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''The Goulburn Herald'' was an English language
''The Goulburn Herald'' was an English language 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 a ...
published in Goulburn
Goulburn ( ) is a regional city in the Southern Tablelands of the Australian state of New South Wales, approximately south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Canberra. It was proclaimed as Australia's first inland city through letters pate ...
, New South Wales
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. At various times the paper was known as ''The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser'' and ''The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle''. It is one of the earlier newspapers in the colony commencing publication more than fifty years before the federation of Australia.
History
The newspaper was first published on Saturday, 1 July 1848 by William Jones and it passed through a number of name changes in subsequent years until it was absorbed into a competitor, ''The Southern Morning Herald'' which was later absorbed into the ''Goulburn Evening Penny Post
The ''Goulburn Evening Penny Post'' was an English-language newspaper published in Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia from 1870 until 1957. At various times the paper was known as ''Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General ...
''. The editor of the ''Maitland Mercury
The ''Maitland Mercury'' is Australia's third oldest regional newspaper, preceded only by the '' Geelong Advertiser'' (estab. 1840) and the ''Launceston Examiner'' (estab. 1842).
The ''Maitland Mercury'' was established in 1843 when it was calle ...
'', another N.S.W. newspaper, described the first issue of the ''Goulburn Herald'' as "one of the best first numbers we remember to have seen, inasmuch as it contains a very good amount of local news, a couple of leaders on the topics of the day, and a creditable selection of other matter”. In 1850, the ''Goulburn Herald'' was one of only four newspapers published in provincial New South Wales
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, the area known as the Middle District, N.S.W. also included Brisbane
Brisbane ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the states and territories of Australia, Australian state of Queensland, and the list of cities in Australia by population, third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a populati ...
at that time.
Digitisation
The various versions of the paper have been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program project hosted by theNational Library of Australia
The National Library of Australia (NLA), formerly the Commonwealth National Library and Commonwealth Parliament Library, is the largest reference library in Australia, responsible under the terms of the ''National Library Act 1960'' for "mainta ...
.
See also
* List of newspapers in Australia * List of newspapers in New South WalesReferences
Further reading
* Holden, W Sprague 1961, Australia goes to press, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne. * Mayer, Henry 1964, The press in Australia, Lansdowne Press, Melbourne. * Walker, R B 1976, The newspaper press in New South Wales 1803–1920, Sydney University Press, Sydney.External links
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