The ''North Melbourne Advertiser'' was a local newspaper distributed throughout the inner-northern suburbs of
Melbourne
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...
, Australia, especially within the boundaries of what was then known as the borough of
Hotham (later becoming the suburb of North Melbourne in 1887).
First published in 1873, the ''North Melbourne Advertiser'' was a four-page
broadsheet
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costing one penny and was initially issued each Friday, with later editions being issued three times a week. Regular reporting included political news, social events and sports. Like many newspapers of its time it contained an abundance of advertisements, mostly for goods and services located throughout Hotham.
During the newspaper's run, borough of Hotham councillors were known to prompt electoral opinion through the publication of savage editorials and letters to the editor.
[Murphy, Guy (2004). At home On Hotham Hill. Hotham History Project. p.40. ]
The ''North Melbourne Advertiser'' ceased publishing in 1894.
See also
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List of newspapers in Australia
This is a list of newspapers in Australia. For other older newspapers, see list of defunct newspapers of Australia.
National
In 1950, the number of national daily newspapers in Australia was 54 and it increased to 65 in 1965.
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References
External links
*{{trove newspaper, 151, North Melbourne Advertiser, Vic. : 1873 - 1894
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''World War I Victorian newspapers''from the State Library of Victoria
Defunct newspapers published in Melbourne
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