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Cumberland Times and Western Advertiser, also published as Parramatta Chronicle And Cumberland General Advertiser and Cumberland Times, was an English language newspaper published weekly in Parramatta, New South Wales from 1845 to 1911. [1]

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History

This paper started as two separate newspapers for the population of Parramatta and Windsor in 1843. [2] In 1845 publisher Edmund Mason sold the Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser to B.E. Bailey. The Cumberland Times and Western Advertiser was published for the first time to meet the needs of Western Sydney. The weekly newspaper featured news from Parramatta and Liverpool as well as regional areas of New South Wales including Bathurst, Maitland, the Lower Murrumbidgee, Goulburn and Queanbeyan. [3] Publication ceased in 1911.

Digitisation

The Cumberland Times and Western Advertiser has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program of the National Library of Australia. [4]

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References

  1. "Cumberland times and western advertiser". Catalogue. State Library of New South Wales. 3 November 2017.
  2. Kirkpatrick, Rod (2000). Country conscience : a history of the New South Wales provincial press, 1841-1995 / by Rod Kirkpatrick. Infinite Harvest Publishing. ISBN   0646402706.
  3. "Cumberland Times, and Western Advertiser newspaper". AUSTLIT. 3 November 2017.
  4. "Australian Newspaper Digitisation Program". National Library of Australia. 3 November 2017.