''The Wellington Independent'' was an early

newspaper A newspaper is a Periodical literature, periodical publication containing written News, information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as poli ...

published in

Wellington Wellington is the capital city of New Zealand. It is located at the south-western tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Remutaka Range. Wellington is the third-largest city in New Zealand (second largest in the North Island ...

, 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 Wellington Independent
' at Papers Past,

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The paper was published twice weekly from July 1854 and thrice weekly from July 1862, and went daily in January 1871.The Wellington Independent—Available issues, 1871
at Papers Past,

Digital copies of all issues are available online via the

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