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Issue Details: First known date: 1868... no. 5174 19 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 : Unequal Love, &c., single work advertisement

An advertisement for the Royal Victoria Theatre production of Tom Taylor's Unequal Love and William Blanchard Jerrold's Cool as a Cucumber on 19 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)
School of Arts : Life on the Goldfields, single work advertisement

An advertisement for the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts production of Charles Thatcher's Life on the Goldfields on 18, 19, 20 and 22 June 1868. The production included Thatcher's 'new musical medley, "The Fight in the Assembly", written expressly for the occasion'.

(p. 1)
Untitled, single work column

The Empire reports: 'A ladies' reading-room is about to be opened at the Mechanics' Institute, Geelong'. Alterations to the current room cost £50 – a sum furnished by the single male members of the institute.

(p. 2)
Changeable Woman, single work column

A humorous report on columns appearing in an unnamed, monthly English magazine for women. The columns allow women the opportunity to barter items in their possession for wanted items. The writers concludes by imagining the prospect that 'who knows, but perhaps some inconstant wife may start the idea of exchanging husbands!'

(p. 3)
Should Women Propose?, single work prose

A reflection on the appropriateness of women proposing marriage.

(p. 4)
Phillip M'Carroll. Pitt-Streeti"Have the Squatters combined to stop our supplies,", single work poetry (p. 4)

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