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5.4 Newspapers
5.4.1 Introduction
Four newspapers are known to have been published on the Albert
Goldfield -"The Milparinka Advertiser", the "Tibooburra Recorder", the
"Tibooburra Telegraph ll
, and the IISturt Recorder, Tibooburra and Mount
Browne Advertiser". No copies of the Milparinka Advertiser, which appears
to have been published during the second half of the 1880s, have been
sighted although references seen at the State Library of New South Wales
suggest a copy is in existence. No copies of the Tibooburra Recorder
survive, but my research has made extensive use of the other two
newspapers.
5.4.2 The Tibooburra Telegraph
The Tibooburra Telegraph, published at Tibooburra, was written in a style
which includes numerous colloquialisms, and was very much a community
news sheet. Although not strictly part of the history of Milparinka, it
certainly included the town in its circulation. The Tibooburra-based
company which owned the paper accepted payments from persons who
wished to have their name omitted from published reports, and many
articles are of limited use because of the omission of details. However, the
paper published interesting if brief comment on the Chinese community at
Milparinka and at Tibooburra, court appearances, coach travel, mining
activity and the community generally, between May 13, 1890 and April 7,
1891.
5.4.3 The Sturt Recorder, Tibooburra and Mount Browne Advertiser
The 'Sturt Recorder' was published at Milparinka every Friday between
June 2, 1893 and July 29, 1899. As already noted, the proprietor and
editor was Thomas Wakefield Chambers, the newspaper being but one of
several enterprises with which T.W. Chambers was involved at Milparinka.
The newspaper became T.W. Chamber's vehicle as he railed against
injustices generally, and in particular the Chinese monopoly over garden
produce. However, he also adopted a quite sympathetic approach to the
Afghans and Chinese generally. It is possible to speculate that Thomas
Chambers, in his former capacity as Secretary of the Deniliquin and
Moama Railway Company, had gained a favourable impression of the
Chinese labour gangs operating out of Deniliquin under the management
of Jimmy Ah Kew during construction of that railway.
The press used to publish the 'Sturt Recorder' had previously been located
at Wilcannia, where it was used by Walterus Browne to publish the
Wilcannia Times. It had also been used to print the Milparinka Advertiser
and some editions of the Tibooburra Telegraph (Shaw 1987:95).