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Issue Details: First known date: 1868... no. 5177 23 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.
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)
Humourous Readings, single work advertisement

An advertisement for A. Foucart's upcoming 'series of humourous readings, with English, French Irish and Scotch characters'.

 (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 23 June 1868. The production included 'a new local song, written for the occasion, "The Varroville Stud Distribution".'

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

A review of the 22 June 1868 Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts production of Charles Thatcher's Life on the Goldfields.

 (p. 2)
Newtown School of Arts, single work column

A report on the closure of the Newtown School of Arts due to financial insolvency.

 (p. 2)
Phillip M'Carroll. Pitt-Streeti"Unless before long squatters send us some meat,", single work poetry (p. 4)
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