The Independent
1831
Launceston
:
Samuel Bailey Dowsett
,
1831-1835
Z995580
1831
newspaper
(2 issues)
Launceston Examiner
James Aikenhead
(editor),
Launceston
:
James Aikenhead
,
1842-1843
Z1299520
1842
newspaper
(123 issues)
The Reverend John West, Jonathan Stammers Waddell and James Aikenhead established the Launceston Examiner in 1842, with West becoming the Examiner's 'first editorial writer'.
Initially,the Examiner was 'printed at a book shop in Brisbane St, but in 1848 it moved to Charles St and in 1854 to the specially built Paterson St premises, which, enlarged and modernised, is still [2013] its home.'
Sources: L. L. Robson, 'Aikenhead, James (1815-1887)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/aikenhead-james-1693/text1825 ; 'About Us', The Examiner website, www.examiner.com.au
Sighted: 06/02/13
Report of a board of inquiry into the allegations between Matthew Curling Friend and the editor of the Cornwall Chronicle, William Lushington Goodwin. The inquiry continued over some weeks.
A threat of legal action against the 'thirteen gentlemen' who withdrew their names from the Cornwall Chronicle subscription list on 28 April 1838.
The editor of the Cornwall Chronicle, William Lushington Goodwin and the Launceston port officer, Matthew Curling Friend were in a long running feud that escalated in 1838.
In the latter half of this attack on the [Hobart Town] Courier newspaper, the writer (probably the editor of the Cornwall Chronicle William Lushington Goodwin), in response to a request by a gentlemen 'to forward to him the Chronicle, "as he intends giving up the Courier - there being nothing in it"' gives his thoughts on newspapers: 'In all newspapers - there is subject enough to amuse and to instruct. It is the honesty of a Newspaper in its political principles that gives it influence, and entitles it to public support ... Newspapers are the mirrors in which are reflected, the people's habit and character, as truly as the Editor's articles and the communications of correspondents, shew the political character of a people, so do the advertising columns shew their mercantile and commercial character - and, indeed, their moral character. The newspapers furnish an unerring standard of the character of a community, and as they point it out, so they form it ... we desire not that any person should withdraw his patronage from another Journal in our favor, merely because he can find nothing in it to read.'
Report of a trial for libel against the editor of the Cornwall Chronicle, William Lushington Goodwin. Goodwin published an article entitled 'George Town' in the 6 January 1838 issue of the Cornwall Chronicle which was seen as libeling the Launceston port officer and resident magistrate of George Town, Matthew Curling Friend. Goodwin and Friend were in a long running feud that escalated in 1838. The article is not separately indexed.
The first issue, 14 February 1835, advertised the terms of subscription as: 'Per Quarter, 13s., - 10s. if paid in advance. Single number, 1s.'
In 1838 terms were the same with the added note that: 'Subscribers in the Country, Hobarton, Sydney, Port Philip and elsewhere must make remittances per Post, or by some Agent in Launceston.'
Includes advertising.
Terms for advertisements in 1835 were: 'For 12 Lines and under 3s. 6d., and 3d. for every Line above twelve each insertion.'
In 1838 terms were the same with the added note that: 'All Advertisements to be paid for at the time they are ordered.'
'The Cornwall Chronicle is published every Saturday night and contains every official notice in the Hobart Town gazette of the preceding day.' (14 February 1835)
'The Cornwall Chronicle is published every Saturday night ; – it contains every Official Notice of immediate interest in the Hobart Town Gazette of the preceding day ; it is delivered to Town Subscribers early on Sunday morning, and in the course of the day along the Main Road to Perth, the White Hills, Evandale, Perth, Norfolk Plains, and is forwarded per Post (FREE) to every part of the Colony on Monday – as also to every part of the civilized World by every possible opportunity.' (6 January 1838)
Epigraph: 'This is true Liberty ; when freeborn men,/ Having to advise the Public, may speak out' – Milton. (The epigraph appears above the editorial on page two of the first issue.)
This epigraph was replaced by 'Honesty of purpose, and the good of our adopted Country' [no attribution] on the 21 February 1835 until the 11 April 1835 when it appears under the title on the banner. No epigraph appeared over the editorial until 15 August 1835. From that date an epigraph '"Liberty with danger is to be preferred to slavery with security." – Sallust' appears. The first issue of 1838 appears with no change to banner or editorial.
