Media: EBOOK - download
File format: PDF, 11MB (311 pages)
Year: (1850) 2025
Publisher: Archive Digital Books Australasia

What information does this Almanack and Kalendar contain?
Perfect for your social history, as this publication gives you details on the stage coach fares, details of newspapers publishing in the Australasian colonies, details on all the lodges and societies, shipping owners, as well as arrivals and departures, religious statistics, shipping agents, wholesales dealers, auctioneers and pawnbrokers. There is a gardening calendar, to know what to plant when, as well as a 'Home Directory' which contains details of the Sovereigns of England. This issue also includes a 'Tasmanian Official Directory'
which gives lists of  names, positions and salaries of government officers: government, banking, insurance, education, police and convict department, military, ministers of religion and many more ...

What areas are covered by this Almanack and Kalendar?
Primarily covering Tasmania, but the lists of government officers with salaries and statistics covers the Australasian and East Indian colonies: Ascension, Auckland Islands, Australia Felix, Bengal, Bombay, Cape of Good Hope, Ceylon, Falkland Islands, Hong Kong, Labuan, Madras, Mauritius, New South Wales, New Zealand, Prince of Wales Island, Singapore, South Australia, St Helena, Western Australia, Van Diemen's Land.

How is this Almanack and Kalender useful to me?
It contains an immense amount information, both for the genealogist and historian. If you had ancestors in Tasmania in 1850 they may be listed here, together with their occupation, and salary. Apart from that, you can find out about the society they lived in, the local businesses (which includes 40 pages of advertisements), banks, transport, postage costs, churches, government offices, medical facilities and so much more. Part of the introduction to this publication states that it is "... a work which, for the abundance and variety and accuracy of its information, is by far the most useful ever issued ..."

CONTENTS

• Preliminary Notes, Astronomical Phenomena, &c
• The Kalendar and Diary, Moon’s Changes, Sun’s Rising and Setting, Length of Day, Equation of Time, &c., &c., &c.,
• Gardener’s Kalendar
• Signals, Hobart Town and Launceston
• Miscellaneous Information—Stage Coaches, Steam Boats, Turnpikes, Tolls, Rates, Fares, Charges, Fees, Licenses, &c
• Newspapers Published in Australasian Colonies
• Home Directory
• Statistics of Great Britain, Queen and Royal Family, Cabinet and Chief Officers of State in England, Scotland, and Ireland, Queen’s Household, Colonial Secretary of State’s Office, Duties of Great Officers, Summary of Parliament, Privy Council Judicial Committee, Sovereigns of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and Principal States in the World, Colonial Governors, Chief Justices, and Bishops, British Ministers and Consuls and Foreign Consuls, Emigration 
• Tasmanian Official Directory—
• Succession of Lieut.-Governors, Lieut.-Governor’s Office, Secretary’s, Treasurer’s, Auditor’s, Government Printer’s, Accountant of Stores, General Registrar’s and Public Works Departments
• Customs and Post-office Departments
• Marine Department and Aborigines Establishment
• Tide Table for Launceston and George Town
• Land and Survey Department, and List of Counties, Parishes and Townships
• Ecclesiastical Department
• Law Department
• Police Department
• Convict Department
• Military Establishment and Medical Board
• Latitudes and Longitudes
• Public Day Schools
• Public Institutions
• Banking and Insurance Companies
• Educational Establishments
• Literary and Scientific Institutions
• Agricultural and Horticultural Societies
• Charitable Institutions
• Medical and surgical relief and lying-in charities           
• Societies affording general relief          
• Religious improvement
• Distribution of bibles, tracts, &c.
• Missionary societies
• Education of the poor  
• Sunday schools              
• Freemasons, Establishment in Van Diemen’s Land, Australasia, East Indies, &c., &c 
• Benefit Societies
• Odd Fellows Lodges                
• Independent Order of Rechabites    
• Teetotal and Total Abstinence  Societies
• Miscellaneous Societies
• Shipping agents, wholesale dealers, auctioneers and pawnbrokers
• Tasmanian Statistics for 1848
• Ecclesiastical Statistics of the Churches of England, Scotland and Rome, Wesleyan, Independent and Baptist Churches, and Jews Synagogues
• Shipping Intelligence—
• Colonial Vessels and Owners, Arrivals and Departures
• Acts of Council of V. D. Land continued from Royal Kalendar for 1849
• Royal Navy and British Army in India and Pacific Oceans

TRANSATLANTIC BRITISH COLONIES.

• Australasian
• New South Wales
• Port Phillip
• New Zealand and New Zealand Company
• South Australia
• Western Australia
• Van Diemen’s Land
• Auckland Isles and Southern Whale Fishery Company
• Asiatic.
• East Indies
• Bengal
• Madras
• Bombay
• Straits Settlements
• Ceylon
• Hong Kong
• Labuan
• South Africa.—Cape of Good Hope
• St. Helena
• Ascension
• Mauritius
• Falkland Islands
• Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce—List of Prizes offered for the Colonies
• Useful Hints
• Index                  
• Advertisements

The whole 307 page volume is searchable on any word - name, place or any other word in the text and advertisements

High quality scanned images of the whole of the original book, bookmarked for easy navigation. Pages can be searched, browsed, enlarged and printed out if required.

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