An advertisement for the Royal Victoria Theatre production of James Robinson Planche's The Loan of a Lover and [Charles Webb's] Belphegor, the Mountebank; or, Woman's Constancy on 10 August 1868.
An advertisement for the first two of Grace Egerton and George Case's 'Six Farewell Performances', Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, 10 and 11 August 1868. The program includes The Lost Party and the 'successful colonial sketch' The Victorian Servant.
An advertisement for the Royal Victoria Theatre's 'complimentary benefit to Mr. W. Lloyd, for seven years stage manager to Lyster's Royal Italian and English Opera Company', 11 August 1868. The benefit includes productions of Thomas Morton's Sink or Swim and James Robinson Planche's The Loan and the Lover, together with a 'grand concert'.
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'.
The news from London mentions that 'the American poet Longfellow is now in England and receiving a gratifying welcome'. The Empire's correspondent also notes that the Daily News now costs one penny, 'a price that seems to bid fair to become all powerful in spreading knowledge'.
Mr R. W. M. Johnson states that it is his intention to take legal proceedings against the Australian Library. Johnson had booked the hall of the library for a public lecture on the subject of William Makepeace Thackeray. Having incurred expenses in promoting his talk, Johnson was informed by letter, three days prior to the scheduled date of the lecture, 'that the use of the hall is denied me by the committee'.
