18-578: The Kadina and Wallaroo Times was a newspaper published in Kadina , and also serving the nearby Wallaroo , South Australia from August 1888 to August 1966. In 1968 the paper merged to form the Yorke Peninsula Country Times . With the 1861 discovery of copper at a property in the northern Yorke Peninsula , the town of Kadina quickly grew to 8,000. Brothers David and Andrew Fyfe Taylor, and George Thompson Clarkson founded
36-712: A semi-arid climate ( Köppen: BSk), with moderately hot, dry summers and cool, wetter winters. The town is above Goyder's Line , and is surrounded by mallee scrub. It is located 8 km (5.0 mi) inland and 44 m (144 ft) above sea level. Temperatures vary throughout the year, with average maxima ranging from 30.5 °C (86.9 °F) in January to 15.5 °C (59.9 °F) in July, and average minima fluctuating between 15.8 °C (60.4 °F) in February and 5.7 °C (42.3 °F) in July. Annual precipitation
54-409: Is rather low, averaging 388.6 mm (15.30 in) between 92.3 precipitation days. There are 122.3 clear days and 102.6 cloudy days annually. Extreme temperatures have ranged from 47.9 °C (118.2 °F) on 24 January 2019 to −2.9 °C (26.8 °F) on 30 August 2019. Extremes were combined from the closed Kadina weather station and the current Kadina AWS station. Kadina is located within
72-641: The Wallaroo Times from 4 January 1882 to 28 July 1888. It became Kadina and Wallaroo Times on 1 August 1888, when the paper moved its offices from Wallaroo to Kadina. From 1966 it became the Kadina, Wallaroo and Moonta Times , then following a merger with the South Australian Farmer in 1968 the paper became the Yorke Peninsula Country Times . For the period of August 1888 (Volume 24, no. 2574) to March 1966 (Volume 101, no. 10,172)
90-589: The Australian state of South Australia , approximately 144 kilometres north-northwest of the state capital of Adelaide . The largest town of the Peninsula, Kadina is one of the three Copper Triangle towns famous for their shared copper mining history. The three towns are known as "Little Cornwall" for the significant number of immigrants from Cornwall who worked at the mines in the late 19th century. Kadina's surrounds form an important agricultural base for
108-640: The Wallaroo to Kadina section of former converted to a rail trail in 2009. Nearby Kadina Airport caters to small private aircraft and emergency services. The town serves as the base for local radio station Gulf FM , broadcasting at 89.3 FM . The Yorke Peninsula Country Times newspaper is based in Kadina. Yorke Peninsula Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include
126-657: The area. Barley and wheat from the region is considered to be some of the best in the world. The town today consists of important historical colonial and federation buildings gathered around Victoria Square. Kadina also contains the Farm Shed Museum & Tourism Centre (Kadina Heritage Museum) and remnants of the Wallaroo Mines . Kernewek Lowender , a Cornish festival, is held every odd year in May in Kadina (as well as Moonta and Wallaroo, with each location hosting
144-719: The festival for one day). Kadina and its surrounds benefit generally from the tourism throughout the Copper Triangle and has experienced general growth due throughout the 2000s and 2010s due to the Copper Cove housing development at Wallaroo . The Copper Coast Highway passes through Kadina. The town was formerly the Junction of the now disused Balaklava–Moonta railway line with the Kadina–Brinkworth line. Both of these lines closed to regular service in 1993, with
162-640: The local government area of the Copper Coast Council , which was formed in 1997. The Copper Coast Council replaced the District Council of Kadina , which existed from 1888 to 1984, and the District Council of Northern Yorke Peninsula . The Corporate Town of Kadina , which had existed since 1872, was previously merged into the District Council of Kadina in 1977. Kadina is part of the federal division of Grey and lies within
180-496: The newspaper in the nearby port of Wallaroo in 1865. The newspapers mainly focused on reporting the happenings in these two towns and nearby Moonta . Editorial opinion was generally politically conservative and supportive of free trade . It opposed miners' strikes and in particular opposed to Premier Charles Kingston . Some early editions of the paper contained articles written in Welsh . "In 1870 South Australian Parliament debated
198-698: The newspaper title has been preserved on microfilm by the State Library of South Australia . This collection has been digitised and available online up to December 1954 as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program of the National Library of Australia . Kadina, South Australia Kadina ( / k ə ˈ d iː n ə / kə- DEE -nə ) is a town on the Yorke Peninsula of
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#1732783820118216-482: The newspaper's 'contempt of this House.' The unpopular MP and newspaper owner, Ebenezer Ward , reputedly charged the newspaper with libel three times. However the outspokenness of the Times in the 1860s and 1870s stopped after this and particularly from 1878 under the editorship of David Bews ." Historically, its origin was the Wallaroo Times and Mining Journal , published from 1 February 1865 to 31 December 1881, then
234-411: The population had increased to 20,000, mostly composed of Cornish miners. In 1907 the adjacent Government Town of Kadina East was surveyed west of Eliza Terrace to cope with the need to house the growing population of the town. Mining at Kadina ceased completely in 1938, and the rail lines fell into disuse and were closed in 1989. Kadina has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: Kadina has
252-505: The region, and are used for growing cereal crops. Kadina used to be a mining town but now the majority of Kadina's land is used for farming. Kadina is about 20 kilometres (12 mi) north-east of Moonta and 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) east of the port town of Wallaroo . There are 6 suburbs making up Kadina's township, each being a distinct historic locality or hamlet. These are: Jericho , Jerusalem , Matta Flat , New Town and Wallaroo Mines as well as central Kadina itself. Kadina East
270-558: The site was surveyed in 1861 to house miners and became the Government Town of Kadina . Exceptional amounts of copper were found in the following years. Copper was also found in large amounts at the nearby Matta Mine and Doora Mine . The copper mines attracted many highly experienced Cornish miners to Kadina. In 1862, the Hundred of Wallaroo and Hundred of Kadina were proclaimed in order to allow parcels of land to be sold in
288-467: The state electoral district of Narungga . Kadina was once chiefly a copper mining town with the Wallaroo Mines being south-westerly adjacent to the township. Since the closure of the mine in the 1920s, agriculture has been the dominant local industry. Kadina is surrounded by lands used for broadacre cereal cropping. Staples such as barley , wheat as well as various oilseeds and legumes like canola , chickpeas and field peas are commonly grown in
306-482: The vicinity of the copper mines. In the same year a horse-drawn railway from Kadina to the port at Wallaroo , west of the town, was opened. Further lines connecting Kadina to Port Wakefield , to the southeast, and Bute , to the northeast ( Kadina-Brinkworth railway line ), opened in 1878 and 1879, respectively. In 1872 Kadina became a municipality by establishment of the Corporate Town of Kadina . By 1875,
324-490: Was previously a gazetted suburb east of Kadina's centre, later merged into Kadina itself. The Narungga are the group of Indigenous Australians whose traditional lands include what is now termed Yorke Peninsula in South Australia . The name "Kadina" is thought to be derived from Kadiyinya , a Narungga word meaning 'Lizard Plain'. Copper was discovered at Wallaroo Mines in 1859 and adjacent land north east of
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