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New South Wales Government Gazette 1879 Oct-Dec (original, unbound)
Publisher: Antiquarian
Product Description
Media: BOOK - hardcover, unbound, 1 vol
Year: 1879
Publisher:
The Government Gazettes are a unique, useful and extremely fascinating resource for local, family and social historians and researchers in other fields throughout Australia. They were published by the government as a means of communication to officials and the general public and therefore contain information that is of great use in establishing an image of Australia and its people in the past.
The New South Wales Government Gazette of 1879 contains:
- appointees to government positions
- appointments to Public School Boards
- Deeds of Grants ready for delivery
- dissolution of business partnerships
- errors in deeds
- horse and cattle brands
- insolvents
- land reserved from sale for dam, camping purposes, coal purposes, Court House site, driftway, graves, prospecting, quarries, refuge for stock in time of flood, traffic, tin-mining and more
- lapsed and forfeited conditional purchases of land, arrears of interest on conditional purchases, pre-emptive leases
- licenses for auctioneers; wine, cider and perry; timber; publicans; billiard and bagatelle; packet; and notices for other licensing meetings
- licensed surveyors
- magistrates appointed
- medical practitioners, chemists and druggists
- ministers of religion
- petitions and counter-petitions for/against Municipalities
- proclamations
- probate and letters of administration notices
- rents not paid and leases lapsed
- schedule of roads applied for to be closed and alienated (and the applicants)
- shareholders
- tenders for public works
- unclaimed letters
- and much more
SAMPLE ENTRY:
ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION.
In the will of Thomas Harris, late of Never Never, near Nulla Mountain, in the County of Philip and Colony of New South Wales, farmer and grazier, deceased.
NOTICE is hereby given, that after the expiration of fourteen days from the publication of this notice in the Government Gazette, application
will be made to the Supreme Court of New South Walks, in its Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, that probate of the last will and testament of the said Thomas Harris, deceased, may be granted to Abel Harris, of Calcoola, and William Harris, of Wee Waa, the executors appointed in and by the said will. – Dated this eighth day of February, 1879.
Bound into 3 monthly sections, this volume covers the entire issues for October to December 1879. They are original gazettes, with new covers, that have been unbound. The pages are in incredible condition, and you wouldn't know that they're over 135 years old.
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