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Issue Details: First known date: 1868... no. 5254 22 September 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 : Sarah the Creole, &c., single work advertisement

An advertisement for the Prince of Wales Opera House production of Morris Barnett's Sarah the Creole; or, The Snake in the Grass and of Isaac Innes Pocock's The Robber's Wife (aka The Robber's Bride) on 22 and 24 September 1868.

 (p. 1)
Phillip M'Carroll, Pitt-Streeti"In his Kiama speech, Parkes got out of his reach,", single work poetry (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)
Samuel Lover, single work obituary (p. 2)
Dramatic Performance : [Don Caesar de Bazan, &c.], single work column

A report on the 21 September 1868 performance of the Balmain Working Men's Amateur Dramatic Club at the Balmain Oddfellow's Hall. The evening, 'in aid of the widow of the late Mr. Purdy', began with a production of John Baldwin Buckstone's Don Caesar de Bazan and also included the farce A Rough Diamond.

 (p. 2)
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