 The Osment family owned and published the paper until 1882, when it was sold to Crabb and Brotherton.Aubrey Brotherton left the company in 1887 to take over a rival paper, the "Prahran Chronicle".In 1891, the paper was owned and published by John May Yelland, with Yelland "proprietor in his own right and as Administrator of estate of James Halls Crab [sic] deceased".