Governor+Hindmarsh,+the+Old+Gum+Tree+and+the+Buffalo

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 * __**The Buffalo**__ was the ship that brought Governor HIndmarsh, his family and 160 of the first settlers to found South Australia. A replica of the ship stands at Glenelg, at the end of Anzac Highway.
 * **__The Old Gum Tree__** is the place where Governor Hindmarsh and the settlers were reported to have laid claim to the land as the Province of South Australia on 28 December 1836. To get to shore at Holdfast Bay near Glenelg, ladies had to be carried by the sailors, and many pieces of luggage and furniture fell into the water. Mr Hawker was approached by a shark while he was making for the shore.
 * **__Governor Hindmarsh__** wanted the city at Port Adelaide and he did not like Colonel Light's chosen place for the city. Then Hindmarsh and Stevenson wanted the capital to be put at Encounter Bay. In 1838 Hindmarsh was dismissed as governor and had to return to England.

or so years later by Charles Hill. There is some disagreement about whether the tree was the actual site of the proclamation. [] ||  ||   || In announcing to the colonists of His Majesty's Province of South Australia, the establishment of the Government, I hereby call upon them to conduct themselves on all occasions with order and quietness, duly to respect the laws, and by a course of in dustry and sobriety, by the practice of sound morality, and a strict observance of the Ordinances of Religion, to prove themselves worthy to be the Founders of a great and free colony. It is also, at this time especially, my duty to apprise the colonists of my resolution to take every lawful means for extending the same protection to the NATIVE POPULATION as to the rest of His Majesty's Subjects, and of my firm determination to punish with exemplary severity, all acts of violence or injustice which may in any manner be practised or attempted against the NATIVES who are to be considered as much under the Safeguard of the Law as the Colonists themselves, and equally entitled to the privileges of British Subjects. I trust therefore, with confidence to the exercise of moderation and forebearance by all Classes, in their intercourse with the NATIVE INHABITANTS, and that they will omit no opportunity of assisting me to fulfil His Majesty's most gracious and benevolent intentions towards them, by promoting their advancement in civilisation, and ultimately, under the blessing of Divine Providence, their conversion to the Christian Faith. ||  ||   ||
 * [[image:Buffalo.JPG width="526" height="505"]] ||  ||
 * This replica of The Buffalo at Glenelg is a restaurant. ||  ||
 * [[image:http://resources1.news.com.au/images/2011/12/17/1226224/801393-proclamation-of-south-australia.jpg width="650" height="366" caption="Proclamation of South Australia"]] ||  ||
 * The Proclamation of the Colony of South Australia at Glenelg, 28 December 1836. The picture was painted twenty
 * [[image:http://resources1.news.com.au/images/2011/12/17/1226224/801393-proclamation-of-south-australia.jpg width="650" height="366" caption="Proclamation of South Australia"]] ||  ||
 * The Proclamation of the Colony of South Australia at Glenelg, 28 December 1836. The picture was painted twenty
 * [[image:http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/3750088-3x2-940x627.jpg width="462" height="361"]] ||  ||   ||
 * The Old Gum Tree as it is today. ||  ||   ||
 * [[image:http://images.slsa.sa.gov.au/samemory/timeline/1830/eposter_ProclamationSA_facsimile.jpg]] ||  ||   ||
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