AustLit

In an editorial, the editor of the Gazette refutes allegations made against the newspaper by its rival the Inquirer: 'Our contemporary, the Inquirer, in one of his amiable moods, has condescended to notice us in his last publication, and we cannot do less than return the compliment.'

The argument seems to have developed over reports (not indexed) by two different parties published in the Gazette and the Inquirer in late October and early November 1842 on the discovery of a new tract of available land. The argument devolved into one over religion in the colony and continued through the November and December issues and into 1843. Columns and correspondence specific to the newspapers themselves are indexed only.