The Port Adelaide News was a newspaper published in Port Adelaide, South Australia between 1878 and 1933 with various sub-titles, several breaks in publication and several periods of bi-weekly publication.
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History
The Port Adelaide News had its origins in a company, one member being David Wylie Scott ( – 1887), the first editor, "— as true a gentleman as ever walked, but no journalist", and went back to farming in 1878 when E. H. Derrington (1830–1899), founder of the Yorke's Peninsula Advertiser, acquired the Port Adelaide News, and was its owner-editor until 1883. From 1882 Derrington also owned Adelaide Punch. He notoriously published in all three papers advertisements for Victorian sweepstakes.
John Archibald Adey was appointed editor by Derrington.
Sir William Sowden worked at the Yorke's Peninsula Advertiser, then was manager of the Port Adelaide News from 1879.
George Levisage Barrow (1851–1925), son of J. H. Barrow who founded The Advertiser (Adelaide)|The Advertiser, was sub-editor around 1882.
The paper was from the start printed by Frederick Wallage Kennedy, and when Derrington retired the Port Adelaide News was taken over by Kennedy, J. S. Jones and J. J. Styles, though characterized as a commercial rather than a journalistic venture.
The title was revived once again in 1913, printed and published by John Ernest Trotman, of Lipson-street, Port Adelaide.
Digitization
The following issues have been digitized from photographic copies by the National Library of Australia and may be retrieved with Trove.
Port Adelaide News and Commercial and Shipping Gazette
Port Adelaide News and Commercial and Shipping Advertiser
Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser
Port Adelaide News