An advertisement for the Prince of Wales Opera House production of Lavater; or, Not a Bad Judge and John Maddison Morton and Thomas Morton's All That Glitters Is Not Gold on 27 October 1868. The evening's entertainments, a benefit for the Sydney Sailors' Home, also include a prologue, 'written expressly for the occasion' by Walter H. Cooper.
The advertisement notes that The Winter's Tale is to be performed on 28 October 1868.
The Empire commends the actors in the Prince of Wales Opera House production of James Sheridan Knowles's The Hunchback on 26 October 1868. The main roles were played by M. E. Aitken and William Hoskins.
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'.