The Adelaide Independent and Cabinet of Amusement

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The Adelaide Independent and Cabinet of Amusement was a weekly newspaper published in Adelaide, South Australia from 5 August 1841 to 18 November 1841.

The paper, of four or five pages, was printed and published by from premises on Morphett Street, adjacent Trinity Church.

The editor was [1] (1802 – 23 July 1879). He was also publisher of the (7 October 1841 – 18 November 1841[2] may have been the sum total of its existence), and wrote , published as weekly instalments in the South Australian Register in 1877–1878, and other articles under the pseudonym "Timothy Short".[3] Adelaide Free Press was praised by the Sydney Gazette (while mistakenly calling it the Adelaide Independent), although the Gazette anticipated its early demise in an overcrowded market.[4]

Henry Hussey (1825–1903) worked as compositor for Dehane.[5] He would be better known as pastor of the Bentham Street Christian Church (with which Rev. Thomas Playford is closely identified), and author of Colonial Life and Christian Experience (1897).[6]

Dehane next published the ,[2] but dissociated himself from the issue of 21 July 1842.[7] He was also publisher of the .[8]

Digitization[]

The National Library of Australia has digitized photographic copies from 5 August 1841[9] to 18 November 1841[10] as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Project.

References[]

  1. ^ "Early South Australia". The Observer (Adelaide). Vol. LXVII, no. 5, 313. South Australia. 31 December 1910. p. 46. Retrieved 5 December 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ a b "Advertising". . Vol. I, no. XVI. South Australia. 18 November 1841. p. 1. Retrieved 6 December 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ "Death of Nathaniel Hailes". South Australian Register. Vol. XLIV, no. 10, 201. South Australia. 25 July 1879. p. 5. Retrieved 5 December 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ^ "South Australia". The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser. Vol. XXXIX, no. 4825. New South Wales, Australia. 9 November 1841. p. 2. Retrieved 5 December 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ^ "Death of Pastor Hussey". The Register (Adelaide). Vol. XLVIII, no. 17, 623. South Australia. 8 May 1903. p. 6. Retrieved 5 December 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. ^ "Trove".
  7. ^ "Advertising". The Southern Australian. Vol. V, no. 332. South Australia. 22 July 1842. p. 2. Retrieved 6 December 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  8. ^ "Port Lincoln Herald". Port Lincoln Times. Vol. 4, no. 176. South Australia. 26 December 1930. p. 2. Retrieved 5 December 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  9. ^ "Adelaide Independent and Cabinet of Amusement (SA : 1841) - 5 Aug 1841 - p1".
  10. ^ "Adelaide Independent and Cabinet of Amusement (SA : 1841) - 18 Nov 1841 - p1".

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