The Gippsland Times
Gipps Land Times
1861
Sale
:
J. J. Hart
,
1861-1954
Z1930556
1861
newspaper
(2 issues)
'James Johnston Hart, an Arts graduate of Dublin University, acquired the plant of the defunct [Gippsland] Independent and, with his partner George Gellatly, a Scottish compositor, first published the Gippsland Times on July 31, 1861 ... Hart and Gellatly established a journal that was circulated through the goldfields of the hinterland as well as the central plains of North Gippsland. The Times gathered news from correspondents in outlying districts and via the electric telegraph, as well as through its own reporters. But the founding proprietorship did not last long: Hart died in 1865 and Gellatly in 1869, about three months after he had sold the Times.'
Source: Rod Kirkpatrick, 'A Sale Where Sometimes You Pay, and Sometimes You Don't', UQ eSpace (October 2005): 48-49
The story of Frank Leigh, a man of Bohemian and wandering spirit, who has landed in New Zealand and fallen in with Hapo Tuki (called Floxy), the son of an Irish father and Maori mother. Accompanied by Floxy, Leigh decides to visit the capital of the Waikato Maori people, following the Waikato River deep into New Zealand.
