1834 The Hobart Town Gazette Antique Newspaper Magazine Convict History VDL

Beyond land matters, the issue includes extensive legal and administrative notices typical of the Gazette's role as the colony's formal public record. Police reports document absconded convicts, apprehensions, and detailed physical descriptions, offering an extraordinary genealogical resource tied directly to the convict system. Numerous government notices address regulations, court matters, public tenders, and appointments across the colony, while the Internal Revenue Office publishes lists of Quit-Rents owed in the Murray District—complete with names, grant numbers, arrears, and due dates—highlighting the financial obligations of landholders and the mechanisms of revenue collection. Rewards for stolen property, conditional pardons, tickets-of-leave, and offers of payment for information on robberies round out the issue, reflecting both the challenges and the administrative structure of a maturing penal colony. Rich in legislative, social, and genealogical detail, this original 1834 Gazette is of particular appeal to collectors of Tasmanian colonial history, convict-era records, and Australiana ephemera."