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Issue Details: First known date: 1868... no. 5172 17 June 1868 of The Empire est. 1850 The Empire
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* Contents derived from the , 1868 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Royal Victoria Theatre : Under the Gaslight, &c., single work advertisement

An advertisement for the Royal Victoria Theatre production of Augustin Daly's Under the Gaslight and John Palgrave Simpson's An Atrocious Criminal on 17 June 1868.

 (p. 1)
To Printers and Newspaper Proprietors, single work advertisement

An advertisement, probably placed by Samuel Bennett (sole proprietor, printer and publisher of the Empire), for the sale of a single cylinder printing machine. The sale is being offered 'to make room for a new machine daily expected from England'.

 (p. 1)
Public Amusements, single work column

The writer for the Empire notes that, since the departure for Melbourne of the American actor James Stark, recent offerings at the Royal Victoria Theatre 'have been mostly of the sensational order, which appear to command ... the taste of the multitude'.

 (p. 2)
Phillip M'Carroll. Pitt-Streeti"Have the Squatters combined to stop our supplies,", single work poetry (p. 8)
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