An advertisement for the Prince of Wales Opera House production of Charles Selby's Robert Macaire and W. T. Moncrieff's The Jewess; or, The Council of Constance on 25 and 26 August 1868.
An advertisement for the Prince of Wales Opera House production of George Henry Lewes's The Game of Speculation and William Bayle Bernard's His Last Legs on 27 August 1868. The performance is a benefit for the Oddfellows' Hall Building Fund.
An advertisement for a 'farewell demonstration to Grace Egerton' at the Prince of Wales Opera House on 28 August 1868.
An advertisement for William Gourlay's 'Mrs M'Gregor's Levee', to be produced at the Temperance Hall, Pitt Street, Sydney, on 25, 26 and 28 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 comments favourably on the entertainment presented by William Gourlay, his wife (Susan Goddard) and their son (John Gourlay) at the Temperance Hall, Sydney, 25 August 1868.
A brief notice of Grace Egerton's 'final entertainment at the School of Arts', 25 August 1868. The evening was said to have come off with 'the most unmistakable eclat'.
