The Adelaide Independent and Cabinet of Amusement was a weekly newspaper published in
Adelaide,
South Australia from 5 August 1841 to 18 November 1841.
The paper, of four or five pages, was printed and published by
George Dehane from premises on Morphett Street, adjacent
Trinity Church.
Its editor was
Nathaniel Hailes[1] (1802 – 23 July 1879), who had earlier published Adelaide Free Press (7 October 1841 – 18 November 1841[2] may have been the sum total of its existence), and wrote Personal Recollections of a Septuagenarian, published as weekly instalments in the South Australian Register in 1877–1878, and other articles under the pseudonym "Timothy Short".[3]Adelaide Free Press was praised by the Sydney Gazette (while mistakenly calling it the Adelaide Independent), although the Gazette anticipated its early demise in an overcrowded market.[4]
Henry Hussey (1825–1903) worked as compositor for Dehane.[5] He would be better known as pastor of the Bentham Street Christian Church (with which
Rev. Thomas Playford is closely identified), and author of Colonial Life and Christian Experience (1897).[6]
^"Advertising". The Southern Australian. Vol. V, no. 332. South Australia. 22 July 1842. p. 2. Retrieved 6 December 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
^"Port Lincoln Herald". Port Lincoln Times. Vol. 4, no. 176. South Australia. 26 December 1930. p. 2. Retrieved 5 December 2019 – via National Library of Australia.