{{Short description|Former newspaper in Adelaide, South Australia}} {{Use Australian English|date=September 2016}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2016}}
'''''The Telegraph''''' was a newspaper in Adelaide, South Australia, founded in 1862, and merged with ''The Express'' to become ''The Express and Telegraph'', published from 1867 to 1922.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/title/1093|title=The Express and Telegraph|website=Trove|via=National Library of Australia|access-date=19 September 2016}}</ref>
== History ==
=== ''The Adelaide Telegraph'' === The Adelaide ''Telegraph'' was founded and edited by Frederick Sinnett (c. 1836 – 23 November 1866) and first published by David Gall on 15 August 1862 as an evening daily, independent of the two morning papers ''The Advertiser'' and ''The Register''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31813680 |title=Topics of the Day |newspaper=The South Australian Advertiser |volume=V |issue=1271 |date=16 August 1862 |access-date=11 March 2017 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> ''The Advertiser'', which was first published in 1858, retaliated in 1863 by founding its own afternoon newspaper, ''The Express'', as a competitor to ''The Telegraph''.<ref name="ATS">{{cite news|url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article73374925|title=A Newspaper's History|date=19 July 1921|newspaper=The Advertiser|location=South Australia|page=10|via=National Library of Australia|author=A. T. Saunders|author-link=A. T. Saunders|access-date=31 May 2016}}</ref> Ebenezer Ward served as sub-editor 1863 to 1864, when he joined Finniss's Northern Territory expedition as clerk-in-charge, then returned to the ''Telegraph'' the following year after being sacked by Finniss for insubordination. Sinnett left for Melbourne in late 1865,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28793275 |title=The Late Mr. Frederick Sinnett |newspaper=The South Australian Advertiser |date=28 November 1866 |access-date=11 March 2017 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> and Ward succeeded him as both editor (briefly) and parliamentary shorthand writer until 1868.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5560806 |title=A Notable Statesman |newspaper=The Advertiser |location=Adelaide |date=9 October 1917 |access-date=10 November 2012 |page=4 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
=== ''The Daily Telegraph'' === Around 1864 or 1865 ''The Adelaide Telegraph'' was renamed the ''Daily Telegraph'', introduced a morning edition, and founded the short-lived weekend ''Weekly Mail''.
=== ''The Express and Telegraph'' === thumb|500px|alt=Masthead of The Express and Telegraph, 1878 In December 1865 the manager Henry Edlin called in all debts and advertised the business for sale, and was purchased by a consortium led by John Baker. A year later the whole of the "machinery, plant and goodwill" was purchased at auction by the publishers of the ''Advertiser'', ''Chronicle'', and ''Express''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article94746494 |title=Advertising |newspaper=South Australian Weekly Chronicle |volume=IX |issue=437 |date=15 December 1866 |access-date=11 March 2017 |page=1 (Supplement to the South Australian Weekly Chronicle) |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> The paper is remembered for publishing some of the earliest writings of "Pasquin" (E. R. Mitford), before he founded his own self-titled weekly in 1867. ''The Daily Telegraph'' was then incorporated into ''The Express'' as ''The Express and Telegraph'', which title persisted until 1922, when it reverted to simply ''The Express'' (1922–1923).
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==External links== * {{trove newspaper|1093|The Express and Telegraph|Adelaide, SA : 1867 - 1922}}
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