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Issue Details: First known date: 1868... no. 5220 13 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 Hidden Hand, single work advertisement

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.

 (p. 1)
School of Arts : Grace Egerton and George Case : Farewell Performances, single work advertisement

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.

 (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'.

 (p. 1)
Mr. and Mrs. Case, single work column

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'.

 (p. 2)
Phillip M'Carroll. Pitt-Streeti"It is amusing and surprising", single work poetry (p. 4)
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