This issue begins a serialisation entitled 'Lives of the Actors'. 'Lives of the Actors' consists of short biographies of English actors. The biographies of the actors William Macready, Charles Kean, James Warde, Mr Wilson (a singer) and Robert Keeley are published in this issue. These biographies are not separately indexed in AustLit.
The serialisation is continued in the issue of 22 December 1838.
'The Austral-Asiatic Public are respectfully informed, that Bent's News, which has been published for the last three years in Van Diemen's Land, will, as a Hobart Town Journal, cease at the end of the present year [1838], with a view to its re-appearance at Sydney, New South Wales, in the month of February or March, 1939.'
Bent's News and New South Wales Advertiser began publishing in April 1839. It was sold in July 1839 to the editor of the newspaper, W. A. Duncan. Duncan changed the name of the newspaper to the Australasian Chronicle. Bent remained as the Australasian Chronicle's printer to 1840.
The advertisement is dated Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land, 10 November 1838.
A brief column in which is published an ill spelt letter purportedly sent to the editor of the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser in answer to the Gazette's advertisement for a collector and shipping reporter.
Advertisement for a performance at the Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney, on 20 December 1838 of the 'favourite Drama, entitled Luke the Labourer', 'the Interlude of The Actress of All Work' and 'for the first time in this colony, a laughable Farce, called The Man with the Carpet Bag'.
