Place Names of South Australia - W
Wardang Island - Waterloo
- Wardang Island
- Wardlaw Vale
- Wardle Bridge
- Warman Well
- Warnertown
- Warooka
- Warradale
- Warramboo
- Warratta Vale
- Warreanga
- Warren, Hundred of
- Warrina
- Warriner Creek
- Warrio Gap
- Warrioota Station
- Warrow
- Warunda Creek
- Washpool
- Washington Gardens
- Wasleys
- Watchanie
- Watchman
- Waterfall Gully
- Waterhouse, Hundred of
- Waterloo
- Waterloo Bay
- Watergate
Wardang Island
Nomenclature
The name is derived from the Aboriginal wordang - 'wombat'. The first recorded occupation of the island was by George A. Anstey in 1851.By 1 April 1861 the lease had been transferred to Stephen Goldsworthy (lease no. 965). A covenant was included in this lease giving Aboriginal inhabitants and their descendants 'full and free right of ingress, egress and regress into, upon and over' the said island and to 'the springs and surface water thereon and to make and erect such wurlies and other dwellings as they have been heretofore accustomed, to make and erect and to take and use for food, birds and animals of a wild nature.'
Goldsworthy transferred the lease to the Yorke Peninsula Aboriginal Mission Inc. on 8 April 1884 for £400. On 10 March 1887 a proclamation was published reserving the whole of the island for the use and benefit of the Aboriginal inhabitants of the province; this followed the granting of Aboriginal lease no. 136 to the Mission for twenty-one years from 1 January 1887.
General Notes
Its school opened in 1878 and closed in 1971.
"Wreck of the Candida" is in the Register,
25 February 1898, page 6e,
31 March 1898, page 4g.
Photographs of vessels wrecked on the island are in the Chronicle,
31 May 1913, page 32.
"French Ship Burnt Out [Notre Dame D'Arvor]" is in the Register,
3 May 1920, page 7c.
"The Wreck of the McIntyre - Something About Wardang Island" is in the Register,
6 April 1927, page 13f.
"SA's Robinson Crusoe [Andrew Golly]" is in the Register,
17 June 1929, page 30d.
- Mr Andrew Golly has spent more than 40 years on the island. He went there in childhood with his parents and for many years has lived there alone, but he is now about to return to the civilised world. This year Mr Littlety has taken over the island... The only vessel that arrives there is the light-boat which comes to tend the automatic lighthouse on the island every three months. For years horses have been bred there for the military in India... There are thousands of goats which have run wild... There are also hundreds of pigs... Turkeys which were introduced three years ago are plentiful... There are no animal pests though the wild pigs are likely to destroy young turkeys and their eggs.
An article on experiments in rabbit extermination is in The Mail,
11 September 1937, page 39a.
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The limelight of notoriety is at present fiercer about bunny than usual following the decision of the SA Government to make available portion of Wardang Island for experiments in the use of a deadly virus to destroy him and his fellows. The virus myxomatosis will be used... An area of 30 miles will be fenced ... It is used by the Point Pearce Mission Station... There is a small settlement on the island and the lonely folk are kept in touch with the outside world by radio. Three or four times a week the launch from the mission crosses from the mainland...
Also see South Australia - Flora and Fauna - Rabbits.
Wardang Island - Waterloo
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Place Names
Wardlaw Vale
Nomenclature
A.G. Wardlaw, who owned several sections in the district.
General Notes
An obituary of J.C. Schober is in the Register,
21 March 1892, page 4h,
of A.G. Wardlaw on
21 September 1894, page 5d.
Wardang Island - Waterloo
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Place Names
Wardle Bridge
Nomenclature
A road from Hindmarsh Valley to Encounter Bay crossed the river at Michael Wardle's farm and the name was perpetuated when the bridge was replaced in 1961. Prior to building the original bridge travellers had to wait until low-tide and then cross the Hindmarsh River on the sandy beach.
General Notes
The Register of 1 November 1858, page 3h has an interesting letter in respect of the bridge - It says, inter alia: "... Mr Wardle tells us that the bridge is partly on his land and he has closed it and intends keeping it closed till he is compensated for the land he has been deprived of..."
A letter from William Wardle is in the Chronicle,
17 December 1859, page 2g.
An obituary of Mrs Mary Wardle is in the Chronicle,
22 July 1899, page 20c.
- Having had occasion to cross the Hindmarsh I was very much taken by surprise to find the bridge closed by a quantity of logs placed in the centre... It was constructed by the government and paid for from the public Treasury, consequently ... it belongs to the public... and why should a private party be allowed to close it... Yet such is the case. Mr Wardle tells me that it is partly on his land and he has closed it till he is compensated...
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Place Names
Warman Well
Nomenclature
Named by C.G. Winnecke on 19 August 1883 after the expedition's camel man.
General Notes
An obituary of Mr C.G. Winnecke is in the Register,
13 September 1902, page 7b.
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Place Names
Warnertown
Nomenclature
Named by Governor Jervois after his private secretary, J.H.B. Warner.
