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y separately published work icon The Port Denison Times and Kennedy District Advertiser newspaper  
Alternative title: The Port Denison Times
Issue Details: First known date: 1864... 1864 The Port Denison Times and Kennedy District Advertiser
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  • North Queensland's first newspaper.

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First known date: 1864
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y separately published work icon The Port Denison Times and Bowen Advocate Annie Christie Massy (editor), John Eyre Massy (editor), E. S. Emerson (editor), Francis Kenna (editor), 1900 Bowen : Annie Christie Massy , 1900-1910 Z1496722 1900 newspaper The Port Denison Times and Bowen Advocate began publication in 1900 after the amalgamation of The Port Denison Times with The Bowen Advocate. Annie Christie Massy managed and edited the paper until her death in 1901, when her husband John Eyre Massy took over until August 1909. E. S. Emerson then served as editor until November 1909, as well as managing the paper with Messrs. Walker and Greenhalgh. On their departure, Francis Kenna took over until April 1910. The newspaper finally ceased publication in December of that year.
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Works about this Work

Untitled Hugh Borland , 1949 single work prose
— Appears in: The North Queensland Register , 11 June 1949; (p. 25) Borland provides an account of various historical events that occurred in Bowen in the 1860s, as originally reported in The Port Denison Times.
Untitled Hugh Borland , 1949 single work prose
— Appears in: The North Queensland Register , 30 April 1949; (p. 25) Borland gives an account of the old bush road that ran from Bowen to Burketown, and of various mysterious events connected to it, as originally reported in The Port Denison Times in the 1860s.
Untitled Hugh Borland , 1949 single work prose
— Appears in: The North Queensland Register , 16 April 1949; (p. 25) Borland passes on historical information about North Queensland as originally reported in issues of The Port Denison Times in 1867.
Untitled Hugh Borland , 1948 single work prose
— Appears in: The North Queensland Register , 25 December 1948; (p. 30) Borland recounts the local history of Bowen, including the floods of 1870, drawing on original reports in The Port Denison Times.
Untitled Hugh Borland , 1948 single work prose
— Appears in: The North Queensland Register , 18 December 1948; (p. 31) Borland writes about various historical events in Bowen as reported by The Port Denison Times in the 1860s.
Untitled Hugh Borland , 1948 single work prose
— Appears in: The North Queensland Register , 28 August 1948; (p. 31) Borland recounts historical events that were first reported between 1864 and 1872 in The Port Denison Times.
Untitled Hugh Borland , 1948 single work prose
— Appears in: The North Queensland Register , 18 September 1948; (p. 24) Borland passes on historical information about pioneers of the Bowen area from early issues of The Port Denison Times.
Untitled Hugh Borland , 1948 single work prose
— Appears in: The North Queensland Register , 23 October 1948; (p. 31) Borland writes of the shipwreck of the Maria off Cardwell in 1872, drawing on accounts written in The Port Denison Times.
Untitled Hugh Borland , 1948 single work prose
— Appears in: The North Queensland Register , 18 December 1948; (p. 31) Borland writes about various historical events in Bowen as reported by The Port Denison Times in the 1860s.
Untitled Hugh Borland , 1948 single work prose
— Appears in: The North Queensland Register , 25 December 1948; (p. 30) Borland recounts the local history of Bowen, including the floods of 1870, drawing on original reports in The Port Denison Times.
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PeriodicalNewspaper Details

Frequency:
Weekly ; twice weekly (from 6 September 1865) ; weekly (from 6 April 1867)
Range:
Vol. 1 no. 1 (5 March 1864) - vol. 37 no. 19,9925 (August 1900)
Continued by:
The Port Denison Times and Bowen Advocate (1900-1910)
Mergers:
Merged with The Bowen Advocate (1899-1900) in 1900.
Note:
Advertisements for the Port Dension Times and Kennedy District Advertiser began appearing in Queensland newspapers (e.g. the Courier and the Rockhampton Bulletin) in December 1863. These advertisements anticipated an initial publication date of January 1864.
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