This issue of the Empire carries a column, reproduced from the Australasian, written by J. S. Calvert of Yass. The writer provides an account of chasing a 'bunyip' through a river in the Yass district.
The issue also includes a letter to the editor on ‘The Social Practice of Shouting’. The letter is signed 'XX' and the writer offers the opinion that the practice of shouting drinks is 'ridiculously absurd, expensive and health-destroying'.
An advertisement for the Prince of Wales Opera House production of Joseph Stirling Coyne's Fraud and Its Victims on 2 December 1868. The evening, a benefit for the 'Rose of Australia Lodge of Oddfellows', also includes a 'grand concert'. Programme details for the concert are included in the advertisement.
An advertisement on behalf of the Rev. George Bayley seeking subscriptions for the four-part publication, to appear in six-monthly instalments, of a 'copious index to all the subject matter of Clavis Juvenal and Perius's Satires, with brief index notes, critical and mythological'. (There is no evidence that this work reached publication.)
