James Collins Hawker
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James Collins Hawker was an English-born explorer, surveyor, diarist and pastoralist of South Australia, aide-de-camp to Governor George Gawler, and subsequently Comptroller of H.M. Customs at Port Ad
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The Observer (Adelaide)
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The Observer, previously The Adelaide Observer, was a Saturday newspaper published in Adelaide, South Australia from July 1843 to February 1931. Virtually every issue of the newspaper has been digitis
James Collins Hawker
…two boats. Hawker compiled diaries over much of his life, originally publishing them as articles that appeared in the South Australian Register and the Adelaide Observer. He subsequently published them in two books: Early Experiences in South Australia (1899), Adelaide: E.S. Wigg and Son…
The Adelaide Observer masthead in 1897
The masthead after the paper was renamed