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The editor notes that the insertion of Andrew Bent's advertisement ('The "Tasmanian Franklin" Revived') has been postponed owing to 'a press of important matter'. The editor, however, hopes that supporters of Bent will come forward and 'render him that assistance of which he stands in so much need'. (At the time, Bent described himself as being destitute.)