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Issue Details: First known date: 1868... no. 5148 20 May 1868 of The Empire est. 1850 The Empire
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 1868 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Royal Victoria Theatre : Under the Gaslight, &c., single work advertisement

An advertisement for the Royal Victoria Theatre production of Augustin Daly's Under the Gaslight and of Toodles on 20 May 1868.

 (p. 1)
Illustrated Sydney News, single work advertisement

Advertisement for the May 1868 issue of The Illustrated Sydney News. The issue contains thirteen engravings.

 (p. 1)
The Law of Copyright, single work column

A report on the legal case heard in the Adelaide Supreme Court in May 1868 in which the parties were George Coppin (plaintiff) and A. J. Solomon. The dispute concerned the Australian and New Zealand production rights to Dion Boucicault's drama Arrah-na-Pogue.

 (p. 2)
Victoria Theatre, single work column

A brief report on the Royal Victoria Theatre production of Augustin Daly's Under the Gaslight on 19 May 1868.

 (p. 4)
Australian Library, single work column

An historical outline of the building and development of the Australian Library from its origins in 1827 to its solid establishment as a Sydney institution in the 1860s. The article states that: 'There are now six hundred subscribers on the books' and the library 'boasts of 20,000 volumes, embracing every department of literature, and to which, by each mail, every new work worth reading is added. The attendance of visitors averages thirty daily.'

 (p. 6)
Phillip M'Carroll. Pitt Streeti"They want to rise [sic] the prices, but that will never do,", single work poetry (p. 8)
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