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An advertisement for the Royal Victoria Theatre production of 'the great moral drama' Jack Sheppard and of Tom Taylor's Our American Cousin on 1 August 1868.

An advertisement for the Royal Victoria Theatre benefit night for Joseph Simmons on 3 August 1868. Productions comprise: Isaac Bickerstaff's The Hypocrite, Isaac Pocock's The Robber's Bride and selections from Joseph Simmons's Thirty Years' Recollections of Sydney.

The publishers of the Times advise that they have become the proprietors of the newspaper 'hitherto known as the Evening Mail'. From 20 June 1868, the newly acquired newspaper will be known as The Mail and published twice weekly.

An advertisement for the Australian Protestant Banner questioning Dr William Bland's religious allegiance at the time of his death.

Two tramps, English by birth, meet one night in the bush near Echuca. One tells a story, from three years previous in England, of the financial disaster then about to afflict the brother of his fiancée. The storytelller uses his own money to rescue the brother, but in so doing, forfeits his entire income. After three years in exile in Australia, the storyteller discovers an aunt in England has died and left him an inheritance. He can now return and claim his bride.

The Empire reports that Queen Victoria has donated signed copies of The Early Years of His Royal Highness the Prince Consort and Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands to her subjects in New South Wales. A despatch from the Colonial Secretary reads, in part: 'Her Majesty desires that these books may be placed in the following Libraries – The Sydney University Library, Parliamentary Library of Sydney, and the Public Library of Sydney ... both as tokens of the interest with which her Majesty regards the development of institutions which tend to the spread of knowledge and intelligence in her colonial possessions, and because she believes that these records of the earlier days of their Sovereign and the Prince Consort will not fail to be valued by her subjects in New South Wales.'

The 'Flaneur' muses on Sydney's recent political and social occurrences. The subjects of his reflections include the students and supporters of Ragged School.

An advertisement for the sale by auction of 'an extensive library of valuable books', together with a collection of surgical instruments.