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Issue Details: First known date: 1868... no. 5181 27 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 : Pilgrim of Love, &c., single work advertisement

An advertisement for the Royal Victoria Theatre production of Pilgrim of Love and of Colin Henry Hazlewood's Aurora Floyd~ on 27 and 29 June 1868.

 (p. 1)
School of Arts : Insolvency in Sydney, single work advertisement

An advertisement for the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts entertainment on 27 June 1868. The program included a new song, 'Insolvency in Sydney'; Mrs Charles Thatcher's performance of 'the Grand Cavatina, The Cantineer'; and (although not specified in the advertisement) a production of Thatcher's Life on the Goldfields.

 (p. 1)
Phillip M'Carroll. Pitt-Streeti"Unless before long squatters send us some meat,", single work poetry (p. 1)
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's New Work, single work review
— Review of Norwood; or, Village Life in New England Henry Ward Beecher , 1868 single work prose ; (p. 2)
Royal Victoria Theatre, single work column

A column praising William Hoskins's work at the Royal Victoria Theatre: he 'spares no pains to produce the excellent and the diversified in the scenic and dramatic art'. The column particularly notes the locally-themed diorama used in the adaptation of Henry James Byron's Pilgrim of Love.

 (p. 4)
School of Arts, single work column

A report on the 26 June entertainment at the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts provided by Charles Thatcher and Annie Thatcher. The report highlights Charles Thatcher's topicality and creativity.

 (p. 4)
A Tale of Pirates, 'A Skipper' , single work short story (p. 6)
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. 8)
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