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.
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'.
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.
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.)
