Issue Details: First known date: 1821... 1821 Hobart Town Gazette, and Van Diemen's Land Advertiser
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The Hobart Town Gazette, and Van Diemen's Land Advertiser is a continuation of Andrew Bent's The Hobart Town Gazette, and Southern Reporter. The newspaper acted as the official government gazette publishing government notices 'under authority' until Vol. 10, no. 477 (24 June 1825) when government authority was transferred to the new official publication, The Hobart Town Gazette, published by Howe and Ross, government printers.

The statement 'published by authority' printed under the title of the Hobart Town Gazette, and Van Diemen's Land Advertiser is replaced on the 24 June 1825 issue with the motto 'fax mentis incendium gloriae', which is itself replaced with the motto 'Not names, but things - not persons, but principles' from 22 July 1825.

The new official The Hobart Town Gazette was published a day after Bent's paper with the same numbering. This impasse continued for seven weeks until Andrew Bent changed the name of his newspaper to the Colonial Times and Tasmanian Advertiser. However, both papers continued numbering in tandem.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

First known date: 1821
    • Hobart, Southeast Tasmania, Tasmania,: Andrew Bent , 1821-1825 .
      Note/s:
      • 'Printed by Andrew Bent the Original and Sole Proprietor, and Published at his New Printing Office, in Elizabeth-street ...' (24 June 1825)

Works about this Work

Untitled 1825 single work column
— Appears in: The Australian , 21 July no. 41 1825; (p. 3)

The writer for the Australian argues that, since the 'Statement of the Colonial Fund ... contained in the Supplemental Sheet of the Hobart Town Gazette of May the 20th, 1825 states: 'Cash received from Mr Bent being for the like sum advanced to him on Loan by Government, for the Purchase of a Press', it does not appear to us that a very clear case of ownership to the Title of the Paper can be substantiated by them [i.e. the government]'.

(The issue of title ownership arose when a new newspaper, under the name of the Hobart Town Gazette, began publication in June 1825.)

The Australian 1825 single work column
— Appears in: The Australian , 14 July no. 40 1825; (p. 3)

The writer for the Australian is enraged at the publication in Tasmania of a newspaper using the name of the Hobart Town Gazette. (Andrew Bent's Hobart Town Gazette, and Van Diemen's Land Advertiser was still being published at the time.)

The Australian says: 'The appropriation of the Title of the Hobart Town Gazette to another Journal can be viewed in no other light than the forcibly taking possession of goods and chattels, without, as far as we can perceive, the most remote right so to do.'

The Australian 1825 single work column
— Appears in: The Australian , 14 July no. 40 1825; (p. 3)

The writer for the Australian is enraged at the publication in Tasmania of a newspaper using the name of the Hobart Town Gazette. (Andrew Bent's Hobart Town Gazette, and Van Diemen's Land Advertiser was still being published at the time.)

The Australian says: 'The appropriation of the Title of the Hobart Town Gazette to another Journal can be viewed in no other light than the forcibly taking possession of goods and chattels, without, as far as we can perceive, the most remote right so to do.'

Untitled 1825 single work column
— Appears in: The Australian , 21 July no. 41 1825; (p. 3)

The writer for the Australian argues that, since the 'Statement of the Colonial Fund ... contained in the Supplemental Sheet of the Hobart Town Gazette of May the 20th, 1825 states: 'Cash received from Mr Bent being for the like sum advanced to him on Loan by Government, for the Purchase of a Press', it does not appear to us that a very clear case of ownership to the Title of the Paper can be substantiated by them [i.e. the government]'.

(The issue of title ownership arose when a new newspaper, under the name of the Hobart Town Gazette, began publication in June 1825.)

PeriodicalNewspaper Details

Frequency:
Weekly on a Friday
Range:
Vol. 6, no. 245 (Saturday, Jan. 20, 1821)-v. 10, no. 484 (Friday, Aug. 12, 1825)
Continues:
Hobart Town Gazette, and Southern Reporter (1816 - 1821)
Continued by:
Colonial Times, and Tasmanian Advertiser
Supplement:
Supplements accompany some issues.
Price:
10s. a quarter paid in advance or 1s. each.
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