General Notes
A complaint regarding the removal of the railway station, etc, is in the Register,
29 November 1877, page 6b.
- The new township lately surveyed and laid out at Government Dam, Napperby, and called Warnetown is to be sold next month.... But judge our surprise when we are informed that the present site or platform is to be removed 1? miles away from the township and adjacent to private property, where the government have alienated the land on both sides of the line of railway so if the station is removed, as at present anticipated, many intending purchasers in the new township will absolutely refuse to buy allotments or settle down there at all...
"The Warnertown Railway Station" is in the Register,
28 December 1887, page 6a.
The school opened in 1878 and closed in 1971.
An Arbor Day is reported in the Register,
19 July 1907, page 7f.
Also see South Australia - Education - Arbor Days.
A sale of allotments is reported in the Chronicle,
26 January 1878, page 2b (supp.).
Information on its water supply is in the Register,
30 December 1878 (supp.), page 1f.
Observer,
3 and 10 February 1883, pages 29b and 15b.
Also see South Australia - Water Conservation.
A sports meeting is reported in the Chronicle,
16 August 1879, page 21f,
21 August 1880, page 24f,
7 September 1895, page 6e,
5 September 1896, page 25e.
Its first horse race meeting held on Mr Goldney's paddock is reported in the Chronicle,
15 April 1882, page 21c; also see
Advertiser,
16 March 1883, page 7d,
Express,
12 March 1885, page 4b,
Observer,
28 September 1901, page 18b,
13 October 1906, page 1d (supp.).
Also see South Australia - Sport - Horse Racing.
The opening of the Institute and a sports day are reported upon in the Chronicle,
1 March 1902, page 35b,
Register,
5 March 1904, page 5f for a races and sports day.
The laying of the foundation stone of the Catholic church is reported in the Register,
11 December 1907, page 5a.
The opening of a telephone office is reported in the Register,
15 January 1910, page 1d,
Observer,
22 January 1910, page 15d.
Also see South Australia - Communications - Telephones.
Warnertown - Obituaries
An obituary of J.H.B. Warner is in the Register,
31 October 1891, page 4h.
An obituary of George Cozens is in the Observer,
6 May 1916, page 33c,
of Mrs G. Cozens in the Register,
14 August 1920, page 8c,
of Patrick J. Walsh on 19 May 1928, page 15h.
Wardang Island - Waterloo
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Place Names
Warooka
Nomenclature
Derived from the Aboriginal wiruka -'muddy waterhole'.
General Notes
A proposed school is discussed in the Register,
17 April 1878, page 5e,
Observer,
20 April 1878, page 20f; it opened in 1879.
A photograph of students is in the Observer,
23 March 1907, page 32,
Chronicle,
14 June 1934, page 35.
The opening of the telegraph office is reported in the Chronicle,
31 May 1879, page 1e (supp.).
- On 22 May a telegraph station and a new piece of road [to] Yorketown were formally opened... The necessity for the latter is quite evident. Warooka is situated on the crown of the Peasey [sic] Range,,, at the base of which a salt marsh or swamp called the Moorowie Swamp, extends right across the Peninsula from Hardwicke Bay to Sturt Bay, Formerly, the crossing of this marsh in winter entailed a great deal of labour and difficulty on the part of settlers when conveying stores across it...
Also see South Australia - Communications - Telegraphic.
A sports day is reported in the Chronicle,
17 November 1877, page 22b,
16 November 1878, page 22b,
Observer,
15 November 1879, page 3e,
Chronicle,
30 October 1880, page 12e,
12 March 1904, page 13b,
Register,
14 March 1911, page 10c.
The opening of the Institute is reported in the Register,
23 July 1885, page 5d.
The town and district are described in the Chronicle,
12 May 1877, page 5e,
Express,
7 December 1877, page 3e,
Farmers Weekly Messenger,
8 December 1877, page 2b,
Register,
21 February 1878, page 7a,
Advertiser,
7 December 1877, page 6e,
23 and 26 May 1879, pages 6b and 6a,
29 November 1883, page 1c (supp.),
Chronicle,
12 August 1882, page 7d,
1 December 1883, page 9a,
Register,
16 November 1889, page 6b,
23 April 1904, page 9e and
the effects of an earthquake on
24 September 1902, page 8a and
9 October 1902, page 4g.
A photograph of the town is in The Critic,
25 April 1903, page 7.
A sports day is reported in the Chronicle,
17 November 1877, page 22b,
16 November 1878, page 22b,
30 October 1880, page 12e,
12 March 1904, page 13b.
A proposed district council is discussed in the Chronicle,
6 November 1880, page 26c.
A photograph of council members is in the Observer,
23 March 1907, page 32.
Also see South Australia - Miscellany - Local Government.
A horse race meeting is reported in the Chronicle,
25 March 1899, page 17e and
an earthquake on
27 September 1902, page 34b.
Also see South Australia - Sport - Horse Racing.
The aftermath of an earthquake is reported in the Express,
23 September 1902, page 1f;
photographs, etc, are in the Observer,
4 and 11 October 1902, page 23 and 34c.
Also see South Australia - Natural Disasters - Miscellany.
A photograph of the opening of the Methodist Church is in the Chronicle,
3 August 1907, page 30,
of members of a rifle club on
5 July 1934, page 33.
A report of bushfires is in the Chronicle,
24 February 1912, page 40b.
Also see South Australia - Natural Disasters - Bushfires.
