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The nameplate of the newspaper changes from the Hawkesbury Courier and Agricultural and General Advertiser to the abbreviated Hawkesbury Courier on issue no. 82 (5 February 1846). This transition is heralded three weeks earlier in an editorial on page 1 of issue no. 79 (15 January 1846) of the Hawkesbury Courier and Agricultural and General Advertiser, addressed 'To the Public' advising subscribers and the public generally that: 'the Proprietorship of this journal has passed into other hands, and that it will henceforth be edited, conducted and published under the auspices of a Proprietary resident in the district'.

The editorial continues: 'Whilst therefore in the name of our predecessors we beg to acknowledge past favors [sic], we venture to solicit on our own behalf a continuance of the same, expressing our confident hope that we shall not fail to obtain that patronage and support which will ever be our earnest endeavour to deserve by advocating to the best of our ability, the advancement of general as well as local interests ... arrangements have been made for the regular publication of the Windsor, Parramatta, and Sydney Police Reports, with general Law Intelligence ... In fine, we beg to express our determination to make our little hebdomadal as useful a publication as possible, trusting our efforts to that end will meet deserved success'.