Issue Details: First known date: 1838... vol. 36 no. 4007 19 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

* Contents derived from the , 1838 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Monitor, single work column
The Sydney Gazette reports that it has been '... informed that this Journal [the Sydney Monitor] either has, or is about immediately to change its proprietorship. Mr. Statham, the printer of The Monitor, and Mr.Francis O'Brien, collector and shipping reporter to The Sydney Gazette, having purchased the copyright from the original founder, Mr. E. S. Hall. Mr. Hall will still write the lending articles. We wish the new proprietors (both respectable young men)', the Gazette continues, 'every success in their speculation.'
(p. 2)
Mr Conrad Knowles, single work column

This article is a short report on Conrad Knowles 'having made his debut at one of the great theatres [in England], in the character of Doctor Cantwell, in the Hypocrite.' Knowles left Australia in May 1837. He returned in October 1838.

(p. 2)
The Theatre, William Kerr , single work review
— Review of Henriette the Forsaken John Baldwin Buckstone , 1832 single work drama ;
(p. 2)
Royal Victoria Theatre : Married Life &c., single work advertisement

Advertisement for performance at the Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney, on 19 April 1838 of: ‘Buckstone’s comedy in 3 Acts, called Married Life’; ‘After which, for the first time in this Colony, the favorite Drama, from the pen of Thomas Haynes Bailey, Esq., as performed at Madame Vestis' Royal Olympic Theatre, called The Daughter’; ‘To conclude with, the first time this Season, the Comic Piece called The Irish Tutor, or New Lights.

The advertisement lists a dance to be performed and includes a list of the actors, and the names of the characters they portray, for each play.

(p. 3)
To Drapers, General Dealers, and Others, single work advertisement

An advertisement for various items for auction. At the end of the list is 'A case of Books, at the risk of whom it may concern'.

(p. 3)
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