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 The Citizens adelaidp: and vicinity 75 not appear that the money was actually paid, although the parks have always been used as intended. Several cottages had been built in earlier years north-west of Hindley Street, and the locality was named Hindmarsh, after Captain Hindmarsh. During the boom, land in the neighborhood was bought and cut up into allotments ; and Thebarton also entered into existence of a modest kind. Between East Adelaide and the sites of the eastern suburbs there was a forest of wattles, with here and there a lofty eucalyptus. In 1840, a favorite old colonist, Dr. Kent, was the only resident in Kensington, and his cottage was a wooden structure. He laid out a garden, which a few years later became the temptation and illicit delight of small boys. He also built a flourmill in 1840, near the present Kent Town Brewery, and the locality derived its name from the popular old gentleman. The South Australian Company erected a flourmill nearer the river, on the Hackney Road. Hackney was inhabited by Mr. Bailey, a gardener, who came from Hackney, Lon- don, where he had owned a nursery, and who perpetuated the memory of his old home by giving a name to this suburb. The blocks sur- veyed by Colonel Light on the north bank of the Torrens were, some of them, used for habitations and shops, and that part of the city was known as North Adelaide. Some of the eariier purchasers selected land at Holdfast Bay, in the neighborhood of the Proclamation Gumtree. The Bay was still used occasionally as a landing place, and a few buildings were erected near the beach. As Governor Hindmarsh had awarded to the locality the name of Glenelg Plains, the same denomination of Glenelg was applied to the site of the buildings. In 1840, a company was formed in Adelaide to arrange with the landholders for the erection of a wharf and of warehouses at Glenelg. Terms were agreed upon, surveys were made, allotments were taken up in 1840, and thus another centre arose. The Parade, Norwood