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Issue Details: First known date: 1868... vol. 19 no. 1312 30 May 1868 of The Freeman's Journal est. 1850 The Freeman's Journal
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Notes

  • This issue of the Freeman's Journal also includes:

    • advertisements for the Lyster Opera Troupe's Prince of Wales Opera House season and for the dioramas on display at the Sydney Mechanic's School of Arts (p. 15)

Contents

* Contents derived from the 1868 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Notes by Buggins : No. 3 : General, Buggins , single work prose

Buggins comments on the use of opera glasses before proceeding to review and discuss the Royal Victoria Theatre's production of John Augustin Daly's Under the Gaslight.

Buggins concludes his thoughts on the play thus:

'I believe a Mr. Daly claims to be the author of Under the Gaslight, it should be adapter – not author. In a Christmas work entitled 'Fireflash', (written by Mr. Garnet Walch) at page 34 I read the following: – "Neither poison, the knife, nor the pistol, was this murderous weapon. He had led his half stupefied [sic] victim to within twenty yards of the railway. There was no embankment hereabouts; it was all level ground. In five minutes the remorseless wretch had dragged him over the rough ballast and had placed him with his head across the nearest rail. The down express would pass over that spot in ten minutes, and there would be no such person as Alice Marshall in existence to come between him and his coveted prize." I think the Dramatist has borrowed a good idea from a young and promising colonial author and failed to acknowledge the obligation.'

It should be noted that Daly's play was first produced in New York on 12 August 1867; Walch's 'Fireflash' probably went to press in December 1867.

(p. 9)
Country News : The Prosecution of the 'Freeman's Journal', single work column

The Freeman's Journal reproduces a column from the Tamworth Examiner that comments on plans by the Martin government to prosecute Freeman's for not being properly registered with the Supreme Court. (See 'The Freeman's Journal and the Martin Government' for further background.)

(p. 10)
'Freeman's Journal' General Printing Office, single work advertisement

An advertisement advising that the proprietors of the Freeman's Journal have entered into a 'job printing business' and 'are now prepared to execute orders'.

(p. 16)
Agents for the 'Freeman's Journal', single work column

A list of suburban, country and inter-colonial agents for the Freeman's Journal.

(p. 16)
The Freeman's Journal : Available Free of Charge at Holloway's, single work advertisement

An advertisement advising that Freeman's Journal 'is filed and may be seen, free of charge, at Holloway's, 533, Oxford-street, W. C., (late of 224, Strand) London, where advertisements and subscriptions may be received'.

(p. 16)
Greville and Company, Wholesale Stationers and Printers' Brokers, single work advertisement

An advertisement, for Greville and Company, for the sale of various types of paper, pens, pencils, slates, ledgers and other stationery items.

(p. 16)
Greville and Company, General Advertising Agents, single work advertisement

An advertisement advising that Greville and Company are the 'authorised Sydney agents of all the leading provincial journals of New South Wales' and are able 'to offer terms for the insertion of advertisements which can be done by none but a recognised agent'.

(p. 16)
Greville and Company : Agents for Messers. Harrild and Sons, London : Printing Presses, &c. for Sale, single work advertisement

An advertisement for Greville and Company, agents for Messers Harrild and Sons, London, advertising the sale of various items of printing machinery and equipment.

(p. 16)
Greville and Company, Agents for Messers. Stephenson, Blake and Co., Sheffield : Printing Types, Cases, &c. for Sale, single work advertisement (p. 16)

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Notes:
Includes the second part of A Man's Romance : A Tale (p. 3)
Last amended 24 Jul 2014 12:10:44
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