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The Lachlander

Australian periodical

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ24190964 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder was a weekly, later bi-weekly, English language newspaper published in Condobolin, New South Wales, Australia beginning around 1895 and continuing until 1952. It absorbed The Condobolin Argus and Lachlan Advertiser and was continued by The Lachlander.

Newspaper history

The Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder began publication in approximately 1895. It absorbed The Condobolin Argus and Lachlan Advertiser (1892–1900). In 1952 it was continued by The Lachlander, a current publication.

Digitisation

The Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program of the National Library of Australia.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “The Lachlander” as australian periodical. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1895, 1952, 1892, 1900—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Lachlander, Australian and periodical can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as australian periodical. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q24190964. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1895, 1952, 1892 and 1900.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Lachlander” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.