Complex sentence: Street Parades date back to the earliest days of South Australian administration when the settlement, then known as Palmerston, was home to a large number of Chinese merchants and coolies who arrived during the goldrushes of the 1870s and 1880s.
Split into simpler sentences: Street Parades date back to the earliest days of South Australian administration. The settlement, then known as Palmerston, was home to a large number of Chinese merchants and coolies who had settled in the region during the goldrushes of the 1870s and 1880s.