An advertisement for the Prince of Wales Opera House production of Thomas William Robertson's Caste and Charles Mathew's Why Did You Die? on 15 August 1868.
An advertisement for the last two nights of Grace Egerton and George Case's farewell season at the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, 19 and 20 August 1868.
The program for 19 August includes The Lost Party and the 'extraordinary illusion' 'The Protean Cabinet'. The program for 20 August includes a 'selection of characters' together with the comic sketch Married and Settled.
The Empire notes George Case and Grace Egerton's 'capital entertainment', 'A Trip to the Rhine', performed at the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts on 18 August 1868.
The Empire provides a detailed report on R. M. W. Johnson's lecture on the life and works of William Makepeace Thackeray. The lecture was delivered at the Temperance Hall on 18 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'.
