A rebuff to 'the most corrupt, jobbing, and worthless servant in the employ of the people [who] was ... canvassing the town for signatures to a requisition to the Sheriff, to convene a public meeting "to take into consideration the state of the Press of the Colony"!'
According to the editorial only 'seven signatures were received, five of which were those of the only public servants the Press on this side the Colony had ever interfered with.'
'It it a most remarkable fact,' states the editorial, 'that no person can discover a severity in the tone of the Launceston Press, save those officials, whose misconduct in their public situations oblige the ... [Press to] castigation.'
The 'canvassing' may have been in response to the editor of the Cornwall Chronicle, William Lushington Goodwin's, accusation of misconduct against the Launceston port officer, Matthew Curling Friend, in 1838. The two men were in a long running feud that escalated in 1838.
An advertisement for the auction by J. W. Bell on 6 January 1838 of 'an Allotment of Ground ... with a substantial, well finished Brick Cottage' in Launceston belonging to the printer Geoffrey Amos Eagar. It appears that Eagar's land and cottage were not sold at auction on the 6th January or that the auction did not take place at that time. An auction was re advertised for the 8 March 1838.
Among the household goods for sale are included 'Books, elegantly bound, comprising some of the best standard works'. J. H. Reibey was 'proceeding to England'. A notice in the 24 February issue of the Cornwall Chronicle advises that the sale is 'postponed on account of the ill health of Mr Reibey'.
An advertisement for a compositor 'to work upon the Melbourne Advertiser'. Applicants were asked to apply to the [Cornwall] Chronicle Office. The advertisement is dated 10 February 1838.
An advertisement for the 1838 edition of the Cornwall Almanack.
