The following are some extracts from Australian newspapers concerning mainly the German emigrants to regions within the Adelaide Hills Region.

The Germans  -  Extract From the South Australian Gazette, dated 8 June, 1839

Our attention having been frequently called to the German emigrants, we have great pleasure in inserting a document proceeding from our respected friend Pastor Kavel, expressive of their sentiments on the late occasion, when in a manner so creditable, they came forward heartily to testify their attachment to the British Crown.  The address is characteristic of that ardent and deep-seated enthusiasm which so distinguishes the German nation.  It overflows with grateful feeling towards their benefactors, while it breathes not a murmur against the sovereign to whom they formerly owed allegiance, and by whose ordinance alone they were necessitated to abandon their dearest ties of kindred and country.  It is also so modest in abstaining from allusion to their own claims, that we cannot allow the opportunity to pass without adverting to the advantages resulting to the colony from our German brethren.  There are now at least three villages located with German families, besides a number of individuals of both sexes employed as servants among the colonists.  We have heard but one account of their conduct, and it is the most satisfactory possible.  They are uniformly found to be conscientious and industrious in service, regular, sedate, and capable of applying themselves to many different kinds of labour.  The females are adept at almost every household and rural occupation; and the men (whatever may be the appropriate trade which they more immediately profess), are all useful labourers in digging and fencing, and many of them excellent in building, sawing, and carpenter's work.  In labor of this kind they are often preferred to our own countrymen, who, in many cases, might do well to imitate their patient and enduring habits.   In the Mount Barker district, in particular, they have been found invaluable, where the settlers, without them, would have been reduced to the alternative of bringing up laborers from the town at great expense, or of being dependent on the tiersmen, who, by their generally intemperate and profligate habits, are unfit to be received, into any establishment.  The Germans of Hahndorf have been drafted out in parties among the settlers, and have assisted in making stockyards, fencing, breaking up ground, and building houses.  They rise early and work late, are moderate and easily contented as to food and accommodation, are cheerful and pleasant in their intercourse with fellow laborers and, even during the hours appointed for relaxation, will offer to make or do other useful things about the station.  But the most prominent characteristic of all is their piety.  In every act they acknowledge their God - when they rise – when they are at meals - and when they go to sleep.  At the end of the week they like to return to their own village to join their congregation; or, where this cannot conveniently be done, the parties at adjoining stations will meet to celebrate Divine worship, and "sing the song of Zion in a strange 'land."  Striking is the effect of these Teutonic accents rising amid our solitary places!  Here, however, they have that liberty of conscience which was denied them at home, and they can live contented in spite of various privations.  They express themselves simply but emphatically; of this - " What more has man to do," said a very intelligent elderly member of the community, "than to labor and to pray without ceasing ?"  (Beten und arbeiten )  They labor and pray accordingly, and look with faith to receive the blessing of God upon their toil.  Surely such a people deserve to be happy!  The importation of communities like these is of paramount benefit here; indeed it is following out legitimately the views on which the province was founded.  We have abundant tracts of fertile land now opened up to capital and enterprise, and we only want combined labor to render them productive.  We are glad to see the rural settlers increasing, and hope shortly to find villages rising in many directions, where the inhabitants would readily find, employment.  The German settlement at Hahndorf must sensibly enhance the value of land in the Mount Barker district, by removing many of the obstacles which distance from the chief town would otherwise have placed against locating there with advantage.  Similar settlements ought to be promoted in other such quarters.  We should like to see the worthy Germans numbers of whom, we believe, will yet arrive in the colony, properly provided for.  There are several plans, of which Mr. Dutton's, as originally proposed, was an excellent one; but proprietors who do not wish to come under large advances, might afford land, rent free, as an equivalent in labor at certain seasons or accept a proportion of the produce in lieu of rent.  By these and a variety of other modes much valuable land might be brought under cultivation, and a respectable rural population formed.

