Excerpt from South Australia: A Sketch of Its History Resources, a Handbook This Handbook has been prepared by instructions from the South Australian Commissioners for the use of visitors to the Colonial and London Exhibition in London during the present year. When honored with the task of preparing a Handbook, I was instructed to compile such a work as would enable a person who contemplated emigrating to South Aus tralia to obtain, as he rode home from the Exhibition, some general idea of the country to which he wished to go. Necessarily, therefore, the information supplied is given in general terms. I have assumed the possession of some prior knowledge of South Australia on the part of those into whose hands this book may come, and have endeavored mainly to give information on those matters which would be sought for by intending emigrants. In the hope that this Handbook may prove of interest to all who read it, and may be specially helpful to those who contemplate settlement in one of the Australian Colonies, it is now submitted to the public. An International Exhibition is to be held in Adelaide in June, 1887, to celebrate the jubilee of the foundation of the Colony as a British Province, and to commemorate, also, the completion of the fiftieth year of the reign of Her Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria. This record of what the Colony has achieved will, it is hoped, be of service to manufacturers in Europe, America, and elsewhere, who may see in the Exhibition a favorable opportunity of placing their goods before the Australasian public, and, in the expanding trade of the Australasian Colonies, an inducement to open up these promising channels of commerce. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.