- Sydney Gazette
The Sydney Gazette was the first newspaper in
Australia . Published from5 March 1803 , it was initially called " 'The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser" '. The paper was issued weekly; the content was mostly government-issued official notices dealing with the import of spirits and General Orders regulating boats’ cargoes. In 1825 the paper became bi-weekly, and by 1831 the 'Sydney Gazette' was available three times a week.It first took the form of a single sheet folded to four pages of
foolscap size, each page typeset in three columns. There were 300 subscribers at sixpence a copy in the first years of publication.The paper's original publisher, editor, typesetter and printer was
George Howe , who had been transported toSydney in 1800. After Howe's death in 1821, the "Gazette" was published by his son Robert until he drowned in a boating incident inSydney Harbour in 1829. Publication of the printing business passed onto his apprenticeHoratio Wills .The paper ceased publication on 20 October 1842.
Further reading
Isaacs, V. & Kirkpatrick, R. "Two Hundred Years of Sydney Newspapers: A Short History." Rural Press Ltd: New South Wales, 2003.
External links
* [http://ndpbeta.nla.gov.au Digitised historic Sydney Gazette from the National Library of Australia]
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