EVENING NEWS 
     
    
   
   
    
     EVENING NEWS Jan. 8, 1874(?) — Mar. 6, 1884(?). 
     
     LOCATION Charlottetown, P.E.I.. 
     
     FREQUENCY Tri—weekly on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and 
     
    
   
   
    
     Saturdays, Jan. 29, 1874; 
     
     Daily, Mar. 6, 1884. 
     
    
   
   
    
     PUBLISHER J.F. Brennan & Co., Jan. 29, 1874; 
     
     News Publishing Company, Mar. 6, 1884. 
     
    
   
   
    
     PROSPECTUS 
     
    
   
   
    
     Only two issues of the Evening News survive in P.E.I. collec- 
     
    
   
   
    
     tions. The first, issued on January 29, 1874, featured foreign 
     
     and local news shorts, fiction, poetry, letters regarding the 
     
    
   
   
    
     Land Question and advertisements. It was published by J.F. 
     
     Brennan & Co., which also published the Islander. The second 
     
    
   
   
    
     surviving issue, dated Mar. 6, 1884, was the first issue of a 
     
     new series. Whether or not the Evening News had been publish- 
     
     ing continuously between 1874 and 1884 is unknown, but it seems 
     
     unlikely, given the prospectus to the new series. It stated 
     
    
   
   
    
     that the Evening News was beginning as a replacement for the 
     
     Patriot, which was not being published at that time because a 
     
    
   
   
    
     fire had destroyed its presses. This second issue of the 
     
     Evening News advocated Liberalism and printed news and adver- 
     
    
   
   
    
     tisements. 
     
    
   
   
    
     HOLDINGS 
     
    
   
   
    
     PAPEI originals Jan. 29, 1874; Mar. 6, 1884. 
     
    
   
   
    
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