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The Moruya Times and South Coast Journal

Australian periodical

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ17014360 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Moruya Times and South Coast Journal was an English language newspaper published in Moruya, New South Wales, Australia from 1886 to 1915. At various times the paper was known as The Moruya Times and South Coast Journal, Tilba Times and South Dampier miner, and The Moruya-Tilba Times. A rival newspaper The Moruya Examiner has run continuously under various titles since 1863.

History

The Moruya Times and South Coast Journal was first published in March 1886 every Wednesday by Walter Bennett, and later by William Boot. The newspaper has changed names several times:

Digitisation

The paper has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program project of the National Library of Australia.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “The Moruya Times and South Coast Journal” is australian periodical. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Moruya, Times and South, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1886, 1915, 1863—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Moruya, Times and South is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “The Moruya Times and South Coast Journal” 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.