Lyttelton Times

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Lyttelton Times
Lyttelton Times Building, 1902.jpg
description New Zealand daily newspaper
language English
First edition January 11, 1851
attitude June 29, 1935

The Lyttelton Times was one of the first regional newspapers in New Zealand . It was based in Lyttelton on the South Island of the country.

history

The Lyttelton Times was founded in Lyttelton in 1850 and first appeared on January 11, 1851. The newspaper's financier was Ingram Shrimpton from Oxford , England , who did not found the newspaper himself on site, but had it founded under the direction of James Edward Fitzgerald . As early as August 1, 1850, the Lyttelton Times was publicly announced in the Canterbury settlement. When the first of the four ships of the Canterbury Association , the Charlotte Jane , reached the port of Lyttelton with British emigrants on December 16, 1850 , in addition to the equipment for the newspaper production, there were also printers, typesetters and James Edward Fitzgerald as journalist and first editor the newspaper on board. They managed to present the first edition to the public in just 26 days after their arrival. Fitzgerald stayed for two years and gave up his position when he was elected superintendent of Canterbury .

The newspaper appeared weekly until 1854, and after Shrimpton himself came to New Zealand, it was changed to a fortnightly publication. In 1860, the future New Zealand politician William Reeves bought shares in the newspaper, became its managing director and took over the editorial office in 1867. In 1861 the Irish journalist Henry Blundell joined the management of the newspaper, but only stayed for a year. Although the Lyttelton Times began as an independent daily newspaper when it was founded, it turned to the liberal camp from the 1860s onwards , under the direction of Reeves and Blundell .

Public announcement of the publication of the newspaper (August 1, 1850)

After The Press was founded in Christchurch in 1861 , the Lyttelton Times moved to Christchurch in 1863, changing the frequency to three times a week. The editors of the Lyttelton Times also launched the weekly Canterbury Times in 1865 and, on May 14, 1868, The Star , an evening edition of the Lyttelton Times .

In 1889, Reeves' son, William Pember Reeves , who had previously written political commentary for the paper from 1882 and was editor of the Canterbury Times from 1885 , was now editor of the Lyttelton Times . Forty-four years later, on August 1, 1929, the Lyttelton Times was renamed the Christchurch Times .

In 1935, Christchurch had two daily newspapers that appeared in the morning and two that were issued in the evening. Due to the fierce competition on the New Zealand newspaper market, a. sacrificed and discontinued the Christchurch Times on June 29, 1935. The company Lyttelton Times Ltd. named itself New Zealand Newspapers Ltd. and finally published the Star-Sun as an evening paper in Christchurch , whereas the competition with The Press survived as the morning edition.

Photo gallery

  • First edition of the Lyttelton Times

  • All hail! Zealandia printed in the Lyttelton Times in 1885

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d About the Lyttelton Times - January 11, 1851 . Christchurch City Libraries , accessed February 18, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Edmund Bohan : Reeves, William . In: Dictionary of New Zealand Biography . Volume 2 , 1993 (English, online [accessed February 18, 2015]).
  3. ↑ Leslie Verry : Blundell, Henry . In: Dictionary of New Zealand Biography . Volume 2 , 1993 (English, online [accessed February 18, 2015]).
  4. ↑ a b Lyttelton Times . National Library of New Zealand , accessed February 18, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Keith Sinclair : Reeves, William Pember . In: Dictionary of New Zealand Biography . Volume 2 , 1993 (English, online [accessed February 18, 2015]).