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Issue Details: First known date: 1868... no. 5169 13 June 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 : The Game of Speculation, &c., single work advertisement

An advertisement for the Royal Victoria Theatre production of George Henry Lewes' The Game of Speculation and Charles Zachary Barnett's Six Degrees of Crime on 13 June 1868.

 (p. 1)
Australian Tales and Sketches from Real Life by Old Boomerang, single work advertisement

An advertisement for Old Boomerang's Australian Tales and Sketches from Real Life.

 (p. 1)
Protestant Banner, single work advertisement

An advertisement, possibly placed by the printer G. R. Addison, for the latest issue of the Australian Protestant Banner.

 (p. 1)
The Flaneur in Sydney, 'The Flaneur in Sydney' , single work prose

The 'Flaneur' muses on Sydney's recent political and social occurrences, including the discharge of effluence into Port Jackson and on Sydney's streets. The 'Flaneur' then turns his attention to Walter M. Adams's poem 'Adieu Australia' written when the English visitor took his leave of Sydney. The 'Flaneur' is dismissive of Adams's poetic talent.

 (p. 5)
The April Periodicals, single work column

The Empire provides a summary of the contents of British journals for December 1867. The journals referenced are: Fortnightly Review, Britsh Quarterly Review, Contemporary Review, Pall Mall Gazette, Cornhill, Macmillan's Magazine, St Paul's Magazine, Blackwood's Magazine, Bentley's Miscellany, Dublin University, Temple Bar, Argosy, Chambers's Journal, Good Words, Once a Week, All the Year Round, London Society, St James's Magazine and Belgravia.

 (p. 5)
Victoria Theatre, single work review
— Review of Anniversary Day, or Helen's Betrothal : An Australian Drama in Three Acts : Scene-Sydney John G. Marwick , 1868 single work drama ;

A detailed review of the 12 June 1868 Prince of Wales Opera House production of John G. Marwick's Anniversary Day.

 (p. 5)
Winged Wordsi"The burning words, perchance of love or hate,", F. , single work poetry (p. 5)
Phillip M'Carroll. Pitt-Streeti"In Liverpool and Sussex streets the people long have said,", single work poetry (p. 6)
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. 7)
This Day, Saturday, 13th June, at 11 O'Clock, single work advertisement

An advertisement for Bradley, Newton and Lamb's sale by auction of 'valuable books', together with a range of household items.

 (p. 7)
Library of Valuable Works, single work advertisement

An advertisement for Bradley, Newton and Lamb's sale, on Saturday, 13 June, of the 'library of valuable works', together with 'surgical instruments' and 'scientific apparatus', belonging to the 'late Dr. Handford of Goulburn'.

 (p. 7)
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