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Issue Details: First known date: 1868... no. 5234 29 August 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.
Balmain : Grace Egerton : Farewell Performance, single work advertisement

An advertisement for a 'farewell performance' by Grace Egerton in Balmain, Sydney, on 31 August 1868.

 (p. 1)
Prince of Wales Opera House : Rob Roy, &c., single work advertisement

An advertisement for the Prince of Wales Opera House production of Rob Roy and of John Maddison Morton's Done on Both Sides on 29 August and 2 September 1868.

 (p. 1)
Prince of Wales Opera House, single work column

The Empire reflects on the performances at the Prince of Wales Opera House on 28 August 1868. The evening was a benefit for George Case and Grace Egerton, but was poorly attended. The Empire comments on the acting in Elizabeth St George's A Handsome Husband and a scene from Sheridan Knowles's The Hunchback, and also the performance of The Sentinel.

 (p. 4)
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 to the coming race season at Randwick and its attendant gambling, Sydney's public hygiene, temperance, and a speech by Henry Parkes.

 (p. 5)
Phillip M'Carroll : Pitt-Streeti"Our would-be leader of the trade,", single work poetry (p. 8)
Unreserved Sale of Books, single work advertisement

'T. H. Price has received instructions to sell the valuable library of the Rev. S. Bromley by public auction'. The advertisement for the sale states the books have been 'selected with the refined taste and critical acumen of a man of letters, are in excellent condition, and comprise standard editions of the classics, the works of eminent divines, treatises on history, biographical sketches, poetry, dissertations and disquisitions on philosophical and scientific subjects, and various productions of his own pen, chiefly in manuscript. The collection contains about 300 volumes.'

 (p. 8)
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