The Hawkesbury Courier and Agricultural and General Advertiser was a weekly English language newspaper published in Windsor, New South Wales from 1844 to 1846.^[1] It was the second newspaper to be established in the Hawkesbury River district in New South Wales.^[2]

The Hawkesbury Courier commenced on the 11 July 1844 and followed a similar format to the defunct Windsor Express and Richmond Advertiser with four pages and cost five pence per issue.^[3] It was printed and published by Geoffrey Amos Eagar in his premises located in Bridge Street and then later in George Street, Windsor.^[3] Eager had also published the Windsor Express and Richmond Advertiser between 1843 and 1844.^[3] Statham and Forster were the proprietors of the newspaper and also owned the Sydney-based The Australian newspaper which functioned between 1824 and 1848.^[3] This is believed to be the first newspaper chain to operate in Australia.^[3]

The paper has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program project of the National Library of Australia.^[4]

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• List of newspapers in New South Wales

• Hawkesbury Courier and Agricultural and General Advertiser (Windsor, NSW : 1844 - 1846) at Trove