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Issue Details: First known date: 1868... no. 5231 26 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 : Robert Macaire, &c., single work advertisement

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.

 (p. 1)
Prince of Wales Opera House : The Game of Speculation, &c., single work advertisement

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.

 (p. 1)
Under Distinguished Patronage, single work advertisement

An advertisement for a 'farewell demonstration to Grace Egerton' at the Prince of Wales Opera House on 28 August 1868.

 (p. 1)
Temperance Hall, Pitt-Street : Mrs M'Gregor's Levee, single work advertisement

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.

 (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)
Funeral of Archdeacon M'Encroe, single work column (p. 2)
Mr. and Mrs Gourlay's Entertainment, single work column

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.

 (p. 2)
Untitled, single work column

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'.

 (p. 3)
Phillip M'Carroll : Pitt-Streeti"Our would-be leader of the trade,", single work poetry (p. 4)
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