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Royal Victoria Theatre : Pilgrim of Love, &c.,
single work
advertisement
(p. 1)
An advertisement for the Royal Victoria Theatre production of Pilgrim of Love and of Colin Henry Hazlewood's Aurora Floyd~ on 27 and 29 June 1868.
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School of Arts : Insolvency in Sydney,
single work
advertisement
(p. 1)
An advertisement for the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts entertainment on 27 June 1868. The program included a new song, 'Insolvency in Sydney'; Mrs Charles Thatcher's performance of 'the Grand Cavatina, The Cantineer'; and (although not specified in the advertisement) a production of Thatcher's Life on the Goldfields.
- Phillip M'Carroll. Pitt-Streeti"Unless before long squatters send us some meat,", single work poetry (p. 1)
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Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's New Work,
single work
review
— Review of Norwood; or, Village Life in New England 1868 single work prose ; (p. 2) -
Royal Victoria Theatre,
single work
column
(p. 4)
A column praising William Hoskins's work at the Royal Victoria Theatre: he 'spares no pains to produce the excellent and the diversified in the scenic and dramatic art'. The column particularly notes the locally-themed diorama used in the adaptation of Henry James Byron's Pilgrim of Love.
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School of Arts,
single work
column
(p. 4)
A report on the 26 June entertainment at the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts provided by Charles Thatcher and Annie Thatcher. The report highlights Charles Thatcher's topicality and creativity.
- A Tale of Pirates, single work short story (p. 6)
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To Printers and Newspaper Proprietors,
single work
advertisement
(p. 8)
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'.
