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Issue Details: First known date: 1868... no. 5225 19 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.
Prince of Wales Opera House : Caste, &c., single work advertisement

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.

 (p. 1)
School of Arts : Grace Egerton and George Case : The Last Two Nights, single work advertisement

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.

 (p. 1)
School of Arts, single work column

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.

 (p. 2)
Lecture on Thackeray, single work column

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.

 (p. 2)
Phillip M'Carroll : Pitt-Streeti"M'Carroll has the town to back him,", single work poetry (p. 4)
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. 4)
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