The Telegraph (Adelaide)

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The Telegraph was a newspaper in Adelaide, South Australia, founded in 1862, and merged with The Express to become The Express and Telegraph, published from 1867 to 1922. [1]

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The Adelaide Telegraph

The Adelaide Telegraph was founded and edited by Frederick Sinnett (c. 1836 – 23 November 1866) and first published by David Gall on 15 August 1862 as an evening daily, independent of the two morning papers The Advertiser and The Register . [2] The Advertiser, which was first published in 1858, retaliated in 1863 by founding its own afternoon newspaper, The Express, as a competitor to The Telegraph. [3] Ebenezer Ward served as sub-editor 1863 to 1864, when he joined Finniss's Northern Territory expedition as clerk-in-charge, then returned to the Telegraph the following year after being sacked by Finniss for insubordination. Sinnett left for Melbourne in late 1865, [4] and Ward succeeded him as both editor (briefly) and parliamentary shorthand writer until 1868. [5]

The Daily Telegraph

Around 1864 or 1865 The Adelaide Telegraph was renamed the Daily Telegraph, introduced a morning edition, and founded the short-lived weekend Weekly Mail.

The Express and Telegraph

In December 1865 the manager Henry Edlin called in all debts and advertised the business for sale, and was purchased by a consortium led by John Baker. A year later the whole of the "machinery, plant and goodwill" was purchased at auction by the publishers of the Advertiser, Chronicle, and Express. [6] The paper is remembered for publishing some of the earliest writings of "Pasquin" (E. R. Mitford), before he founded his own self-titled weekly in 1867. The Daily Telegraph was then incorporated into The Express as The Express and Telegraph , which title persisted until 1922, when it reverted to simply The Express (1922–1923).

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References

  1. ↑ "The Express and Telegraph". Trove . Retrieved 19 September 2016– via National Library of Australia.
  2. ↑ "Topics of the Day". The South Australian Advertiser . Vol. V, no. 1271. 16 August 1862. p. 2. Retrieved 11 March 2017– via National Library of Australia.
  3. ↑ A. T. Saunders (19 July 1921). "A Newspaper's History". The Advertiser. South Australia. p. 10. Retrieved 31 May 2016– via National Library of Australia.
  4. ↑ "The Late Mr. Frederick Sinnett". The South Australian Advertiser . 28 November 1866. p. 2. Retrieved 11 March 2017– via National Library of Australia.
  5. ↑ "A Notable Statesman". The Advertiser . Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 9 October 1917. p. 4. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
  6. ↑ "Advertising". South Australian Weekly Chronicle . Vol. IX, no. 437. 15 December 1866. p. 1 (Supplement to the South Australian Weekly Chronicle). Retrieved 11 March 2017– via National Library of Australia.


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