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 2 I 2 ADELAIDE AND VICINITY Conclusions Gmnge, Henley Beach, Glenelg, Brighton, Goodwood, Unley, Hyde Park, Parkside, Glen Osmond, Malvern. Fullarton, and Mitcham. These neighborhoods are under the administration of Municipal Councils or District Councils. The assessments for the year 1900 in the largest of the corporate towns are :— Kensington and Norwood, .^75,535 ; St. Peter's, ^51,426; Unley, /i 13,600; Hindmarsh, .^55.582; Glenelg, /37,398 ; Port Adelaide, 101,119; Semaphore, ^50,014 5s.; and Thebarton, ^29,288 15s. In our general sketch of the history of South Australia and of the affairs of Adelaide and surrounding centres of population, the reader should be able to get some conception of the circumstances which from time to time ha'e contributed to the present state of develop- m e n t. Even though the past has produced no Zoological Gardens world-known heroes, there is yet a great opportunity for some able pen to tell the story of aborigine, of struggling pioneer, and of sweet country scenery with primeval somnolency upon it. In the bush South Australia has had its warriors as brave, inflexible, and ingenious as most British heroes, and often against conditions apparently hopeless. As yet she is a comparatively unsettled country. There arc great stretches of woodland and plain uninhabited, and there are resources which are only vaguely understood. With the Northern Territory South Australia extends over an area of 903,690 square miles, or 578,361,600 acres; and yet this country held in 1898-9 only 5,012,620 sheep,