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Kyneton Guardian
The ''Kyneton Guardian'' was a newspaper based in Kyneton, Victoria, Australia. Founded in September 1856 by Mitchell King Armstrong on High Street in Kyneton, it later absorbed the ''Kyneton Observer The ''Kyneton Observer'' was a newspaper based in Kyneton, Victoria, Australia. It began in March 1856 and became defunct on 28 August 1925. James Thomson was an editor of the paper c. 1870s. The ''Kyneton Observer'' was absorbed by the ''Ky ...''. In 1979, the paper was relaunched as the ''Guardian Express'', this later became the '' Midland Express'' which is still based in Kyneton today. References {{Reflist External links Kyneton Historical Societywhich holds past and current issues Kyneton Guardian (Vic. : 1870 - 1880; 1914 - 1918) digitised copyon ''Trove'' 1856 establishments in Australia Kyneton, Victoria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newspaper
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports and art, and often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of subscription revenue, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also published on websites as online newspapers, and some have even abandoned their print versions entirely. Newspapers developed in the 17th century ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyneton, Victoria
Kyneton ( ) is a town in the Macedon Ranges region of Victoria, Australia. The Calder Freeway bypasses Kyneton to the north and east. Kyneton is on Dja Dja Wurrung, Taungurung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung country. The town has four main streets: Mollison Street, Main street, Piper Street and High Street. Piper Street has the oldest streetscape of these, and still has many of its original buildings. The railway station, about from Melbourne on the Bendigo railway line, is a terminus for two weekday peak-hour trains. The town is the council seat of the Shire of Macedon Ranges. At the 2021 census, Kyneton recorded a population of 7,513. History Major Thomas Mitchell, New South Wales Surveyor-General crossed and named the Campaspe River near present-day Kyneton on his 1836 expedition. Charles Ebden was the first European occupier of the region that includes the site of Kyneton. He set up a head station for his sheep run at Carlsruhe, Victoria 6 km south of Kyneton on 26 Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a Megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with Deserts of Australia, deserts in the centre, tropical Forests of Australia, rainforests in the north-east, and List of mountains in Australia, mountain ranges in the south-east. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approximately Early human migrations#Nearby Oceania, 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyneton Observer
The ''Kyneton Observer'' was a newspaper based in Kyneton, Victoria, Australia. It began in March 1856 and became defunct on 28 August 1925. James Thomson was an editor of the paper c. 1870s. The ''Kyneton Observer'' was absorbed by the ''Kyneton Guardian The ''Kyneton Guardian'' was a newspaper based in Kyneton, Victoria, Australia. Founded in September 1856 by Mitchell King Armstrong on High Street in Kyneton, it later absorbed the ''Kyneton Observer The ''Kyneton Observer'' was a newspaper ...'' in 1925. References {{Reflist External linksWebsite for the Kyneton Historical Society which holds past and current issues 1856 establishments in Australia [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midland Express
The ''Midland Express'' is a free weekly newspaper circulating in the Macedon Ranges and Mount Alexander regions of Victoria, Australia. The paper has a circulation of over 22,000 every week (out of a coverage population of 60,000). The paper's office remains at its original location in the town of Kyneton, it is published weekly on a Tuesday and has been since its inception in 1979. History The paper was originally founded as the ''Guardian Express'' with the first issue published October 30, 1979. It was later merged with the '' Castlemaine Mail'' in order to become the ''Midland Express'' on April 3, 1984. Both papers continue to exist concurrently today, the ''Midland Express'' is a free paper substituted by advertisements for local businesses as well as local and state government ads which is delivered directly to letterboxes and available for pick-up at locations such as supermarkets, whilst the ''Castlemaine Mail'' remains a priced paper ($1.50) only available for purchase ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1856 Establishments In Australia
Events January–March * January 8 – Borax deposits are discovered in large quantities by John Veatch in California. * January 23 – American paddle steamer SS ''Pacific'' leaves Liverpool (England) for a transatlantic voyage on which she will be lost with all 186 on board. * January 24 – U.S. President Franklin Pierce declares the new Free-State Topeka government in "Bleeding Kansas" to be in rebellion. * January 26 – First Battle of Seattle: Marines from the suppress an indigenous uprising, in response to Governor Stevens' declaration of a "war of extermination" on Native communities. * January 29 ** The 223-mile North Carolina Railroad is completed from Goldsboro through Raleigh and Salisbury to Charlotte. ** Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross as a British military decoration. * February ** The Tintic War breaks out in Utah. ** The National Dress Reform Association is founded in the United States to promote "rational" dress for w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
