Cirrus@Austlit

An advertisement for the Prince of Wales Opera House production of Thomas William Robertson's Caste and Thomas Morton's A Roland for an Oliver on 15 August 1868.

(Performances on 15 August 1868 mark the beginning of a new season at the Prince of Wales Opera House. Mr Hoskins, associated with the Royal Victoria Theatre immediately prior to this, is now the manager of the Prince of Wales.)

An advertisement for the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts entertainments on 17, 18, 19 and 20 August 1868. On each of the four nights, George Case and Grace Egerton will provide a new program enabling them 'to present the whole of their extensive repertoire before finally quitting the colony'.

The Empire takes up a subject prominent 'in many of the British periodicals from April to June' - the life and works of Baron Bunsen. The reason for this interest, eight years after Bunsen's death is the publication by the Baron's widow of A Memoir of Baron Bunsen, Late Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary of His Majesty Frederic William IV at the Court of St. James, Drawn Chiefly from Family Papers and also of his final work God in History.

A review of the 17 August 1868 Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts production of Edmund Hodgson Yates' Latest Intelligence, as performed by Grace Egerton and George Case.

A short notice commenting on the fact that 'the company recently playing at the Victoria Theatre', has commenced 'a new season at the Prince of Wales Opera House'. The opening productions of the season were Thomas William Robertson's Caste and Thomas Morton's A Roland for an Oliver.

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'.