Advertisement encouraging the emigration of letter press printers (pressmen) and compositors to the Australian colonies. Free passage is advertised by applying to Mr Marshall, Emigration Agent, London with an address given as the Herald Office, Sydney, New South Wales. The advertisement was reprinted in Sydney, New South Wales, newspapers in May 1838, as well as in other colonies. Individual newspapers added a paragraph to the advertisement further encouraging pressmen and or compositors to apply. The version in the Sydney Gazette was first published on 1 May and reprinted on 3, 5, 8 and 10 May. The version in the Australian was first published 1 May 1838.
See also the correspondence signed by James Harrison, Thomas Armstrong, John Paterson, Alexander Barrie, Peter Tyler, John Laurie and John Rawson refuting the claims of the advertisement.
The editor of the Cornwall Chronicle, William Lushington Goodwin and the Launceston port officer, Matthew Curling Friend were in a long running feud that escalated in 1838.
An advertisement for the 1838 edition of the Cornwall Almanack.