Complaints about the mail service are aired in the Register,
27 January 1926, page 8f.
Also see South Australia - Communications - Mail and Postal.
"Old Warooka Days" is in the Advertiser,
13 August 1935, page 17b.
Warooka - Obituaries
An obituary of James Angas Johnson is in the Chronicle,
24 May 1902, page 33a,
of Mrs Jane Young on 27 July 1907, page 40b,
of Nicholas Player on 19 March 1921, page 31b,
of Mrs Rachel Baker on 21 April 1928, page 49d.
An obituary of George Thompson is in the Register,
29 July 1916, page 6h.
Wardang Island - Waterloo
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Place Names
Warradale
Nomenclature
The Warradale Post Office opened on 1 December 1917 at the Oaklands railway station; a requisition for the name of the railway station to change to 'Warradale' is to be found in Railway Commissioner's docket no. 163/1923; also see Department of Lands docket no. 5275/1940 (copy in PRG 412 - Mortlock Library); it contains a letter written by Mr A. Hiscock which says, inter alia:
- The advent of the railway [in 1913] immediately gave rise to increased settlement... by 1917 a Post Office became imperative. The Postal Department banned the name "Oaklands'' ... Our committee appointed the late Mr George H. Hamilton and me to select a name and after much research he chose "Warradale'' [his home was named 'Warracowie'] and I chose "Ashmore''. Mr Hamilton's real preference was "Warraparinga''. He stated it was the Aboriginal name of that part of the Sturt River in this neighbourhood. He, however, considered Warraparinga would be too long to become popular and substituted "dale'' for "paringa''. The toss of a coin determined "Warradale''...
General Notes
"Oaklands or Warradale?" is in the Register,
31 August 1925, page 8f.
The need for a school is canvassed in the Advertiser,
5 June 1926, page 13c,
Observer,
13 August 1927, page 49e.
- The Minister of Education was asked to provide school accommodation at Warradale (Oaklands)... The district was growing rapidly and there were 60 children of school-going age. These were forced to go to either Brighton or Glenelg... A block of land had been purchased by the department and they asked that the construction of a school be expedited...
Photographs of Girl Guides are in the Observer,
31 July 1930, page 32,
of a women's athletics meeting in the Chronicle,
27 November 1930, page 38.
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Place Names
Warramboo
Nomenclature
An Aboriginal name for a 'lake', so called because of the prevalence of samphire swamps in the district.
General Notes
Its school opened in 1920.
Wardang Island - Waterloo
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Place Names
Warratta Vale
See Place Names - Waratta Vale.Nomenclature
The name was taken from a local homestead.
Wardang Island - Waterloo
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Place Names
Warreanga
Nomenclature
H.C. Talbot in Early History of the South-East says:
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The pastoral country in which Mr W.E. Gladstone and the late Neil Black were interested was situated in the south-east. Neil and Donald Black, in the early 1840s, took up pastoral country south of Mount Schank in what was then known as the Port Phillip district of New South Wales. Neil Black's run, which he called Warreanga, contained 101 square miles and adjoined the State boundary and running along the coast westward to Port MacDonnell...
Donald Black held the adjoining run of 45 square miles calling it Kongorong which is corrupted from the native name Koongernoong, meaning "the corner of it". Mr Buchanan managed the Black's cattle station and lived at Wirreanga and a nephew of Mr Gladstone was obtaining colonial experience under him... This station was connected with what is believed to have been the first murder of a white man in the southern portion of the South-East district, that of Captain John Broadfoot, of the ship Jane Lovat which ran ashore near Port MacDonnell in 1853. On the adjoining run were two shepherds, Crawford and Stevens, both convicts, who began to pilfer the cargo, and killed the captain. They were arrested; Crawford escaped and was never re-arrested.'
Its derivation is unknown.
General Notes
Historical information is in the Register,
23 July 1920, page 9d.
Wardang Island - Waterloo
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Place Names
Warren, Hundred of
Nomenclature
John Warren, MLC (1888-1912). Born in Scotland in 1831 he came to South Australia with his parents in the Iona in 1842. He died in 1914 at Mount Crawford; see Register, 14 September 1914, page 6f. As a pioneer colonist he expressed to the full the dangers and difficulties of opening up an unknown country. Practically the whole of his life was spent in pastoral and agricultural pursuits and as early as 1862 he was interested in a sheep station [on what was to be] the route of the Overland Telegraph Line which he held in partnership with his brothers-in-law, the Messrs Hogarth.
General Notes
Also see South Australia - Politics.
The Hundred is described in the Advertiser,
12 January 1910, page 7a.
- Even when the wheat has been stacked at Warren Beach the shipping difficulties are extreme. The wheat has to be pulled into shallow water by horse or bullock teams to open boats, which in turn take the wheat to the ketches lying further out. Is there any wonder that the government is being approached for more road grants and other facilities...
Biographical details of John Warren are in the Observer,
9 March 1889, page 33b;
an obituary is in the Register,
14 September 1914, page 6f.
"Some of the Farmers" is in the Register,
17 October 1911, page 3b; also see
26 October 1911, page 5b.
Wardang Island - Waterloo
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Place Names
Warrina
Nomenclature
Aboriginal for 'giving'.
