• Title
  The Western Australia Gazette and General Advertiser, April to June 1830
• Creator
  James A. Gardner
• Call number
  A 823
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1830
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  430729
• Physical Description
  1 volume - 0.02 Meters
  Textual Records - (manuscript)
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  The Western Australia Gazette and General Advertiser was one of a series of early manuscript papers published in Perth and Fremantle. Issues were written by hand as the first printing press arrived in 1831. A number of handwritten copies would have been circulated. The Mitchell Library issues are the only surviving 'published' issues of these papers
  
  Reference:
  J.S. Battye Library of Western Australian History, State Library of Western Australia, Perth.
• Scope and Content
  This volume contains three issues that include shipping intelligence (arrivals and departures), notice to advertisers, editorials, extracts from Parliamentary documents, announcements of births, wrecks, accidents, and poets corner.
  3-4 April 1830; [unnumbered]
  1 June 1830; No. 80
  13 June 1830; No. 98
• General note
  
  Ferguson, J.A. Bibliography of Australia, 1428
  
  Later titled "Western Australia Gazette"
  D.S. Mitchell bookplate inside front cover.
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  At back of each volume, "Published and sold by James A. Gardner sole proprietor at his office Cliffe Street Freemantle"
• Subject
  Australian newspapers--Western Australia--Fremantle.
  David Scott Mitchell Collection.
  Fremantle (W.A.)--Newspapers.
  Newspapers--Western Australia.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20357915

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