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Governor Buxton laid the foundation stone with great ceremony on 26 September 1898.
On 22 September 1871, Mary MacKillop was excommunicated for alleged insubordination by Bishop Sheil in the Chapel of Saint Mary’s Convent and School.
A ‘hurricane’ that strikes Adelaide leaves the Palais de Danse high-and-dry on the banks of the River Torrens