The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser

[1] 25 April 1861 is the earliest edition found in Australian library collections on the Trove database.

Around 1898 it was taken over by Frances Charles Hogg (died 1938),[2] for 15 years editor of the Wagga Express[3] It ceased publication with the 24 December 1931 issue, when it was absorbed by the Cooma Express.

[4] The earliest issue digitized for Trove (31 October 1862) has the spelling Monaro Mercury, .

with Vol.3 No.1 of 3 April 1863, although the printery, which advertised date cards ("accarately compiled") as well as "Baker's Furniture Polish", retained the earlier spelling[5] (amended and corrected in the subsequent issue).

on 24 December 1931, when the proprietor, F. C. Hogg, announced that the paper had been sold to Wallace Craigie, owner of the Cooma Express,[7] and would be incorporated into his newspaper.