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Border Watch
Border Watch and South-Eastern District Advocate;
The Border Watch
1861
Mount Gambier
:
Andrew Frederick Laurie
,
1861-
Z823708
1861
newspaper
(17 issues)
Following the death of her husband, the Rev. Alexander Laurie in 1854, Janet Laurie and her sons Andrew and James moved from Portland (where Alexander Laurie had founded the Portland Herald) to Mount Gambier. It was here, in 1861 that Janet Laurie founded the Border Watch, taking the paper's name from her Scottish birthplace. According the SA Memory website, the newspaper is South Australia's oldest country newspaper and the first in the state to be run by a woman.John Watson, a friend of Adam Lindsay Gordon (q.v.), joined the paper two years after its establishment. Some of Gordon's poems, including 'The Feud' in 1864, were published in the Border Watch's pages.'In 1932 a plant for producing photographic blocks was purchased, making the Border Watch one of the earliest country newspapers to include photographs in its pages... In 1978 printing was changed to the web offset process. Today [2012] it is South Australia's largest country newspaper with a circulation of 7,500.'Source: SA Memory website, http://www.samemory.sa.gov.au/
Sighted: 24/01/2013
PeriodicalNewspaper Details
Frequency:
Twice weekly (1877-1926) ; tri-weekly (1926-1930)
Range:
Vol. 1 no. 1 (2 October 1877) - vol. 50, no. 5658 (13 October 1930)
Mergers:
Incorporated into Border Watch (1861- )
Size:
67cm
Last amended 29 Oct 2013 10:34:37
