Issue Details: First known date: 1838... vol. 36 no. 4116 29 December 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.
Bent's News and New South Wales General Advertiser, single work advertisement

'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.

(p. 1)
Sums Received in Aid of the Widow Montgomery, single work advertisement

List 'published for the information of all parties concerned' of monies received for the aid of the wife of the late John Montgomery. Some well known Sydney printers and newspaper men appear on this list.

(p. 1)
Pilfering, single work column
A short paragraph on the discovery by the 'Mr Jones printer of Bridge street' of printed paper which had issued from his own press sold as waste paper to a pork butcher. The paper included 'sheets of a work [printed] for the Catholic Bishop [Polding], and several government forms'.
(p. 2)
Royal Victoria Theatre : Clari; or, The Maid of Milan &c., single work advertisement

Advertisement for a performance at the Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney, on 29 December 1838 of the 'Drama of Clari' and the 'favorite Melo-Drama called The Brigand'.

(p. 3)

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Notes:
Contains the first instalment of the international novella 'I Can't Think How It Is' (p. 4)
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