Launceston Joss House

"Peters, Barnard, and Co's store has, in fact, been the head-quarters of the Chinese, and here it is here, in an otherwise unoccupied portion of the yard, that they have built their joss-house"

The Mercury, 23 August 1872, p.3.

"The party intend to remain in town for a few days to consult Joss and prepare for a campaign at the Hellyer diggings. Like the Israelites of old the religious ceremonies of the Chinese are usually accompanied by feasting, and subdued hilarity mingles with their devotion. Yesterday at 4 p.m. a feast of pork, fowls, rice, stewed oysters (imported preserved in baskets from China) and other delicacies was prepared and laid in wooden trays before the 'welly good man.' The Joss-house was got up regardless of expense decorated with flowers, and the sacred kerosene burned before the 'welly good man' brightly. "

The Cornwall Chronicle, 25 September 1872, p.2.

"... in a large wooden store, once the Chinese joss house, belonging to the property between Cameron and Patterson streets so long occupied by Peters and Co., afterwards by R. J. Sadler and Co."

Launceston Examiner, 22 November 1881, p.3.

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/233100408 

"The Original Lantern from the Joss House, Launceston, 3/4."

Examiner, 4 September 1939, p.2.