[2][3] James Drake, future Attorney-General of Australia, was a shareholder, writer and joint editor.
[4] In 1891, Lane was approached to be the editor of The Worker, a newspaper being established by the local labour unions.
[5][6][7][8] Alfred Stephens worked as a sub-editor, but left in 1891 to become editor and part proprietor of the Cairns Argus.
[10] No connection has been found between this newspaper and the 1894 Melbourne Boomerang weekly published by Edward Findley.
A eulogy by Francis Adams for Danish Australian journalist and Indigenous rights activist Carl Feilberg was published in the journal after his death in late 1887,[11][12] followed by several of Feilberg's short stories.