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A report on an attempt to publish a newspaper in Parramatta, New South Wales, to be called The Cumberland Advertiser with a first number due on 1 July 1838.
See later reports published in the Sydney Gazette (29 May 1838): 2 and (21 June 1838): 2.
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A report on a meeting 'concerning the publication of a newspaper in ... [Parramatta].' The report lists the resolutions of the meeting and announces that '[b]efore the meeting broke up, about thirty-six shares were subscribed for. A general feeling prevailed that the objects of the meeting would be crowned with success.'
See an earlier untitled report published in the Sydney Gazette (22 May 1838): 2 and a later brief report also published in the Gazette (21 June 1838): 2.
