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Issue Details: First known date: 1868... no. 5271 13 October 1868 of The Empire est. 1850 The Empire
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Phillip M'Carroll, Pitt-Streeti"Said Martin of Parkes and his Kiama speeches,", single work poetry (p. 1)
The March of the 'Life Brigade' : After Tennyson and after the Feniansi"Up the street, up the street;", single work poetry satire

A satirical attack on New South Wales politician Henry Parkes (the recently deposed Colonial Secretary), who had maintained that the attempted assassination of Prince Alfred was the work of Fenians. At the time of the poem's composition, Parkes was one of the leading proponents of the belief that a Fenian conspiracy was alive within the Australian colonies.

 (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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