Cirrus@Austlit

This short paragraph was first published in Bent's News and Tasmanian Register, 17 August 1838. It announces to the readers of Bent's News that the newspaper is contemplating 'securing the services of a gentleman well-known to the colonists, whose literary character is established, and whose situation, as a Magistrate and a gentleman, stands unrivalled.' This is probably John Morgan who had arrived in Van Diemen's Land in late 1834 from the Swan River Colony (Perth) in Western Australia. Morgan became the foundation editor of the Hobart Town Advertiser in 1839 and worked as a journalist, editor and founding editor on various early Tasmanian newspapers and magazines.