Shepparton News
1877
Shepparton
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1877-
Z1915911
1877
newspaper
(2 issues)
The Shepparton News is a paid morning daily newspaper now published by the McPherson Media Group (MMG). 'For all except nine years since 1888, the McPherson family has been in day-to-day control of the [paper] (Kirkpatrick).
A melodramatic adventure story, set in New Zealand. It focuses on Sydney Black, a down-on-his-luck card-sharper and sometime gold miner, who has fallen in with old company, including Paul Barjew, an outlaw who wishes to marry Black's daughter Nita.
'John Chisholm and his two schoolboy sons, Peter and Kane, set out in Queensland to find Paradise Valley which had been visited by John Chisholm's father in the early days. They discover it, and in so doing meet a mysterious tribe of aborigines, and fall into a series of most hazardous adventures.
'This is the dramatic portion of the story, but under it, and giving additional interest to the book, is much natural lore and information, and good descriptive matter that contains much useful information about northern Australia.'
Source:
'Books and Writers', Table Talk, 14 October 1926, p.52 (via Trove Australia).
