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The Wellington Independent

New Zealand newspaper

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 29, 2025
Entity authorityQ28430946 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Wellington Independent was an early newspaper published in Wellington, New Zealand. The first issue of it was on 2 April 1845 and it continued until 1874 when it was replaced by Julius Vogel's The New Zealand Times.

The paper was published twice weekly from July 1854 and thrice weekly from July 1862, and went daily in January 1871.

Digital copies of all issues are available online via the National Library of New Zealand.

Editorial summary

“The Wellington Independent” enters the record as new Zealand newspaper. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Wellington, Independent and Zealand can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1845, 1874, 1854, 1862—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1845-04-02. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Wellington, Independent and Zealand.
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“The Wellington Independent” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Wellington, Independent and Zealand provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 29, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q28430946. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1845, 1874, 1854 and 1862.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Wellington Independent” 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.