The Clipper

{{Infobox newspaper

|image = Clipper1.jpg

|image_size = 200

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|caption = Edition of 23 September 1893

|type = Periodical

|editor = {{ubl|James Paton (1893)|Walter Woods (1903)}}

|launched = {{start date|1893|04|08|df=y}}

|political = Socialism in Australia

|ceased publication = {{end date|1909|12|25|df=y}}

|publishing_city = Hobart, Tasmania

|ISSN = 1839-714X

}}

The Clipper was a weekly labor-orientated newspaper published in Hobart, Tasmania, from 8 April 1893 until 25 December 1909,{{cite web|title = The Clipper (Hobart, Tasmania: 1893–1909)|url = http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title271|work = Trove|publisher = National Library of Australia|accessdate = 2013-11-29|df = dmy-all}} before its merger with the Daily Post in 1910.{{cite web|title = The Clipper (Newspaper, Serial, Microfilm)|url = http://catalogue.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/item/?q=clipper+newspaper&i=1&id=501075|publisher = LINC Tasmania|accessdate = 2013-11-29|df = dmy-all}}{{cite web|title = Companion to Tasmanian History|url = http://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/L/Labor%20Newspapers.htm|publisher = University of Tasmania|accessdate = 2013-11-29|df = dmy-all}}

History

The newspaper was founded by James Paton, proprietor and editor, and Gerald Tempest Massey, printer and publisher

In 1902 Edward Mulcahy, Minister of Lands in the Tasmanian government, sued Paton and Massey for defamation of character, in respect of an article alleging impropriety in awarding a contract for the Strahan storm water channel.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article232952249 |title=Alleged Libel |newspaper= Mount Lyell Standard & Strahan Gazette |volume=6 |issue=1368 |location=Tasmania, Australia |date=12 November 1902 |access-date=14 January 2024 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}} Paton left for Western Australia, and Massey founded The Critic

Walter Alan Woods became editor and part owner in 1903, until the newspaper merged with the Daily Post in 1910.{{cite book|title = Woods, Walter Alan (1861–1939)| chapter=Walter Alan Woods (1861–1939) |chapter-url = http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/woods-walter-alan-9180|publisher = Australian Dictionary of Biography|accessdate = 2013-11-29|df = dmy-all}}

The paper has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Project by the National Library of Australia.