The Colonial Times  was a newspaper in what is now the Australian state of Tasmania.

It was established as the Colonial Times, and Tasmanian Advertiser  in 1825 in Hobart, Van Diemen's Land[1] [note 1] by the former editor of the Hobart Town Gazette, and Van Diemen's Land Advertiser, Andrew Bent.

[2] The name was changed to Colonial Times  in 1828.

[2] In 1857 the title was absorbed into the Hobart Town Mercury.

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