General Notes
The school opened in 1889 and closed in 1891.
The town is described in the Register,
22 October 1889, page 6a,
while a hospital, partly subsidised by railway construction workers, is discussed on
29 July 1890, page 3f;
the hotel is described on
8 May 1894, page 5a.
- It is a native name, but of course I did not ask its signification! The settlement is one of the most important and bustling north of Hergott. It is the head camp and will remain so unless another Bill should be passed authorising the continuation of the railway, as it is only 54 miles from the extreme point to which the rails can be laid with the money now available... Already in anticipation of the traffic being opened, station buildings and officers' quarters of weatherboard have been erected, but the other structures are of canvas and if the line continues beyond, or if the line is stopped, the inhabitants will literally "fold their tents", like the Arabs, and as silently steal away.
"The Sly Grog Curse" is in the Observer,
26 October 1889, page 34d.
A sports day is reported in the Chronicle,
5 January 1895, page 22d.
The obituary of John Robert Brumby of Warrina is in the Register,
31 January 1896, page 6c
and information on the family in the Advertiser,
30 May 1934, page 16i.
Refer Geoffrey H. Manning, Romance of Place Names of South Australia, page xxix for a map showing "Brumby's House, etc" at Warrina.
The reminiscences of Mrs G.E. Brumby are in the Advertiser,
23 April 1935, page 8d.
Wardang Island - Waterloo
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Place Names
Warriner Creek
Nomenclature
West of Lake Eyre South, named by B.H. Babbage in 1858. Thomas Warriner, a member of his party, who died at Wilmington on 21 March 1887.
General Notes
The Register of 13 February 1858 has a list of the members of Babbage's party where his name is recorded as "Warrener".
Wardang Island - Waterloo
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Place Names
Warrio Gap
Nomenclature
About "5 miles south-east of Pernatty Lagoon" named by Charles Swinden on 7 August 1857 - "A remarkable gap in the ranges [named after] the blackfellow who showed the country to Campbell's party last January." - see Register, 24 August 1857, page 3f.
Wardang Island - Waterloo
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Place Names
Warrioota Station
The school opened in 1920 and closed in 1923.A photograph of school children is in the Observer,
7 May 1921, page 26.
Wardang Island - Waterloo
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Place Names
Warrow
Nomenclature
Aboriginal for 'violent storm'. A poem entitled 'Aboriginal Nomenclature - By a Native' appeared in the Register of 11 October 1893 and one verse reads:
- Warrow - yes, its still warrow,
Meaning 'loud voice of storm';
Spirits rushing down the gullies,
Unfolding Wilto's form.
General Notes
Information on the pastoral station is in the Advertiser,
26 August 1871, page 2g,
26 September 1871, page 3c,
31 July 1906, page 7g.
"Sale of an Estate" is in the Chronicle,
2 October 1897, page 19c.
A photograph is in the Observer,
3 November 1906, page 30.
Information on a proposed school is in the Observer,
9 August 1873, page 10g;
it opened in 1880 and became "Coulta" in 1906.
The district and Mrs Germein's tomato sauce factory are described in the Observer,
17 May 1884, page 41a,
Register,
22 May 1884 (supp.), page 1a; also see
Chronicle,
4 August 1906, page 39a.
- The town is not noted at present for the extent of its trade as the only building it can boast as yet is the house of a settler who performs the functions of postmaster. Energy and enterprise, however, are not dead in the vicinity as some two miles from Warrow Mrs Germein has established a tomato sauce factory... she hopes in another year or two to try her chance in the markets of the world...
A sports day is reported in the Chronicle,
21 February 1885, page 15b,
4 May 1895, page 13a.
A horse race meeting is reported in the Chronicle,
14 January 1893, page 14f.
Also see South Australia - Sport - Horse Racing.
The destruction of rabbits on Mr Price Maurice's property is reported in the Advertiser,
7 June 1893, page 6e.
Also see South Australia - Flora and Fauna - Rabbits.
An obituary of John Green is in the Register,
16 August 1911, page 6h,
of Daniel Morgan in the Observer,
20 May 1922, page 31c.
Wardang Island - Waterloo
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Place Names
Warunda Creek
Nomenclature
Aboriginal for 'swamp'.
General Notes
Articles about an ornithologist's camp and the location of Aboriginal relics at the creek are in the Register,
18 and 25 October 1909, pages 9b and 10f,
1, 10, 18 and 30 November 1909, pages 8f, 8i, 9b and 9a,
7 and 23 December 1909, pages 9e and 9a,
8 and 29 January 1910, pages 11a and 7a; also see
30 September 1911, page 18c.
Photographs are in the Observer,
23 October 1909, page 31,
Chronicle,
6 November 1909, page 32.
- Members of the Australasian Ornithological party who had been camping for nearly a fortnight at Warunda... returned to Adelaide... [a lengthy and comprehensive report of their activities follows, including information on Aboriginal relics]
Also see South Australia - Flora and Fauna - Birds.
