Historical information
This piece of newspaper had been used as wallpaper lining.
The Weekly Times was first published on September 11, 1869, by a group of Melbourne businessmen who owned the now-defunct Daily Telegraph, with the stated aim to be a “journal of literature, sport, agriculture, science and politics”. It is Australia’s oldest rural newspaper, and is known far and wide as the Bible of the Bush. (ref Weekly Times web-site)
Significance
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Physical description
A section of newspaper from the Weekly Times of 1884. there is also a photocopy of the item.
