Hobart mercury

The weekend issues of the paper are called Mercury on Saturday and Sunday Tasmanian.

The weekend issues of the paper are called Mercury on Saturday and Sunday Tasmanian. The current editor of The Mercury is Craig Herbert. Each item in the list represents a year and the number of issues digitised for that year. The National Library of Australia has digitised this work with the permission of the rights holder and enabled download or print options where possible for research or study. For any other purpose please contact the copyright owner via the publisher. More information

Hobart mercury

The weekend issues of the paper are called Mercury on Saturday and Sunday Tasmanian. The current editor of The Mercury is Craig Herbert. Two months subsequently 13 September John Davies became the sole owner. It rapidly expanded, absorbing its rivals, and became a daily newspaper in under the lengthy title The Hobart Town Daily Mercury. In the masthead was reduced to The Mercury and in it was further shortened to simply Mercury. With the imminent demise of the Launceston Daily Telegraph , The Mercury , from March , used the opportunity to increase their penetration there by expanding the branch office in the northern city, and by putting on "fast cars" to get the paper to Launceston by breakfast. John Davies died on 11 June , aged The company remained in the family's hands until when the Herald and Weekly Times HWT assumed majority ownership. However, the subsidiary that owns the Tasmanian operation is still known as Davies Brothers Pty Limited. The Saturday Evening Mercury , known locally as the SEM was printed and circulated for readers on a Saturday evening from to , it was replaced in early by the Sunday Tasmanian which still exists today. Other Tasmanian titles published by the company were the weekly rural newspaper Tasmanian Country and the weekly regional newspaper Derwent Valley Gazette which were acquired from independent publishers in the early s.

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The weekend issues of the paper are called Mercury on Saturday and Sunday Tasmanian. The current editor of The Mercury is Craig Herbert. Two months subsequently 13 September John Davies became the sole owner. It rapidly expanded, absorbing its rivals, and became a daily newspaper in under the lengthy title The Hobart Town Daily Mercury. In the masthead was reduced to The Mercury and in it was further shortened to simply Mercury. With the imminent demise of the Launceston Daily Telegraph , The Mercury , from March , used the opportunity to increase their penetration there by expanding the branch office in the northern city, and by putting on "fast cars" to get the paper to Launceston by breakfast. John Davies died on 11 June , aged The company remained in the family's hands until when the Herald and Weekly Times HWT assumed majority ownership. However, the subsidiary that owns the Tasmanian operation is still known as Davies Brothers Pty Limited. The Saturday Evening Mercury , known locally as the SEM was printed and circulated for readers on a Saturday evening from to , it was replaced in early by the Sunday Tasmanian which still exists today.

Hobart mercury

Martin John Bryant born 7 May is an Australian mass murderer [1] who shot and killed 35 people and injured 23 others in the Port Arthur massacre between 28 and 29 April Although the family home was in Lenah Valley , Bryant spent some of his childhood at their beach home in Carnarvon Bay. In a interview, his mother recalled that while Bryant was very young, she would often find his toys broken and that he was an "annoying" and "different" child. In , 12 year old Bryant was hospitalised in Royal Hobart Hospital , Tasmania from an injury caused by a firework accident. While in the hospital, he was interviewed by local TV station. Locals recall abnormal behaviour by Bryant, such as pulling the snorkel from another boy while diving and cutting down trees on a neighbour's property. He was described by teachers as being distant from reality and unemotional.

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In other projects. Acknowledgements Original material contributed by Libraries Tasmania. Southern region of Tasmania , Australia. The company has branch offices in Launceston and Burnie , as well as its print centre at Dowsing Point and its distribution centre at Western Junction near Launceston. Authority control databases. South-West News Southern Star. The Morning Bulletin. Also available in print and on microfilm. South East bioregion Southern Ranges bioregion. The Macquarie St and Argyle St frontages of the Mercury building were heritage listed in [22] Later in , the purchasers were identified as Penny Clive and her husband Bruce Neill. Daily newspaper for Hobart and southern Tasmania. In November the company launched what it called a "newspaper in a newspaper" the Kingborough Times which appeared monthly within the Sunday Tasmanian. At various stages in its history there have been limited experiments with regional papers—such as The Westerner which succeeded The West Coast Miner in to serve the West Coast until its demise in —as well as suburban newspapers for the Hobart market, which appeared in various guises from until Hobart, Tasmania. Toggle navigation.

The weekend issues of the paper are called Mercury on Saturday and Sunday Tasmanian.

Skip to content Skip to search. Details Title The Hobart Town mercury [electronic resource].. It was announced in May that the original site had been sold to an unidentified buyer [21] including the heritage-listed Ingle Hall, which was built in and housed the Mercury Print Museum. William Henry Simmonds. Enhanced Media Metrics Australia. Copyright and Disclaimer The National Library of Australia has digitised this work with the permission of the rights holder and enabled download or print options where possible for research or study. Electronic reproduction. Wikimedia Commons Wikisource. The Mercury. South Coast South East Cape. Two months subsequently 13 September John Davies became the sole owner.