An advertisement for the Royal Victoria Theatre benefit night for Joseph Simmons on 3 August 1868. Productions comprise: Isaac Bickerstaff's The Hypocrite, Isaac Pocock's The Robber's Bride and selections from Joseph Simmons's Thirty Years' Recollections of Sydney.
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'.
An advertisement for the sale by auction of 'an extensive library of valuable books', together with a collection of surgical instruments.