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This issue promotes the availability of a 'special poster ... designed and drawn by Australian artists, printed in three colours by Australian printers for the use of Australian agents'. At the foot of the advertisement, a further paragraph states that the Free-Lance has the 'largest circulation of any satirical illustrated weekly in Australasia, bar the Bulletin'.
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A column canvassing current stage productions in Sydney and Melbourne. Included in the overview are some comments on Alfred Dampier's Robbery under Arms and George Darrell's Convict Once.
A round-up of personal news about people involved in the world of theatre. This column includes reference to the English critic William Archer who, in a review of Robbery under Arms, revealed that he had been a station hand on an Australian sheep run in his youth.