The Telegraph (Adelaide)

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]

History

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] Sinnett left Adelaide late in 1865[3]

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.[4]

Around 1864 or 1865 the Telegraph was renamed the Daily Telegraph, introduced a morning edition, and founded the weekend Weekly Mail. 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.[5]

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 Telegraph was incorporated into The Express as The Express and Telegraph, which title persisted until 1922.

References

  1. ↑ "The Express and Telegraph". Trove. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  2. ↑ "Topics of the Day". The South Australian Advertiser. V, (1271). South Australia. 16 August 1862. p. 2. Retrieved 11 March 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ↑ "The Late Mr. Frederick Sinnett". The South Australian Advertiser. South Australia. 28 November 1866. p. 2. Retrieved 11 March 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ "Advertising". South Australian Weekly Chronicle. IX, (437). South Australia. 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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