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The Moreton Bay Free Press was Brisbane's second newspaper during the 1850s. It was established in part to provide a voice for the conservative pastoral interests of the Moreton Bay and Darling Downs districts. From the issue of 30 August, 1859 it was titled the Queensland Free Press. It ceased publication in December 1859 and was absorbed by the Queensland Guardian.

Note that the surviving record of the Moreton Bay Free Press is incomplete.

The Weekly Herald was begun as a family and literary weekly in May 1863 by former Courier editor and printer Theophilus Pugh (q.v.). It quickly ran into financial difficulties, and appeared only irregularly until January 1864, when it was taken over by the Guardian. It was then amalgamated with the still fledgling Queensland Weekly Guardian, the new publication continuing as the Weekly Herald.

The surviving record of the Weekly Herald is incomplete. The microfilm copy commences with issue no. 11, published on 30 January 1864. The Weekly Herald ran to 237 issues before ceasing in June 1868.