Imports listed include: March 27 – Captain Cook ‘1 cask ink, 3 cases stationery, G. W. Evans’; ‘... 1 case newspapers ... Campbell & Co.’; ‘7 cases stationery, 7 packages printing materials, J. Tegg’.
Advertisement for performance at the Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney, on 5 April 1838 of: ’Moncrief’s Musical Comedy, in three Acts, entitled Rochester, or, King Charles the Second’s Merry Ways’ [William Thomas Moncrieff, 1818]; ‘To conclude with the Musical Farce called No Song No Supper, or, The Lawyer in the Sack’ [Prince Hoare, 1790].
The advertisement also announces the ‘[f]irst Appearance at this Theatre, of Mrs Larra & Mr [J. H. S.] Lee’ and includes a list of the actors, and the names of the characters they portray, for each play.