Australian Town and Country Journal

Australian Town & Country Journal, cover page, 8 January 1870

Australian Town and Country Journal was a weekly English language broadsheet newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, from 1870 to 1919. The paper was founded by Samuel Bennett[1] with his intention for it to be "valuable to everybody for its great amount of useful and reliable information".[2]

The paper was known for its range of topics, dealing with domestic and foreign news as well as featuring essays on literature, science and invention.[2]

  1. ^ "Australian Town & Country Journal". National Library Digitisation Project. Retrieved 28 November 2012. The page heading identifies the journal's life as 1870-1907, but the period "Jan. 8, 1870-June 25, 1919" appears in the text.
  2. ^ a b Bryce, Merilyn J. "Bennett, Samuel (1815–1878)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 19 April 2013.