An advertisement for the Royal Victoria Theatre production of Tom Taylor's The Hidden Hand and Dion Boucicault's The Corsican Brothers on 13 August 1868.
An advertisement for the third and fourth of Grace Egerton and George Case's 'Six Farewell Performances', Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, 12 and 13 August 1868.
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 Empire reports on the 12 August 1868 entertainments at the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts. Included in George Case and Grace Egerton's act was a 'rendering of Dickens' comic scene between Sairey Gamp and Betsy Prig' (from the novel Martin Chuzzlewit); this performance 'elicited roars of laughter'.
