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Issue Details: First known date: 1868... no. 5215 7 August 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 : The Rivals; Or, A Trip to Bath, &c., single work advertisement

An advertisement for the Royal Victoria Theatre production of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Rivals; or, A Trip to Bath and Walter T. Cooper's A New Crime; or, 'Andsome 'Enery's Mare's Nest on 7 August 1868. The evening's performance is advertised as a 'complimentary benefit to Mr. W. H. Cooper the successful Australian Author'.

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Grace Egerton, Grace Egerton , single work advertisement

An advertisement announcing six performances by Grace Egerton at the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts.

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Phillip M'Carroll. Pitt-Streeti"Good news for the people today,", single work poetry (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'.

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Victoria Theatre, single work column

The Empire, noting that the 7 August 1868 performance at the Royal Victoria Theatre is a benefit for Walter T. Cooper, continues: 'The last "benefit" he received resulted in a loss. It is to be hoped that the patronage to-night will not only make up for the loss, but will be of a character to encourage Mr. Cooper to engage his talents in further dramatic efforts.'

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Horsewhipping an Editor, single work column

An account of two assaults committed on Samuel Hawkins, editor of the The Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser, one by Frederick Ainslow Tompson and the other by his son. (The assaults occurred after Hawkins wrote allegedly libellous columns about Tompson in the Express.)

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