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Issue Details: First known date: 1816... 1816 The Hobart Town Gazette, and Southern Reporter
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The Hobart Town Gazette, and Southern Reporter was established in 1816 in Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) by Andrew Bent, published 'by Authority' and printed by Bent. In 1821 the newspaper was continued as the Hobart Town Gazette, and Van Diemen's Land Advertiser. (Trove record)

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First known date: 1816
Link: Web resource Digital copy of print publication via Australian Newspapers (AN) Service.
      Hobart Town (1803-1880), Van Diemen's Land (1803-1856), Tasmania,: 1816-1821 .
      Printed by Andrew Bent
      Link: U24410Web resource Digital copy of print publication via Australian Newspapers (AN) Service.
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y separately published work icon Hobart Town Gazette, and Van Diemen's Land Advertiser 1821 Hobart : Andrew Bent , 1821-1825 Z1393414 1821 newspaper (2 issues)

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.
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Howe's Tricks Tom Gilling , 2001-2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 18 December - 8 January vol. 119 no. 6306 2001-2002; (p. 36-37)
y separately published work icon Andrew Bent and the Freedom of the Press in Van Diemen's Land Joan Woodberry , Hobart : Fuller's Bookshop , 1972 Z93060 1972 single work biography
Andrew Bent and the Proprietorship of the Hobart Town Gazette : An Examination of Some New Letters Joan Woodberry , 1967 single work
— Appears in: Papers and Proceedings. Tasmanian Historical Research Association , vol. 14 no. 2 1967; (p. 49-64)
Two Gazettes M. H. Ellis , 1965 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 11 September vol. 87 no. 4463 1965; (p. 57)
— Review of The Sydney Gazette, and New South Wales Advertiser : vol.2, 4 March 1804 - 24 February 1805 1965 newspaper ; The Hobart Town Gazette, and Southern Reporter 1816 newspaper (2 issues)
An Unrecorded Hobart Town Gazette E. Morris Miller , 1959 single work
— Appears in: Papers and Proceedings. Tasmanian Historical Research Association , vol. 7 no. 3 1959; (p. 34-43) Papers and Proceedings. Tasmanian Historical Research Association , vol. 7 no. 4 1959; (p. 59-65)
Two Gazettes M. H. Ellis , 1965 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 11 September vol. 87 no. 4463 1965; (p. 57)
— Review of The Sydney Gazette, and New South Wales Advertiser : vol.2, 4 March 1804 - 24 February 1805 1965 newspaper ; The Hobart Town Gazette, and Southern Reporter 1816 newspaper (2 issues)
Andrew Bent and the Proprietorship of the Hobart Town Gazette : An Examination of Some New Letters Joan Woodberry , 1967 single work
— Appears in: Papers and Proceedings. Tasmanian Historical Research Association , vol. 14 no. 2 1967; (p. 49-64)
y separately published work icon Andrew Bent and the Freedom of the Press in Van Diemen's Land Joan Woodberry , Hobart : Fuller's Bookshop , 1972 Z93060 1972 single work biography
An Unrecorded Hobart Town Gazette E. Morris Miller , 1959 single work
— Appears in: Papers and Proceedings. Tasmanian Historical Research Association , vol. 7 no. 3 1959; (p. 34-43) Papers and Proceedings. Tasmanian Historical Research Association , vol. 7 no. 4 1959; (p. 59-65)
Howe's Tricks Tom Gilling , 2001-2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 18 December - 8 January vol. 119 no. 6306 2001-2002; (p. 36-37)
A Leaf from an Old Newspaper Marcus Clarke , 1890 single work essay
— Appears in: The Austral Edition of the Selected Works of Marcus Clarke : Together with a Biography and Monograph of the Deceased Author 1890; (p. 52-57) 'On Saturday, the 23rd September, 1820, the free residents of Hobart Town, on opening the moist folio of the Hobart Town Gazette and Southern Reporter found a startling proclamation. The Hobart Town Gazette, let us note, was the paper authorised by the Government and assisted by those agreeable evidences of patronage, Government advertisements. It was published 'by authority,' and printed by Mr Andrew Bent - the father of the Tasmanian press, who was at that time the leading printer in Hobart Town. Mr Bent, however, fell out with Governor Arthur, and venturing to attack the Government, was summarily deprived of his office, and eventually ruined.' (52)
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PeriodicalNewspaper Details

Frequency:
Weekly on a Saturday
Range:
Vol.1, no.1 (Saturday, 1 June, 1816) - v.6, no.244 (Saturday, 13 January, 1821).
Continued by:
Hobart Town Gazette and Van Diemen's Land Advertiser
Supplement:
Supplements accompany some issues.
Note:
Under title: 'Published by Authority' (vol. 1 no. 1, 1 June 1816)
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