Item #114401 South Australian Gazette and Mining Journal. [A broken run of 94 issues of this scarce early South Australian newspaper from Volume VI, Number 367, 12th October 1850 to Volume VII, Number 472, 16th October 1851.]. South Australian Gazette, Mining Journal.

South Australian Gazette and Mining Journal. [A broken run of 94 issues of this scarce early South Australian newspaper from Volume VI, Number 367, 12th October 1850 to Volume VII, Number 472, 16th October 1851.]

Adelaide, George Stevenson, 1850-1851.

Broadsheet, 94 issues, each with 4 pages (with the exception of Number 462, which has two additional pages devoted to The Goolwa Railway Debate).

Drop-title; edges a little chipped and torn (especially at the top edges and folds); light tidemark to approximately 15 issues; some loss to the text of approximately 4 issues (from tears or insect damage); scattered foxing and spotting; minor signs of (early) use; in very good condition overall, and fabulously rare in any condition. The run lacks only 12 issues: numbers 384, 389, 394, 395, 396, 403, 445, 459, 460, 468, 469 and 471.

George Stevenson (1799-1856) was joint publisher and editor of the South Australia's first newspaper, the 'South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register' (later the 'South Australian Register'), from its first number, printed in London in June 1836, until 1842. Stevenson launched a new paper in 1845, reviving the old masthead. Hoping to capitalise on the proliferation of new mining ventures in the colony, in particular the copper mines at Kapunda and Burra, Stevenson renamed the newspaper the 'South Australian Gazette and Mining Journal' in October 1847. Ironically, 'the newspaper was forced to close in 1852 due to the lack of labour and cash brought by the exodus of men to the Victorian goldfields. Faced with his entire staff leaving for the gold rush, Stevenson closed the newspaper and joined them' (State Library of South Australia).

Initially published weekly, by the 1850s the newspaper was appearing bi-weekly, published every Thursday and Saturday.

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