Port Adelaide News
Australian newspaper
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.
History
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.
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