{{Short description|Broadsheet Newspaper}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2015}} {{Use Australian English|date=July 2015}} {{Italic title}} thumb|''The Cobar Herald'', 4 February 1899 '''''The Cobar Herald''''' was an English language, broadsheet newspaper published in Cobar, New South Wales from 1879 to 1914. It was later merged with the ''Western Age'', which merged with ''Dubbo Dispatch & Wellington Independent'' to form the ''Dispatch'', afterwards reverting to the ''Western Age'' and later the ''Cobar Age''.
== History == ''The Cobar Herald'' was established in 1879 by T. A. Mathews (better known as the ‘King of Louth’).<ref name="The Cobar Weekly">{{cite news|title=Loss of a newspaper ends more than a century of history|url=http://www.cobarweekly.com.au/071112/article3cobaragecloses071112.html|accessdate=12 June 2013|newspaper=The Cobar Weekly|date=31 October 2012}}</ref> It is one of the earlier newspapers in the colony of New South Wales, commencing publication in 1879, twenty two years before the Federation of Australia. ''The Cobar Herald'' changed hands a number of times over the years, and was owned by Hannay and Munro in the 1890s, with both acting as the newspaper’s editors during that time. By the late 1920s the newspaper was known as the ''Western Age'', and George Cornelius Maliphant and Sidney Frank Anderson owned and published the paper.<ref name="The Cobar Weekly" />
''The Western Age'' continued until 1963 when the name was changed to ''The Cobar Age''. The last edition of ''The Cobar Age'' was published on 7 November 2012.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Hills|first1=Ben|title=Inside story: how a newspaper empire has fallen|journal=The Australian|date=21 June 2014|url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/features/inside-story-how-a-newspaper-empire-has-fallen/story-e6frg8h6-1226961384952?nk=1f7376cbbf1a03beb1f772ec643f44d5|accessdate=16 October 2014}}</ref>
== Digitisation == Some issues of the paper have been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program of the National Library of Australia.<ref>{{cite web|title=Trove |url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/about|publisher=National Library of Australia|accessdate=12 June 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Newspaper Digitisation Program|url=http://www.nla.gov.au/content/newspaper-digitisation-program|publisher=National Library of Australia|accessdate=12 June 2013|archive-date=2 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150702090621/http://www.nla.gov.au/content/newspaper-digitisation-program|url-status=dead}}</ref>
== See also == * List of newspapers in Australia * List of newspapers in New South Wales
== References == {{reflist}}
== External links == * {{Trove newspaper|448| The Cobar Herald| NSW : 1899 - 1914}} * {{Trove newspaper|661| Western Age| Dubbo, NSW : 1914 - 1932}} * {{Trove newspaper|662| Western Age| Dubbo, NSW : 1933 - 1936}}
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