By December Morgan had moved his printing presses to the new Goldfield at Forbes. The Cosmopolitan was established but was quickly followed by the Burrangong Courier and the Lambing Flat General Advertiser.

This paper was printed and published by George Lang, son of the eminent clergyman Rev . John Dunmore Lang in Burrowa Street, Young. It ceased publication in November, followed in turn by the Burrangong Times, Burrangong News, the Tribune and the Star.

The Burrangong Argus appeared on October 22, 1864, and was printed and published, twice weekly by J.B. Stormer in Main Street

The Burrangong Argus was sold to Benjamin John Bennett in 1870 Bennett was born in England in 1831 and trained as a school teacher In1853 Bennett came to Australia and engaged in gold mining and other commercial pursuits.

In 1867 after a severe sickness he gave up goldmining at Grenfell and did the book keeping for Mr. T.R. Watt, butcher, of Young,

During a short period in 1868 he edited the Burrangong Argus for Stormer. Early 1869 he was bookkeeping for Watson Bros. at their Grenfell store, and then took over the Argus on January 1,1870 and ran it for Mrs. Bennett.

Mr. Bennett died in January 1891 and the Argus was managed by his widow. Her son, Benjamin, took over the editorship of the Argus and after entering Federal Parliament sold the Argus to the Young Witness Newspaper Company Limited.

The editor of the Young Witness was John McKellar Giles and the name was changed to the Young Witness.

Giles managed the paper from July 1913 to November 1914 when Frank Henry Hopwood became editor.

The original shareholders were Messrs. William Browne, John Maroney, and Andrew Bolger and after Hopwood took control they made an offer to him.

Fred Wales was the compositor at the time and he and Hopwood formed a partnership and took over the paper. In 1918 Alf Collins, who was a linotype operator at the Witness joined the partnership. In 1934 Hopwood withdrew and bought the Harden Express.

Wales and Collins carried on during the depression and the difficult war years. Vin Giuliano joined the staff as a reporter early in 1941.

The partners decided to retire and Giuliano negotiated the purchase of the Witness through the present proprietary company.

In January 1, 1947 the Young Chronicle was purchased and incorporated into the Young Witness, after 78 years of publication .In 1961 the Young Witness reluctantly dropped the name Young Witness as it was often being called a religious paper.

To avoid this the name was changed to the South West News Pictorial and is still providing its subscribers with an excellent standard of production.

(This article was sourced from the South West News Pictorial Centenary Issue, Thursday, October 22, 1964.)