Issue Details: First known date: 1834... 1834 The True Colonist and Van Diemen's Land Political Despatch and Agricultural and Commercial Advertiser
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Notes

  • 'Published as the result of a dispute between the publishers and the proprietor of the original Colonist.' (LINC Tasmania Online)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

First known date: 1834
    • Hobart Town (1803-1880), Van Diemen's Land (1803-1856), Tasmania,: Gilbert Robertson , 1834-1844 .
      Printed by Andrew Bent
      Note/s:
      • Printed by Andrew Bent ... for Gilbert Robertson, the proprietor.' (Ferguson no. 1858a)

Works about this Work

The Court, the Bar, and the Press 1840 single work column
— Appears in: Colonial Times , 22 December vol. 28 no. 1282 1840; (p. 4) Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser , 6 January vol. 16 no. 1853 1841; (p. 3)
Untitled 1838 single work column
— Appears in: The Cornwall Chronicle , 6 January vol. 4 no. 152 1838; (p. 2)
This editorial continues an argument with the True Colonist newspaper over the misconstruing of remarks concerning the 'want of an Assistant Police Magistrate' in Launceston. 'The character of the Cornwall Chronicle', writes the editor, 'is too well known and appreciated, to suffer any deterioration in public opinion from ... ungenerous inferences ...'
The Court, the Bar, and the Press 1840 single work column
— Appears in: Colonial Times , 22 December vol. 28 no. 1282 1840; (p. 4) Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser , 6 January vol. 16 no. 1853 1841; (p. 3)
Untitled 1838 single work column
— Appears in: The Cornwall Chronicle , 6 January vol. 4 no. 152 1838; (p. 2)
This editorial continues an argument with the True Colonist newspaper over the misconstruing of remarks concerning the 'want of an Assistant Police Magistrate' in Launceston. 'The character of the Cornwall Chronicle', writes the editor, 'is too well known and appreciated, to suffer any deterioration in public opinion from ... ungenerous inferences ...'

PeriodicalNewspaper Details

Frequency:
  • Weekly to end of December 1834
  • Daily from 2 January 1835
  • Variously semi-weekly or weekly after 20 March 1835
Range:
No. 1, 5 August 1834 - 26 December 1844
Size:
Folio
Price:
2d (2 January to 20 March 1835) ; 3d (20 March 1835) ; 1s (after 20 March 1835) (Ferguson no. 1858a)
Note:
Motto: 'For truth, the King, and the people.'
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