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Issue Details: First known date: 1868... no. 5176 22 June 1868 of The Empire est. 1850 The Empire
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 1868 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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)
Royal Victoria Theatre : One Hundred Thousand Pounds, &c., single work advertisement

An advertisement for the Royal Victoria Theatre production of Henry James Byron's One Hundred Thousand Pounds and Michael Rophino Lacy's Doing for the Best on 22 June 1868.

 (p. 1)
Untitledi"I'm a rascal, I'm a thief,", single work poetry

'A Gentleman, possessed of not a single redeeming quality, is anxious to make the acquaintance of a Young Lady of similar character as a partner for life.'

 (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)
Victoria Theatre, single work review
— Review of The Octoroon; or, Life in Louisiana Dion Boucicault , 1859 single work drama ;

A review of the 20 June 1868 Royal Victoria Theatre production of Dion Boucicault's Octoroon; or, Life in Louisiana.

 (p. 2)
Lecture, single work column

A report on a lecture (the first in a series) delivered by the Rev'd Dr Steel in connection with the Saturday Half-Holiday Association. The lecture was titled 'The Literary Efforts of the Working Man' and 'narrated several instances in which the efforts of working men to procure literary attainments had been crowned with success.'

 (p. 2)
School of Arts, single work review
— Review of 'Life on the Goldfields': An Entertainment Charles Thatcher , 1866-1867 single work musical theatre ;

A review of the 20 June 1868 Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts production of Charles Thatcher's Life on the Goldfields.

 (p. 2)
Notes of a Journey to Mudgee and Dubbo, John Dunmore Lang , single work prose travel (p. 3)
Phillip M'Carroll. Pitt-Streeti"Unless before long squatters send us some meat,", single work poetry (p. 4)
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