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Place Names
Washington Gardens
Nomenclature
A subdivision of part section 270, Hundred of Adelaide when 'special attention [was] directed to the ideal bitumen road which leads direct to the city, making transit to and fro a pleasure'; now included in Myrtle Bank. Emily M. Moorhouse laid it out in 1924. Her ancestor, Washington Moorhouse, retired to Adelaide and was buried at Glen Osmond.
General Notes
An obituary of Washington Moorhouse is in the Observer,
11 May 1901, page 22d,
of Mrs Moorhouse on
5 August 1916, page 33a.
- Mr Washington Moorhouse... of Waverley, Glen Osmond, died on Saturday at the age of 53... [He] started a business with the late Mr Oliver Horner as miller and wheatbuyer at Riverton. He then moved to Port Pirie... and built a mill. Subsequently, he laid out the town of Gladstone, where he was an auctioneer and estate agent. After leaving Gladstone he secured the contract with Mr Jesser to build the railway line from Farina to Hergott. He was in a serious railway accident near Quorn when he was building this line...
Wardang Island - Waterloo
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Place Names
Washpool
See under Place Names - Booyoolie.Nomenclature
A waterhole in the Baderloo Creek 13 km north of Spalding in which sheep were washed prior to shearing.
General Notes
A photograph of a Washpool tennis team is in the Chronicle,
21 March 1935, page 34.
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Place Names
Wasleys
Nomenclature
Joseph Wasley, who arrived in South Australia in the Royal Admiral in 1838.
General Notes
The school opened in 1874; see
Advertiser,
22 September 1874, page 3f,
Register,
10 April 1877, page 5g,
Observer,
14 April 1877, page 11d,
4 February 1882, page 7d.
An Arbor Day is reported in the Chronicle,
14 August 1897, page 37a (see South Australia - Education - Arbor Day) and
a "Hoisting the Flag" ceremony on
25 May 1901, page 19d.
The town is described in the Register,
23 February 1882, page 5f,
21 November 1903, page 9e.
Photographs are in the Observer,
18 January 1908, page 32.
An editorial critique of an address given to the Wasley's Farmers' Club by Mr James Alexander is in the Register,
16 February 1883, page 4e -
his response appears on
27 February 1883, page 6c.
Information on its water supply is in the Register,
23 February 1882, page 5f; also see
7 December 1885, page 7d,
1 September 1897, page 7g.
Also see South Australia - Water Conservation.
A protest meeting against high railway fares is reported in the Register,
23 October 1882 (supp), page 4a.
Also see South Australia - Transport - Railways - Miscellany.
A railway accident is reported in the Chronicle,
21 February 1885, page 8d.
Information on a "rust proof" wheat bred by Richard Marshall is reported in the Chronicle,
20 December 1890, page 7b.
Also see South Australia - Industries - Rural, Primary and Secondary - Farming - Grain Diseases.
The laying of the foundation stone of the Institute is reported in the Register,
9 September 1895, page 6c.
"Ladies at Cricket" is in the Chronicle,
2 April 1904, page 13d.
- A novel match was played on the local pitch between a team of single ladies and gentlemen. The latter appeared in the most fantastic attire, including skirts and batted left-handed. The game was bravely contested, but the sterner sex held their own, the result being ladies 33, gentlemen 61. The side of an immediate haystack formed a grand stand and under its kindly shade afternoon tea was provided by a committee of ladies...
"Telephone to Wasleys" is in the Chronicle,
15 June 1907, page 31.
Also see South Australia - Communications - Telephones.
The destruction of a chaff mill by fire is reported in the Observer,
25 April 1908, page 15b.
Also see South Australia - Industries - Rural, Primary and Secondary - Farming - Mills.
Photograph of delivering wheat to the railway station are in the Chronicle,
29 January 1910, page 30,
3 March 1932, page 34,
of hay stacks in the Observer,
1 March 1913, page 31.
"Attacked by Bees" is in the Observer,
1 October 1910, page 39b.
Also see South Australia - Industries - Rural, Primary and Secondary - Beekeeping.
Floods are reported in the Observer,
8 March 1913, page 38e.
Also see South Australia - Natural Disasters - Floods.
"Revolver Duel in Bank" is in The News,
7 November 1924, page 1a.
A photograph of Dr H.F. Altmann is in the Register,
17 October 1927, page 10.
A proposed memorial to Mr Charles Mullen - "the father of the process of scrub clearing known as Mullenising" - is in the Advertiser,
21 June 1929, page 19e.
Photographs of "Back to Wasleys" celebrations are in the Chronicle,
28 October 1937, page 36.
Wasleys - Obituaries
The death of Mr H. Wasley is reported in the Chronicle,
25 January 1868, page 7d.
Biographical details of W.H. Wasley are in the Register, 29 December 1914, page 4g.
An obituary of W.H. Wasley is in the Observer, 26 March 1927, page 11b.
An obituary of Robert Oliver is in theObserver,
28 April 1906, page 38c,
of Thomas H. South in the Register, 18 September 1906, page 6f,
of Edward Dingle on 5 August 1909, page 6i.
An obituary of George Thomson is in the Register,
21 August 1913, page 6f,
of Mrs J.E. Selleck on 23 July 1914, page 8a.
Wardang Island - Waterloo
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Place Names
Watchanie
A photograph of school children is in the Chronicle,6 August 1931, page 32.
