REPORTER

REPORTER Feb. 24, 1847(?) - Mar. 24, 1847(?). LOCATION Charlottetown, P.E.I.. FREQUENCY Weekly on Wednesdays. PUBLISHER Pippy. PROSPECTUS

The Reporter of March 24, 1847 published the debates of the House of Assembly and a few paragraphs of local news.

According to Lieutenant Governor Huntley, the Reporter was published by those members of the House of Assembly in

opposition to the Family Compact, so that they could get their speeches faithfully reported, as they were being mis— construed or not reported at all in the Islander and the

Royal Gazette.l

HOLDINGS

PAPEI copy positives Mar. 24, 1847 (1 reel).

FOOTNOTES

1Lieutenant Governor Huntley to Earl Gray, 25 March 1847 (London: Public Records Office, C.O. 226/71, n.d.), p. 73.

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