Harry James Stephens (c. 1866 – 25 August 1947) was an Australian journalist with a long career, mostly in Victoria and New South Wales agricultural districts.
He was with The Farmer & Settler of Sydney for fourteen years and while editing that paper created Australia's first Country Party; later was editor of rival newspaper The Land.
De Garis of the Sunraysia Daily, Mildura;[3] A year later, he purchased Wentworth's Western Advertiser from Frank Wilkinson.
In 1922 Stephens was, with R. M. Black, M. Young, M. J. Kelly, L. H. Iredale, and John Zimmer, a group of businessmen who came to the rescue of the insolvent Sunraysia Daily, sister publication of the Ouyen Mail.
[8] It is possible he returned to the Farmer and Settler in 1932, as from 30 January 1932 to 22 July 1937 its banner was subtitled "Conducted by Uncle Wiseman", that being a known pseudonym.