[Untitled report, Dampier Despatch (Broome, WA), Saturday 30 September 1905, Issue No. 231, pages 348-349]
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With this issue the "Dampier Despatch" draws its last lingering breath after a vigorous struggle for existence during the eighteen months of its life.
Conceived by Captain Cecil Murphy and Messrs J. C. Fonceca, Lawrence Goodrich, O. W. Blackman, L. B. Goold, and John B. Hughes, early last year, it came into being with its first issue on 2nd April 1904, - one day late. Within the first three months this weakling, which came into the literary world with such a flourish of tin whistles and exhortations to the general public by means of leading articles, was deserted by all but the first and last of the gentlemen named.
Unfortunately for its temporary well-being its natural affinities led it to cling to the cause of Sydney C. Pigott, against that of Mr Frank Connor, as the more solid and altogether more desirable man to represent this district in the State Parliament. Mr Connor won the seat by a narrow majority, and letters poured in, some unstamped in the excitement of the moment, demanding in frenziedly angry terms that the writers' names should at once (underlined) be removed from the list of subscribers. Then came the competition between Captain Murphy and Mr Lowes for the position of first mayor of Broome. Undaunted by its former sufferings the poor little "Despair" raised its small voice to its utmost capacity in asserting that its foster-father, Capt Murphy, was from every standpoint the more desirable person for the taxpayers to repose their confidence in...[remainder missed]