Wardang Island - Waterloo
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Place Names
Watchman
Nomenclature
Weary teamsters built a hut here and, as they slept, employed a man to watch their bullocks.
General Notes
"Watchman's Plains" is mentioned in the Register,
11 February 1858 (supp.), page 2.
Parliamentary Paper 34/1877 shows the Watchman Plains School being conducted by Matilda C. Lear with 20 enrolled pupils;
it opened in 1876 and closed in 1880.
A description of a watchman's hut is in The Mail,
11 June 1927, page 16c.
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Place Names
Waterfall Gully
A fire is reported in the Register,19 February 1864, page 3c.
A picnic is described in the Register,
10 November 1879, page 5g.
The drowning of a boy is reported in the Register,
21 April 1884, page 7b.
Improvements to the area are reported in the Register,
19 December 1884, page 5c.
A field naturalists' excursion is reported in the Register,
15 December 1885, page 3g,
6 December 1887, page 7e,
22 May 1928, page 6e.
Photographs are in the Pictorial Australian in January 1892 (supplement).
"Terrible Drowning Accident" is in the Observer,
9 April 1898, page 15a.
- An inquest was held at the Bath Hotel into the circumstances of the death of a boy named Frederick Clisby who was drowned at Waterfall Gully.... On reaching the falls they proceeded to gather ferns... The deceased attempted to jump across the rocks near the third waterfall and in so doing slipped and fell into a deep waterhole below...
"An Idyll in the Hills" is in the Advertiser,
19 September 1904, page 5f,
"A Scenic Gem" in the Chronicle,
15 October 1910, page 40c.
It and nearby environs are described in the Advertiser,
8, 18 and 26 October 1910, pages 16e, 10c and 13d.
Register,
1 September 1885, page 5f,
30 September 1911, page 8b and
the kiosk on
18 September 1912, page 12g,
25 October 1912, page 6f,
8 and 11 November 1912, pages 6e and 9a; also see
Advertiser,
17 February 1912, page 18h.
"Preservation of Waterfall Gully" is in the Register,
1 December 1909, page 6f.
"Improving Pleasure Resorts" is in the Register,
13 June 1911, page 4e; also see
30 September 1911, page 8b.
"Waterfall Gully Fatalities" is in the Register,
5 June 1912, page 9a.
Information on the kiosk is in Register,
18 September 1912, page 12g,
25 October 1912, page 6f,
8 and 11 November 1912, pages 6e and 6e-9a; also see
Advertiser,
17 February 1912, page 18h,
The Mail,
12 October 1912, page 6e,
9 November 1912, page 13d,
Register,
11 and 29 April 1913, pages 6g and 5e.
A photograph is in the Chronicle,
9 November 1912, page 29,
Observer,
10 December 1927, page 8 (supp.).
"At Waterfall Gully" is in the Register,
19 January 1916, page 4i.
"Kurralta, Waterfall Gully" is in the Observer,
31 December 1927, page 5c.
Wardang Island - Waterloo
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Place Names
Watergate
Records of the Primitive Methodist Church show it as the site of a chapel near Mount Barker. The Observer of
29 December 1860, page 4e reports the opening of the chapel "at Battunga, near Macclesfield" and
the Register of
28 April 1854 mentions a flour mill operated by a Mr Marks at Watergate.
Wardang Island - Waterloo
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Place Names
Waterhouse, Hundred of
Nomenclature
G.M. Waterhouse, MP (1857), MLC (1860-1864). G.M. Waterhouse, MP (1857), MLC (1860-1864). Born in Cornwall in 1824 he arrived from Tasmania in 1843, where he and his parents had resided since 1839. He entered Parliament in 1857 as a Member for East Torrens and was a vigorous opponent of State aid for religion. He went to New Zealand in 1864 where he entered Parliament and, for a time, was Acting-Governor.
General Notes
Also see South Australia - Politics.
Mr Waterhouse's obituary is in the Register,
3 October 1906, page 6a.
Wardang Island - Waterloo
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Place Names
Waterloo Bay
Nomenclature
Prior to June 1865 it was not shown on maps but during that month the Surveyor-General, G.W. Goyder, and Captain Bloomfield Douglas were in the vicinity in the Government vessel Flinders. Therefore, it is probable it, together with Wellington and Wellesley Points, were so named to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the British victory over Napoleon at Waterloo under the command of the Duke of Wellington, the former Arthur Wellesley. Local legend has it that, following the murder of John Hamp by two Aborigines, the local tribe was rounded up and driven to the bay, where they jumped over the cliff to their death.
General Notes
The bay and district are described in the Observer of
22 March 1879, page 11e; also see
Register,
24 March 1879, page 7b,
24 June 1881 (supp.), page 2d.
A controversy over the alleged massacre of Aborigines at the bay appears in the Register,
27 February 1926, page 5a,
6, 8, 11, 13, 16, 23, 29 and 30 March 1926, pages 12d, 12c, 12c, 14c, 15d, 12d, 13e-f and 13b,
1, 8, 9, 14, 18 and 20 April 1926, pages 9c-12c, 7h, 13d, 6d, 7h and 12a,
18 May 1926, page 7h; also see
Observer,
20 and 27 March 1926, pages 16a and 41c-60a,
3, 10 and 24 April 1926, pages 29a-60c, 49c and 60a,
The Mail,
30 April 1932, page 16e for an informative article.
A letter from Rodney Cockburn debunking the alleged massacre is in the Observer,
12 October 1929, page 44e:
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I swallowed the silly old yarn 21 years ago when I wrote my nomenclature and I can never lose an opportunity to make amends.
