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Port Adelaide News
The Port Adelaide News was a newspaper published in Port Adelaide, South Australia between 1876 and 1933 with various sub-titles, several breaks in publication and periods of bi-weekly publication.
The Port Adelaide News was founded by the Port Adelaide Newspaper and Printing Company, established in March 1878 with directors D. Bower, R. Honey, J. C. Lovely, Theodore Hack, and G. R. Selth. The position of secretary and first editor was assigned to David Wylie Scott, ". . . as true a gentleman as ever walked, but no journalist". He had little time in the chair, as in September 1878 E. H. Derrington (1830–1899), founder of the Yorke's Peninsula Advertiser, acquired the Port Adelaide News, and was its owner-editor until 1883. From 1882 Derrington also owned Adelaide Punch. He notoriously published in all three papers advertisements for Victorian sweepstakes.
John Archibald Adey was appointed editor by Derrington.
Sir William Sowden worked at the Yorke's Peninsula Advertiser, then was manager of the Port Adelaide News from 1879.
George Liversage Barrow (1851–1925), son of J. H. Barrow who founded The Advertiser, was sub-editor around 1882.
The paper was from the start printed by Frederick Wallage Kennedy, and when Derrington retired the Port Adelaide News was taken over by Kennedy, J. S. Jones and J. J. Styles, though characterized as a commercial rather than a journalistic venture.
The title was revived once again in 1913, printed and published by John Ernest Trotman, of Lipson-street, Port Adelaide.
David Wylie Scott (March 1833 – 2 December 1887), the first editor, was born in Liverpool, the second son of William Scott, and arrived in South Australia aboard Canton with his parents in April 1838. After schooling at Tranmere School, Magill, he worked for his father at Port Adelaide before farming near Williamstown, and was for several years chairman of the Mount Crawford district council. By 1865 he was in Port Adelaide, partner of Joshua Little in business as customs and commission agents. He was a frequent writer of "Letters to the Editor" and not afraid to contradict Science: he suggested the rings of Saturn were an optical illusion resulting from that planet's rapid rotation. After the newspaper was sold to Derrington, Scott went back to farming, this time at Belalie. In later years he had a property at Montacute, where he busied himself in prospecting for minerals.
Port Adelaide News
The Port Adelaide News was a newspaper published in Port Adelaide, South Australia between 1876 and 1933 with various sub-titles, several breaks in publication and periods of bi-weekly publication.
The Port Adelaide News was founded by the Port Adelaide Newspaper and Printing Company, established in March 1878 with directors D. Bower, R. Honey, J. C. Lovely, Theodore Hack, and G. R. Selth. The position of secretary and first editor was assigned to David Wylie Scott, ". . . as true a gentleman as ever walked, but no journalist". He had little time in the chair, as in September 1878 E. H. Derrington (1830–1899), founder of the Yorke's Peninsula Advertiser, acquired the Port Adelaide News, and was its owner-editor until 1883. From 1882 Derrington also owned Adelaide Punch. He notoriously published in all three papers advertisements for Victorian sweepstakes.
John Archibald Adey was appointed editor by Derrington.
Sir William Sowden worked at the Yorke's Peninsula Advertiser, then was manager of the Port Adelaide News from 1879.
George Liversage Barrow (1851–1925), son of J. H. Barrow who founded The Advertiser, was sub-editor around 1882.
The paper was from the start printed by Frederick Wallage Kennedy, and when Derrington retired the Port Adelaide News was taken over by Kennedy, J. S. Jones and J. J. Styles, though characterized as a commercial rather than a journalistic venture.
The title was revived once again in 1913, printed and published by John Ernest Trotman, of Lipson-street, Port Adelaide.
David Wylie Scott (March 1833 – 2 December 1887), the first editor, was born in Liverpool, the second son of William Scott, and arrived in South Australia aboard Canton with his parents in April 1838. After schooling at Tranmere School, Magill, he worked for his father at Port Adelaide before farming near Williamstown, and was for several years chairman of the Mount Crawford district council. By 1865 he was in Port Adelaide, partner of Joshua Little in business as customs and commission agents. He was a frequent writer of "Letters to the Editor" and not afraid to contradict Science: he suggested the rings of Saturn were an optical illusion resulting from that planet's rapid rotation. After the newspaper was sold to Derrington, Scott went back to farming, this time at Belalie. In later years he had a property at Montacute, where he busied himself in prospecting for minerals.