The Castlemaine Mail is a weekly newspaper published in Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia.
 Front page, 1 October 1917. | |
| Type | Weekly newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Compact |
| Owner(s) | Elliott Midland Newspapers Pty Ltd |
| Editor | Lisa Dennis |
| Founded | 13 May 1854 |
| Headquarters | 13 Hargraves Street, Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia. |
| Circulation | 3,000 [1] |
| ISSN | 1448-935X |
| Website | www.castlemainemail.com.au |
The Castlemaine Mail continued the Mount AlexanderMail (also the Mail). It was published daily from 1 October 1917 until 14 November 1942, then tri-weekly until 13 July 1979, and later as a weekly, published on Tuesdays. Earlier newspapers in Castlemaine included the Castlemaine Yarner and Digger’s Gazette published on the goldfields in December 1853, [2] and the daily Leader which ceased publication on 12 February 1916. [3]
Castlemaine Mail covered the Mount Alexander Shire including Castlemaine, Maldon, Newstead and Metcalfe. Its office is at 29 Templeton Street, Castlemaine. Circulation in July 2008 was advertised as 3,250. [4] It was merged with Guardian express to form the Midland Express (Kyneton, Victoria) but the masthead continues to be published every Friday as the Castlemaine Mail and circulated in Castlemaine and surrounds. [5]
The paper has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program of the National Library of Australia.
Castlemaine is a small city in Victoria, Australia, in the Goldfields region about 120 kilometres northwest by road from Melbourne and about 40 kilometres from the major provincial centre of Bendigo. It is the administrative and economic centre of the Shire of Mount Alexander. The population at the 2021 Census was 7,506. Castlemaine was named by the chief goldfield commissioner, Captain W. Wright, in honour of his Irish uncle, Viscount Castlemaine.
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The Mount Alexander Shire is a local government area in Victoria, Australia, located in the central part of the state. It covers an area of 1,530 square kilometres (590 sq mi) and, in June 2018, had a population of 19,514. It includes the towns of Castlemaine, Chewton, Elphinstone, Maldon, Newstead, Harcourt, Taradale, Vaughan, Fryerstown and Campbells Creek. It was formed in 1995 from the amalgamation of the City of Castlemaine, Shire of Newstead, and most of the Shire of Maldon and Shire of Metcalfe. The traditional owners of the land are Dja Dja Wurrung.
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