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Front cover of the Southern argus 29 September 1866

The Southern argus is a newspaper published in Port Elliot, South Australia from 1866 - current

History

The Southern argus is one of the state's oldest country newspapers, privately owned by the Elliott and Jones families for 140 years. The newspaper was founded in 1866 by Ebenezer Ward, who expected that the new southern port of Port Elliot, was going to become an enterprising outlet for the River Murray trade. Using the original Observer printing press, Ward set up a newspaper in the small coastal town. In April 1868, following financial difficulties and ownership changes, the Argus moved to the country town of Strathalbyn which is still its home to current day.

Preservation

This newspaper title has been preserved on microfilm by the State Library of South Australia

Digitisation

This newspaper has been digitised from microfilm for the Australian Newspaper Digitisation Project of the National Library of Australia.

See also

• List of Australian newspapers

External links

• Southern argus, SA Memory, State Library of South Australia
• Catalogue record, State Library of South Australia
• Southern Argus, Digitised version on Trove