The ''Kadina and Wallaroo Times'' was a newspaper published in Kadina, and also serving the nearby

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from August 1888 to August 1966. In 1968 the paper merged to form the ''

Yorke Peninsula Country Times ''Yorke Peninsula Country Times'' is a weekly South Australian newspaper, which was first published on 4 September 1968. It was formed by the merging of ''Kadina, Wallaroo and Moonta Times'' and ''South Australian Farmer,'' representing numerous f ...

''.

History

With the 1861 discovery of

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at a property in the northern

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, the town of Kadina quickly grew to 8,000. Brothers David and Andrew Fyfe Taylor, and George Thompson Clarkson founded the newspaper in the nearby port of

in 1865. The newspapers mainly focused on reporting the happenings in these two towns and nearby Moonta. Editorial opinion was generally politically conservative and supportive of

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. It opposed miners' strikes and in particular opposed to Premier

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. Some early editions of the paper contained articles written in

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. "In 1870 South Australian Parliament debated the newspaper's 'contempt of this House.' The unpopular MP and newspaper owner,

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, reputedly charged the newspaper with libel three times. However the outspokenness of the Times in the 1860s and 1870s stopped after this and particularly from 1878 under the editorship of

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." Historically, its origin was the ''Wallaroo Times and Mining Journal'', published from 1 February 1865 to 31 December 1881, then the ''Wallaroo Times'' from 4 January 1882 to 28 July 1888. It became ''Kadina and Wallaroo Times'' on 1 August 1888, when the paper moved its offices from Wallaroo to Kadina. From 1966 it became the ''Kadina, Wallaroo and Moonta Times'', then following a merger with the ''South Australian Farmer'' in 1968 the paper became the ''

''.

Preservation

For the period of August 1888 (Volume 24, no. 2574) to March 1966 (Volume 101, no. 10,172) the newspaper title has been preserved on

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by the

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. This collection has been digitised and available online up to December 1954 as part of the

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of the

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References

External links

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History

Preservation

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