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Issue Details: First known date: 1868... no. 5284 28 October 1868 of The Empire est. 1850 The Empire
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* 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 : The Winter's Tale, &c., single work advertisement

An advertisement for the Prince of Wales Opera House production of William Shakespearer's The Winter's Tale and John Baldwin Buckstone's An Alarming Sacrifice on 28 October 1868. Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan's School for Scandal is scheduled for 30 October 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)
Prince of Wales Opera House : [Lavater; Or, Not a Bad Judge, &c.], single work review
— Review of Lavater; or, Not a Bad Judge 1848 single work drama ; All That Glitters Is Not Gold John Maddison Morton , Thomas Morton , 1851 single work drama ;

A review of the 27 October 1868 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. The Empire also notes upcoming productions at the Prince of Wales Opera House.

(p. 2)
Parramatta School of Arts : [Miss Rosa Cooper and Mr Lionel Harding], single work column

The Empire comments on Miss Rosa Cooper and Mr Lionel Harding's entertainment at the Parramatta School of Arts on 26 October 1868. The evening included excerpts from 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' and William Shakespeare's Macbeth. (A column in the Empire on 26 October 1868 stated that Albert Smith's Matrimony would be on the program, but this play is not mentioned in the column.)

(p. 2)
Phillip M'Carroll, Pitt-Streeti"What a sudden surprise was the Martin defeat–", single work poetry (p. 4)

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