History
It was first published on 26 April 1861 by proprietor and editor Andrew Frederick Laurie (1843 – 1920), aided by his brother James Park Dawson Laurie (1846 – 1928) and their mother, the widow of the Rev. Alexander Laurie, first Presbyterian minister of nearby Portland, Victoria. It started as a 4-page, single broadsheet weekly. in Gambierton as Mount Gambier township was then known. John Watson (ca.1842 – 13 December 1925) joined in 1863 as editor, and he and A. F. Laurie as publisher managed the company for the next 50 years. Laurie was president of the Mount Gambier Racing Club from its inception and Watson was Mount Gambier's first mayor.
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