y separately published work icon Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser newspaper issue  
Issue Details: First known date: 1838... vol. 36 no. 4056 11 August 1838 of The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser est. 1803 Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

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

Advertisement for 'an extra reporter' for the Sydney Gazette. The advertisement is dated 2 August 1838.

 (p. 1)
South Australia, single work column
In this editorial discussing the latest news from South Australia, the author begins by blaming 'careless blundering either in the Post Office at South Australia, or in the newspaper offices there' for the 'South Australian journals seldom ... [coming] regularly to hand.'
 (p. 2)
Things Theatrical, William Kerr , single work column

The author (William Kerr?) takes Joseph Wyatt, the proprietor of the Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney, to task over the timing of the actors' benefit season.

 (p. 2)
New Journal, single work column

A brief column noting that a ‘publication of a new paper, to be called The Patriot, is in contemplation. One leading feature in the conducting of The Patriot is to be the advocacy of the Roman Catholic cause in the Willis controversy’. Justice John Walpole Willis, an outspoken judge of the New South Wales Supreme Court, had earlier offended Roman Catholics in the colony.

AustLit has not yet established whether this newspaper was published.

See also 'Justice Willis and the Roman Catholics'. The Colonist (1 August 1838): 2.

 (p. 2)
Thomas Simes, single work column
This short untitled column discusses Thomas Simes' planned benefit at the Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney, and the pieces selected, Cymbeline and Blue Beard.
 (p. 2)
Royal Victoria Theatre : Mabel's Curse &c., single work advertisement

Advertisement for performance at the Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney, on 11 August 1838 to include the 'Melo-Drama, entitled Mabel's Curse', the 'Farce, called The Two Gregories' and the 'Drama, called The Ancestress'.

 (p. 3)
Mr. Simes' Benefit, single work advertisement

An advertisement for a performance at the Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney, to include 'Shakespeare's ... Cymbeline' and 'Coleman's ... Blue Beard'. The number of acts for Cymbeline is printed differently in the advertisement in the Commercial Journal of 8 and 11 August 1838 (5 acts) to the number printed in the advertisement in the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser of 9 and 11 August 1838 (2 acts).

The performance on 13 August was a benefit for Thomas Simes. The plays for the performance on 14 August are advertised as 'repeated'. However, the 14 August performance was probably not a benefit.

 (p. 3)
X