Western Grazier

The Western Grazier (1880–1951) was a newspaper covering the central Darling River region of New South Wales, and published at Wilcannia until 1940, when it was published and printed out of Broken Hill.

Wilcannia's first newspaper was the Wilcannia Times, a bi-weekly founded in 1873 by William Webb (March 1848 – 15 November 1910), and ceased publication in 1888.

The Western Grazier was established on 2 December 1880 by James Smith Reid. Reid was an Irish printer-journalist who had previously established several mining journals in Queensland, including The Miner in Charters Towers and Thornborough. After the establishment of The Western Grazier Reid went on to in Silverton, where he founded the bi-weekly Silver Age, whose printing presses were used to print the first prospectus of BHP. Reid and his brothers were to amass considerable wealth from their mining interests.

In 1886, Thomas William Heney became editor of The Western Grazier, a position he held for three years.

The first issue which is available to the public via Trove is dated Wednesday, 1 January 1896, is listed as Volume XVII No, 1571 and consisted of 4 pages, priced 3d., at which time the paper was published twice weekly; on Saturday and Wednesday by Albert John Esau (1863 – 24 December 1940).

Thomas Henry Bell took over publication of the paper in October 1898, and ran it for 14 years, during which time it became a weekly, published on Saturday, with the price doubled to 6d. Bell was succeeded in 1900 by John Atkinson (ca.1857 – 16 February 1923), who had returned to Wilcannia in 1899 to take charge of the Lion Brewery, and was dubbed the "Pooh Bah of Wilcannia" for the way he entered into all facets of the town's life.

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