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Date: 1846-1847 Note: After her husband Charles Macfaull's death, Elizabeth Macfaull published The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal from 19 December 1846 to 25 December 1847. During this time the paper seems to have been edited by others. Her editorial input into the newspaper, if any, is unknown.
Date: 1833-1846 Note: Printed, published and edited by Charles Macfaull until vol. 14 no.724, 12 December 1846.
Issue Details: First known date: 1833... 1833 The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal
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Notes

  • Editor's note: 'Fully sensible of the many obligations I owe to my Friends and the Public, for the flattering manner in which the announcement of the arrival of a new Press was received ; and with every acknowledgment for the kind assurances of support and patronage which have been voluntarily proffered, I again commence my labours in a cause (the true interests of the Colony) which it shall be my constant and unremitting study to advance. ... I have no desire to revive the unpleasant recollections connected with the discontinuance of my former Publication, and the establishment by Capt. Graham of a weekly Paper under the title of The Western Australian. The circumstances I conceive are generally known in the Colony ; and to those abroad the minute details of private differences, and personal reflections, can have no interest ; I therefore pass over the occurrence with merely this notice, that it is a source of satisfaction to myself, that the tone and sentiments of The Western Australian although the title closely resembled mine, would never lead it to be mistaken for the Western Australian Journal.'

    Charles Macfaull, 'To the Public', The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal, vol. 1 no. 1 (5 January 1833): 2

  • The newspaper's first issue on 5 January 1833 printed the phrase 'New Series' under the title. This would seem to link the newspaper to Macfaull's earlier title Fremantle Observer, Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal (1831). The phrase was dropped after the issue of 13 February 1836.
  • Throughout 1838 the newspaper occasionally published selected pars from overseas sources. Pars were sometimes published with a source attribution. The editor's actual source for the pars is not always clear. The attributed international sources for pars in the Perth Gazette are:

    'American Papers’

    Baltimore Gazette

    The Bar

    Coleridge’s Table Talk

    Liverpool Mercury

    Peoria Register and North Western Gazetteer

  • Contents indexed selectively.
  • All issues of the Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal for the year 1838 were indexed as part of the Colonial Newspapers and Magazines Project.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

First known date: 1833
Notes:
Digitised issues available for the period 5 January 1833 to 25 December 1847. (Correct as of 18 December 2013.)
    • Perth, Western Australia,: Charles Macfaull , 1833-1846 .
      Note/s:
      • 'Edited, Printed, and Published by CHARLES

        MACFAULL, at the Gazette Office, Perth.'

    • Perth, Western Australia,: Elizabeth Macfaull , 1846-1847 .
      Note/s:
      • 'Printed & Published by Elizabeth Macfaull, at the Gazette Office, Adelaide Terrace, Perth.'
      • Elizabeth Macfaull published The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal from 19 December 1846 to 25 December 1847.

Works about this Work

Which Is the Government Organ? 1847 single work column
— Appears in: The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal , 27 February vol. 1 (New Series) no. 9 1847; (p. 2-3)
The Inquirer 1846 single work column
— Appears in: The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal , 26 December vol. 14 no. 726 1846; (p. 2)
To the Public 1846 single work column
— Appears in: The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal , 26 December vol. 14 no. 726 1846; (p. 2)
To the Subscribers and Patrons of the 'Perth Gazette' '' and a Well Wisher to the New An Old Subscriber to the Late 'Gazette' , 1846 single work column
— Appears in: The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal , 19 December vol. 14 no. 725 1846; (p. 2)
Untitled 'A Hermit in Western Australia' , 1842 single work correspondence
— Appears in: The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal , 3 December vol. 10 no. 513 1842; (p. 3-4)
The Western Australian Journal : To the Public Charles Macfaull , 1833 single work column
— Appears in: The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal , 5 January vol. 1 no. 1 1833; (p. 2)
Untitled Amicus (fl. 1833) , 1833 single work correspondence
— Appears in: The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal , 26 January vol. 1 no. 4 1833; (p. 16)
The Colonies of Swan River and King George's Sound 1835 extract column
— Appears in: The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal , 2 May vol. 3 no. 122 1835; (p. 487)
Untitled Charles Macfaull , 1836 single work column
— Appears in: The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal , 20 February vol. 4 no. 164 1836; (p. 654)
Untitled 'A Hermit in Western Australia' , 1842 single work correspondence
— Appears in: The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal , 12 November vol. 10 no. 510 1842; (p. 3)
This letter, about the merits of the Perth Gazette as opposed to its rival the Inquirer, includes an interesting and separate comment on the use of fire for bush regeneration.

PeriodicalNewspaper Details

ISSN: 1834-0938
Frequency:
Weekly (Saturday)
Range:

New series, vol. 1 no. 1 (5 January 1833) - vol. 14 no. 726 (25 December 1846)

New series, vol. 1 no. 1 (2 January 1847) - no. 52 (26 December 1847)

Size:
Size varies.
Price:

'Terms of Subscription. l0s. 6d. per Quarter, if paid in advance, or 12s. if paid at the end of the Quarter. Single number. One Shilling. Terms of Advertisements :-For 8 lines, 3s. 6d. and 3d. per line above this number.' from 14 March 1840 the subscription was reduced to 10s a quarter, 1s. an issue. The terms for advertisements remained the same.

