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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 1
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The Cleveland Foundry send us a neat and compact little book, in which their latest novelties are artistically displayed.
The following item appears to have possessed no interest for our colonial contemporaries. We meet it for the first time in an English exchange:—Under the heading of « A Journalistic Jubilee, » the South Australian Register of 10th June gives a history of itself. Just fifty years old on the day mentioned, it was the first newspaper printed in South Australia; and, at starting, the printing was done in a small reed hut, on the site of the future City of Adelaide. In a MS. memoir left by Mrs Thomas, wife of the original proprietor, she writes: « We built a rush hut a short distance from our tents for the better accommodation of part of our family; but they had not long occupied it before everything was suddenly ordered to be cleared out to make room for the printing-press, in order to print the proclamation of the Colony, and in this place, about twelve feet square, the first printing in South Australia was produced. » This was on 20th December, 1836. —New Zealand was ahead of South Australia as regards the introduction of the Press.