Bent's News and Tasmanian Register
1837
Hobart Town (1803-1880)
:
Andrew Bent
,
1837-1838
Z1913421
1837
newspaper
'The Austral-Asiatic Public are respectfully informed, that Bent's News, which has been published for the last three years in Van Diemen's Land, will, as a Hobart Town Journal, cease at the end of the present year [1838], with a view to its re-appearance at Sydney, New South Wales, in the month of February or March, 1939.'
Bent's News and New South Wales Advertiser began publishing in April 1839. It was sold in July 1839 to the editor of the newspaper, W. A. Duncan. Duncan changed the name of the newspaper to the Australasian Chronicle. Bent remained as the Australasian Chronicle's printer to 1840.
The advertisement is dated Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land, 10 November 1838.
'The Austral-Asiatic Public are respectfully informed, that Bent's News, which has been published for the last three years in Van Diemen's Land, will, as a Hobart Town Journal, cease at the end of the present year [1838], with a view to its re-appearance at Sydney, New South Wales, in the month of February or March, 1939.'
Bent's News and New South Wales Advertiser began publishing in April 1839. It was sold in July 1839 to the editor of the newspaper, W. A. Duncan. Duncan changed the name of the newspaper to the Australasian Chronicle. Bent remained as the Australasian Chronicle's printer to 1840.
The advertisement is dated Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land, 10 November 1838.
John Alexander Ferguson in his Bibliography of Australia notes:
'When Bent commenced Bent's News and New South Wales Advertiser in Sydney on April 13, 1839, he continued the numbering from the extinct Bent's News and Tasmanian Register. He announces in that issue that this newspaper is a continuation of the earlier one.'
Ferguson also notes that when the paper ceased '[i]t was announced that it had been disposed of to the proprietors of a new paper to be known as The Australasian Chronicle ...'
Source: John Alexander Ferguson, Bibliography of Australia : Volume II: 1831-1838 (1945): 247, no. 2093a; Volume III: 1839-1845 (1951): 11, no. 2712
