y separately published work icon The Empire newspaper issue  
Issue Details: First known date: 1868... no. 5335 28 December 1868 of The Empire est. 1850 The Empire
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

Contents

* Contents derived from the , 1868 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Removal of the 'Empire' Office, single work advertisement

The Empire advises its readers that it will relocate to a new office, 'near the corner of Pitt and King streets, almost opposite Mr Moffitt's, bookseller', as of 21 December 1868.

(p. 1)
Prince of Wales Opera House : Harlequin Little Jack Horner; or, The Christmas Pie, and the Fairies of the Silver Ferns, single work advertisement

A advertisement for the Prince of Wales Opera House production of Walter Cooper's Harlequin Little Jack Horner; or, The Christmas Pie and the Fairies on 27 December 1868. (Advertised under the title: Harlequin Little Jack Horner; or, The Christmas Pie, and the Fairies of the Silver Ferns.)

The evening's program begins with a production of John Maddison Morton's Woodcock's Little Game.

(p. 1)
Prince of Wales Opera House : Harlequin Little Jack Horner; or, The Christmas Pie and the Fairies : 'Morning' Performance, single work advertisement

A advertisement for the Prince of Wales Opera House 'morning performance' of Walter Cooper's Harlequin Little Jack Horner; or, The Christmas Pie and the Fairies on 2 January 1869. (Advertised under the title: Harlequin Little Jack Horner; or, The Christmas Pie, and the Fairies of the Silver Ferns.)

The advertisement states the doors will open at '2 o'clock' and 'children and schools' will be admitted at 'half-price to all parts of the house'.

(p. 1)
To Be Published the 1st January, the 'Anglo-Colonial Magazine', single work advertisement

An advertisement for 'a new intercolonial-magazine and review', the Anglo-Colonial Magazine. The magazine is to have 'the features of a first-class monthly periodical, furnished by the best writers', a 'compendium of the latest intelligence from all parts of the British dependencies', and 'a serial story by Thomas Hood, Esq'.

(p. 1)
Removal of the 'Empire' Office, single work advertisement

The Empire advises its readers that it will relocate to a new office, 'near the corner of Pitt and King streets, almost opposite Mr Moffitt's, bookseller', as of 21 December 1868.

(p. 2)
Prince of Wales Opera House : [Harlequin Little Jack Horner; or, The Christmas Pie and the Fairies], single work review
— Review of Harlequin Little Jack Horner ; Or, The Christmas Pie and the Fairies Walter H. Cooper , 1868 single work musical theatre ;

A review of the 26 December 1868 Prince of Wales Opera House production of Walter Cooper's Harlequin Little Jack Horner; or, The Christmas Pie and the Fairies. John Maddison Morton's Woodcock's Little Game, performed on the same night, is mentioned very briefly.

(p. 2)
Royal Victoria Theatre : [Re-Opening], single work column

The Empire notes the re-opening of the Royal Victoria Theatre, on Boxing Day night, under the management of Mr Lionel Harding.

(p. 2)
The Flaneur in Sydney, 'The Flaneur in Sydney' , single work prose

The 'Flaneur' muses on Sydney's recent political and social occurrences. He directs his attention, among other things, to: the contretemps between Robert McIntosh Isaacs and Henry Parkes (including the former's classical education and the latter's lack thereof), and the Christmas season.

(p. 3)
The Recent Crisis, John Dunmore Lang , single work correspondence

John Dunmore Lang gives an account of his behaviour 'during the recent Parliamentary crisis'.

(p. 3)
Untitled, single work column

The Empire comments briefly on 'the new periodical of first-class character', the Anglo-Colonial Magazine.

(p. 3)
Phillip M'Carroll, Pitt-Streeti"The humiliated Parkes – man of national devotion –", single work poetry (p. 4)
X