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The 'Flaneur' muses on Sydney's recent political and social occurrences. He directs his attention, among other things, to: the recent elections for Sydney's aldermen, the consecration of St Andrew's Cathedral, and the ongoing debate over the validity of W. A. Duncan's dismissal as Collector of Customs.

An advertisement for the Prince of Wales Opera House production of Irish Boy and Yankee Girl on 5 December 1868. The performance was included in a three-night programme presented by Foley's Juvenile Troupe.

A poem on the re-election of John Woods as the Alderman for Denison Ward.

An advertisement for books, to be offered as school prizes, available from Moore's Book Mart.

An advertisement for the 1869 edition of Moore's Australian Almanac.

An advertisement for the 5 December 1868 issue of Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle.

An advertisement on behalf of the Rev. George Bayley seeking subscriptions for the four-part publication, to appear in six-monthly instalments, of a 'copious index to all the subject matter of Clavis Juvenal and Perius's Satires, with brief index notes, critical and mythological'. (There is no evidence that this work reached publication.)

An advertisement for the 1869 edition of The Newcastle Business Directory and Hunter River District Almanac.

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.