The Memory of Deadly Battlefields And

P The memory of deadly battlefields and desperate sieges is preserved in the title of some beautiful hamlet; while the scattered inhabitants of a secluded village rejoice in the borrowed plumes of some crowded European city. English and colonial statesmen are immortalised in hundred, river or agricultural area and royalty has not been forgotten… It is a matter for gratitude that… some of the euphonious and appropriate native names have survived the ordeal. (Advertiser, 12 August 1882, page 7c) Packard Bend - Situated on the River Murray, near Blanchetown. The 1864 date of the fatal drowning as stated by Rodney Cockburn in What’s In a Name would appear to be false because the Register of 29 September 1866 at page 4h says: ‘Francis Packard, a member of Mr Ebenezer MacGeorge’s survey party and formerly a member of the Northern Territory expedition [has] been drowned in the Murray… the body has not been recovered…’ Earlier, on 31 August 1866 it is said that the fatality occurred at ‘a station called Piapco … after swimming 150 yards he sank like a stone… The reminiscences of J.H. Packard, who arrived in the Asia in 1851,.are in the Observer, 1 January 1927 and an obituary on 17 August 1929: My personal experiences carry me back to 1868 when George Woodroffe Goyder was Surveyor-General of South Australia…The government of the day always consulted him in all matters connected with Crown lands, roads and proposed railways. He was never satisfied with the circuitous interstate railway… Being one of his surveyors he asked if I would care to undertake to survey an alternative line through the Torrens Gorge… [He concludes with a comprehensive summary of erroneous surveys made in connection with interstate boundaries - see under ‘South Australia’.] Paddington - An 1877 subdivision of part section 422, Hundred of Yatala, by James Williams and James W. Williams between Eastbourne Rd and Newcastle Street; now included in Rosewater; it was a subdivision of 23 acres in the township of Yatala and in close proximity to the Alberton railway station. J.W. Williams (1848-1929) was born in London, where there is a suburb written as padintun in 959 AD - ‘town of Padda’s people’. (See Yatala) Paddys - Blanche O. Ayliffe (?-1931), the daughter of Thomas H. and Adelaide Ayliffe, opened Paddys Bridge School in 1897; it became ‘Korunye’ in 1921 and closed in 1966. (See Korunye) The opening of a new bridge across the River Light at this place was reported in 1878 when a daughter of Mr C. Temby, Chairman of the Port Gawler District Council, was ‘extended the honour of opening the bridge’: After she had treated the structure to the usual champagne baptism, she said: ‘In the name of the Great Architect of the Universe, to whom be all praise and glory, I name this bridge Paddy’s Station Bridge…’ The total length of the bridge is 172 feet in three spans… The designer was Mr J. Morris and the contractors Messrs J. Martin & Co. A dinner to celebrate the opening was held in Mr Temby’s barn during the afternoon… A property called Paddys Plains and comprising 17,100 acres near Truro, owned by ‘the late Thomas Scott’, was sold in 1909. A statement from Mr William Scott of Paddy’s Plains, sworn before Mr B.H. Babbage in respect of the disappearance of William Coulthard, with whom he was in company in the Far North, is in the Register, 8 April 1858. (See Nuriootpa) Padnaindi Reserve - On section 484, Hundred of Blyth; taken from the name of indigenous people who once inhabited the area. Padthaway - Derived from the Aboriginal word padthawei (or potawei) given to a camping place on section 727, Hundred of Parsons, meaning ‘good water’. The name is linked with the Potaruwutj people who moved about in the mallee country in small groups; the last survivor, ‘King Russel’, claimed the whole tribal area between Ngalat Creek and Padthaway and through to the coast. The Padthaway station was held by Robert Lawson (1813-1876) under occupation licence from 17 January 1844 and 37 square miles were resumed during 1870/1871 with the balance being held under Lease No. 5037 - this land was resumed in 1889. In 1913, it was reported that ‘Mrs Elizabeth Lawson of Padthaway Station died on Saturday morning, aged 90’: Her husband was one of the earliest settlers having taken up Padthaway station in 1843 [sic]… The late Mrs Lawson, whose maiden name was Bell, was born at Craig Brae, Dalmeny, Scotland on 22 November 1822… The town, 40 km South-West of Bordertown, was proclaimed on 10 April 1952, while the Padthaway School opened on 2 March 1935; a photograph is in the Chronicle, 11 April 1935, page 32. (See Keppoch) Paech - F.W. Paech, MP, born at Hahndorf in October 1861, farmed in the district before conducting a hotel at Eudunda. A staunch advocate of the construction of schemes for water conservation and irrigation purposes, prior to his death in December 1908 he promulgated a scheme for supplying the Murray Flats and railway with water: ‘He was a chivalrous opponent, faithful friend…and admired for his gentility and desire to make those around him happy and contented.’ Padthaway School on opening day - 2 March 1935 The Hundred of Paech has been ‘Hundred of Cannawigara’ since 1918. (See Cannawigara) Paech Town was an unofficial name applied to a subdivision of section 3916 and 3917, Hundred of Kuitpo, by Christian Paech. (See Friedrichstadt & Tangari) Pagan Creek - In 1857, Stephen Hack credited his horse ‘Pagan’ with the discovery of this creek that lies South of Lake Gairdner. Pages Flat - On sections 44 and 137, Hundred of Myponga, 6 km South-West of Willunga and named after Henry Orlando Page (1839-1902) who arrived from Tasmania with his parents in 1845; later, he farmed in the district. In 1926, it was reported that ‘a drama of the man, the wife and the lover had a fatal ending in a woodcutter’s camp at Page’s Flat, five miles from Willunga’: The parties were Mr Thomas Dugan of the Alma Hotel, Magill Road, Norwood, his wife and Charles Caleb Byles who was engaged in wood cutting on the property of Mr George Ware… Pages, The - Three small rocky islets, south of Waitpinga, named by Matthew Flinders on 7 April 1802, ‘the servants (pages) in waiting’, in Backstairs Passage. On Freycinet’s charts they are shown as Isles Bourdet. In Aboriginal legend they were named randjureng and the two largest were the wives of Ngurunderi. (See Chiton Rocks) On 27 November1884, Mr R.J. Rigaud asked the Commissioner of Crown Lands for a grant, on his behalf and another person, of ‘a discoverer’s lease of the Pages for the purpose of taking away guano.’ (The above photograph & comment were taken from Reg Sprigg’s Geology is Fun) Painter, Mount - In 1857, J.M. Painter did a trigonometrical survey in the North Flinders Ranges area and it was named by G.W. Goyder who, for a time, was in company with him. In 1932, it was said to be the only place ‘in the British Empire producing radium today’: Mount Painter The ore is low grade… The company has an experimental treatment plant at Dry Creek but this has now been dismantled… Before the present venture, up to 1929, 104 milligrams of radium had been extracted… The station owners in the district were curious about the spangled ores and Mr W.B. Greenwood in 1896 went prospecting in the neighbourhood of Mt Pitts which is close to Mount Painter. He found corundum, an aluminium ore and, 14 years later, carnotite ‘which he sent to Adelaide for examination. The realisation that this ore was a radioactive substance induced further prospecting which eventually resulted in the discovery of torbernite and other radioactive ores…’ Early settlement at Mt Painter in 1946 A donkey team at Mount Painter A photograph of an early prospector, P.G. Mueller, is in the Chronicle, 1 September 1923, page 32. Paisley - J.C. Paisley, private secretary to Governor MacDonnell, has his name perpetuated by Paisley Ponds, near Lake Eyre North, discovered by P. E. Warburton on 26 October 1858; Mount Paisley near Kingoonya and the Hundred of Paisley, County of Albert, proclaimed on 19 April 1860. The Hundred of Paisley School opened in 1919 and closed in 1940. In 1942, in a letter to the Surveyor-General, J.D. Somerville said: In an ancient diary (1858) shown to me by Mr Segerlind, (7 Aug. 1942) the name of Mr Paisley is shown as the owner of a section of land near Lake Wangary. May I be forgiven for suggesting that this was dummying for His Excellency the Governor? In 1861, the Governor bought at a Land Office auction two or more adjacent sections and, in detailing the total cost of the whole, he includes the transfer fees from Mr Paisley. However, the point is immaterial except it shows that there was complete confidence and regard between the Governor and his private secretary. Paiwalla Swamp - Near Mypolonga. Aboriginal for ‘right arm’, it recalls the powerful right arm with which Ngurunderi hurled his javelin-like weapon at Ponde. (See Chiton Rocks, Mason & Tailem Bend for further evidence of the mythical creature.) Palabie, Hundred of - In the County of Le Hunte, proclaimed on 31 July 1913; the Hundred of Palabie School opened in 1925 and closed in 1945. An Aboriginal word, meaning unknown. Palipalinha Spring - East of Lyndhurst, it is the Aboriginal name for Bolla Bollanna Spring - ‘where the culprits got up and fled.’ The spring was created by the mythical creature Akurra on his way up to Yaki.

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