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The Monitor,
single work
column
(p. 2)The Sydney Gazette reports that it has been '... informed that this Journal [the Sydney Monitor] either has, or is about immediately to change its proprietorship. Mr. Statham, the printer of The Monitor, and Mr.Francis O'Brien, collector and shipping reporter to The Sydney Gazette, having purchased the copyright from the original founder, Mr. E. S. Hall. Mr. Hall will still write the lending articles. We wish the new proprietors (both respectable young men)', the Gazette continues, 'every success in their speculation.'
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Mr Conrad Knowles,
single work
column
(p. 2)
This article is a short report on Conrad Knowles 'having made his debut at one of the great theatres [in England], in the character of Doctor Cantwell, in the Hypocrite.' Knowles left Australia in May 1837. He returned in October 1838.
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The Theatre,
single work
review
— Review of Henriette the Forsaken 1832 single work drama ; (p. 2) -
Royal Victoria Theatre : Married Life &c.,
single work
advertisement
(p. 3)
Advertisement for performance at the Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney, on 19 April 1838 of: ‘Buckstone’s comedy in 3 Acts, called Married Life’; ‘After which, for the first time in this Colony, the favorite Drama, from the pen of Thomas Haynes Bailey, Esq., as performed at Madame Vestis' Royal Olympic Theatre, called The Daughter’; ‘To conclude with, the first time this Season, the Comic Piece called The Irish Tutor, or New Lights.
The advertisement lists a dance to be performed and includes a list of the actors, and the names of the characters they portray, for each play.
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To Drapers, General Dealers, and Others,
single work
advertisement
(p. 3)
An advertisement for various items for auction. At the end of the list is 'A case of Books, at the risk of whom it may concern'.