2 November 1929, pages 10e-54c,
30 November 1929, page 54c,
7 December 1929, page 55a,
7, 14 and 28 December 1929, pages 55a, 37c and 45b and
the reminiscences of Mr M.S.W. Kenny in
the Advertiser,
4 August 1932, page 10i:
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There was nothing in this yarn... I lived 50 years behind the bar [of the Colton Hotel] and heard most things. I have the true story first hand from Sergeant James O'Garaghty [sic], a very fine type of wild Irishman who had left the police force... He said that the blacks had been bad... and that about 200 bushmen on horseback drove the blacks north. One lubra might have fallen over the cliffs, but the wholesale massacre is all moonshine.
16 September 1937, page 21b,
Chronicle,
3 December 1971, page 3.
The Alleged Massacre of Aboriginals at Waterloo Bay
A Long-Lost Story of the Murders of John Hamp and James Beevor
For nearly 100 years historians, both amateur and professional, have produced reams of conflicting stories surrounding the murders of Messrs Hamp and Beevor on Eyre Peninsula on 23 June 1848 and 3 May 1849, respectively. Hereunder is another version, abridged from an account of the tragedies by "Betty Mac" who declared that it:
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Is as accurate as I can get it after much investigation. Practically all my life I have lived within 20 miles of the scene. I have heard most versions of that day's work and have most vivid recollections of the "sandhill blacks" as this tribe was called.
In what follows it is apparent that after Mr Hamp's murder the so called "massacre" was enacted and within twelve months, in an act of vengeance, the perpetrator of the first murder repeated, according to the white man's law, the offence upon Mr Beevor.
Introduction
Mangultie was seeking his next meal [with his lubra, Poochera] when her shrill voice was a screech and her finger pointed to the west... from the sandhills and from the cliffs those naked savages viewed with superstitious awe the alarming creation as it sheltered behind Waldegrave Island. A new era had begun, although those primitive folk knew it not, for it was the Investigator with Captain Flinders on board... the long open bay in which he had sheltered had a new name by which even some of the natives came in time to call it... It was Anxious Bay... The years passed by bringing with them vast changes. White men mounted on strange animals an driving before them other alien creatures, had come from the east...
The white men expected the Aborigines to work for food. But why work? Sheep were more easily killed than a kangaroo or wallaby and the shepherds' wives would always give food if asked. Sometimes, argued the wise old men of the tribe, if they did work they would be whipped, and here would be shown markings on thin, scraggy arms and legs... on half-naked bodies... And so misunderstandings arose. Some unfortunate Aborigines were ill-treated, some innocent white folk were killed, and for this crime the blackfellows paid... Nature and the continual hunt for food had made the Aborigines cunning - and they were content to wait.
The Murder of Mr Hamp
On the shores of Lake Newland was erected a little hut, near the sheaoak trees, and in it lived a shepherd and his two sons. Sometimes the boys would guard the sheep, yarding them at nightfall, and the father would have the evening meal ready when the little lads' work was done... One evening... the boys came home ready and hungry for their "tea", but instead of their father they saw a blackfellow at the hut. Mangultie with an exultant gleam in his eye, pointed towards the camp oven. "Tea in there", he said. And on lifting the lid the little lads beheld the head of their father, and some distance away his body...
The police were informed, the troopers from their various far apart posts of duty came together, and the whole district was aroused. Something had to be done. From north and east and south came horseback riders armed with rifles... Separating and moving inland in various directions those riders with their baying and barking dogs set off. Near and far they searched, gathering together from the hills and the little lakes, from the waterholes, and from the wurlies by the sandhills, the hunted Aborigines. Driving ever before them, those frightened men and women and children towards the south, adding a few here and there, the strange journey went on...
Mangultie, with Poochera, hiding in a sandy wombat hole under a ledge of a rock, heard [them]... A trooper came along [and] pulled the matted grey hair of her head, and she, too, joined the hurrying throng of people - blackfellows with but one object, and that to escape from their pursuers... and ever onward were hurried a remnant of a tribe, and up and up, until the blue sea was seen... booming and splashing unceasingly... unheeding the puny dark forms above, and those, too, which clung to the very face of the cliffs. "The blacks have had a great fright - and they will never forget it", agreed that little handful of white folk that night as they dispersed from the cliffs at Waterloo Bay.
When the stars were shining and the curlews, with eerie cries ran over the hills, Mangultie crept out of his hiding place and to the east he sped... From afar he selected a suitable clump of trees, and from these he chose the strongest, straightest bough he could find... Afterwards it was said among the blacks that Mangultie's spear was the best of all, but Mangultie said but little - he would shake his greying head and mutter to himself...
