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The Register of last Saturday informed the public, that upwards of twenty persons were buried in the Cemetery during the previous week, and that they had principally died from the slow fever, which it reported was prevalent. The truth is, that only four or five persons have been buried during the
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Initially the newspaper was published weekly on a Saturday, then Wednesdays from 9 January 1839, and Thursdays from 12 December 1839, at the price of sixpence per four-page issue (perhaps $ 30.00 in today's values); six pages from 30 January 1840. From May 1840 it became bi-weekly, published on
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It is needless to shew that up to this time we have had no Free Press in the Colony. It will on all hands be admitted that one Journal devoted to sectional interests in the community, does not realize the idea entertained of a Free Press. ... We have had indeed a pernicious and corrupting
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last few weeks ... The slow fever, of course, is equally apocryphal. We cannot suppose the Editor such an idiot as to publish a statement of this kind knowingly. We charitably presume it to be a very cruel hoax, to which system our solemn brother seems to be peculiarly subject.
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and local shops; together with long court reports and news from Britain and the other Australian colonies. A 'local news' column covered South Australian news. Local horse racing was well represented in its pages.
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Tuesdays and Fridays at sixpence for four pages. The original editor, James Allen, left in 1842 when he purchased the
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in response to his articles. A clear aim of the newspaper was to provide a different perspective to
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The newspaper was founded as an opposition to South Australia's first newspaper, the
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from 2 June 1838 to 19 August 1851. Between 1838 and 1844, it was published as The
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was a mixture of advertisements for the city auctioneers, the expanding mines at
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Port Adelaide Post Shipping Gazette, Farmers and Commercial Register
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carried the stated support of prominent early colonists, including
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In 1844 the proprietor, Richard Blackham, sold the newspaper to
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Port Adelaide News and Commercial and Shipping Gazette
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Index

The Southern Australian
Adelaide
South Australia
Charles Mann
James Hurtle Fisher
James Allen
Rundle Street
King William Street
South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register
George Stevenson
Governor John Hindmarsh
Robert Torrens
Government Gazette
William Light
Robert Gouger
John Barton Hack
BT Finniss
John Morphett
Burra
Kapunda
Queen's Theatre
Andrew Murray
Victorian gold fields
National Library of Australia
Australian Newspapers Digitisation Project
"Advertising"
Digitised page from Southern Australian at State Library of South Australia's SA Memory website
Southern Australian (Adelaide, SA: 1838–1844)
Trove
South Australian (Adelaide, SA: 1844–1851)

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