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Issue Details: First known date: 1839... 1839 Tasmanian Weekly Dispatch
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Notes

  • For further information on this newspaper title see E. Morris Miller, Pressmen and Governors (1952): 173-176

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

First known date: 1839
    • Hobart Town (1803-1880), Van Diemen's Land (1803-1856), Tasmania,: John Morgan , 1839-1841 .
      Printed by John Morgan
      Note/s:
      • 'Printed and published by the proprietor, John Morgan' (Source: John Alexander Ferguson, Bibliography of Australia : Volume III : 1839-1845, no. 2864)
      • Ferguson writes that J. C. Macdougall was proprietor and Morgan editor from 18 September 1840.
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y separately published work icon The Tasmanian and Austral-Asiatic Review [1834] Tasmanian and Review Robert Lathrop Murray (editor), Henry Melville (editor), F. M. Innes (editor), 1834 Hobart Town (1803-1880) : Henry Melville , 1834-1838 Z1243774 1834-1837 newspaper (2 issues)
y separately published work icon Tasmanian and Austral-Asiatic Review [1841] The Tasmanian Is Again Incorporated with the Austral-Asiatic Review Tasmanian and Australian Advertiser Robert Lathrop Murray (editor), 1841 Hobart Town (1803-1880) : R. L. Murray , 1841-1844 Z1936230 1841 newspaper
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PeriodicalNewspaper Details

Subtitle:
Caption title: 'Knowledge is power'
Frequency:
Weekly
Range:
Vol. 1, no. 1 (Friday, Oct. 4, 1839)-June 25, 1841
Continues:
Tasmanian and Austral-Asiatic Review [1834]
Continued by:
The Tasmanian and Austral-Asiatic Review [1841]
Size:
Small folio (1840); folio (1841)
Note:
The Tasmanian Weekly Dispatch ceased on June 25, 1841 and John Morgan advertised that he would 'issue, on his own account, a new journal, to be called the "Morning Advertiser".'
The Dispatch was incorporated into R. L. Murray's Austral-Asiatic Review [1837] on 2 July 1841 and appeared under the title, The Tasmanian/Is Again Incorporated with/ the Austral-Asiatic Review/Tasmanian and Australian Advertiser, until 17 October 17 1844, when it resumed the title of the Tasmanian and Austral-Asiatic Review.
Source: E. Morris Miller, Pressmen and Governors (1952): 174, 176


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