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100:(1871 â May 1879) as a forum for news about Port Adelaide, but much of the paper's content was devoted to criticising the Parliament, the Governor and just about any other authority figure. His racy, vigorous style of writing won for the paper a large and loyal circulation. He employed a talented cartoonist in "Cerberus" (
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108:, who later, as "Hugh Kalyptus", gained fame for his satirical column "Echoes and Re-Echoes". M He contributed news items from South Africa, in particular the Anglo-Zulu War early in 1879. Portonian ceased without notice in May 1879. Moodie was not one to settle down however, and publication of
484:. . . His most notable performance, "The Wars and Battlefields of South Africa", will be of abiding value and interest. It is a pictorial history of the picturesque epochs of South Africa. It contains a good deal of matter, Chief Dunn's chapters for instance, that can be found nowhere else.
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670:. Vol. VI, no. 272. South Australia. 15 November 1894. p. 3
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928:. No. 308. Victoria, Australia. 24 August 1881. p. 158
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579:. Vol. XLVII, no. 10, 974. 16 January 1882. p. 4
497:(1797â1869) was a notable administrator and author whose wife
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