Issue Details: First known date: 1838... vol. 36 no. 2021 22 May 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.
Reporter, single work advertisement (p. 1)
Untitled, single work column

A report on an attempt to publish a newspaper in Parramatta, New South Wales, to be called The Cumberland Advertiser with a first number due on 1 July 1838.

See later reports published in the Sydney Gazette (29 May 1838): 2 and (21 June 1838): 2.

(p. 2)
Advertisement, 'A Lover of Justice' , single work column

An advertisement in correspondence form naming William Kerr as the person advancing security for money loaned by Sarah Levey's stepfather Jacob Josephson to a Mr Cameron. Kerr is named as Cameron's 'friend and companion'. Kerr, apparently, endeavoured to get the security set aside in the Court of Requests. The theatrical term 'farce' is used to describe Kerr's actions at the Court.

(p. 3)
Note: The title appears in square brackets in the Sydney Gazette.
Advertisement, William Kerr , single work single work correspondence
An advertisement in correspondence form. William Kerr's reply to 'A Lover of Justice'. Kerr uses theatrical language to make his point.
(p. 3)
Royal Victoria Theatre : The King and the Deserter &c., single work advertisement

An advertisement for the performance of 'the Melo-Drama entitled The King and the Deserter; or, The Banditti of the Black Forest'; 'the laughable Farce, called Honest Thieves'; and 'the Domestic Drama in one Act, entitled The Daughter' at the Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney, New South Wales, on 22 May 1838.

(p. 3)
To Pressmen, single work advertisement (p. 3)
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