Address of Pastor Kavell  -  Extract From the Souh Australian Gazette and Colonial Register, dated 8 June 1839

A well established colony like this cannot but prosper under God, if those who form its population as an integral part of it be determined to enter into all those ideas that gave birth to its establishment, and that influenced the minds of of those philanthropists who occasioned its foundation.  Therefore, every new comer ought to examine himself whether he is standing on those principles which the colony is founded upon, and when this is the case, not to conceal his feelings and sentiments as being ashamed of them, but to profess them publicly, as soon as an opportunity offers.  This opportunity was offered to us last week when we had the honor to take the oaths of allegiance to Her Most Gracious Majesty, Queen Victoria.  Having been obliged by our former Sovereign, the King of Prussia, whom we always, in obedience to to the doctrines of the Bible, have honored as ordained of God, and whose parental feelings towards us in many respects we never shall forget, to leave our native country in consequence of changes that had taken place there in ecclesiastical matters which we would not consent to without injuring our consciences, in our Lutheran profession handed down to us from the time of the Reformation. 

We resolved first to emigrate to the United States of America, but Providence directed our steps to a province of that Empire which excels many others by its religious privileges as well as by the unwanted number of true and sympathizing christians.  Many of them took a great interest in our cause, but none has displayed more sympathy and self-denial on our behalf than G.F. Angas, Esq., the respected chairman of the South Australian Company.  It was he who desired the South Australian Company to send out our respected friend and countryman, Mr. Menge the geologist, two years, to examine the country and to find a place where we might settle for our agricultural purposes, and who has so wonderfully succeeded since his arrival on the main land, in spite of many obstacles; and it was he (Mr. Angas) who, through his unwearied perseverance and his unabated charity,  ained the victory over the many obstacles thrown in our way during two years successively.  He saw the day of the accomplishment of his most heartfeld desire - he saw us, whom he loved like brothers, and trusting in God, he made all those sacrifices that were required on his side to grant us the accomplishment of our dearest wishes.  May the Lord bless him and his house for ever and ever, for we are all unable to reward him.

Thus, being enabled to emigrate, we arrived in this colony, some of us last year, some this year, guided and superintended by C. Flaxman, Esq., who, far from seeking his own, shared in all our difficulties, leaving his dearest friends and relations in England, parting with a comfortable home only for the purpose of assisting a helpless body of his fellow christians.  On our arrival here we hailed this hospitable shore as a place of refuge to worship God without any disturbance of our consciences, and entertained, and do still entertain the hope to live and to die here.  We have found what we have been seeking for many years, religious liberty: we hailed, and hail that Sovereign under whose direction we are now placed: we consider her and her Government as ordained of God, and with all our heart we are desirous of being faithful subjects and useful citizens.  We have been very glad to profess this our heartfelt desire and deep conviction on Her Majesty's birthday: we consider this also as a profession of Christ our Saviour, who, though the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, has created all thrones, dominions, principalities, and powers, and who commands his followers to obey them.  We should think it a deviation from the directions of the Lutheran Church — from the profession of christianity in general — if we would have hesitated for a moment to conceal our loyalty to that Crown which God has been pleased to place over us, and therefore we congratulate ourselves for having been permitted by his Excellency the Governor to take the oaths of allegiance.  Such are the deeply rooted feelings and sentiments which we are happy to profess on this occasion, and we believe it will gratify our friends, here and abroad, to know that we are happy in South Australia, though we have to struggle with several difficulties, unavoidable in an infant colony.

It affords us, also, much pleasure to state that many of the inhabitants of this province have evinced much sympathy with our condition, and we think it our duty to mention the following gentlemen:— H. Dutton, Esq., Capt. Finnis, - Macfarlane, Esq., O. Gilles, Esq., J.W. Ball,  Esq., R. Tod, Esq. at the Port, A.H. Davis, Esq.,  John Russell, Esq., H. Calton, Esq., C. B. Newenham, Esq. Sheriff, Captain Walker, J. B. Hack, Esq., Wm. Wyatt, Esq., Rev. C. B. Howard, Rev. T. Q. Stow, Rev. W. Longbottom, and many others, whose respected names have escaped our memory.  Besides, the public at large, as well as the writers of several articles in the Gazette and Southern Australian, have shown us much kindness, by entertaining such expectations of us that we should feel very unhappy to disappoint them, by acting contrary to their hopes, though it will require much of the grace of God to realise them fully.  May South Australia prosper, and all its inhabitants; its immigrants, and the natives grow together as one blessed nation, labouring unanimously for the advancement of those great objects, for which the common road has been created. For self and the Elders of the Congregation,

A. KAVEL, Minister of the German Lutheran Congregation. Klemzig, May 28, 1839.