Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong, and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser, often referred to as simply the Gundagai Times, was a newspaper published in Gundagai, New South Wales, Australia from 1868 to 1931. It was a direct successor of The Wynyard Times and Tumut and Adelong Advertiser and The Tumut and Adelong Times, published in Tumut, New South Wales, and was absorbed into The Gundagai Independent in 1931.^[1]

Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser, 18 January 1868

History

The Wynyard Times or Wynyard Times and Tumut and Adelong Advertiser was first published on 20 November 1860^[2] in Russell Street, Tumut, as a twice-weekly (Tuesdays and Fridays) newspaper by J. B. Elworthy & Co., and was a replacement for the Adelong Mining Journal,^[3] published by the defunct firm of Morgan and Elworthy from 1858. The principals of Elworthy & Co. (partnership dissolved August 1862)^[4] were James Baker Elworthy, Cornelius Inglis and Thomas Garrett.

In December 1864 Elworthy dropped the reference to the County of Wynyard (which encompasses the parishes of Batlow, South Wagga Wagga, Tumut, Selwyn, Adelong and South Gundagai), and the paper became the Tumut and Adelong Times, with enlarged content,^[5] but maintaining the issue sequence from the earlier title.

In January 1868, shortly after the Murrumbidgee bridge at Gundagai was opened,^[6] Elworthy shifted his operations there, and relaunched the paper as a weekly, with the new banner on 18 January 1868. It was a large weekly journal, began at Vol X, No. 842 and was priced at sixpence.^[7] The impetus for the move was influenced by poor financial returns on subscriptions from the Tumut and Adelong Times, but also the better communications available at Gundagai, both for news gathering and distribution.

The newspaper was published on a Saturday, was four pages long, with six columns across each page. Every issue included two columns of editorial from the owner. Elworthy remained at the helm of the newspaper until his death on 3 March 1889, aged 55.^[8] His eldest son Arthur Elworthy (1865 – May 1935), who had worked as a reporter for the paper,^[9] inherited the business, and was in active ownership until 1931, when he sold it to the proprietors of The Gundagai Independent,^[10] with which it was integrated.^[11]

Digitisation

The Tumut and Adelong Times and Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser have been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program project of the National Library of Australia.^[12][13]

See also

• List of newspapers in Australia
• List of newspapers in New South Wales

References

1. "Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong, and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser". Catalogue. State Library of NSW. Retrieved 11 October 2013.
2. "Advertising". The Sydney Morning Herald. Vol. XLII, no. 6995. New South Wales, Australia. 8 November 1860. p. 1. Retrieved 6 October 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
3. "Local & Provincial Intelligence". The Golden Age. No. 9. New South Wales, Australia. 10 November 1860. p. 2. Retrieved 6 October 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
4. "Notice —The Partnership hitherto existing between the undersigned, as Printers and". New South Wales Government Gazette. No. 131. New South Wales, Australia. 5 August 1862. p. 1428. Retrieved 6 October 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
5. "The Tumut and Adelong Times". The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle. New South Wales, Australia. 31 December 1864. p. 3. Retrieved 6 October 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
6. "Sudden Death of Mr. J. B. Elworthy". Cootamundra Herald. Vol. XIII, no. 19. New South Wales, Australia. 6 March 1889. p. 4. Retrieved 6 October 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
7. Elworthy, Bettie (1997). Devon to Down Under. Qurimbah, N.S.W.: BookBbound. pp. 101–116. ISBN 1876231076.
8. "Death of Mr J. B. Elworthy, of Gundagai". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 15, 896. New South Wales, Australia. 4 March 1889. p. 5. Retrieved 6 October 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
9. "An Explanation". Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser. Vol. XXXII, no. 2608. New South Wales, Australia. 9 September 1890. p. 2. Retrieved 6 October 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
10. "Mr. A. Elworthy". The Gundagai Independent. No. 3188. New South Wales, Australia. 1 December 1932. p. 2. Retrieved 6 October 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
11. Burch, George. "Some history of James Baker Elworthy and his newspapers at Adelong, Tumut and Gundagai" (PDF). George Burch. Retrieved 11 October 2013.
12. "Newspaper and magazine titles". Trove. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
13. "Newspaper Digitisation Program". National Library of Australia. Archived from the original on 2 July 2015. Retrieved 5 June 2013.

External links

• The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser (NSW : 1868 - 1931) at Trove