatre pantomime fantasy An original extravaganza and pantomime with songs to operatic and other music. The King of Arcadia falls out with his son, Prince Enterprise, who wants to introduce improvements such as roads, railways, schools etc, and of which the King disapproves. The Prince is sent to Farinacea, in Australia, and the Fairy Aurifera promises him aid to fight vested interests so that he might rule there. He must also battle against the Ogre Absentee, who has taken over the local kingdom after turning the King, his son and daughter into a kangaroo, cockatoo and possum respectively.

Prince Enterprise contains numerous satirical and topical references to Adelaide politics, parliamentary corruption and land sharks.

[Source: Australian Variety Theatre Archive]
1 y separately published work icon Anselm : And Other Poems (in Aid of the Halifax Street Schoolroom) George French Angas , Adelaide : Advertiser and Chronicle General Printing Offices , 1874 Z815794 1874 single work poetry
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