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A reply to an advertisement entitled, [Notice: Partners in the 'Sydney Times' Newspaper]. The advertisement caused some correspondence in Sydney newspapers between Nathaniel Lipscomb Kentish and others including William Kerr.
Column in the form of an advertisement. In this column Kentish, 'in consequence of an anonymous, but audacious "Notice" ... [published] in the Sydney Gazette', (entitled '[Notice : Partners in the 'Sydney Times' Newspaper]') refutes the allegation that the partners in the Sydney Times newspaper are not partners and that the firm N. L. Kentish & Co. is fictitious. He names the Sydney Times shareholders and the amount of shares each purchased. The list includes John Terry Hughes, John Hosking, George William Evans, George J. McDonald, Barnet Levey (deceased). Peter M'Intyre, William Kerr, A. G. Campbell, John Eales, Sydney Stephen, William Thurlow, John Sparke, William Pitt Burns, Edwin Hickey, Thomas Porter Baxter, John Lazar, Alexander George Dumas and himself (Nat. Lipscomb Kentish) as the majority share holder.
