Kadina and Wallaroo Times

This is the front page of The Kadina and Wallaroo Times 01 August 1888

The Kadina and Wallaroo Times was a newspaper published in Kadina, and also serving the nearby Wallaroo, South Australia from 1888 - 1966.[1] From 1865 to 1888 it was known as the Wallaroo Times and Mining Journal and for two years from 1966 it became the Kadina, Wallaroo and Moonta Times. Following a merger with The South Australian Farmer in 1968 the new paper became the Yorke Peninsula Country Times which is still in publication.[2]

History

With the 1861 discovery of copper at a property in the northern Yorke Peninsula, the town of Kadina quickly grew to 8,000. Brothers David and Andrew Fyfe Taylor, and George Thompson Clarkson founded the newspaper in the nearby port of Wallaroo in 1865.[1] The newspapers mainly focused on reporting the happenings in these two towns and nearby Moonta. Editorial opinion was generally politically conservative and supportive of free trade. It opposed miners' strikes and in particular opposed to Premier Charles Kingston. Some early editions of the paper contained articles written in welsh. "In 1870 South Australian Parliament debated the newspaper's 'contempt of this House.' The unpopular MP and newspaper owner, Ebenezer Ward, reputedly charged the newspaper with libel three times. However the outspokenness of the Times in the 1860s and 1870s stopped after this and particularly from 1878 under the editorship of David Bews."[1]

The paper moved its offices from Wallaroo to Kadina in 1888.

Collection

For the period of August 1888 (Volume 24, no. 2574) to March 1966 (Volume 101, no. 10,172) the newspaper title has been preserved on microfilm by the State Library of South Australia.[3] This collection has been digitised and available online up to December 1954 as part of the Australian Newspaper Digitisation Program of the National Library of Australia.[4]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "S.A Memory". State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 29 November 2013.
  2. ↑ "History". Yorke Peninsula Country Times. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
  3. ↑ "Kadina & Wallaroo times [newspaper]". Catalogue. State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
  4. ↑ "Trove". Trove. Retrieved 29 November 2013.
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