Issue Details: First known date: 1838... vol. 36 no. 4001 5 April 1838 of The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser est. 1803 Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser
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* Contents derived from the , 1838 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Port Phillip, single work review
— Review of The Melbourne Advertiser 1838 newspaper ;
This is a review of the first two issues of the Melbourne Advertiser.
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Royal Victoria Theatre, William Kerr , single work review
— Review of Catching an Heiress Charles Selby , 1835 single work drama ; The Middy Ashore William Bayle Bernard , 1836 single work musical theatre ;
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Sydney General Trade List : Imports, single work column

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’.

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Royal Victoria Theatre : Rochester &c., single work advertisement

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.

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