An advertisement to subscibers, 7 November 1846, announced 'The Proprietor of this Journal, begs to notify to his Subscribers and the Public, that from the first of July, the Quarterly charge will be Six Shillings, to be paid in advance. - Single number Sixpence'

With the first issue of the new series of 2 January 1846, terms of subscription were advertised as: 'Advertisements - 3s. 6d. for 8 lines, 3d. per line for all above that number. Subscription - 6s. per Quarter, to be paid in advance. Single Number 6d.'

Note:
The newspaper's first issue on 5 January 1833 printed the phrase 'New Series' under the title. The phrase was dropped after the issue of 13 February 1836.
Note:
From 15 February 1840 - 7 March 1840 the Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal was not published due to the lack of a compositor. A small one-page sheet called 'The Advertiser', described by the editor, Charles Macfaull, as 'an Adveritsing paper', was published instead. The sheet included an apology for the non appearance of the paper and a wanted advertisement for a compositor. The sheet was delivered gratis with the Government Gazette, the latter 'published as usual'.
Note:

No issues were published between 15 December 1838 and 5 January 1839. The editor apologised for the disruption in the 5 January 1839 issue: 'We regret extremely that we are under the necessity of offering an apology to the public for a temporary cessation of this journal, owing to an accident which occurred to our press. The difficulty which is felt in the colony of remedying such casualties will, we hope, be received as a sufficient excuse for the non-appearance of our last number.'

Although two issues (22 and 29 December, 1838) are presumed to be missing, the numbering and Macfaull's apology indicates that there is only one missing issue. The 15 December 1838 issue is no. 311 and the 5 January 1839 issue continues as no. 313.

Note:
On 28 March 1840 the editor announced an extension in the size of the journal and advised delivery times as 'delivered at Perth every Saturday evening, and ... transmitted to the Post-offices at Fremantle and Guildford on the afternoon of the same day.'
Note:
The first page of the newspaper carries Government notices, shipping news and advertisements. Local news, events, reports, correspondence, extracts from overseas and other colonies newspapers, extracts from literary works, poetry from overseas and original poetic contributions is published under the separate header 'The Western Australian Journal'. The newspaper acted as the official Government Gazette until February, 1836. On 13 February, 1836, the newspaper announced that: 'The Official Notices, which have hitherto appeared in this Journal, will in future be published in another form, under the title of the Government Gazette ; this Journal, however, will be continued as heretofore, and will contain an exact copy of all notices published by authority.' This occured from the 20 February issue where, for the first time, an epigraph 'Neither conscience nor taste will suffer me to fight one class or interest against another, for separate benefit, or to take the narrow ground of undeviating panegyric' appeared under the Western Australian Journal header.
Note:
The 'The' is dropped from the title from 29 April 1837 and reappears in the title from 28 March 1840. The title goes through varous style and typesetting changes over Macfaull's time as editor. It also changed from three colummns to four columns on 28 March 1840.
Note:
A 'New Series' of the newspaper commenced from the first issue of 1847. The announcement of the new series was made in the 26 December 1846 issue in which it was stated 'Our attention will be ... turned to the insertion of good & useful articles ... in doing this, we shall receive the assistance of many gentlemen practically acquainted with details ...' Charles Macfaull was ill for some months before his death and the newspaper may have been edited for him and, subsequently, his widow Elizabeth Macfaull by other persons until the end of 1847.
Note:
On 10 February 1844, p. 4 the newspaper noted that : 'The Perth Gazette is regularly filed in London by Mr. P. S. Simmonds, Commission merchant and general agent for the Colonial Papers, Foreign Newspaper Office, l8 Cornhill, opposite the Royal Exchange, where orders and advertisements will be received and forwarded.'
Note:
Ferguson no. 1694.

Has serialised

Colonel Hanson's Pamphlet, J. Hanson , single work prose travel
A Glance at the Manners, and Language of the Aboriginal Inhabitants of Western Australia; with a Short Vocabulary: 23rd March, 1833, R. M. Lyon , single work criticism
Lyon compares and contrasts words in what he calls the 'Swan River Dialect' or 'Derbalese' and the 'King George's Sound [Dialect]' and includes a comprehensive discussion on the language and a list of the vocabulary 'of the language of Derbal.'
Anecdotes and Remarks : Relative to the Aborigines at King George's Sound : From an Original Manuscript, 'A Resident at King George's Sound' , single work autobiography
Excursion to the Northward, George Fletcher Moore , single work diary travel

'Moore's account of his trip with Lennard and Bull ... has been reproduced in Joanne Shoobert, Western Australian Explorations, pp. 421-7. Accompanied by Gear and Beguin, they travelled north to the Gingin-South Bindoon area [of Southwest Western Australia].'

Source: J. M. R. Cameron, The Millendon Memoirs (2006): 376

A New River Discovered, by the Hon. G. F. Moore, Esq., on a Recent Excursion to the Northward, George Fletcher Moore , single work diary travel
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