472 PKOCEEDINGS OF SECTION E. 



Little Adelaide, Norwood, or Hindmarsh — as it is for them to 

 enable us to understand the significance of some of their beau- 

 tiful names, concerning which no glimmering appears even in 

 the valuable vocabularies of Schiirmann, Williams, Teichelmann, 

 Meyer, Wilhelmi, Moorhouse, Eyre, Taplin, Wyatt, Gason, Smith, 

 and Stephens. 



COUNTIES. 



The counties of the province of South Australia derive their 

 designations from personages of exalted position — secretaries of 

 State, Governors, and distinguished colonists — whose career has 

 been intimately associated with its history. Thus it is that such 

 notable names appear upon our maps as Adelaide, Victoria, Stanley, 

 Russell, Carnarvon, Buckingham, Cardwell, Kimberley, Gladstone, 

 Granville, and Newcastle, which are too well known to require 

 comment; with the historical names (to us) of Flinders, Light, 

 Sturt, Frome, and Eyre, mingling with those of vice-regal repre- 

 sentatives, who, placed in order of their residence here, are as 

 follows: — Hindmarsh, Gawler, Grey, Robe, Young, MacDonnell, 

 Daly, Hamley, Fergusson, Hanson, Musgrave, Way, Jervois, 

 Robinson, and Kintore, whose honorable service in the fulfilment of 

 their high office has been recognised by the association of their 

 names, for all time, with the chief divisions of the occupied 

 portions of our territory. To complete the list of Governors, 

 reference should be made to Lieutenant-Colonel James Harwood 

 Rocke, who was appointed Sir James Fergusson's lucum teneiis 

 from March 4th to April 4th, 1870; also to Sir William 

 Wellington Cairns, K.C.M.G., who administered the Government 

 during apart of 1877, prior to Sir William Jervois, but whose 

 names, up to the present date, remain an exception to the practice 

 usually followed. 



HUNDREDS. 



Many of the sub-divisions of counties, called hundreds because 

 they contain an area of about 100 square miles, bear the names of 

 members of Parliament, irrespective of historical or geographical 

 associations. Some have names borrowed from well-known natural 

 features, towns, and mines ; a considerable proportion have eupho- 

 nious apellations, selected from appropriate native names within 

 or adjacetit to their boundary lines ; several indicate warlike pro- 

 clivities on the part of someone, such as Waterloo, Likerman, and 

 Balaklava. In seven cases, with strict impartialit)% ladies of South 

 Australia, and ladies belonging to vice-regal households, have 

 been honored by the bestowal of their Christian names to a 

 hundred square miles of land, as follows: — Anna, Grace,' Jessie, 

 Anne, Caroline, Joanna, and Blanche ; but as official records do not 

 disclose the identity of the persons to whom this distinction has 

 been accorded, it has been necessary, in compiling the subjoined 

 schedule, to obtain the information from private sources. 



