New Zealand Advertiser and Bay of Islands Gazette
The New Zealand Advertiser and Bay of Islands Gazette published 27 issues from June to December 1840. Alongside general news and advertisements, it was used by the colonial government to post official notices.
It was printed in Kororareka by G. A. Eagar & Co. and edited by the Rev. Barzillai Quaife. It was the second newspaper to be published in New Zealand, after the New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator (not to be confused with the Government Gazette).
The Advertiser was partially funded by the publication of government notices, but when Quaife began to criticise the colonial administration's usurpation of property rights in relation to land purchases, Colonial Secretary Willoughby Shortland invoked an 1827 New South Wales newspaper licensing law, requiring that newspapers post large sums of money which would be forfeit if they published "expressions tending to bring the Government into hatred or contempt". This would have placed an enormous financial strain upon the Advertiser and it was forced to cease publication almost immediately.
Within weeks, the government printed its own Gazette Extraordinary which contained no dissenting editorial content.
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These issues were provided by Papers Past.
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The scanned issues are very pixelated; some transcription errors are to be expected.
New Zealand Advertiser and Bay of Islands Gazette Statistics
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Years Covered
27
Issues Processed
114
Pages Transcribed
1,737
Names Identified
1,010
Unique Names
619
Named Officials
155
Unique Officials
