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'.
An advertisement for the June 1868 issue of the Colonial Monthly.
An advertisement for the first three volumes of the Australasian, available from Samuel Mullen, bookseller, Melbourne and Ballarat, Victoria.
An advertisement for Caprenter's Penny Readings, Comic Reciter and Sunday Readings, all available from Charlwood, Bourke-street.
An advertisement for Charles Haddon Spurgeon's sermons 'in large quantities', available from Buzzard, Melbourne.
A parody of Alfred Tennyson's poem '1865-1866'.
The poem includes references to the English periodicals Good Words and Once a Week.
A review of the performance of Edward Bulwer Lytton's Richelieu at the Duke of Edinburgh Theatre, Melbourne, June 1868.
Jaques also notes briefly productions at the Theatre Royal.
An overview of news from England including the latest from London's theatres and opera houses, and the titles of book publications for the month of April 1868.