The Critic (Hobart)

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The Critic was a weekly newspaper published in Hobart, Tasmania, from c. 1904 to 1924 or later.

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History

In 1902 Edward Mulcahy, Minister of Lands in the Tasmanian government, sued James Paton, proprietor and editor, and Gerald Tempest Massey, printer and publisher of Hobart's "pungent" [1] Clipper newspaper, for defamation of character, in respect of an article alleging impropriety in awarding a contract for the Strahan storm water channel. [2]

Paton left for the goldfields of Western Australia, becoming Morning Herald representative in Bunbury, then editor of the Murchison Advocate , [3] [4] confusingly taking the chair vacated by (the unrelated) John Paton, who had left for Johannesburg. [5] One report [6] says both men had been associated with the Clipper.

Massey disposed of The Clipper to Walter Alan Woods, and founded The Critic. In 1904 he was joined briefly by Paton, who then moved to Perth, to become first editor of the left-wing Democrat, [7] which lost money from the outset, and Paton (who advocated increased borrowing and pressing on) was sacked. [8] In 1905 he joined the Perth Morning Herald . [9] He later decamped for South Africa with a female staffer from Democrat days, leaving his wife [10] Martha Ann "Mattie" Deane, née Davis, [11] to organise a divorce. [12]


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Digitization

The National Library of Australia has digitized microfilm copies of The Critic from Volume 2, issue 75 of 5 January 1907 to Volume 69, issue=989, of 19 September 1924, accessible online via Trove.

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References

  1. ↑ "Local and General". Geraldton Advertiser . No. 1270. Western Australia. 27 January 1904. p. 2. Retrieved 14 January 2024– via National Library of Australia.
  2. ↑ "Alleged Libel". The Mount Lyell Standard and Strahan Gazette . Vol. 6, no. 1368. Tasmania, Australia. 12 November 1902. p. 2. Retrieved 14 January 2024– via National Library of Australia.
  3. ↑ "Mulga Chestnuts". The Spectator (Perth) . Western Australia. 20 August 1903. p. 8. Retrieved 14 January 2024– via National Library of Australia.
  4. ↑ "Local and General". Murchison Advocate . Vol. V, no. 47. Western Australia. 25 July 1903. p. 2. Retrieved 14 January 2024– via National Library of Australia.
  5. ↑ "Mainly About People". The Daily News (Perth) . Vol. XXV, no. 9602. Western Australia. 6 March 1906. p. 4. Retrieved 14 January 2024– via National Library of Australia.
  6. ↑ "Who's Who". The W.A. Record . Vol. XXVIII, no. 1193. Western Australia. 8 August 1903. p. 15. Retrieved 14 January 2024– via National Library of Australia.
  7. ↑ "Local & General". The W.A. Record . Vol. XXVIII, no. 1236. Western Australia. 4 June 1904. p. 12. Retrieved 14 January 2024– via National Library of Australia.
  8. ↑ "Dead "Democrat."". Sunday Times (Perth) . No. 362. Western Australia. 11 December 1904. p. 8. Retrieved 14 January 2024– via National Library of Australia.
  9. ↑ "A Little of All Sorts". Westralian Worker . Vol. 5, no. 30. Western Australia. 31 March 1905. p. 7. Retrieved 14 January 2024– via National Library of Australia.
  10. ↑ "Sunbeams". The Sun (Perth) . No. 584. Western Australia. 13 March 1910. p. 4. Retrieved 14 January 2024– via National Library of Australia.
  11. ↑ "Family Notices". The Sydney Morning Herald . No. 15, 345. New South Wales, Australia. 1 June 1887. p. 1. Retrieved 14 January 2024– via National Library of Australia.
  12. ↑ "Paton v. Paton". The Daily News (Perth) . Vol. XXIX, no. 10, 842. Western Australia. 8 March 1910. p. 3. Retrieved 14 January 2024– via National Library of Australia.
  13. ↑ "Advertising". The Critic (Hobart). Vol. II, no. 75. Tasmania, Australia. 5 January 1907. p. 9. Retrieved 14 January 2024– via National Library of Australia.
  14. ↑ "The Mercury". The Mercury (Hobart) . Vol. LXXVIII, no. 10, 164. Tasmania, Australia. 9 October 1902. p. 4. Retrieved 14 January 2024– via National Library of Australia.
  15. ↑ "Advertising". The Critic (Hobart). Vol. XVIX, no. 988. Tasmania, Australia. 12 September 1924. p. 4. Retrieved 14 January 2024– via National Library of Australia.
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