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'.
An advertisement for the Rev'd William Leishman's lecture at the Mariners Church, 7 October 1868, on the subject of the 'Eloquence of the Greeks and Romans compared with that of that of the Moderns'.
A member of the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts draws attention to 'the great need of proper ventilation' in the School's reading room.