Media: EBOOK - download
File format: PDF file 205MB (3066 pages)
Year: (1896) 2024
ISBN: 9781742225029
Publisher: Archive Digital Books Australasia

Government Gazettes for a particular locality eventually become standardised with the type of material listed. In the 1890s you can expect the Government Gazettes to include the following information that will usually list names and sometimes name of emigrant vessel, addresses and/or occupations:
 - appointees to government positions
 - appointments of magistrates and Justices of the Peace
 - bank stocks
 - crown land leases
 - deceased estates
 - dissolution of business partnerships
 - Government Acts and Proclamations
 - insolvents
 - lists of officers, medical practitioners, ministers of religion etc
 - notices or rewards for lost or stolen property and stock
 - property owners subject to compulsory land acquisition by government
 - purchasers of land lodging caveats under Real Property Act
 - Trademark registrations
 - unclaimed property (railways)

SAMPLE ENTRY (from the 11 January 1896 issue):

£2,000 REWARD.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Brisbane, 23rd July, 1895.
HIS Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has been pleased to direct that a Reward of £2,000 be paid for such information as shall lead to the apprehension and conviction of the person or persons who, on the 16th of July instant, introduced poison into the food supplied to the men engaged as shearers at Bowen Downs Station, and that a Free Pardon be granted to any person concerned in the crime, not being the principal offender, who shall give such information.

Gazettes are published by governments and their agencies as a means of communication to officials and the general public. As such they are useful, not only to monitor the actions of the government, but also as far as family historians are concerned, they are valuable primary source documents.