'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
