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Issue Details: First known date: 1868... no. 5230 25 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.
Prince of Wales Opera House : Robert Macaire, &c., single work advertisement

An advertisement for the Prince of Wales Opera House production of Charles Selby's Robert Macaire and W. T. Moncrieff's The Jewess; or, The Council of Constance on 25 and 26 August 1868.

 (p. 1)
Prince of Wales Opera House : The Game of Speculation, &c., single work advertisement

An advertisement for the Prince of Wales Opera House production of George Henry Lewes's The Game of Speculation and William Bayle Bernard's His Last Legs on 27 August 1868. The performance is a benefit for the Oddfellows' Hall Building Fund.

 (p. 1)
Under Distinguished Patronage, single work advertisement

An advertisement for a 'farewell demonstration to Grace Egerton' at the Prince of Wales Opera House on 28 August 1868.

 (p. 1)
School of Arts : Grace Egerton and George Case : Last Opportunity, single work advertisement

An advertisement for the 'last opportunity' to see Grace Egerton and George Case at the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, 24 and 25 August 1868.

(An advertisement appearing immediately beneath the 24 August advertisement gives details of a 'farewell demonstration to Grace Egerton' to be held on 28 August 1868.)

 (p. 1)
Temperance Hall, Pitt-Street : Mrs M'Gregor's Levee, single work advertisement

An advertisement for William Gourlay's 'Mrs M'Gregor's Levee', to be produced at the Temperance Hall, Pitt Street, Sydney, on 25, 26 and 28 August 1868.

 (p. 1)
Phillip M'Carroll : Pitt-Streeti"Our would-be leader of the trade,", single work poetry (p. 1)
Lines on the Death of Archdeacon McEncroe : By a Protestant Widowi"Yes! thou art mourned with sorrow deep,", A. B. (fl. 1868) , single work poetry (p. 2)
Prince of Wales Opera House, single work review
— Review of Caste Thomas William Robertson , 1867 single work drama ; (p. 3)
The Gourlay Family, single work column

A brief comment on the 'highly interesting' and 'intellectual amusement' offered by the Gourlay Family at the Temperance Hall, Sydney, on the first night of a three-night season.

 (p. 3)
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. 4)
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