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The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong, and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser was a newspaper published in Gundagai, New South Wales, Australia from 1868 to 1931. It was also published as Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser and Gundagai Times and was absorbed into The Gundagai Independent in 1931.
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History
The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong Times and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser was first published on 18 January 1868 by James Baker Elworthy after relocating to Gundagai from Tumut. The impetus for the move was influenced by poor financial returns on subscriptions from the Tumut and Adelong Times, a paper Elworthy started in 1864. The Gundagai Times aimed to replace this. It was a large weekly journal, began at Vol X, No. 842 and was priced at sixpence. From 1858, Elworthy had also shared ownership in The Adelong Mining Journal and Tumet Express and the Wynyard Times.
In addition, the newspaper was published on a Saturday, was four pages long, with six columns across each page. Every issue included two columns of editorial from the owner. Elworthy remained at the helm of the newspaper until his death in 1889. His eldest son, Arthur Elworthy, then took over and continued its publication until 1931, when it was sold and integrated with The Gundagai Independent.
Digitisation
This paper has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program project of the National Library of Australia.