This issue of the Australasian also includes:
An advertisement for 'Dickens's works at English price' available from George Robertson, Melbourne. Works advertised are: The Pickwick Papers, Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son, Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, The Old Curiosity Shop, Oliver Twist, Christmas Books and Barnaby Rudge.
An advertisement for the London monthly The Young Ladies' Journal. The advertisement states that the magazine 'contains suitable reading for families, ... interesting to everybody at home and abroad'.
H. T. Dwight, Bookseller, 'near Parliament, solicits inspection of his stock'.
The London Review reflects on a series of articles, assumed to be from 'the pen of Charles James Lever, on the subject of 'Talkers and Talking'.
The Australasian reports on the 'new printing wonder at The Times office' – 'it throws off about 23,000 perfect copies per hour ... makes very little waste, keeps perfect register, and altogether bids fair to prove an excellent machine'.
Q. reflects on civility and on the celebrations for the Queen's Birthday holiday. He did not attend the latter as Cleland's had no suits left for hire when Q. went to obtain one. Instead, he bought 'a twopenny pie at Hosie's, and ate it calmly on a door-step, and then devoted a pint of twos silently to the health of Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, whom God preserve.'
The Australasian reflects on two cases of libel – one in New Zealand and one in South Australia. It believes that in the former case, a newspaper simply reported on 'the public proceedings of a public body' and subsequently suffered 'heavy damages' and 'still heavier law costs'. In the case of the latter, the Australasian believes the penalty – 'one year's imprisonment with hard labour' – was justified as the proprietor of the South Australian Satirist had perpetrated a 'gross falsehood ... apparently, without the slightest foundation'.
A review of the performances of James Robinson Planche's Not a Bad Judge, George Colman's The Iron Chest and W. M. Akhurst's The Siege of Troy at the Theatre Royal Melbourne, and of Thomas Archer's Asmodeus and Shirley Brooks's The Creole at the Duke of Edinburgh Theatre, May 1868
A lengthy reflection on the author's travels and his encounters with mules and muleteers in a range of outback locations.
An advertisement for Charles Haddon Spurgeon's sermons 'in large quantities', available from Buzzard, Melbourne.
An advertisement for the Melbourne printing firm, Stillwell and Knight.
