The Glen Innes Examiner was launched on October 5, 1874 by the Vincent family, with Henry Cleave St Vincent editor and in competition with the Glen Innes Guardian newspaper.
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The first Christmas edition of The Examiner hit the streets on December 23, 1874.
Within its four pages, the Christmas message was incorporated in their “Local Intelligence” column among such items as the opening of the new Court House on December 22, the Freemasons Lodge in this town being inaugurated with full Masonic Honours on Monday, January 25; Arrears of Rates – which for 1872-1875 amounted to £532/15/7; a farewell reception in the new Court House for Mrs Anstey who for some years had given private tuition to young ladies, and the new Memorial Window in Holy Trinity church in memory of Miss Martin.
“...Ere the next issue of the Examiner, Christmas Day will have come and gone.
Although residing in another hemisphere, and in a very different climate, we have not forgotten the customs of our forefathers...
“In all Christian lands, or anywhere Christians may be residing amongst the heathen, this day is specially set apart for rejoicing, as commemorating the first advent of Christ, and confirming them in an assured belief of the second coming.
“Although residing in another hemisphere, and in a very different climate, we have not forgotten the customs of our forefathers; the holly in the church and the pudding, turkey, roast beef etc., etc., upon the tables, and the juice of the grape making the heart glad, whilst divers amusements aid in making, what we wish to one and all, ‘A merry Christmas’…”
Extensive fresh Christmas stock was being opened at Munro’s Grey street store – especially for ladies were “Ladies Piquie” (sic), Marcella, Tussore and Polonaises, Alpaca and Chicong costumes, Bilching and Batiste skirts, Mull and Jaconet muslins, trimmed hats, infants Marcella frocks and pelisses, boy’s drill knicker suits…
Other special items advertised as 1874 Christmas gifts and unlikely to be found this Christmas included concertinas, stereoscopes, perambulators, Bohemian vases, plated ware, Old Colonial Wines, scythes and sickles, hearth rugs, buggy mats...
The diverse amusements to look forward to post-Christmas included Aquatic Sports near the Racecourse, Tent Hill Boxing Day Races, Vegetable Creek Tin Mines athletics sports, Glen Innes Jockey Club Races, Bald Nob New Year’s Day races, Tenterfield Jockey Club Races, Yarrowford River Aquatic sports and a Tea Meeting in the Temperance Hall.
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