The Murder of Mr Beevor
[Mangultie's] wurlie was apart from the camp and mostly he dwelt alone... near Mount Joy... His chief interest centred round a tiny shepherd's hut in that vicinity... As the white man sat at his little window... a small aperture in one wall... [and] unused to the bush, the shepherd's ear was not attuned to catch a tiny discordant note... But the blackfellow's naked feet touched softly... Mangultie with his bitter memories and with his spear in his hand, a lean and aged figure, crept quietly, softly towards the hut... Mangultie's spear was ever sure... At Parkin, on the shores of Venus Bay, at the gaol to the east of the township, Mangultie was hanged... Parkin is but a memory, for among the drifting sands of this half-forgotten town the houses have fallen and the old gaol, too, is but a heap of crumbling stone...
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Corroborating Evidence
Mr W. A. Barns who retired from pastoral activities on the West Coast in 1920 commented on the `massacre':
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Yes, they were driven over the cliffs. I had one of them in my employ. he was known as Downhip Jimmie. He was only a boy of 12 or 14 at the time and when he went over the cliffs his hip was put out and it never got right again.
In 1868 John Hamp's son, John Chipp Hamp (1835-1905), told of how he discovered his father's body and of "the rally made by the few settlers then in the district and of how they roused up the natives and how they made for the coast, where many of them were driven over the rocks and perished in the sea."
Michael S.W. Kenny went to the West Coast in 1876 and "lived fifty years behind the bar" of the Colton Hotel where he "heard most things". In his reminiscences he recalls talking on many occasions with a former policeman, J.W. Ger(h)arty (1816-1897) - Mr Kenny records the name as "O'Garaghty" - who was a trooper in the district from the 1840s until taking up a pastoral run near Venus Bay in 1856. Mr Kenny concluded that according to this informant:
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There was nothing in that yarn about the settlers driving the blacks over the cliffs at Waterloo Bay... One lubra might have fallen over the cliffs, but the wholesale massacre is all moonshine.
Sources
The Mail, 30 April 1932; Observer, 12 October 1929; 2 November 1929; Advertiser, 4 August 1932.
Also see Robert Foster, Rick Hosking and Amanda Nettlebeck, Fatal Collisions, The South Australian frontier and the violence of memory, Wakefield Press, 2001
The wreck of the Fanny Wright is discussed in the Observer,
11 and 25 August 1877, pages 7d and 20g,
29 September 1877, page 20d.
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Place Names
Waterloo
Nomenclature
In respect of Waterloo Corner the 'Waterloo Inn' once stood at the corner of St Kilda and Port Wakefield Roads.
The suburb was laid out by Southern Estates Ltd in 1960 on part section 5028.
General Notes
The Adelaide Chronicle of 7 April 1840, page 2d carries an advertisement for the Village of Waterloo:
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... Osmond Gilles... has appropriated the Section 14... The site is favourably chosen on the fine sheet of w
ater connected with the [Onkaparinga] river, called Lake Osmond and is intersected with the main road from Adelaide to Sydney, Mount Barker, etc and within an easy distance of the rising village of Hahndorf...
30 June 1865, page 3h,
7 September 1865, page 3d.
- It has many natural advantages, surrounded by rich agricultural land, a never-failing supply of water, abundance of wood on the east and western ranges and stone for building purposes of the very best quality. The first sale of allotments was held on the 20th... I am happy to say that there is a certainty of this place going ahead. Already the new inn is in progress and this week a gentleman from the Woodside district is to commence the erection of a mill, which will give the first great impulse to the township...
The school on the Adelaide Plains opened in 1868 and closed in 1970; see Advertiser,
4 November 1920, page 9e.
Reminiscences of life on a station on the Waterloo Plains in the 1840s are in the Observer,
5 August 1905, page 46d.
A ploughing match is reported in the Observer,
1 October 1870, page 10e,
Chronicle,
6 September 1873, pages 4d-10b.
Also see South Australia - Industries - Rural, Primary and Secondary - Ploughing Matches.
The formation of a cricket club is reported in the Observer,
29 September 1877, page 5e.
Also see South Australia - Sport - Cricket - Miscellany.
A "fatal affray" is reported in the Observer,
5 January 1878, page 7c.
The burning of the Waterloo Mill is reported in the Observer,
13 July 1878, page 3c.
Also see South Australia - Industries - Rural, Primary and Secondary - Farming - Mills.
The town is described in the Register,
7 November 1873, page 7c,
4 May 1889, page 7d,
23 October 1903, page 8a.
A sports day is reported in the Chronicle,
9 January 1897, page 21a and
a snow fall on
3 August 1901, page 33e.
A photograph of jubilee celebrations of the Lutheran Church is in the Chronicle,
30 November 1907, page, 30.
An obituary of H.M. Parker, district clerk, is in the Register,
6 August 1909, page 4h.
Biographical details of A.R. Wright, hotelier, are in the Register,
15 July 1918, page 4h.
An obituary of William Gilbertson of Waterloo Corner is in the Observer,
25 March 1911, page 41a,
of Mrs Elizabeth (Joseph) Phillips on 22 January 1927, page 27b, Register,
14 and 19 January 1927, pages 8g and 13a,
of Mrs Johannah Slattery in the Register,
17 August 1927, page 13a.
