Lecture on anti-vaccination
There was a large attendance last night at the Protestant Hall for the purpose of listening to a lecture upon the subject of vaccination as a preventive of small-pox. In introducing the lecturer, Dr Le Gay Brereton said that ”compulsory vaccination could never be possible in this free country”. At the conclusion of the evening it was resolved that an Anti-vaccination League should be established in Sydney.

Like a pack of hounds
A most daring attack was recently made by a swarm of large rats on a man named John Alling, Cape Egmont, New Zealand. About two o’clock in the morning he was awakened from a sound sleep by a dreadful sensation, and to his horror found several monstrous rats disfiguring his face. He did all in his power to frighten them away, but they clung to his bedding until a light was secured, when they made away like a pack of hounds.

Personal notices
”If Elphinstone Job, gasfitter, of Sydney, or his wife, or any child of his, are living, and will communicate with Mrs Miller, Dresser of the Alhambra Theatre, Leicester Square, London, they will hear of something to their very great advantage; or a reward will be paid to any one giving information that will lead to finding the name ...” “Ellen O’Grady, call for BOX, will be sold for expences, Mrs Galvin, Mary-Street, Surry Hills”